This four-part series titled, "The Military Present," explores various aspects of how the present is shaped by war. To do so, we've invited anthropologists to help us make  sense of the current political moment. In this first episode, structured around the concept of newness and trying to understand the political work it does, Touhouliotis and Sogn present us with an anthropologically informed view of the militarized logics operating in our public discourse and speak with Dr. Joseph P. Masco (Chicago) to help historicize these logics and discourses to understand the work that they do in creating our “military present." Full episode transcript. 

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