Two and a Half Men: Sportswashing w/ Tom Usher

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Gregk is joined by Tom and Producer Thomas to discuss whether cultural reputation laundering is really such a new phenomena, and whether anything is even being washed at all.

Read Patrick Redford’s piece ‘The State of Sportswashing’ in Defector here.

Read Jack Crosbie’s piece ‘The White House UFC Fight Was Donald Trump’s All-American Dream’ in Rolling Stone here.

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Image: Donald Trump accepts the inaugural ‘FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World’ award during the Final Draw for the FIFA World Cup 2026™ at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC.

Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel

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THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Strange Bedfellows

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This week’s newsletter is a mini-episode, unlocked for all listeners, taking a deeper dive into the history of the interlocking conflicts currently engulfing the Sahel, and trying to make sense of what Russia and Africa Corps (formerly Wagner Group) are really up to in West Africa.

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What We Have is a Document: Wannsee

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. On January 20, 1942, a group of SS officers and mid-level bureaucrats from the m...

29 Sep 27min

I Am Sitting In A Room: Drones, Part 2

We return to Grégoire Chamayou’s Theory of the Drone to meditate on sacrifice, preservation, and what happens when warrior virtue must be retooled for riskless killers. Image: A photograph of the setu...

22 Sep 1h 5min

The Human is the Object of War: Drones & Autonomy w/ Kelsey D. Atherton

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. Kelsey joins Gregk to discuss his ten-year beat covering military tech, drones a...

15 Sep 34min

I See It All: Drones, Part 1

We look at Grégoire Chamayou’s groundbreaking 2015 book on Drone Warfare to examine the phenomenon of killing without vulnerability, and the troubling ethics such technologies induce. If you enjoyed t...

8 Sep 1h 7min

UNLOCKED: Paper Work: Immigration, Islamophobia and Bureaucracy w/ Josef Burton

Josef enters the Zone to talk about his experience working in the U.S. State Department and discuss the quiet violence work of diplomats, administrators and functionaries. For more from Josef Burton: ...

4 Sep 2h 43min

Paper Work: Immigration, Islamophobia and Bureaucracy w/ Josef Burton

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. Josef enters the Zone to talk about his experience working in the U.S. State D...

1 Sep 38min

Municipal Blood Board w/ Mattie Lubchansky & Riley Quinn

The girls from No Gods No Mayors swing by to talk about mayoral megalomania and the evolution of the violence inherent to municipal politics. Listen to No Gods No Mayors For more from Mattie Lubchansk...

27 Aug 1h 10min

A Vast Accumulation of Corpses: Necropolitics

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. We take another dive into the Blood Work theory zone, looking at Cameroonian p...

18 Aug 28min