Reign of Terror w/ Spencer Ackerman
Gregk speaks to the award-winning national security journalist Spencer Ackerman about the long shadows of 9/11 and the War on Terror, how America’s response to those events contributed to its current ...
13 Jan 1h 32min
COIN All the Way Down: A Discourse on Counterinsurgency [PREVIEW]
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. We look at the history and philosophy of a doctrine so broad and plastic that ev...
6 Jan 12min
Chestnuts Listening on a Blood Work Fire w/ Thomas O’Mahony
For their first ever Christmas episode, Gregk and producer Thomas get together for a casual fireside chat, discussing some of the key questions animating Blood Work, reflecting on the project’s progre...
23 Des 20251h 53min
"What Does The Forest Say?” w/ Dr. Florin Poenaru
This week, Gregk speaks to Anthropologist Florin Poenaru about his essay for North South Notes, published on the one-year anniversary of Romania’s cancelled Presidential elections, in which ‘outsider’...
16 Des 20251h 29min
Down Below the Borderline: The Monroe Doctrine
In 1823, US President James Monroe declared an end to European colonial ambitions in the Americas. By the end of that century, his declaration had morphed into a license for the United States to pursu...
9 Des 20251h 7min
They Kiss Horses, Don’t They? / Four Fascist Concepts
What are ‘libidinal politics’? What the fuck is a ‘machinic assemblage’? Why are these men all terrified of women? This week, we explore four key ideas in the fascist imaginary and head down to the st...
2 Des 20251h 12min
To Live as People or Die Like Men: Attica
In 1971, a group of people cast aside by the state rose up and attempted to reclaim their humanity and political subjectivity. This week, we look at the Attica Prison Uprising to see what that event m...
25 Nov 202559min
Crock of Schmitt
Come join us, won’t you, for a deep dive into one of the twentieth century’s biggest assholes. Say hello to Carl Schmitt: Jurist, legal scholar, political philosopher… Nazi? Look: We’re only showing y...
19 Nov 20251h 24min
