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Tura rejoins the podcast with his partner Evie to talk about Naoki Urasawa's manga and anime series Monster. Ryan's show notes Tura's show notes

SLAS series conclusion. Here's the grand transcribed list of reading recommendations: Against the Grain (Scott's more recent book) Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault Towards a Political Philosophy of Race by Falguni Sheth Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction by Todd May Capital as Power by Nitzan & Bichler Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici Anarchy, An Anarchist Program, and The Method of Freedom by Errico Malatesta Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos Making Sense of Anarchism by Davide Turcato Post-Civ: A Brief Philosophical & Political Introduction to the Concept of Post-Civilization, by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness Desert by anonymous Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire The show notes are also just regular ass notes! There's 80 pages of notes on this book, including some stuff that wasn't covered in the show.

Ryan, Abdul (The Off Court Pod) and una (Goth Angel Sinners) get together to watch and discuss a very obscure Japanese movie about an aging matagi hunter, his family, and his encounters with a man-eating bear. Show Notes I've made the movie available for download via my google drive, we'll see how long it lasts. If the link stops working, you can DM me or get it for cheap at Samurai Video.

Ryan and Christopher (@itmechr3) talk Chapter 8 of Seeing Like a State This is part 7 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 6 episodes I recommend listening to them first! Show Notes

Ryan and yungneocon discuss this weird aspect of Tanzanian food culture. Show Notes This is part 6 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 5 episodes I recommend listening to them first!

Kris and una come on the pod to talk about the anime about eating brains, skinning human corpses, and looking at hot men, as well as the various ethnic minorities of Japan that the series talks about Show Notes My brain was not working well enough to remember to ask for plugs, so Check out Kris's fantasy novel series Dream of the White Stag and una's website anarchy.website Episode produced by Casino Socks Bibliography The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800. Walker, Brett, 2001. http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=C9F3B0D7B2A50BF57DF92E598EF7039B  Race, resistance and the Ainu of Japan. Siddle, Richard, 2014. Sheffield Centre for Japanese. http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=E01360362B90AFC487468919B4FFA1DD  Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives. Hudson, Mark; Lewallen, Ann-elise; Watson, Mark; 2016.  University of Hawai’i Press. http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=D5B2B32BBC2CFA2AB66C667E8F125BE4

Ryan and Walk In discuss the CIA-sponsored chapter of Seeing Like a State. Show Notes This is part 5 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 4 episodes I recommend listening to them first!

Ryan covers the intro to part 3 of Seeing Like a State and takes a slight diversion to read one of the sources cited in that section. Show Notes

Franz from Doomer v. Bloomer joins Ryan to talk about Seeing Like a State Chapter 5, which covers Lenin's school teacher/factory foreman/military general conception of revolution. Check out the Srsly Wrong Book Club here! Show Notes Production by Casino Socks

Ryan and Tura cover chapters 3 and 4 of Seeing Like a State by James Scott. This is part of an ongoing series, I recommend listening to the previous episodes if you haven't already. Show Notes Also check out Vida's extremely good talk on childhood trauma

Chapter 2 of Seeing Like a State, with Sam (@mathmansam) Show Notes yungneothread on anti-semitism Sam mentioned: Falguni Sheth, Towards a Political Philosophy of Race

Ryan and Nate (@theRadicleLeft) of the Works in Theory podcast kick off a series about Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott. Show Notes

Well, as it turns out I was not able to release this episode before a new COVID strain came out. Ah well. Nevertheless, this is about housing. Show Notes  

We are back for 2021! Ryan, Emily (@minusplnp) and John (@ExJohnValdez) talk about the latest big blockbuster video game Show Notes Resources to help trans people on Rainy TERF Island: Petition to the BBC to stop platforming hate groups Funding a legal challenge to anti-transgender court ruling A charity fund for trans healthcare run by Emily's clinic

Srsly Wrong and Neighbor Science present their first crossover episode, Wrong Science; Neighbor Wrong; Srsly Neighbors.  Aaron, Shawn, and Ryan discuss some of the foundational assumptions of neoclassical economics, which are so ridiculous they're almost unbelievable. Show Notes (contains a lot of information we didn't cover in the episode)   Books referenced: Debunking Economics Debt: The First 5000 Years Against the Grain Seeing like a State The Invention of Capitalism The Modern Corporation and Private Property  Capital as Power (PDF)

This is a two-part episode. Part 2 will come out next week. Samuel Miller McDonald (@sjmmcd) and yungneocon (@yungneocon) come on the show to critique several articles on degrowth Samuel's Website Be sure to check out Samuel's upcoming book: https://twitter.com/thebookseller/status/1317087909254733828  Articles we discuss in this episode (not just in this part): John Cassidy's Article Noah Smith's Article Blogspot Article   Additional resources: C4SS article on degrowth Robin Hahnel article that attempts and fails to debunk degrowth (PDF) yungneothread on degrowth

This is a two-part episode. Part 2 will come out next week. Samuel Miller McDonald (@sjmmcd) and yungneocon (@yungneocon) come on the show to critique several articles on degrowth Samuel's Website Be sure to check out Samuel's upcoming book: https://twitter.com/thebookseller/status/1317087909254733828  Articles we discuss in this episode (not just in this part): John Cassidy's Article Noah Smith's Article Blogspot Article   Additional resources: C4SS article on degrowth Robin Hahnel article that attempts and fails to debunk degrowth (PDF) yungneothread on degrowth

Solo episode. I talk about the Edict on Maximum Prices and Ancient Roman political economy. Show Notes

Abdul Malik (@socialistraptor) talks about the political economy & politics of sports (mostly basketball) Sorry if the quality isn't as good as it usually is, I'm in bad shape and can't spend much longer on the computer than I have to. Abdul's article on the sports strike Abdul's Writing Recommendations mentioned in the episode: Hoop Dreams Lenny Cooke The Eagle Huntress The Game is not a Game abdulymalik.com Peace by Chocolate

Solo episode about the emergence of written language in ancient history Show Notes Article about writing emerging as a consequence of accounting Erard's Article