BLOOD WORK

This project is a conversation.
Consider this your invitation.

Send all questions (and answers) to:
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Fairly easy to see current anti-immigration politics as a right wing phenomenon mostly pertaining to refugees. But it’s also worth remembering that this is taking place in a context in which the very idea of being a citizen is being dismantled even from people who live in the west

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Questions about masculinity, fantasy and desire are ones we want to confront. In what feels like an era of increasing acceptance of, desire for, celebration of and calls for violence, maybe two questions are: Do people really want what they think they want? Do they even know what that thing is?

Episode 3 will be an introduction to Benjamin and this essay and a (hilarious) attempt to provide a brief overview to the uninitiated, with an aim to repeatedly returning over time to drill into particular segments, themes and possibilities with future guests.

This project is a conversation.
Consider this your invitation.

Send all questions (and answers) to:
contact@bloodwork.show

BLOOD WORK
AN ECONOMY OF VIOLENCE
COMING SOON

Trailer drops October 1st

Alternate artwork for BLOOD WORK @bloodwork.show

Episode 1 is now in review. @gotitatguineys.bsky.social has accomplished the unthinkable – produced a recording of my own voice that I can bear to listen to.

Will keep you posted, but not long to go now.

@bloodwork.show

@bloodwork.show wants YOU to get serious about the politics, economics, poetics and functions of VIOLENCE.

Have you read this book? Would you like to talk about it in the context of emergent strategies of violence as a dialectical process? Are you a non-insane person?

@bloodwork.show wants YOU

I have officially locked down the theme song for @bloodwork.show and it is a doozy.

Alms to the Mother
Deader than Saturn

All of it patterns
All of it patterns

BLOOD WORK

Artwork c/o Kyle Kobel
ktkobel.com

When we think about labour, we tend to think of productive activity that culminates in the creation of a good or the provision of a service with utility. But what about those forms of labour whose product is injury, containment, or death; or whose end product is not a good or service, but destruction? What about those workers whose labour is the labour of violence? BLOOD WORK explores both the political-economy and the practical activities of violence work in its many variegated forms; from day-to-day violence workers, to the functions they perform within and on behalf of the state (and its auxiliaries); to particular case studies in violence work; to ruminations on the political and economic functions of violence, and how labour whose product is destruction is, counterintuitively, central to the general activity of production itself.

If this sounds like something that interests you, get involved.

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