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61 - The Horror of Police with Travis Linnemann
🕑 Added 2023-05-05 15:15:37 +0000 UTCI'm joined this evening by friend of the show Travis Linnemann - author, academic and associate professor at Kansas State University - to discuss the cops, the uncanny, the weird and the eerie. Travis is the author of THE HORROR OF POLICE. Find out more here, and get a copy pronto:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-horror-of-police
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Comments
Tammy
“Siege” (1983) Rigid leftist action movie
James Aydelotte
An interesting notion on the robocop mind virus- you described it in the open when discussing a former acquaintance becoming a cop- and turning into a machine. This reminds me of the Zimbardo experiment from 1971 at Stanford. (I guess silicon valley never really changed) and the basic idea that power - perhaps the essence of capital- is on its own ravenously corrosive to humanity- to that ‘kingdom of god’ within each of us.
Alex
Love this episode. Maybe you've already read it, but an interesting book about counterinsurgency techniques in modern policing is "The Counterrevolution" by Bernard Harcourt.
SillyMoose
Loved this episode! The comments at the 1 hr mark reminded me of this story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/king-city-california-police-officers-arrested-in-car-theft-scheme/
J
Listening to this and reminded of the movie WolfCop--part unthinking, bloodthirsty monstrosity, part wolf!
George P
“Chud” in a Yorkshire accent was a delight. Great episode.
c8ln
This isn't the gotcha you think it is, bub
Julian
Just curious if the guest and host use the services of the police?
William
The same lib brain Russia bullshit, which is also conservative brain qanon, also plays into this fantasy police have of themselves
lust of the badger
Do cop city next baby
