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Dec 2024
1h 59m

Assassin Nation w/ Patrick Blanchfield

Daniel Denvir
About this episode
Featuring Patrick Blanchfield on assassination and political violence: from the routine to the extraordinary; authored by the state, capital, the left, the right, the unwell and alienated; as an anxiety, in our fantasies, as a morbid symptom and repetition compulsion; and as expressing distinctively American logics of domination and human disposability.

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