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62:19

Death Becomes You: Drones, Part 3

Blood Work ·

2026/10/06

We close out our series discussing how drone warfare advanced a new military ethics in which the lives of combatants are sacrosanct, while civilian lives are expendable.Image: A photograph on an Israeli UAV dropping grenades from the sky. Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel If you enjoyed this episode: – Support Blood Work via Patreon – Leave a rating or

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27:36

What We Have is a Document: Wannsee

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2026/09/29

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon.On January 20, 1942, a group of SS officers and mid-level bureaucrats from the ministries of the Third Reich convened at a lakeside villa. The agenda: Genocide. Image: A photograph of one of the interior corridors of 56-58 Am Wannsee (Credit: Werner Zellien) Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by

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65:35

I AM SITTING IN A ROOM: DRONES, PART 2

Blood Work ·

2026/09/22

We return to Grégoire Chamayou’s Theory of the Drone to meditate on sacrifice, preservation, and what happens when warrior virtue must be retooled for riskless killers.Image: A photograph of the setup of the ‘shock generator’ equipment for Stanley Milgram's famous 1960s studies on authority and obedience. (Source: Stanley Milgram Papers (MS 1406). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library) Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is

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34:31

The Human is the Object of War: Drones & Autonomy w/...

Blood Work ·

2026/09/15

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon.Kelsey joins Gregk to discuss his ten-year beat covering military tech, drones and autonomous weapons and talk about emergent modes of war in the 2020s. For more from Kelsey D. Atherton: – Follow him on Bluesky – Preorder A World For All: New Visions of US Foreign Policy, out this October with OR Books – Check out the Center for International Policy (CIP) Image: The remnants of a

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67:16

I See It All: Drones, Part 1

Blood Work ·

2026/09/08

We look at Grégoire Chamayou’s groundbreaking 2015 book on Drone Warfare to examine the phenomenon of killing without vulnerability, and the troubling ethics such technologies induce.If you enjoyed this episode: – Support Blood Work via Patreon – Leave a rating or review on your podcast app – Follow us on Bluesky / Instagram / Twitter Image: An 18-year-old factory worker named Norma Jean Dougherty poses for a photograph at the Radioplane factory in Burback, Califorina, in 1944. Shortly after, she

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163:39

UNLOCKED: Paper Work: Immigration, Islamophobia and...

Blood Work ·

2026/09/04

Josef enters the Zone to talk about his experience working in the U.S. State Department and discuss the quiet violence work of diplomats, administrators and functionaries.For more from Josef Burton: – Follow him on Bluesky and Twitter – Listen to his appearance on QAA discussing Iranian Monarchists – Read his 2023 essay ‘Impolite Society’ in The Baffler Image: A photo of the exterior of the Writers’ Building in Kolkata, originally built as an office for junior clerks in the East India Company and

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38:00

Paper Work: Immigration, Islamophobia and Bureaucracy...

Blood Work ·

2026/09/01

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon.Josef enters the Zone to talk about his experience working in the U.S. State Department and discuss the quiet violence work of diplomats, administrators and functionaries. For more from Josef Burton: – Follow him on Bluesky and Twitter – Listen to his appearance on QAA discussing Iranian Monarchists – Read his 2023 essay ‘Impolite Society’ in The Baffler Image: A photo of the

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70:34

Municipal Blood Board w/ Mattie Lubchansky & Riley Quinn

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2026/08/27

The girls from No Gods No Mayors swing by to talk about mayoral megalomania and the evolution of the violence inherent to municipal politics.Listen to No Gods No Mayors For more from Mattie Lubchansky: – Read Simplicity – Read Boys Weekend – Listen to Temporal Culture War For more from Riley Quinn: – Listen to Trashfuture – Listen to Trouble in River City If you enjoyed this episode: – Support Blood Work via Patreon – Leave a rating or review on your podcast app – Follow us on Bluesky / Instagram

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28:14

A Vast Accumulation of Corpses: Necropolitics

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2026/08/18

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon.We take another dive into the Blood Work theory zone, looking at Cameroonian postcolonial thinker Achille Mbembe’s seminal 2003 essay on the production of death as the crowning political activity of our era. Image: Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics (2019), Duke University Press Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is

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93:15

Keep on Truckin’: The Toyota Hilux

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2026/08/11

We explore the modern history of putting big guns on wheels, then dive into the history of Chad and its border dispute with Libya to learn how a humble pickup truck became a quintessential weapon of war.If you enjoyed this episode: – Support Blood Work via Patreon – Leave a rating or review on your podcast app – Follow us on Bluesky / Instagram / Twitter Image: A Nigerien military convoy on a counter-terrorism patrol in the Sahara Desert (UNICEF) Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production This episode

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19:32

Euro(trash) w/ Ciarán Dold

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2026/08/04

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. Blood Work’s EU Correspondent joins us to discuss Europe’s sclerotic struggle to adapt to a rapidly changing world, why NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is such a freak, and what the heck actually went down in Ceuta. For more from Ciarán Dold: – Follow him on Bluesky – Listen to Corner Späti – Follow CS on Instagram – Visit operationglad.io Image: NATO Secretary General Mark

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101:46

Your Being Manipulated: Eddington w/ Hussein Kesvani

Blood Work ·

2026/07/28

Hussein comes on to talk about the most important film of the COVID era that isn’t Christopher Nolan’s TENET.For more from Hussein Kesvani – Listen to Ten Thousand Posts and Trashfuture – Order Vittles #3 to read his piece about how Muslim consumers have become central to the evolution of British food culture – Follow Hussein on Bluesky If you enjoyed this episode: – Support Blood Work via Patreon – Leave a rating or review on your podcast app – Follow us on Bluesky / Instagram / Twitter Image: An

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27:32

Homecoming: White Power & the US Military w/ Molly...

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2026/07/21

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon.Molly from Weird Little Guys comes on to talk about the long thread connecting Confederates, Klansmen, Veterans and armed white power groups past and present. For more from Molly Conger: – Follow her on Bluesky – Listen to Weird Little Guys Image: Louis Beam attending a Klan rally in Santa Fe, Texas, in 1981. Dressed in a Klan robe, he is using a torch to ignite a small

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102:56

Blood (of Christ) Work: Evangelicals w/ Josh Boerman...

Blood Work ·

2026/07/14

Brian and Josh enter the Blood Zone to explain how Christian conservatives were transformed into one of the most powerful blocs in contemporary US politics. For more from Josh Boerman and Brian Alford: – Listen to their podcast, The Worst of All Possible Worlds – Listen to Josh’s podcast with June Sternbach, Ill Conceived – Follow Josh, Brian, TWOAPW and Ill Conceived on Bluesky Image: President George W. Bush attending a National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House on May 3, 2007. Seated

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21:01

Two and a Half Men: Sportswashing w/ Tom Usher

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2026/07/07

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. Gregk is joined by Tom and Producer Thomas to discuss whether cultural reputation laundering is really such a new phenomena, and whether anything is even being washed at all. Read Patrick Redford’s piece ‘The State of Sportswashing’ in Defector here. Read Jack Crosbie’s piece ‘The White House UFC Fight Was Donald Trump’s All-American Dream’ in Rolling Stone here. For more from

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40:02

THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Strange Bedfellows

Blood Work ·

2026/07/05

Article 1: Army, Allied Militias, Islamist Armed Groups Commit Violations with Impunity Report by Human Rights Watch – Jun 28, 2026 If you enjoyed this episode: – Support Blood Work via Patreon – Leave a rating or review on your podcast app – Follow us on Bluesky / Instagram / Twitter Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel

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83:11

An Unsolved Remainder: Haiti w/ Jonathan M. Katz

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2026/06/30

Jonathan joins us to talk about the gang violence that has engulfed Haiti since 2021 and place the instability that has haunted that nation within its proper political and historical context. For more from Jonathan Katz: – read his newsletter, The Racket – Follow him on Bluesky and – on Instagram If you enjoyed this episode: – Support Blood Work via Patreon – Leave a rating or review on your podcast app – Follow us on Bluesky / Instagram / Twitter Image: A man stands in front of a burning

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20:55

Axis of Empire w/ Dr. Afshin Matin-Asgari

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2026/06/23

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. Gregk speaks to the author of a new book on US-Iran relations to place the two countries’ braided history in its proper context and make sense of… how we got here. Axis of Empire: A History of US-Iran Relations is out now, available from Verso Image: A photograph of a large anti-USA mural painted on the side of a residential apartment block in downtown Tehran Blood Work is a Scam

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99:37

An Orchestral Conductor of Violence: The Veiled...

Blood Work ·

2026/06/16

Devin joins Gregk to talk about his book The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis. It’s a conversation that goes some places.The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis comes out on June 23, 2026, published by Haymarket Books. Pre-order now: – Haymarket Books (US) – Blackwell’s (UK) Follow Devin O’Shea: – on Bluesky and – on Instagram – and check out his Spotify playlist of 90s Mall Music Image: Painting of the

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56:34

Genghis Tron: Signal Fire w/ Michael Sochynsky

Blood Work ·

2026/06/12

Genghis Tron’s keyboardist and programmer joins us to talk about the band’s new record and making despair-laden music in a collapsing world. GENGHIS TRON: SIGNAL FIRE — OUT NOW. STREAM HERE PHYSICAL COPIES & MERCH AVAILABLE VIA: – Bandcamp – Relapse Records – Rough Trade (UK) – Shirt Killer Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel If you enjoyed this

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