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
“Siege” (1983) Rigid leftist action movie
Tammy
2025-05-18 10:27:39 +0000 UTCAn 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.
James Aydelotte
2024-10-09 09:57:17 +0000 UTCLove this episode. Maybe you've already read it, but an interesting book about counterinsurgency techniques in modern policing is "The Counterrevolution" by Bernard Harcourt.
Alex
2023-07-24 19:35:23 +0000 UTCLoved 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/
SillyMoose
2023-05-19 14:29:13 +0000 UTCListening to this and reminded of the movie WolfCop--part unthinking, bloodthirsty monstrosity, part wolf!
J
2023-05-14 03:02:56 +0000 UTC“Chud” in a Yorkshire accent was a delight. Great episode.
George P
2023-05-10 10:09:17 +0000 UTCThis isn't the gotcha you think it is, bub
c8ln
2023-05-09 00:21:42 +0000 UTCJust curious if the guest and host use the services of the police?
Julian
2023-05-08 03:16:07 +0000 UTCThe same lib brain Russia bullshit, which is also conservative brain qanon, also plays into this fantasy police have of themselves
William
2023-05-06 20:37:54 +0000 UTCDo cop city next baby
lust of the badger
2023-05-06 14:58:06 +0000 UTC
