Episodes

Saturday May 15, 2021
713: Finish One Book, Start a Dozen More (SLAS Conclusion)
Saturday May 15, 2021
Saturday May 15, 2021
SLAS series conclusion.
Here's the grand transcribed list of reading recommendations:
- Against the Grain (Scott's more recent book)
- Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault
- Towards a Political Philosophy of Race by Falguni Sheth
- Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction by Todd May
- Capital as Power by Nitzan & Bichler
- Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford
- Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
- Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard
- A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
- Anarchy, An Anarchist Program, and The Method of Freedom by Errico Malatesta
- Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos
- Making Sense of Anarchism by Davide Turcato
- Post-Civ: A Brief Philosophical & Political Introduction to the Concept of Post-Civilization, by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
- Desert by anonymous
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire
The show notes are also just regular ass notes! There's 80 pages of notes on this book, including some stuff that wasn't covered in the show.

Monday Apr 12, 2021
711: Yellow Dent Grey Goo (SLAS Ch. 8)
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Ryan and Christopher (@itmechr3) talk Chapter 8 of Seeing Like a State
This is part 7 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 6 episodes I recommend listening to them first!

Saturday Mar 27, 2021
710: Apparently Tanzanians Need Water?? (SLAS Ch. 7)
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Ryan and yungneocon discuss this weird aspect of Tanzanian food culture.
This is part 6 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 5 episodes I recommend listening to them first!

Saturday Feb 27, 2021
708: Total (Sploshnaia) Collectivization (SLAS Ch. 6)
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Ryan and Walk In discuss the CIA-sponsored chapter of Seeing Like a State.
This is part 5 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 4 episodes I recommend listening to them first!

Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
706: Major General Headmaster Foreman Lenin (SLAS Ch. 5)
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Franz from Doomer v. Bloomer joins Ryan to talk about Seeing Like a State Chapter 5, which covers Lenin's school teacher/factory foreman/military general conception of revolution.
Check out the Srsly Wrong Book Club here!
Production by Casino Socks

Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
705: The Deeply Uncool Zone (SLAS Ch 3 & 4)
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Ryan and Tura cover chapters 3 and 4 of Seeing Like a State by James Scott.
This is part of an ongoing series, I recommend listening to the previous episodes if you haven't already.
Also check out Vida's extremely good talk on childhood trauma

Sunday Jan 31, 2021
704: Fredo, son of Fredo son of Fredo (SLAS Ch 2)
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Chapter 2 of Seeing Like a State, with Sam (@mathmansam)
yungneothread on anti-semitism
Sam mentioned: Falguni Sheth, Towards a Political Philosophy of Race