Blood Work2 Joulu 2025

They Kiss Horses, Don’t They? / Four Fascist Concepts

What are ‘libidinal politics’? What the fuck is a ‘machinic assemblage’? Why are these men all terrified of women? This week, we explore four key ideas in the fascist imaginary and head down to the stables to look at some freaks.

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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

THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE – Hit & Run

This week, I take a look at some articles about drone warfare in Ukraine, Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza, and the transfer of those tactics to the US’ steady approach to War on Venezuela, and meditate on what these might portend about the new rules of engagement for warfare in the 2020s. Plus: Some further thoughts on a man and his horse, childhood romance, and the death of intimacy.

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Sources:

Walter Benjamin (1999), ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ [1935], Illuminations

Richard Evans (2003), The Coming of the Third Reich

Richard Evans (2005), The Third Reich in Power

Roger Griffin (1991), The Nature of Fascism

Mark Neocleous (1997), Fascism

Klaus Theweleit (1987 [1977]), Male Fantasies, Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History

Image: German Freikorps soldiers standing by an armored car during the German Revolution, January 1919.

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