Dick Down

Gareth and Gregk discuss what happens when a group of football hooligans decide to elevate their violent bloodlust into a fully-fledged political movement. (Spoiler: Bad, stupid things.) Follow Garet...

27 Jan 1h 51min

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. We situate the favourite tool in the U.S. arsenal in its historical context, and...

20 Jan 15min

Gregk speaks to the award-winning national security journalist Spencer Ackerman about the long shadows of 9/11 and the War on Terror, how America’s response to those events contributed to its current ...

13 Jan 1h 32min

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. We look at the history and philosophy of a doctrine so broad and plastic that ev...

6 Jan 12min

For their first ever Christmas episode, Gregk and producer Thomas get together for a casual fireside chat, discussing some of the key questions animating Blood Work, reflecting on the project’s progre...

23 Des 20251h 53min

This week, Gregk speaks to Anthropologist Florin Poenaru about his essay for North South Notes, published on the one-year anniversary of Romania’s cancelled Presidential elections, in which ‘outsider’...

16 Des 20251h 29min

In 1823, US President James Monroe declared an end to European colonial ambitions in the Americas. By the end of that century, his declaration had morphed into a license for the United States to pursu...

9 Des 20251h 7min

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 st...

2 Des 20251h 12min