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Oct 12, 2026
Drusilla AdelineHOST
So the reason why there are so many schools of cinema that open in Poland, in Czechoslovakia, in Russia that are incredible and incredibly well-funded and put out incredible artists and technical artists as well is because they have this hope that we'll train these guys, and then they'll go make, you know, pro-communist propaganda movies.
Drusilla AdelineHOST
And uh-oh, all the ar- most of the artists are like, "Hmm, how do I use this to criticize, you know, state violence?" And they're like, "No, no, you're not supposed to do that." And then they just, you know, get acclaim and move to Europe and, uh, move to, you know, England and France and America and, you know-
Joshua ConkelHOST
This is, this is the first that-
Drusilla AdelineHOST
... make Reservoir Babies.
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Joshua ConkelHOST
I see.
Joshua ConkelHOST
Yeah.
Drusilla AdelineHOST
It's like, it's this, like, background way of, like, you know, in, in the macro setting, they're normalizing state violence.
Joshua ConkelHOST
Yeah.
speaker_1HOST
Without judicial oversight, without a trial, without a single consequence.
speaker_0HOST
It's sanctioned state violence against a population that is virtually identical to the citizens the state is supposed to protect.
speaker_1HOST
Yes.
speaker_0HOST
I mean, if a cop shoots someone on the street, and the only way to know if it was a legal retirement or an illegal murder is to physically cut the victim open and look at their bone marrow after the fact-
Miranda MelcherHOST
And, um, yeah, I think when I was reading your book, um, I was really just, like, trying to, like, grapple with the complexity, you know, like, about how, you know, it's, like, not about demanding money that is, you know, revolutionary, but at the same time, you know, like, it can also be what gives autonomy in some ways, uh, and, you know, like, reimagining, like, possibilities.
Miranda MelcherHOST
And, um, I think it, um, uh, you know, ties together with the next question that I had, you know, which is, um, you know, also, like, thinking about, like, the slipperiness of, like, resistance and, um, you know, how do we say no to state violence collectively, um, you know, in a very precarious condition.
Miranda MelcherHOST
Um, can you tell us a little bit about, you know, how sex workers theorize on state violence and what it means to say no collectively?
Heather BergGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Heather BergGUEST
Um, you know, I think the main point that I wanna get across, uh, with regard to the question of, of violence is that, uh, that sex workers make clear again and again that the state is the primary source of violence.
Heather BergGUEST
Um, it's the state that is the primary source of harm.
Heather BergGUEST
Um, and, and I mean that quite directly in terms of the incredibly high incidence, for example, of sexual violence carried out by state agents, such as police.
Heather BergGUEST
Um, I also mean it in terms of the ways that, uh, that criminalization and stigma and also, you know, simply bad regulation as you have in most legalized sex industries, uh, open people up for, uh, non-state and extra state violence as well.
Morteza HajizadehHOST
Um, yeah, I think, um, uh, yeah, I feel like I'm also like writing this all down because it's all so rich and, um, yeah, I think when I was reading your book, um, I was really just like trying to like grapple with the complexity, you know, like about how, you know, it's like not about demanding money that is, you know, revolutionary, but at the same time, you know, like it can also be what gives autonomy in some ways and, you know, like reimagining like possibilities.
Morteza HajizadehHOST
Um, I think it, um, uh, you know, ties together with the next question that I had, you know, which is- You know, also, like, thinking about, like, the slipperiness of, like, resistance and, um, uh, you know, how do we say no to state violence collectively, um, uh, you know, in a very precarious condition.
Morteza HajizadehHOST
Um, can you tell us a little bit about, you know, how sex workers theorize on state violence and what it means to say no collectively?
Heather BergGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Heather BergGUEST
Um, you know, I think the main point that I wanna get across, uh, with regard to the question of, of violence is that, uh, that sex workers make clear again and again that the state is the primary source of violence.
Heather BergGUEST
Um, it's the state that is the primary source of harm.
Heather BergGUEST
Um, and, and I mean that quite directly in terms of the incredibly high incidence, for example, of sexual violence carried out by state agents such as police.
Heather BergGUEST
Um, I also mean it in terms of the ways that, uh, that criminalization and stigma and also, you know, simply bad regulation as you have in most legalized sex industries, uh, open people up for, uh, non-state and extra state violence as well.
Joy ReidHOST
And even the idea of protesting or objecting, you heard what Lisa Armstrong just said, you object to the National Guard shooting people in the street like the Kent State shooting, which, by the way, over sort of overshadowed A shooting in South Carolina in Orangeburg, Orangeburg, South Carolina, that got overshadowed because of Kent State.
Joy ReidHOST
So there was dual national state violence against armed citizens, against unarmed citizens, against citizens, against students in 1970, both of those things.
Joy ReidHOST
And now we're seeing it come back under Donald Trump.
Joy ReidHOST
It's all deliberate.
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Timothy SnyderGUEST
They believe in imagination and will and fantasy.
Timothy SnyderGUEST
And so naturally that model of on the one hand, on the other hand is gonna be broken by fascists because they'll just go all the way to the end.
Joy ReidHOST
The other thing, and this was in the segment prior to you, the outright use of state violence against American citizens.
Joy ReidHOST
It is washed over us that Alex Pretty and Renee Nicole Good, two white Americans, by the way, one of whose mother voted for Trump, was a Republican, is a Republican.
speaker_3HOST
It's a tool.
speaker_3HOST
It is a highly specialized tool of state violence that slowly transforms into a traveler's companion for Severian, and eventually into something closer to a holy relic.
speaker_3HOST
It tracks his bizarre, complex rise from a disgraced guild outcast to a mythical messianic figure.
speaker_2HOST
And the way Wolfe writes about it, using this incredibly precise, almost alien vocabulary, makes the sword feel so distinct.
James StoutGUEST
I don't mean with a U-E, not an O, but both applies.
James StoutGUEST
At this point in our history with the state, we need to be especially concerned with state violence towards nature.
James StoutGUEST
One thing that we're facing, another podcast I make is called Natural Causes where we talk about going outside and the political ramifications of that.
James StoutGUEST
One of the things I talked about recently was a roadless rule.