A show about the Economy of Violence
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Sep 29, 2026 · 27:36
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . On January 20, 1942, a group of SS officers and mid-level…
Sep 22, 2026 · 1:05:35
We return to Grégoire Chamayou’s Theory of the Drone to meditate on sacrifice, preservation, and what happens when warrior virtue must be retooled for riskless killers. Image: A…
Sep 15, 2026 · 34:31
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . Kelsey joins Gregk to discuss his ten-year beat covering…
Sep 8, 2026 · 1:07:16
We look at Grégoire Chamayou’s groundbreaking 2015 book on Drone Warfare to examine the phenomenon of killing without vulnerability, and the troubling ethics such technologies…
Sep 4, 2026 · 2:43:39
Josef enters the Zone to talk about his experience working in the U.S. State Department and discuss the quiet violence work of diplomats, administrators and functionaries. For…
Sep 1, 2026 · 38:00
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . Josef enters the Zone to talk about his experience…
Aug 27, 2026 · 1:10:34
The girls from No Gods No Mayors swing by to talk about mayoral megalomania and the evolution of the violence inherent to municipal politics. Listen to No Gods No Mayors For more…
Aug 18, 2026 · 28:14
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . We take another dive into the Blood Work theory zone,…
Aug 11, 2026 · 1:33:15
We explore the modern history of putting big guns on wheels, then dive into the history of Chad and its border dispute with Libya to learn how a humble pickup truck became a…
Aug 4, 2026 · 19:32
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . Blood Work’s EU Correspondent joins us to discuss…
Jul 28, 2026 · 1:41:46
Hussein comes on to talk about the most important film of the COVID era that isn’t Christopher Nolan’s TENET. For more from Hussein Kesvani – Listen to Ten Thousand Posts and…
Jul 21, 2026 · 27:32
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . Molly from Weird Little Guys comes on to talk about the…
Jul 14, 2026 · 1:42:56
Brian and Josh enter the Blood Zone to explain how Christian conservatives were transformed into one of the most powerful blocs in contemporary US politics. For more from Josh…
Jul 7, 2026 · 21:01
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . Gregk is joined by Tom and Producer Thomas to discuss…
Jul 5, 2026 · 40:02
Article 1: Army, Allied Militias, Islamist Armed Groups Commit Violations with Impunity Report by Human Rights Watch – Jun 28, 2026 If you enjoyed this episode: – Support Blood…
Jun 30, 2026 · 1:23:11
Jonathan joins us to talk about the gang violence that has engulfed Haiti since 2021 and place the instability that has haunted that nation within its proper political and…
Jun 23, 2026 · 20:55
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . Gregk speaks to the author of a new book on US-Iran…
Jun 16, 2026 · 1:39:37
Devin joins Gregk to talk about his book The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis. It’s a conversation that goes some places. The…
Jun 12, 2026 · 56:34
Genghis Tron’s keyboardist and programmer joins us to talk about the band’s new record and making despair-laden music in a collapsing world. GENGHIS TRON: SIGNAL FIRE — OUT NOW.…
Jun 9, 2026 · 28:25
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . Our story of Britain’s most infamous neo-nazi terror gang…
Jun 2, 2026 · 1:11:55
We explore the cultural history of rug-weaving in Afghanistan, and how decades of war caused that country’s craft and conditions into a morbid reciprocity. If you enjoyed this…
May 26, 2026 · 32:09
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . Gareth returns to continue our history of ‘90s Britain’s…
May 19, 2026 · 1:28:50
Do Your Own Research: Conspiracy, Paranoia & the Drive to Violence w/ Julian Feeld Julian and Gregk discuss the history of conspiracy, lone wolves, mass psychoses, and his new…
May 12, 2026 · 31:02
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . We conclude our two-parter with a story that runs through…
May 5, 2026 · 57:18
In the first of a two-parter, we trace the evolution of the modern city from industrialisation to the 1970s, when a trio of crises laid the foundation for an anti-political…
Apr 28, 2026 · 25:05
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . Gregk and Thomas pause to reflect on some of the topics…
Apr 21, 2026 · 2:06:33
Joe and Gregk use Gregory Stanton’s ‘Ten Stages of Genocide’ to discuss the tactics & techniques states deploy to legitimise and perpetrate mass murder. Image: Remains of victims…
Apr 14, 2026 · 18:48
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . We take a foray into the world of euphemisms,…
Apr 7, 2026 · 1:13:11
We look at the history of women’s participation in suicide bombing attacks and how society has tried to make sense of women who carry out the most extreme political act of all.…
Mar 31, 2026 · 18:04
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . In the conclusion to our series, we look at what happened…
Mar 24, 2026 · 1:31:30
Gareth and Rocz join Gregk to account for the many crimes of modernity’s slow, silent killers – engineers, technicians, and urban planners. Follow Gareth and Rocz on Bluesky…
Mar 17, 2026 · 30:05
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . As the Soviets entered the Cold War, they had a gun they…
Mar 10, 2026 · 1:02:18
We trace the evolution of international arms transfers from mercantilism to the modern era, and the perverse incentives produced by the symbiosis of private enterprise and state…
Mar 3, 2026 · 13:37
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . It’s time to tell the story of Mikhail Kalashnikov, his…
Feb 24, 2026 · 1:30:41
We begin our history of the most famous firearm of all time with a prologue: Because in order to understand how we got here, you gotta understand where we came from. Blood Work…
Feb 17, 2026 · 17:51
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . Josh drops by the Blood Work studio to talk about one of…
Feb 10, 2026 · 1:11:23
Prompted by a meditation on mercenaries, Gregk consults the henchest man in ancient history to discuss ancient forms of violence work and whether our current conjuncture is…
Feb 3, 2026 · 13:36
This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon . Gareth and Gregk reconvene to tell the second chapter in…
Jan 27, 2026 · 1:51:54
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…
Jan 20, 2026 · 15:32
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…
Jan 13, 2026 · 1:32:13
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…
Jan 6, 2026 · 12:46
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…
Dec 23, 2025 · 1:53:47
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…
Dec 16, 2025 · 1:29:01
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…
Dec 9, 2025 · 1:07:37
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…
Dec 2, 2025 · 1:12:36
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…
Nov 25, 2025 · 59:44
In 1971, a group of people cast aside by the state rose up and attempted to reclaim their humanity and political subjectivity. This week, we look at the Attica Prison Uprising to…
Nov 19, 2025 · 1:24:42
Come join us, won’t you, for a deep dive into one of the twentieth century’s biggest assholes. Say hello to Carl Schmitt: Jurist, legal scholar, political philosopher… Nazi?…
Nov 11, 2025 · 1:32:59
We take a break from scheduled programming to commemorate the passing of one of the greatest monsters of the early 21st century, looking back at some of his greatest hits of…
Nov 4, 2025 · 1:23:15
In the mid-1990s, the political philosopher Giorgio Agamben began a 20-year project exploring the origin of what Michel Foucault called biopolitics – the governance of…
Oct 28, 2025 · 1:21:48
With the quotidian workhorse of urban terror now well on its way, we round out our story by looking at how the car bomb became conscious of the city as its object, target and…
Oct 21, 2025 · 1:06:44
What has 4 wheels, a steering wheel, and massive destructive potential? You have been listening to Blood Work A Scam Goldin Production Follow us on Bluesky, @bloodwork.show On…
Oct 15, 2025 · 1:21:10
We dive deep into German Walter Benjamin's seminal essay 'Towards A Critique of Violence' to try and understand violence not only as a phenomen, but also as a powerful force in…
Oct 7, 2025 · 37:34
How did the American police get access to a nation's war chest? You have been listening to Blood Work A Scam Goldin Production Follow us on Bluesky, @bloodwork.show On Instagram,…
Oct 7, 2025 · 34:55
What is Blood Work, and who profits from violence? You have been listening to Blood Work A Scam Goldin Production Follow us on Bluesky, @bloodwork.show On Instagram,…
Sep 30, 2025 · 2:56
A show examining the Economies of Violence. Episodes 1&2 coming 07/10/25 You have been listening to Blood Work A Scam Goldin Production Follow us on Bluesky, @bloodwork.show On…
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