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Covid Year Four (Unlocked) Dec 21, 2023

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on December 12th 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod We take a look back at the last year of major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2023. Full Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/covid-year-four Timecodes: 00:05:30 — Introduction 00:11:53 — Part One: Fall/Winter 2022 00:39:27 — Part Two: 2023, Before the end of the Public Health Emergency (May 11) 01:45:53 — X-Files 02:02:57 — Part Three: 2023, After the end of the Public Health Emergency 03:05:14 — Discussion — Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - Empire of Normality w/ Robert Chapman (12/18/23) Dec 19, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94887548 Beatrice and Abby speak with Robert Chapman about their new book, Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, and discuss the close relationship between the fields of statistics and eugenics through five thinkers—Adolphe Quetelet, Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, Ronald Fisher, and Thomas Szasz—whose ideas continue to influence how the state manages neurodiversity and disability. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:38:47, 18 December 2023 🧬

Malthusian Machines (12/14/23) Dec 14, 2023

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Beatrice, Abby, and Phil discuss how A.I. tools are used to lend a veneer of objectivity to medical rationing, and how tools like “Gospel” A.I. and UnitedHealth’s “nH Predict” are used to obscure inherently moral, political, and ideological actions. Transcript forthcoming. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Referenced in this episode: Osama Tanous, "You, as of Now, Are Someone Else!" — https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1653909 "Who Shall Live?" (1965) — https://youtu.be/FMay5zw1loA?si=U49FoeGxe_CmIbrp LIFE Magazine article — https://bit.ly/48dDGte

Teaser - Covid Year Four (12/12/23) Dec 13, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94486770 We take a look back at the last year of major social and political developments that worked to normalize covid in 2023. A full transcript of this episode, including links to almost everything referenced, is also now live on our patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94486514 Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 03:31:05, 12 December 2023 🧬

Economic Endemicity Blue (12/07/23) Dec 06, 2023

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As we prepare to record "Covid Year Four," Beatrice, Artie, and Abby discuss what is left of national covid data following the end of the public health emergency, how what's left has become so thoroughly abstracted, and how the CDC prioritizes representing deaths as an abstract percentage even as the official death count has been over 1,000 a week since August. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/economic-endemicity-blue Find the NVSS data sheet mentioned early in the episode here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - Manufacturing Insecurity w/ Astra Taylor (12/04/23) Dec 05, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94076448 Beatrice speaks with Astra Taylor about how the capitalist state constructs and reproduces insecurity, the eugenic logic of austerity, and Astra's new book The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:34:10, 4 December 2023 🧬

RICO w/ Dan Berger (Unlocked) Nov 30, 2023

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on September 25th 2023. We'll be back with a new episode Monday in the patron feed. Beatrice speaks with Dan Berger about the RICO charges against Stop Cop City activists and the long history of RICO being used as a tool of repression against left movements. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Links to media and resources mentioned in this episode: Read the full indictment against Stop Cop City activists here: https://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/2156/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT Raymond Luc Levasseur, "Until All Are Free": https://archive.org/details/sparrowsnest-4710 Raymond Luc Levasseur, "RICO Expanded By Supreme Court" in Prison Legal Review, 1994. https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/1994/jun/15/rico-expanded-by-supreme-court/ Our episode with Jessica Phoenix Sylvia from last year, "Press and the Prison": https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/press-and-the-prison-w-jessica-phoenix-sylvia-111022 James Baldwin, "An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis," 1971. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/01/07/an-open-letter-to-my-sister-miss-angela-davis/

Teaser - The New Lavender Scare w/ Melissa Gira Grant (11/27/23) Nov 28, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/93637981 Beatrice and Jules speak with Melissa Gira Grant about the history of the Lavender Scare, the anti-gay campaign that overlapped and ran in parallel with the Red Scare, how it shaped the politics of gender and sexuality today, and whether we're experiencing a new Lavender Scare today or if instead the Lavender Scare never ended. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:36:55, 27 November 2023 🧬

Refusing Genocide w/ Rasha Abdulhadi Nov 23, 2023

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 16th 2023. We are re-releasing it today, alongside a new transcript (with links to referenced material), because of news of an inadequate four-day "humanitarian pause" that fails to meet demands to stop the genocide and to free Palestine, and because many of Rasha's observations from a few weeks ago have now come to pass. We'll be back with a new episode Monday in the patron feed. Full transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/refusing-genocide-palestine Original episode description: Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in this moment, the importance of refusing the idea that the genocide of Palestinians is inevitable, and how the language we use to resist the colonial project can sometimes fail to meet the scale of our demands. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - Immunocapitalism w/ Kathryn Olivarius Nov 21, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/93226703 Bea speaks with Kathryn Olivarius about the economy and social structure that emerged around yellow fever in antebellum New Orleans, and the ecosystem of deniers, capitalists, and novel theories of "immunity" that echo our current pandemic. Note: This episode is a re-air, as Artie explains in a brief clip at the beginning of the episode. We'll be back with a brand new patron episode next Monday. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:42:22 🧬

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