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**Neighbor Science**

The only podcast about political economy and anime.

Latest Episodes:

714: Monster (2004) Jun 30, 2021

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Tura rejoins the podcast with his partner Evie to talk about Naoki Urasawa's manga and anime series Monster.

Ryan's show notes

Tura's show notes

713: Finish One Book, Start a Dozen More (SLAS Conclusion) May 15, 2021

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SLAS series conclusion.

Here's the grand transcribed list of reading recommendations:

Against the Grain (Scott's more recent book)
Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault
Towards a Political Philosophy of Race by Falguni Sheth
Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction by Todd May
Capital as Power by Nitzan & Bichler
Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
Anarchy, An Anarchist Program, and The Method of Freedom by Errico Malatesta
Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos
Making Sense of Anarchism by Davide Turcato
Post-Civ: A Brief Philosophical & Political Introduction to the Concept of Post-Civilization, by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
Desert by anonymous
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire

The show notes are also just regular ass notes! There's 80 pages of notes on this book, including some stuff that wasn't covered in the show.

712: The Old Bear Hunter Apr 18, 2021

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Ryan, Abdul (The Off Court Pod) and una (Goth Angel Sinners) get together to watch and discuss a very obscure Japanese movie about an aging matagi hunter, his family, and his encounters with a man-eating bear.

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I've made the movie available for download via my google drive, we'll see how long it lasts. If the link stops working, you can DM me or get it for cheap at Samurai Video.

711: Yellow Dent Grey Goo (SLAS Ch. 8) Apr 12, 2021

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Ryan and Christopher (@itmechr3) talk Chapter 8 of Seeing Like a State

This is part 7 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 6 episodes I recommend listening to them first!

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710: Apparently Tanzanians Need Water?? (SLAS Ch. 7) Mar 27, 2021

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Ryan and yungneocon discuss this weird aspect of Tanzanian food culture.

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This is part 6 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 5 episodes I recommend listening to them first!

709: Golden Kamuy, pt. 1 Mar 14, 2021

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Kris and una come on the pod to talk about the anime about eating brains, skinning human corpses, and looking at hot men, as well as the various ethnic minorities of Japan that the series talks about

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My brain was not working well enough to remember to ask for plugs, so

Check out Kris's fantasy novel series Dream of the White Stag and una's website anarchy.website

Episode produced by Casino Socks

Bibliography

The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800. Walker, Brett, 2001.

http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=C9F3B0D7B2A50BF57DF92E598EF7039B

Race, resistance and the Ainu of Japan. Siddle, Richard, 2014. Sheffield Centre for Japanese.

http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=E01360362B90AFC487468919B4FFA1DD

Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives. Hudson, Mark; Lewallen, Ann-elise; Watson, Mark; 2016. University of Hawai’i Press.

http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=D5B2B32BBC2CFA2AB66C667E8F125BE4

708: Total (Sploshnaia) Collectivization (SLAS Ch. 6) Feb 27, 2021

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Ryan and Walk In discuss the CIA-sponsored chapter of Seeing Like a State.

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This is part 5 of a series. If you haven't listened to the previous 4 episodes I recommend listening to them first!

707: The Commons in the Antebellum South (SLAS Supplemental) Feb 21, 2021

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Ryan covers the intro to part 3 of Seeing Like a State and takes a slight diversion to read one of the sources cited in that section.

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706: Major General Headmaster Foreman Lenin (SLAS Ch. 5) Feb 16, 2021

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Franz from Doomer v. Bloomer joins Ryan to talk about Seeing Like a State Chapter 5, which covers Lenin's school teacher/factory foreman/military general conception of revolution.

Check out the Srsly Wrong Book Club here!

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Production by Casino Socks

705: The Deeply Uncool Zone (SLAS Ch 3 & 4) Feb 09, 2021

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Ryan and Tura cover chapters 3 and 4 of Seeing Like a State by James Scott.

This is part of an ongoing series, I recommend listening to the previous episodes if you haven't already.

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Also check out Vida's extremely good talk on childhood trauma