Recorded Live at Burning House Books in Glasgow on 27 May 2022 and hosted by the 44th President of These United States.Norm samples the local delicacies. George W. Bush and Ellen think you're a punk. Elon challenges you to name five weird things about his weird thing. Partygate is a movie that flops. Dick Stormer, the human korma. Workers are just capital's lower intestine. Glasgow's radical history of rent strikes. An open letter to landlords, who are the modern-day Beverly Hillbillies.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

Recorded Live at Burning House Books in Glasgow on 27 May 2022 and hosted by the 44th President of These United States. Norm samples the local delicacies. George W. Bush and Ellen think you're a punk. Elon challenges you to name five weird things about his weird thing. Partygate is a movie that flops. Dick Stormer, the human korma. Workers are just capital's lower intestine. Glasgow's radical history of rent strikes. An open letter to landlords, who are the modern-day Beverly Hillbillies. --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

34: CAPITAL'S LOWER INTESTINE

We're doing a live show this Friday, the 27th of May in the year of our lord 2022 at Burning House Books, 446 Cathcart Road in Glasgow. It's free. You should come. www.burninghousebooks.com--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

We're doing a live show this Friday, the 27th of May in the year of our lord 2022 at Burning House Books, 446 Cathcart Road in Glasgow. It's free. You should come.  <a href="http://www.burninghousebooks.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.burninghousebooks.com</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

SPAGHETTI FOR BRAINS LIVE!

In the last of four parts, we present an audiobook version of The Housing Monster, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website prole.info. The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker’s diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. This episode includes:  Part Three: Pushing, Pulling and Breaking  - Chapter 1: Notes on the Class Struggle - Chapter 2: Collective Living - Chapter 3: The Unions - Chapter 4: Rent Control and State Housing - Chapter 5: The Second World - Chapter 6: Getting Rid of Monsters Go to prole.info to access the illustrated ebook. Subscribe to the Spaghetti For Brains newsletter for new writing and updates.  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

In the last of four parts, we present an audiobook version of The Housing Monster, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website <a href="http://prole.info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">prole.info</a>. The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker’s diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. This episode includes: Part Three: Pushing, Pulling and Breaking - Chapter 1: Notes on the Class Struggle - Chapter 2: Collective Living - Chapter 3: The Unions - Chapter 4: Rent Control and State Housing - Chapter 5: The Second World - Chapter 6: Getting Rid of Monsters Go to <a href="https://www.prole.info/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">prole.info</a> to access the illustrated ebook. Subscribe to the <a href="https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Spaghetti For Brains newsletter</a> for new writing and updates. --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

THE HOUSING MONSTER (Part 4)

In the third of four parts, we present an audiobook version of The Housing Monster, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website prole.info. The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker’s diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. This episode includes:  Part Two: The Neighborhood  - Chapter 1: Loans - Chapter 2: Land - Chapter 3: Development and Decay - Chapter 4: The Housing Market and the Labor Market - Chapter 5: Ownership and Class - Chapter 6: A Woman's Place - Chapter 7: Community and Commodity Go to prole.info to access the illustrated ebook. Subscribe to the Spaghetti For Brains newsletter for new writing and updates.  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

In the third of four parts, we present an audiobook version of The Housing Monster, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website <a href="http://prole.info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">prole.info</a>. The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker’s diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. This episode includes: Part Two: The Neighborhood - Chapter 1: Loans - Chapter 2: Land - Chapter 3: Development and Decay - Chapter 4: The Housing Market and the Labor Market - Chapter 5: Ownership and Class - Chapter 6: A Woman's Place - Chapter 7: Community and Commodity Go to <a href="https://www.prole.info/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">prole.info</a> to access the illustrated ebook. Subscribe to the <a href="https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Spaghetti For Brains newsletter</a> for new writing and updates. --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

THE HOUSING MONSTER (Part 3)

In the second of four parts, we present an audiobook version of The Housing Monster, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website prole.info. The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker’s diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. This episode includes:  Part One: The Construction Site  - Chapter 2: Socialization, Separation and Subcontracting - Chapter 3: Skill and Backwardness - Chapter 4: The Pace of Work - Chapter 5: Safety and Self-Destruction - Chapter 6: Macho Shit - Chapter 7: Blue Collar Blues Go to prole.info to access the illustrated ebook. Subscribe to the Spaghetti For Brains newsletter for new writing and updates.  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

In the second of four parts, we present an audiobook version of The Housing Monster, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website <a href="http://prole.info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">prole.info</a>. The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker’s diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. This episode includes: Part One: The Construction Site - Chapter 2: Socialization, Separation and Subcontracting - Chapter 3: Skill and Backwardness - Chapter 4: The Pace of Work - Chapter 5: Safety and Self-Destruction - Chapter 6: Macho Shit - Chapter 7: Blue Collar Blues Go to <a href="https://www.prole.info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">prole.info</a> to access the illustrated ebook. Subscribe to the <a href="https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spaghetti For Brains newsletter</a> for new writing and updates. --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

THE HOUSING MONSTER (Part 2)

In the first of four parts, we present an audiobook version of The Housing Monster, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website prole.info. The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker’s diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. This episode includes: Foreword Part One: The Construction Site - Chapter 1: Living and Dead Labor Go to prole.info to access the illustrated ebook. Subscribe to the Spaghetti For Brains newsletter for new writing and updates.  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

In the first of four parts, we present an audiobook version of The Housing Monster, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website <a href="//www.prole.info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">prole.info</a>. The Housing Monster is a scathing illustrated essay that takes one seemingly simple, everyday thing—a house—and looks at the social relations that surround it. Moving from intensely personal thoughts and interactions to large-scale political and economic forces, it reads alternately like a worker’s diary, a short story, a psychology of everyday life, a historical account, an introduction to Marxist critique of political economy, and an angry flyer someone would pass you on the street. Starting with the construction site and the physical building of houses, the book slowly builds and links more and more issues together: from gentrification and city politics to gender roles and identity politics, from subcontracting and speculation to union contracts and negotiation, from individual belief, suffering, and resistance to structural division, necessity, and instability. What starts as a look at housing broadens into a critique of capitalism as a whole. This episode includes: Foreword Part One: The Construction Site - Chapter 1: Living and Dead Labor Go to <a href="//www.prole.info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">prole.info</a> to access the illustrated ebook. Subscribe to the <a href="https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spaghetti For Brains newsletter</a> for new writing and updates. --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

THE HOUSING MONSTER (Part 1)

The fellas are back with a reading about the housing crisis. The first article, from the Financial Times, traces the origins of the crisis in Britain to Thatcher's 'Right to Buy' scheme, but also the less well remembered New Labour creation from whole cloth of the 'buy-to-let' private rental sector (and the ballooning landlord class) as we know it. The second article comes courtesy of the Guardian, who are demonstrably invoking a new Maoist Land Reform Movement, by asking—WILL SOMEONE PLEASE CONSIDER THE POOR LANDLORDS? Come with us on a journey through this Tiny Tim Nation and let us poison your mind with CRT (critical rent theory) while we pack up our stuff and move into a future that will be either socialism or barbarism (but more likely the latter). Next week, we'll start releasing The Housing Monster, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website prole.info where you can download the ebook for free. You can listen to Ben read it here in four instalments in the coming weeks. Subscribe to the Spaghetti For Brains newsletter for new writing and updates.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

The fellas are back with a reading about the housing crisis. The first article, from the Financial Times, traces the origins of the crisis in Britain to Thatcher's 'Right to Buy' scheme, but also the less well remembered New Labour creation from whole cloth of the 'buy-to-let' private rental sector (and the ballooning landlord class) as we know it. The second article comes courtesy of the Guardian, who are demonstrably invoking a new Maoist Land Reform Movement, by asking—WILL SOMEONE PLEASE CONSIDER THE POOR LANDLORDS? Come with us on a journey through this Tiny Tim Nation and let us poison your mind with CRT (critical rent theory) while we pack up our stuff and move into a future that will be either socialism or barbarism (but more likely the latter). Next week, we'll start releasing <a href="https://www.prole.info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Housing Monster</a>, written by an anonymous construction worker for the website <a href="http://prole.info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">prole.info</a> where you can download the ebook for free. You can listen to Ben read it here in four instalments in the coming weeks. Subscribe to the <a href="https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spaghetti For Brains newsletter</a> for new writing and updates.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

33: CRITICAL RENT THEORY

COP26 sponsored by Chevron, Exxon-Mobil and Shell Oil and brought to you by Morgan Freeman. World leaders throw pennies into a wishing well for COP26. Sleepy Joe lives up to his name in Glass Cow. Militarism is the biggest threat to the climate but capitalist omertà keeps it out of the conversation. It's the imperialism, stupid! The Cold War is alive and well and structuring our thinking around carbon. Being forced to defend China. Housing justice is climate justice, even if it's boring to talk about. Ben introduces Norm to the King of Juice—THE BRU.MR Online: ‘COP26: Military pollution is the skeleton in the West’s climate closet’ https://mronline.org/2021/11/10/cop26-military-pollution-is-the-skeleton-in-the-wests-climate-closet/GlasgowLive: ‘Glaswegians rally in George Square to demand free public transport for locals when COP26 ends’ https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glaswegians-demand-free-public-transport-22126892--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

COP26 sponsored by Chevron, Exxon-Mobil and Shell Oil and brought to you by Morgan Freeman. World leaders throw pennies into a wishing well for COP26. Sleepy Joe lives up to his name in Glass Cow. Militarism is the biggest threat to the climate but capitalist omertà keeps it out of the conversation. It's the imperialism, stupid! The Cold War is alive and well and structuring our thinking around carbon. Being forced to defend China. Housing justice is climate justice, even if it's boring to talk about. Ben introduces Norm to the King of Juice—THE BRU. MR Online: ‘COP26: Military pollution is the skeleton in the West’s climate closet’ <a href="https://mronline.org/2021/11/10/cop26-military-pollution-is-the-skeleton-in-the-wests-climate-closet/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mronline.org/2021/11/10/cop26-military-pollution-is-the-skeleton-in-the-wests-climate-closet/</a> GlasgowLive: ‘Glaswegians rally in George Square to demand free public transport for locals when COP26 ends’ <a href="https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glaswegians-demand-free-public-transport-22126892" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glaswegians-demand-free-public-transport-22126892</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

32: BRU-PILLED

Ben's landlord wants more free money. The UK sucks and no one wants to come here. Hence the crisis of HGV drivers and the government finally turning to Jerry. Speaking of which, you too can be super-rich if you follow Seinfeld's advice and start doing Transcendental Meditation or learn to say happy birthday like Jeff Bezos.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

Ben's landlord wants more free money. The UK sucks and no one wants to come here. Hence the crisis of HGV drivers and the government finally turning to Jerry. Speaking of which, you too can be super-rich if you follow Seinfeld's advice and start doing Transcendental Meditation or learn to say happy birthday like Jeff Bezos.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

31: DO HARD THINGS

*BONUS EPISODE*   Backwater Blues: "Natural" Disaster, Blues Records and the Commodity Form.   Ben looks at Bessie Smith's classic 1927 recording and the way it transforms a 'merely private misfortune' into a historical record of race and class dispossession, carving out a space for a collective consciousness. Music that speaks to and even operates as a social consciousness and memory—how has this changed over time? Can music in America and other “developed” capitalist societies still do this? Are there modern-day equivalents? Or has the commodification of recorded music and its shaping of the way we listen undermined our ability to have this kind of collective experience?  You can read this article and subscribe to the Spaghetti For Brains newsletter at https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

*BONUS EPISODE*  Backwater Blues: "Natural" Disaster, Blues Records and the Commodity Form.  Ben looks at Bessie Smith's classic 1927 recording and the way it transforms a 'merely private misfortune' into a historical record of race and class dispossession, carving out a space for a collective consciousness. Music that speaks to and even operates as a social consciousness and memory—how has this changed over time? Can music in America and other “developed” capitalist societies still do this? Are there modern-day equivalents? Or has the commodification of recorded music and its shaping of the way we listen undermined our ability to have this kind of collective experience? You can read this article and subscribe to the Spaghetti For Brains newsletter at <a href="https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

30a: BACKWATER BLUES

Podcast and agitprop. History, culture, politics, foolishness.https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com

Darren Cullen

For our landmark 30th episode we talked to artist Darren Cullen a.k.a. Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives. Here in the UK, lots of people have seen his art at bus stops, on the Tube and on billboards, occupying the space normally reserved for advertisements. And that’s because much of his work takes the form of commercial images, messaging and design—but turned against the giant corporations and political actors who usually have a monopoly on our attention through these channels. Darren has made short films with Veterans For Peace, produced installations for Banksy's Dismaland, co-curated The Museum of Neoliberalism in London as well as authoring countless other acts of artistic sabotage. The tone of Darren’s work is comical: he makes satire. It’s faithful to the format that it parodies, which often makes for nauseating viewing because the subject matter couldn’t be more serious.  We talk about growing up (and out of) being right-wing, how the military preys on working-class children, the porous line between politics and PR, satire and bullshit in a post-Trump world, PFI and privatisation in the NHS, why neoliberalism needed a museum, and finally about Comrade Ant'ny converting to catholicism.  Check out Darren's work at Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives: https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com  The Museum of Neoliberalism: https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/museumofneoliberalism  Works under discussion: https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/bethemeat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KtyMcb86go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBAHuJbP_EA  Closing music from Darren's video 'The PFI Game' [link above]  Read Spaghetti For Brains propaganda and subscribe to our newsletter at https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

For our landmark 30th episode we talked to artist Darren Cullen a.k.a. Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives. Here in the UK, lots of people have seen his art at bus stops, on the Tube and on billboards, occupying the space normally reserved for advertisements. And that’s because much of his work takes the form of commercial images, messaging and design—but turned against the giant corporations and political actors who usually have a monopoly on our attention through these channels. Darren has made short films with Veterans For Peace, produced installations for Banksy's Dismaland, co-curated The Museum of Neoliberalism in London as well as authoring countless other acts of artistic sabotage. The tone of Darren’s work is comical: he makes satire. It’s faithful to the format that it parodies, which often makes for nauseating viewing because the subject matter couldn’t be more serious. We talk about growing up (and out of) being right-wing, how the military preys on working-class children, the porous line between politics and PR, satire and bullshit in a post-Trump world, PFI and privatisation in the NHS, why neoliberalism needed a museum, and finally about Comrade Ant'ny converting to catholicism. Check out Darren's work at Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives: <a href="https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com</a> The Museum of Neoliberalism: <a href="https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/museumofneoliberalism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/museumofneoliberalism</a> Works under discussion: <a href="https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/bethemeat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/bethemeat</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KtyMcb86go" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KtyMcb86go</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBAHuJbP_EA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBAHuJbP_EA</a> Closing music from Darren's video 'The PFI Game' [link above] Read Spaghetti For Brains propaganda and subscribe to our newsletter at <a href="https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

30: AD NAUSEA ft. DARREN CULLEN

Hatty Nestor

We're joined by Hatty Nestor, author of Ethical Portraits: In Search of Representational Justice, published by Zer0 Books last year. Hatty talks to us about how the carceral system dehumanises the people caught in its machinery and how this is reflected visually through mugshots and courtroom drawings circulated in the media, but also through surveillance methods like facial recognition technology, forensics and DNA sampling. Ethical Portraits asks the question: ‘How can understanding the visual representation of prisoners help us confront the invisible forms of power in the American prison system?’ We also discuss being half-American and how this affects all three of our worldviews, how portraits and portrayal are weaponised by a repressive surveillance state, the 'affective potential of art' and whether it can be revolutionary, Chelsea Manning, prison and police abolition, and finally how you can be both perverted and Italian at the same time.Check out Ethical Portraits and more of Hatty Nestor's writing here: https://hattynestor.com/Editorial--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

We're joined by Hatty Nestor, author of Ethical Portraits: In Search of Representational Justice, published by Zer0 Books last year. Hatty talks to us about how the carceral system dehumanises the people caught in its machinery and how this is reflected visually through mugshots and courtroom drawings circulated in the media, but also through surveillance methods like facial recognition technology, forensics and DNA sampling. Ethical Portraits asks the question: ‘How can understanding the visual representation of prisoners help us confront the invisible forms of power in the American prison system?’ We also discuss being half-American and how this affects all three of our worldviews, how portraits and portrayal are weaponised by a repressive surveillance state, the 'affective potential of art' and whether it can be revolutionary, Chelsea Manning, prison and police abolition, and finally how you can be both perverted and Italian at the same time. Check out Ethical Portraits and more of Hatty Nestor's writing here: <a href="https://hattynestor.com/Editorial" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://hattynestor.com/Editorial</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

29: MUGSHOTS AND RADICAL LOVE ft. HATTY NESTOR

Vampires &amp; landlords earning their blood. Ben is on a news &amp; social media hiatus. When you've ruined someone's Christmas. Abolish restaurants (check out prole[dot]info for a book-length thought on the subject). Hippies doing Blood &amp; Soil politics. Covid is your fault. How can you not be crazy when everything is bullshit? The Olympics can't be sexy, even as a joke. Abolishing the police is a mental health issue.Here's the article that Norm refers to about people being awful at restaurants: https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/SF-Bay-Area-restaurants-customers-rude-Yelp-review-16333535.phpAnd the article Norm refers to about the NYC pilot scheme to replace police with mental health professionals: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/nycs-non-police-mental-health-pilot-increasing-rate-of-those-getting-aid-data-show/3165520/?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand&amp;&amp;fbclid=IwAR0ZuKkXmWtjjV2wwFQfJyhZs8j1Qe-uCvhstGOAdL1NAaBLBRtH_L8uXaM--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

Vampires &amp; landlords earning their blood. Ben is on a news &amp; social media hiatus. When you've ruined someone's Christmas. Abolish restaurants (check out prole[dot]info for a book-length thought on the subject). Hippies doing Blood &amp; Soil politics. Covid is your fault. How can you not be crazy when everything is bullshit? The Olympics can't be sexy, even as a joke. Abolishing the police is a mental health issue. Here's the article that Norm refers to about people being awful at restaurants: <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/SF-Bay-Area-restaurants-customers-rude-Yelp-review-16333535.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/SF-Bay-Area-restaurants-customers-rude-Yelp-review-16333535.php</a> And the article Norm refers to about the NYC pilot scheme to replace police with mental health professionals: <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/nycs-non-police-mental-health-pilot-increasing-rate-of-those-getting-aid-data-show/3165520/?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand&amp;&amp;fbclid=IwAR0ZuKkXmWtjjV2wwFQfJyhZs8j1Qe-uCvhstGOAdL1NAaBLBRtH_L8uXaM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/nycs-non-police-mental-health-pilot-increasing-rate-of-those-getting-aid-data-show/3165520/?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand&amp;&amp;fbclid=IwAR0ZuKkXmWtjjV2wwFQfJyhZs8j1Qe-uCvhstGOAdL1NAaBLBRtH_L8uXaM</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

28: COP PSYCHOLOGY

Aimee from Burning House Books joins us again in part two of our mini-series on David Wojnarowicz's rocket launcher of a memoir, Close to the Knives (1991). We read some key passages of the book aloud then talk about the AIDS crisis (in the US and UK vs. the 'other' parts of the world) and Covid, America's idea of itself as what Wojnarowicz called a 'ONE-TRIBE NATION', what the state's violent neglect of its own citizens can tell us about the rise of neoliberalism and the outsourcing of sickness and vulnerability, and finally what a revolutionary individuality might look like. Check out Burning House Books at https://www.burninghousebooks.com Listen to 3 Teens Kill 4's 'Tell Me Something Good': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNdEjsh5Gg Wojnarowicz's painting discussed in the ep: Untitled (Hujar Dead), 1988-89: https://whitney.org/collection/works/48140 Episode cover art by David Wojnarowicz: Untitled (Buffalo), 1988-89: https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/356226--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

Aimee from Burning House Books joins us again in part two of our mini-series on David Wojnarowicz's rocket launcher of a memoir, Close to the Knives (1991). We read some key passages of the book aloud then talk about the AIDS crisis (in the US and UK vs. the 'other' parts of the world) and Covid, America's idea of itself as what Wojnarowicz called a 'ONE-TRIBE NATION', what the state's violent neglect of its own citizens can tell us about the rise of neoliberalism and the outsourcing of sickness and vulnerability, and finally what a revolutionary individuality might look like. Check out Burning House Books at <a href="https://www.burninghousebooks.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.burninghousebooks.com</a> Listen to 3 Teens Kill 4's 'Tell Me Something Good': <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNdEjsh5Gg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNdEjsh5Gg</a> Wojnarowicz's painting discussed in the ep: Untitled (Hujar Dead), 1988-89: <a href="https://whitney.org/collection/works/48140" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://whitney.org/collection/works/48140</a> Episode cover art by David Wojnarowicz: Untitled (Buffalo), 1988-89: <a href="https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/356226" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/356226</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

27: A KILLING MACHINE CALLED AMERICA ft. AIMEE FROM BURNING HOUSE BOOKS

Ben &amp; Norm are joined by SFB's first guest. Writer and bookseller Aimee from Burning House Books drops by to talk Pride &amp; couches, football, accidentally getting @'d by the First Minister of Scotland and the ensuing toilet bowl of her mentions, the working class experience of reading, urban decay, financialisation, and the pure uncut diamond genius of David Wojnarowicz.We'll be back soon to continue the conversation with Aimee and probably read some bits from Wojnarowicz's titan of a book, Close to the Knives (1991).Check out Burning House Books: www.burninghousebooks.comNorm's other podcast, This Is Bad: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/this…ad/id1566431001--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

Ben &amp; Norm are joined by SFB's first guest. Writer and bookseller Aimee from Burning House Books drops by to talk Pride &amp; couches, football, accidentally getting @'d by the First Minister of Scotland and the ensuing toilet bowl of her mentions, the working class experience of reading, urban decay, financialisation, and the pure uncut diamond genius of David Wojnarowicz. We'll be back soon to continue the conversation with Aimee and probably read some bits from Wojnarowicz's titan of a book, Close to the Knives (1991). Check out Burning House Books: <a href="http://www.burninghousebooks.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.burninghousebooks.com</a> Norm's other podcast, This Is Bad: <a href="http://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/this…ad/id1566431001" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/this…ad/id1566431001</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

26: X RAYS FROM HELL ft. AIMEE FROM BURNING HOUSE BOOKS

Is it called "The Frizzle Fry"? Ben &amp; Norm reflect on last week's episode and the future of a revolutionary left that can't get its head around trans liberation. Norm gives an update on a bill going through the Connecticut legislature. Republicans want to know if legal weed is bad for the environment.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

Is it called "The Frizzle Fry"? Ben &amp; Norm reflect on last week's episode and the future of a revolutionary left that can't get its head around trans liberation. Norm gives an update on a bill going through the Connecticut legislature. Republicans want to know if legal weed is bad for the environment. --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

25: SERF N TERF

Ben reads a letter to the so-called "gender critical" left. Young people are growing into a politics that is radical and trans inclusive. If we're not responding to the changing dimensions of the working class, then who are we?You can read the letter on the Spaghetti For Brains Substack: https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-gender-critical--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

Ben reads a letter to the so-called "gender critical" left. Young people are growing into a politics that is radical and trans inclusive. If we're not responding to the changing dimensions of the working class, then who are we? You can read the letter on the Spaghetti For Brains Substack: <a href="https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-gender-critical" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-the-gender-critical</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

24a: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE "GENDER CRITICAL" LEFT

After a totally planned hiatus, Ben &amp; Norm are back. It's the End of History — Season Two. Israel, the movie. Fighting to lose. Chimps and Spaniards of Hartlepool. The Queen's Speech, Kill the Bill, long distance asylum applications and other Tory manoeuvres straight out of the Republican playbook. Cockhands' Voter ID law and how the US is like the UK a little further down the road. Also we call out Chapo Trap House.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

After a totally planned hiatus, Ben &amp; Norm are back. It's the End of History — Season Two. Israel, the movie. Fighting to lose. Chimps and Spaniards of Hartlepool. The Queen's Speech, Kill the Bill, long distance asylum applications and other Tory manoeuvres straight out of the Republican playbook. Cockhands' Voter ID law and how the US is like the UK a little further down the road. Also we call out Chapo Trap House.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

24: END OF HISTORY SEASON TWO

Norm loses the game. Ben adopted a cat and made it an honorary Italian. Constantine the influencer posted Christianity until it went viral. Corporations pretending to be human. White boy summer in a totally not-racist police state. Conspiracy is all well and good but have you heard of the valorisation of capital? If only the Chauvin trial really could put the criminal justice system in the dock. What 'Keir' stands for. The open letter about #killthebill that Ben talks about: https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com/p/a-dark-stain-on-our-democracy Ben reading that open letter on Open Mic Podcast with Alfie Prendergast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HNMvefv5MV7Vpwi72znZy?si=JEMy3jn6T5qh7I7rO5OdoA    ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

Norm loses the game. Ben adopted a cat and made it an honorary Italian. Constantine the influencer posted Christianity until it went viral. Corporations pretending to be human. White boy summer in a totally not-racist police state. Conspiracy is all well and good but have you heard of the valorisation of capital? If only the Chauvin trial really could put the criminal justice system in the dock. What 'Keir' stands for. The open letter about #killthebill that Ben talks about: <a href="https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com/p/a-dark-stain-on-our-democracy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com/p/a-dark-stain-on-our-democracy</a> Ben reading that open letter on Open Mic Podcast with Alfie Prendergast: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HNMvefv5MV7Vpwi72znZy?si=JEMy3jn6T5qh7I7rO5OdoA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HNMvefv5MV7Vpwi72znZy?si=JEMy3jn6T5qh7I7rO5OdoA</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

23: OWNIN'-ISM

Ben reads his essay 'Ghosts: Whiteness and the Spectre of Race in America'.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message

Ben reads his essay 'Ghosts: Whiteness and the Spectre of Race in America'.--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/spaghetti-for-brains/message</a>

22a: GHOSTS

Podcast and agitprop. History, culture, politics, foolishness. <a href="https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://spaghettiforbrains.substack.com</a>

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