Assassin Nation w/ Patrick Blanchfield

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Featuring Patrick Blanchfield on assassination and political violence: from the routine to the extraordinary; authored by the state, capital, the left, the right, the unwell and alienated; as an anxiety, in our fantasies, as a morbid symptom and repetition compulsion; and as expressing distinctively American logics of domination and human disposability.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Getting the document that says Blanchfield assassination and then reminders being like Blanchfield
0:04.8	assassination, 10 minutes.
0:06.6	Yeah, I think I'd rather be taken by surprise.
0:09.1	Yeah, I mean, yeah, they're going to be playing journey and suddenly you don't even know it.
0:27.6	Welcome. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
0:33.0	This is my interview with Patrick Blanchfield on assassination and political violence.
0:38.9	I'll leave the intro at that and let our conversation speak for itself.
0:44.7	Before we get started, I want to remind all of you listening to this podcast that this is a listener-supported political education project.
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1:40.0	Okay, here's Patrick Blanchfield, a writer, associate faculty of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and co-host of Ordinary Unhappiness, a podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now.
1:59.0	Patrick has been on The Dig before. Check out our vast archives at
2:04.8	TheDigradio.com.
2:06.9	Patrick Blanchfield. welcome back to The Dig.
2:21.1	Dan, it's always a pleasure, no matter the grimness of the circumstances, that bring us together.
2:26.3	There does seem to be a pattern in my extension of invitations to you, Patrick.
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