May 21, 2020
In this episode of The Solecast I chat with Brendan Mcquade and Mark Neoclous about concepts of policing, surveillance and security and how they are playing out in the Corona Virus era. Marc is the author of several books, such as Critique of Security, The Universal Adversary and many more. Brendan is a prior solecast guest and recently released Pacifying the Homeland : Intelligence Fusion.
We lay out a critique of “resilience” and differentiate its usages
from practices of mutual aid. We discuss why Universal Basic
Income may not be desirable. They talk about how the concept
of security itself undermines our liberators freedoms and how the
two concepts are at odds. We talk about the concept of
medical police, medical passports and the forms surveillance is
currently taking.
What does a revolutionary strategy look like right now? What
does astroturfed right wing anti-science protestors have to do with
the walking dead?