Episode 239: The Fragmented State (w/ special guests Craig and Ruth Wilson Gilmore) [Year Zero 6]

Trillbilly Worker's Party

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4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

For this latest installation of the Year Zero series we're joined by long time researchers, teachers, and prison abolitionists Craig and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, to help us think through the carceral state: what it is, where it's heading, and how we can change it. Please read Ruthie's book, Golden Gulag: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag And Craig's Real Cost of Prisons graphic novel, from which today's episode art was taken: http://www.realcostofprisons.org/prison_town.pdf And finally, please consider supporting us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

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0:00.0	Music
0:20.0	Music
0:44.0	Tom and I did an episode about
0:49.0	development arrested and I think you wrote the
0:52.0	did you write the intro to that reason?
0:54.0	I did indeed.
0:55.0	It's a great book. We did that with Jordan Camp
0:58.0	and I don't know that book blew me away because
1:01.0	you know it's like he starts with you know music
1:04.0	and just kind of I don't know you can do the same thing
1:07.0	for where we live just because music is such
1:10.0	an important part of life here.
1:13.0	It's a great book.
1:15.0	It is a great book and it
1:17.0	influenced me a lot.
1:20.0	I was actually his teacher when I was
1:23.0	still a grad school dropout.
1:25.0	A fabulous dissertation and then that
1:28.0	dissertation became that book.
1:30.0	And if you've ever made the whole dissertation
1:32.0	I urge you to do it.
1:33.0	It's like three times the length of the book
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