Exploring 'Government of the Shadows' Book

Dimitri and Khalid continue exploring the long strange trip of the word “parapolitics” into the 1990s. Topics include: Jacques Rancière’s book “Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy”, calling out Aristotle for not actually doing a heckin’ democracy, policing the polis, the undergrad thesis that accurately nailed SJ’s bricoleur nature, inhabiting the space between, squaring Peter Dale Scott’s sus elite background with his valuable work on deep politics, Poetry and Terror in Scott’s “Coming To Jakarta”, doing free verse silk topper self-crit, being “a victim of excessive inheritance”, the 2009 academic essay collection “Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty”, how “parapolitics” differs from “grand conspiracy theory”, and more. For access to premium episodes, upcoming installments of DEMON FORCES, live call-in specials, and the Grotto of Truth Discord, become a subscriber at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.