Everything Is Police is a new book by Tia Trafford, who argues that institutional and interpersonal policing have been central to colonial modernity, the result of which is a situation where we cannot practically experience or even imagine worlds free from policing. Trafford is joined here in conversation with Melayna Lamb.



Tia Trafford is reader in philosophy and design at University for the Creative Arts in London. They are author of Everything Is Police and The Empire at Home, and coeditor of Alien Vectors.

Melayna Lamb is lecturer at the University of Law, UK, and author of A Philosophical History of Police Power.




EPISODE REFERENCES:
Frank B. Wilderson III
Rinaldo Walcott
The Empire at Home / Tia Trafford
Jared Sexton
Tapji Garba
Sylvia Wynter
Frantz Fanon
Sara-Maria Sorentino
Saidiya Hartman
David Marriott
Biko Mandela Gray
Sylvia Wynter
Sara-Maria Sorentino
Mute Compulsion / Søren Mau
Immanuel Kant
William Wimsatt on generative entrenchment
Red, White & Black / Frank B. Wilderson III
The First Black Slave Society / Hilary Beckles
Sean Capener
Paul Gilroy
Stuart Hall
John Locke
Slavery is a Metaphor / essay by Tapji Garba and Sara-Maria Sorentino, published in Antipode
Taija McDougall
Petero Kalulé


Everything Is Police is available from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available to read free online at manifold.umn.edu.

Policing and worldmaking.

Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna is a book that asks why so many big bluefin tuna have vanished from the Atlantic Ocean. Author Jen Telesca notes that the term “red gold” has emerged out of the exorbitant price her ruby-colored flesh commands on the global market; for reference, in January 2019, a 613-pound Pacific bluefin tuna sold at market in Tokyo for an astounding record of $3.1 million US dollars. To research this book, Telesca gained unparalleled access to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (also known as ICCAT) to show that the institution has faithfully executed the task assigned to it by international law: to fish as hard as possible to grow national economies. This interview between Telesca and editor Jason Weidemann was recorded in May 2020.

More about the book: http://z.umn.edu/redgold

A transcription of this conversation is available: z.umn.edu/t-redgold

Policing and worldmaking.

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