Oddities of Violence

Episode 2: The Genocide of the Carthaginian Professor Tristan Taylor, from the University of New England (Australia), draws a line connecting two events centuries apart: Rome's genocidal violence against Carthage, and its age of persecution of Christians. Music by Kai Engel, from the Free Music Archive, "Neon Flesh". Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War Professor Rachel Bruzzone, from Bilkent Unive...

Episode 3: Let Die in Democratic Kampuchea Professor James Tyner, from Kent State University (United States) addresses common misunderstandings in the history of the Khmer Rouge, its economic reality, and its political campaign of mass neglect. Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War Professor Rachel Bruzzone, from Bilkent University (Turkey), speaks from Greece about Thucydides' own life in the midst...

Episode 4: Voegelin's Theory of Extreme, Delusional Violence Professor of Political Theory Barry Cooper, from the University of Calgary, focuses on the life and work of German-American scholar Eric Voegelin, and his various insights into the mind of political extremism. Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War Professor Rachel Bruzzone, from Bilkent University (Turkey), speaks from Greece about Thucydi...

Episode 5: Anarchist Ideology and the Ethics of Terroristic Violence Professor Or Arthur Honig, from Tokyo International University (Japan), reflects on the lives of Jewish assassins during the rise of Nazi Germany, and on the misconstrued relation between intervention and terrorism. Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War Professor Rachel Bruzzone, from Bilkent University (Turkey), speaks from Greece...

Episode 6: A Fight for the Status of Violent "Novelty" Professor Marta Bashovski, from the University of Regina (Canada), reflects on the fraught debate on what constitutes novelty and commonplace in political conversations meant to address violence. Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War Professor Rachel Bruzzone, from Bilkent University (Turkey), speaks from Greece about Thucydides' own life in the...

Episode 7: The London Fire of 1666, or the Birth of the Modern State Professor Johannes Dillinger, from Brookes University (England), recovers the memory of a world before the rise of the Modern State, and explains how the fear of organized arson, and of vagabonds, changed it all. Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War Professor Rachel Bruzzone, from Bilkent University (Turkey), speaks from Greece ab...

Episode 8: Black Pilled Professor Ware explains the rise of incel Internet culture and its evolution into a larger form of "grassroots" terrorism. Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War Professor Rachel Bruzzone, from Bilkent University (Turkey), speaks from Greece about Thucydides' own life in the midst of internecine war, and its advice to future generations. Music by Kai Engel, from the Free Music...

Episode 1: Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War Professor Rachel Bruzzone, from Bilkent University (Turkey), speaks from Greece about Thucydides' own life in the midst of internecine war, and its advice to future generations. Music by Kai Engel, from the Free Music Archive. Thucydides on the Peloponnesian War Professor Rachel Bruzzone, from Bilkent University (Turkey), speaks from Greece about Thuc...

Episode 0: An Introduction to This Odd Violence Professors Hiebert, Goldstein and Cameron, from the University of Calgary Political Science Department, share the reasons that brought them together and led them to this project, and what their goal is. Intro & outro music by Kai Engels, from the Free Music Archive, "Neon Flesh". Episode 0: An Introduction to This Odd Violence Professors Hiebert, Gol...