Dylan Rodríguez on Lexical Warfare & Counterinsurgency

Описание: In this episode Dylan Rodríguez will return to the show to talk about the concept of lexical warfare and its role within warfare, politics, and counterinsurgency (all related fields) specifically within the realm of propaganda or psychological operations. How does this concept help us attune to the techniques and technologies of bourgeois class rule? Is lexical warfare a practice resistance movements need to be engaged in, and what might be some examples of how that looks?

We'll talk about how pro-Israeli forces have engaged in lexical warfare to demonize and criminalize anti-zionist and Pro-Palestinian movements.

Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California-Riverside since 2001. He is a faculty member in the recently created Department of Black Study as well as the Department of Media and Cultural Studies.

Since the late-1990s, Dylan has participated as a founding member of organizations like Critical Resistance, Abolition Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Cops Off Campus, Scholars for Social Justice, and the UCR Department of Black Study, among others.

He is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

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06:09 - The IHRA definition of antisemitism as a totality in the US context
12:12 - The IHRA definition, the Civil Rights Act, the attack on universities
24:58 - What is Lexical Warfare and what is its role within counterinsurgency?
34:11 - September 5 film & mainstream media demonization of anticolonial struggle
44:45 - What is the relationship between Pacifism & Pacification?
46:36 - Project 2025 & the destruction of certain structures of liberal counterinsurgency / What is the theory of governance?
55:24 - J shares some info from the Abundance Network?
1:02:47 - Technical Difficulties / Chat Questions
1:11:06 - Dylan Rodriguez responds to the Abundance Network
1:24:44 - Thoughts on a Dark Turn in Counterinsurgency Theory