046 | Policing and the Production of Innocence and Guilt with Tim Snediker

What are the police really for? What does it mean for innocence and guilt to be produced and distributed? What foundational roles have whiteness and theology played in all of this? How do white people get deputized and why should we resist making the victim into an object lesson? Tim Snediker (@TimothySnediker) joins me to discuss all of this in relation to his essay "The Future of Murder: Police and Political Theology". ~~~ Writings that Tim draws upon in the conversation: Frank B. Wilderson III, "We're Trying to Destroy the World"; Saidiya Harman and Frank Wilderson, "The Position of the Unthought"; Steve Martinot and Jared Sexton, "The Avant-Garde of White Supremacy" in Afro-pessimism: An Introduction. ~~~ Here's my recommended Book List: Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God; Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (ed. 2); Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation; Alex Vitale, The End of Policing; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People's History of the United States; Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?; Vladimir Lenin, State and Revolution ~~~ Subscribe to the Working Class Christianity substack: https://workingclasschristianity.substack.com/ ~ Support Faith and Capital at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faithandcapital ~ Faith and Capital is on twitter, instagram, facebook! ~ Email: [email protected] ~ Music by Cotter KoopmanSupport the show