114: Fan Cams & CHAZ Fans

Tess is off this week so Molly and Emily are joined by Night Call’s fabulous producer Joelle Monique! We start off with an email from a listener who was disappointed with our Lana Del Rey talk recently and take the opportunity to examine our own blind spots. We solicit more critiques from our listeners, and ask how we can be more helpful during this critical time in our country’s history. Then it’s a trip to the CHAZ! Emily learned about the history of autonomous zones and yes it does get weird. The connection to Burning Man and Santa Con is unveiled, and Emily provides the requisite Seattle context for the CHAZ and the French origins of the ZAD. Then we are joined by boy band expert Maria Sherman, author of the new book Larger Than Life, to dive into the recent radicalization of k-pop stans online. Sherman explains what exactly the “fan cams” are that stans have been overloading American police departments asking for footage of rioters with. Night Call is an autonomous zone of the MIND!

Footnotes:

The Demands of the Collective Black Voices Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

In defense of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone: The noble history of a utopian idea (Matthew Rosza, Salon)

The Cacophany Society

The Temporary Autonomous Zone (Full Text) by Hakim Bey a.k.a. Peter Lamborn Wilson

Leaving Out the Ugly Part — On Hakim Bey (Robert P. Helms)

ZAD Battles Thousands of Police During Attempted Eviction of Autonomous Zone in France (Andrew Neef, Unicorn Riot)

The Paris Commune

Freetown Christiania

K-Pop Fans Defuse Racist Hashtags (Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker)

BTS’ Fan ARMY Matches Group’s $1 Million Black Lives Matter Donation Within 24 Hours

Why K-pop Fans Are No Longer Posting About K-pop (Kaitlyn Tiffany, Atlantic)

Netizens criticize BTS member SUGA's mixtape track for sampling speech of a controversial cult leader (AllKPop)

Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS by Maria Sherman

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