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 IIIRinaldo WalcottThe Empire at Home / Tia TraffordJared SextonTapji GarbaSylvia WynterFrantz FanonSara-Maria SorentinoSaidiya HartmanDavid MarriottBiko Mandela GraySylvia WynterSara-Maria SorentinoMute Compulsion / Søren MauImmanuel KantWilliam Wimsatt on generative entrenchmentRed, White & Black / Frank B. Wilderson IIIThe First Black Slave Society / Hilary BecklesSean CapenerPaul GilroyStuart HallJohn LockeSlavery is a Metaphor / essay by Tapji Garba and Sara-Maria Sorentino, published in AntipodeTaija McDougallPetero KaluléEverything Is Police is available from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available to read free online at manifold.umn.edu.

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