The representation of the Octopus in propaganda and political cartoons, and influence on, or co-option of, popular culture. The intent behind Vulgar Army is to identify and criticise themes in the use of the octopus as a polemic metaphor, for example, its use as signifying ‘action at a distance’ or in dehumanising a group.

"There are so many interesting things in there, from tectonic maps of the earth's evolving surface to previously unpublished documentation of a campaign to stabilize geological forms in Utah using spray-on adhesives from the automobile industry, from underground cities accidentally discovered by rural farmers to U.S. military plans for the weaponization of hurricanes, from the flooded London of the 27th century to the deliberate targeting of architecture as an act of war. There are lost film sets, space seeds, Stalinist sleep labs, occupied cities, and flying orchestras; there are fossil rivers, adventure tourism firms, hydrological models, and the groaning sounds of climate-changed glaciers; there are buildings, cities, and landscape futures."

Still watching one week in; the Jeff Jarvis interview best episode so far.