James Bridle: ‘Artificial’ intelligence and lies of a computerizable world (ep393)
James Bridle on the fallacy of a computable world, corporations as a form of artificial intelligence, and more.
Eben Kirksey: Boundless entanglements with the virosphere (ep392)
Eben Kirksey on the thought-provoking lessons from thinking with viruses.
Enrique Salmón: Ancestral foodways that enrich local landscapes (ep391)
Enrique Salmón on “eating the landscape,” kincentric ecology, living knowledges, and more.
Rosetta s. Elkin: Troubling mass tree-planting and afforestation (ep390)
Rosetta Elkin on politicizing afforestation, reorienting towards growing trees and not planting trees, and more.
Dany Celermajer: Multispecies justice and more-than-human entanglements (ep389)
Dany Celermajer on multispecies justice, our deep entanglements with the more-than-human world, the limitations of rights-based frameworks, and more.
Daniel Immerwahr: Empire remade through technology (ep388)
Daniel Immerwahr on the greater history of the United States empire.
Shakara Tyler: Black farming as joyous, victorious, and glorious (ep387)
shakara tyler on reframing Black agrarianism as joyous, victorious, and glorious, how Black farmers were integral to the Civl Rights movement, the significance and meaning of “rematriation”, and more.
Jen Telesca: The managed extinction of the giant bluefin tuna (ep386)
Jennifer E. Telesca on Xx, and more.
Thom Van Dooren: The evolving cultures of the more-than-human world (ep385)
Thom van Dooren on the evolving cultures of more-than-human life, various stories of species at the edge of extinction, and more.
Rebecca Giggs: The world as reflected in the whale (ep384)
Rebecca Giggs on how whaling accelerated and shaped the historical process of industrialization, what impacts various industrial activities have had on whale songs and cultures, the critical role of migratory species, such as the Bogong moth, on enriching the habitats that they pass through, and more.
Gabes Torres: Re-rooting therapy and re-membering community (ep383)
Gabes Torres on the lasting impacts of intergenerational trauma, the troubles of over-pathologizing and arbitrary pathologizing, dreams of a world where therapy is no longer needed, and more.
Min Hyoung Song: From everyday denial into everyday attention (ep382)
Min Hyoung Song on turning everyday denial of our socio-ecolgical crises into everyday attention, processing climate change through literature, and more.
Stacy Alaimo: Our bodies are the anthropocene (ep381)
Stacy Alaimo on an introduction to “transcorporeality”, how people with “multiple chemical sensitivities” are prime examples of our deep entanglements with our extended bodies, the contributions of everyday epidemiologists and ordinary experts emerging from the environmental justice and health movements, and more.
Loren Cardeli: Who really feeds the world? (ep380)
Loren Cardeli on the reality of who really feeds the world, the leadership of small-holder farmers in sustainable agriculture, the limitations of top-down, one-size-fits-all solutions, and more.
Hi'ilei Hobart: Ambient sovereignty and the question of temperature control (ep379)
Hi’ilei Hobart on the symbolism of ice and shaved ice in Hawai’i, the establishment of the cold chain as an integral part of the global food system, provocations about the anthropocentric desire to control ambient temperatures, and more.