Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen: Recovering nordic animist relations (ep375)
Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen on how the construction of Nordic modernity and nationalism led to a rejection of animism in Northern Europe, reclaiming Euro- ‘traditionalism’ from right-wing extremism, understanding myths as stories that produce relations, and more.
Sharon Blackie: Re-enchanting the earth through mythology (ep374)
Sharon Blackie on how the eco-heroine's journey offers more life-enhancing and community-centered visions for our paths forward, embracing menopause and elderhood as liberating and alchemical, what it means to re-enchant our lives with mythology to find belonging in place, and more.
Mark Rectanus: Reclaiming the arts from corporate influence (ep373)
Mark Rectanus on the influence of corporate funding on art and culture, what it might mean to decolonize museums in spite of many of their troubled pasts, how artist-activists have been shifting the politics of art from within, and more.
Sinegugu Zukulu: Resisting imposed development in the wild coast (ep372)
Sinegugu Zukulu on resisting top-down, imposed visions of development, the integrative role of heavy metals within living landscapes, the Amadiba community's land defense against industrial mining and oil drilling, and more.
Brett Scott: Money consciousness and the war on cash (ep371)
Brett Scott on the obscure banking sector, debt relations, interdependence and scale in world economies, the corporate profit maximization impulse, the myth of the "underbanked", cryptocurrency, and more.
Christine Winter: Rethinking the philosophies underlying settler politics (ep370)
Christine Winter on questioning the philosophies that underlie settler politics, reorienting towards multispecies and intergenerational justice, moving beyond rights-based frameworks for protecting the more-than-human world, and more.
Andy Letcher: Cultivating reciprocity with animistic views of relationality (ep369)
Andy Letcher on different interpretations of ecology and how they influence our approaches to caring for the planet, how the animistic worldview offers guidance for our paths towards collective healing, and what it means to root personal engagements with psychedelic medicines within deeper cultural changes, and more.
Christian Parenti: Recognizing capital as a social relation (ep368)
Christian Parenti on the meaning of “big storms require big government”, viewing capital in part as social relations, various regional conflicts resulting from the "catastrophic convergence" of climate change, militarism and imperialism, and neoliberal economic restructuring, and more.
Mia Birdsong: Deepening our interdependence with community (ep367)
Mia Birdsong on remembering a wiser and more radical meaning of “freedom”, re-envisioning what it means to feel safe and secure in a community, the generosity of receiving in relationships, and more.
Daniel Heath Justice: Indigenous literature and decolonial libraries (ep366)
Daniel Heath Justice on the power of stories we tell and have been told, Indigenous literature erasure, colonialism of the institution of libraries, the limits of English and colonial languages, the importance of fiction, and more.
Sophie Strand: Rewilding myths and storytelling (ep365)
Sophie Strand on the transition from oral to chirographic cultures, how myths can reroot us in our places, the interaction between myth and science, our antibiotic cultures, and more.
Helena Norberg-Hodge: Reorienting towards economics of happiness (ep364)
Helena Norberg-Hodge on why we need to question our view of economic wealth being the indicator of a community's welfare; what it means that we're not only facing social, economic, and ecological crises, but also a spiritual crisis that underlies it all; how the globalization of our economy has led to the degradation of our public and environmental wellbeing, and more.
Annie Mcclanahan: The possibility of a world disentangled from wages (ep363)
Annie McClanahan on the history of today's service and tip work economies, the trend of automation driving deskilled labor and microwork, the possibility of a world disentangled from wages, and more.
Catriona Sandilands: Botanical colonialism and biocultural histories (ep362)
Catriona Sandilands on botanical colonialism, humbling our relationship with language, cultivating plurality in the stories we embody, and more.
Micha Rahder: Rhinking through the ecology of knowledges (ep361)
Micha Rahder on situating conservation knowledge within an understanding of place-based dynamics, the "noosphere" as the thinking layer of the earth, recognizing love as a form of knowledge, and more.