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.
Asad Rehman: The end of imperialism in a radical green new deal (ep378)
Asad Rehman on the historical making of the Global North and the Global South, the roles and limitations of global climate conferences, the need for more than monetary reparations in a radical green new deal for community and planetary healing, and more.
Heather Davis: Living in ‘petrotime’ and seeing plastics as grand-kin (ep377)
Heather Davis on what it could mean to view plastics and fossil fuels as a grand kin, how an understanding of the ‘plastiglomerate’ challenges the binary of the ‘natural’ and the ‘synthetic’, sitting with the troubling paradox of the prevalence of plastics causing harm to life while at the same time enabling the proliferation of other forms of life, and more.
Craig Santos Perez: Poetry as therapy and political speech (ep376)
Craig Santos Perez on the recent history of Guam and its Pacific Islander communities, the challenges of demilitarization and de-nuclearization amidst the global empires’ endless pursuit of domination, using poetry as political speech and literary therapy, and more.
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.