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.
Sophie Chao: Pluralizing justice amidst the expansion of palm oil projects (ep360)
Sophie Chao on multispecies justice, how the Indigenous Marind people of West Papua have been confronting the expansion of oil palm plantations in their territory, and more.
Gavin Van Horn: The practice of kinning as porous beings (ep359)
Gavin Van Horn on our metaphorical state of ‘orphanhood’, the verb and practice of kinning, troubling the human-nature binary, and more.
Dimah Mahmoud: The power in culture and the revolution of consciousness (ep358)
Dimah Mahmoud on the revolution of consciousness, food sovereignty in Sudan, rethinking power, and more.
Guillaume Pitron: The shifting conflicts and costs of ‘green’ energy (ep357)
Guillaume Pitron on why green and clean energy and technologies are not entirely green nor clean; what we can learn from the history of our energy infrastructure ‘transitions’; how moving to ‘green’ energy may actually worsen environmental injustice in some ways; and more.
Rami Barhoush: Occupation, identity, and olive trees in palestine (ep356)
Rami Barhoush on the history of military occupation in Palestine, its parallels with other liberation struggles, the radical act of planting olive trees, and more.
A.Naomi Paik: Sanctuary for all, sanctuary everywhere (ep355)
A. Naomi Paik on the construct of security, the carceral system and military industrial complex, the idea of sanctuary in abolitionist thought, and more.
Johann Hari: Reclaiming our capacities for deep thinking and intimate engagement (ep354)
Johann Hari on the attention economy and the theft of our capacities to focus, how social media platforms are reshaping our consciousness and ways of perceiving the world, and more.
Jason W. Moore: The impossible endless accumulation of capital (ep353)
Jason W. Moore on reframing the Anthropocene to the Capitalocene, the impossibility of endless capital accumulation, a vision beyond climate justice, and more.