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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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