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Interchange – Let’s Unmake Something: On the Unconstructable Earth

Our rising awareness that we have destroyed our planet has simultaneously provided us not with remorse or resolve but with a new fantasy: that the Anthropocene delivers an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. Today’s guest says “No!” in thunder. In The Unconstructable Earth (Fordham) Frédéric Neyrat proposes an “ecology of separation” that acknowledges …

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Interchange – Explaining “Code Red for Humanity” – Disorganizing Nature (Repeat)

With the IPCC’s most recent report clanging “Code Red for Humanity” we revisit our show with Jason Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life, from December 2019…it’s only gotten, and will continue getting, worse. Interchange – Disorganizing Nature: On the Capitalocene with Jason Moore “Moore’s writing is that of a sincere, discerning and formidable critic of ecological and …

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Interchange – Life After the Human Catastrophe (Original Air Date 8/29/17)

Today we offer a repeat of our interview with Rebekah Sheldon, author of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe. This was a live show recorded in our studios. I have taken the opportunity to update our underwriting as well as adjust the sound mix. The TOPICS discussed in the program might now have more resonance than even …

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Interchange – Disorganizing Nature: On the Capitalocene with Jason Moore

Since the 1970’s, environmentalists have framed our epoch as the “Anthropocene,” a period defined by man’s — and often specifically men’s — unidirectional impact on a quickly heating planet Earth. The so-called Anthropocene continues to be caused by only a small portion of the people on the planet, following hierarchies of race, gender, class, and the artificial division of Man …

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Interchange – The New Cosmology or Upbeat in the Anthropocene

Or Big History, or, Epic Science, or Religion 2.0…Today’s show is kin to last week’s, Honey From a Weed…but instead of seeing the human as capable of flourishing in concert with the natural, in this story, humanity sings itself beyond limitation. “[T]he new cosmologists attempt to recast the universe as a distinctly human drama, a story in which we comfortably …

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Interchange – In the Name of the Future: Life After the Human Catastrophe

The idea of what it means to be human is changing. With countless catastrophic events looming, from climate instability to biotechnology and wars of autonomous machines, we center our fears and our hopes for a better future on the child to come, the survival of the next generation. But should we? Life is also outside and beyond the human and …

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