Podcast appearances and mentions of Anna Tsing

Capitalist processes wreak havoc on ecosystems. What stories or accounts can spur people to address environmental degradation, and help them grasp its root causes? Drawing on works by John Steinbeck and Anna Tsing, Tim Christiaens considers the impact of capitalist dynamics on ecological relations. Michiel Rys and Liesbeth François, eds., Re-Imagining Class: Intersectional Perspectives on Class Identity and Precarity in Contemporary Culture Leuven University Press, 2024 (open access) The post Ecological Relations Under Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.

Lorenzo Gnata"Cosmogonie"DesignElementi Gaggenau, Milanohttp://www.designelementi.it/http://www.amanutricresci.com/cramum/In occasione del lancio del nuovo centro di refrigerazione Expressive, Gaggenau e Cramum presentano "Cosmogonie", la prima mostra personale a Milano del giovane enfant prodige Lorenzo Gnata. Selezionato dal curatore e direttore creativo Sabino Maria Frassà, Gnata si distingue per la sua straordinaria capacità di fondere tecnica ed espressività, tecnologia e natura, luce e ombra, trasformando il disegno in una vera e propria scultura nello spazio. "Cosmogonie" rappresenta un vero e proprio viaggio visivo che esplora l'incontro tra arte e design, in un dialogo continuo tra forme e materia, dove l'innovazione tecnologica si intreccia con una profonda ricerca estetica. Fino al 17 luglio 2025, il pubblico sarà invitato a immergersi nei mondi visionari di Gnata, classe 1997, in un percorso che indaga la complessa relazione tra essere umano, tecnica e futuro. In questa mostra, luce, ombra e nero assumono il ruolo di protagonisti assoluti, fondendosi armoniosamente con l'iconico design del nuovo elemento firmato Gaggenau e con le imponenti installazioni dell'artista piemontese. Il risultato è un dialogo visivo di forte impatto e raffinata intensità, capace di offrire un'esperienza immersiva che invita a riflettere sulle connessioni profonde tra l'uomo, la tecnologia e il suo ambiente. La compenetrazione tra natura e tecnologia, cuore della pratica artistica di Gnata, emerge con forza lungo il percorso espositivo attraverso una serie di opere realizzate con la sua inconfondibile tecnica di disegno 3D organico e “aerospaziale”. "Con un approccio sofisticato e concettuale", evidenzia Frassà "Gnata rielabora i grandi capolavori del passato—da Melencolia I di Dürer (1514) a La Danza di Matisse (1910), fino alla pittura metafisica di Giorgio de Chirico con i manichini de Le Muse inquietanti(1917)—dando vita a universi in cui la fusione tra elementi organici e industriali si trasforma in un dialogo visivo potente e innovativo, capace di esplorare nuove possibilità di coesistenza tra l'uomo e il suo ambiente". Il bagaglio del passato si fonde, nell'opera di Gnata, con spunti derivanti da studi recenti, tra cui l'idea di responso-abilità di Donna Haraway e il concetto di resilienza organica di Anna Tsing. Il risultato è un'installazione artisticache si espande e si insinua in ogni angolo dello spazio, dialogando con gli elementi distintivi del design del brand tedesco, espressione di un'eccellenza tecnica e di un raffinato ingegno umano. In questo continuo scambio tra opera e ambiente, Cosmogonie si trasforma in una potente metafora visiva della resilienza, intesa non solo come principio fondante della nostra esistenza, ma come chiave dell'ordine stesso che regge il mondo. "Con Cosmogonie," spiega il curatore della mostra Sabino Maria Frassà, "Lorenzo Gnata, più che dominare il caos di forme e significati che ci circonda, lo abita e lo celebra, riconoscendo nell'interconnessione tra tutte le forme di vita e pensiero l'unico vero ordine possibile. Potremmo definire il suo gesto artistico con il neologismo 'bucantropico', che esprime il suo tentativo di dar vita a una pastorale umanizzata, in cui la dimensione naturale, rurale e idilliaca si fonde con tratti umani, generando un dialogo continuo tra materia e pensiero. Ci troviamo di fronte a una forma di panismo radicale, inteso come ultima possibilità per l'essere umano di sopravvivere a se stesso—un manifesto per un futuro condiviso e aperto, una cosmogonia tentacolare e rizomatica, capace di attingere al passato senza rimanere intrappolata in un presente claustrofobico." L'artista ci invita così a immaginare nuovi scenari, in cui la coesistenza collaborativa e partecipativa diventa il motore dell'evoluzione e delle possibilità future. Le sue opere si sviluppano come formazioni rizomatiche, espandendosi nello spazio e suggerendo una visione in cui la rinascita si compie attraverso ibridazione e contaminazione creativa. "La mostra è la prosecuzione di un percorso di collaborazione con il mondo dell'arte che ci sta dando grandi soddisfazioni," conclude Mistral Accorsi, Product & Brand Communication Manager di Gaggenau. “Le affinità tra la ricerca di design che distingue da sempre il marchio Gaggenau e le espressioni dell'arte contemporanea fanno sì che le esposizioni trasformino i nostri showroom in incubatori di contaminazioni creative, dando vita a esperienze culturali inedite e valorizzanti. Gli elementi di design e le installazioni d'arte non solo convivono, ma interagiscono e dialogano tra loro su frequenze che generano connessioni, ispirano idee e suscitano emozioni.”Lorenzo Gnata è nato a Biella nel 1997. Ha conseguito nel 2022 il diploma accademico di II livello in Pittura, presso l'Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, diplomandosi col massimo dei voti. Attualmente vive e lavora a Cossato, in provincia di Biella.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.it Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Avec Charlotte Brives, anthropologue. Quand on tombe malade, on sait désormais qu’il ne faut pas “automatiquement” prendre des antibiotiques. Plus on en prend souvent, plus les bactéries y deviennent résistantes et moins les traitements antibiotiques ultérieurs seront efficaces. Aujourd'hui les bactéries résistantes tuent plus de personnes dans le monde que le sida ou le paludisme.  Charlotte Brives est anthropologue au CNRS et dans son dernier livre, “Face à l’antibiorésistance, Une écologie politique des microbes” (Amsterdam, 2022), elle revient sur l’histoire des antibiotiques, sur leur usage massif, bien au-delà de la sphère de la médecine humaine et sur la manière dont ils ont profondément influencé notre économie et notre société. A travers son récit, c’est toute notre perception de la maladie et des microbes qui s’en trouve chamboulée.  Comment va-t-on pouvoir se soigner si les antibiotiques ne fonctionnent plus ? Doit-on chercher à éradiquer les maladies à tout prix ? Faut-il arrêter les antibiotiques ? Un épisode des Idées Larges avec Charlotte Brives, anthropologue. Références : - Anna Tsing, “Proliférations”, Wildproject, 2022- Donna Haraway,  « Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin », Environmental Humanities, vol. 6, no 1- Michelle Murphy, « Chemical Infrastructures of the Saint Clair River », in S. Boudia et N. Jas (dir.), Toxicants, Health and Regulation since 1945, Pickering and Chatto, 2013- Jason Moore, “Capitalism in the Web of Life”, Verso, 2015- Clare Chandler, « Current Accounts of Antimicrobial Resistance: Stabilisation, Individualisation and Antibiotics as Infrastructure », Palgrave Communications, no 5, 2019- Dame Sally Davies, “Infections and the Rise of Antimicrobial Resistance”, 2013- Emily Martin, “Flexible Bodies”, Beacon Press, 1995- Evelyn Fox Keller, “Le Siècle du gène”, Gallimard, 2003- Hannah Landecker, “Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies”,Harvard University Press, 2006 Archives sonores : - TF1 - JT -  01/04/2013- Pulsations, avec la participation de France Télévisions/AlloDocteurs.fr - Bernard Faroux - Abus d'antibiotiques - une catastrophe annoncée - 2016- Office national de radiodiffusion télévision française (ORTF)/INA - Maurice Beuchey - Flash sur le passé - 1965- TV5 Monde Info - En Chine, un "hotel à cochons" - 30 octobre 2022- Sky News - Antibiotic resistance "could kill us before climate change" - 29 août 2019- F2 - Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie - Publicite "Les antibiotiques c'est pas automoatique" - Assurance Maladie - 2002- Victoria Denys - Virus bacteriophage - 2022- RTS - 36,9 - Phagothérapie: les virus tueurs de bactéries - 2018- Warner Bros. Pictures, Conundrum Entertainment - Bradley Thomas, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Zak Penn, Dennis Edwards - Osmosis Jones - 2001- INA - 19-20 edition nationale France 3 - 16/03/2020 Musique Générique :« TRAHISON » Musique de Pascal Arbez-Nicolas © Delabel Editions, Artiste : VITALIC,(P) 2005 Citizen Records under Different Recording licence ISRC : BEP010400190,Avec l’aimable autorisation de [PIAS] et Delabel Editions.  Episode vidéo publié le 10 mai 2024 sur arte.tv Autrice Laura Raim Réalisateur Jean Baptiste Mihout Son Nicolas Régent Montage Pauline Chabauty Mixage et sound design Jean-Marc Thurier Une co-production UPIAN Margaux Missika, Alexandre Brachet, Auriane Meilhon, Emma Le Jeune, Karolina Mikos avec l'aide de Nancy-Wangue Moussissa ARTE France Unité société et culture

Desde el nacimiento de la sociedad dividida en clases, la lucha entre opresores y oprimidos ha marcado el destino de la humanidad. Antoni Puig Solè, Silvia Adoue, Ernesto Flores y Juanma Olarieta comparten reflexiones con EC. Conduce Jose M Corrales Recomendaciones: Toni Puig Solè: Domenico Losurdo - La lucha de clases Jose Mª. Vidal Villa - Qué es la lucha de clases Silvia Adoue: La formación de la clase trabajadora inglesa, de Edward Palmer Thompson.Reforma y revolución y La acumulación del capital, de Rosa Luxemburgo. Capitalismo y esclavitud, de Eric Williams. Capitalismo dependiente y clases sociales en América Latina, de Florestan Fernandes.Por un feminismo afrolatinoamericano, de Lélia González. El capitalismo tardío, de Ernest Mandel. Los hongos del fin del mundo, de Anna Tsing. Dialéctica de la dependencia, de Ruy Mauro Marini. Calibán y la bruja y El patriarcado del salario, de Silvia Federici. Mujeres, raza y clase, de Angela Davis. Recomendaciones cinematográficas: Queimada, de Gillo Ponecorvo Toda la obra de Ken Loach Ernesto Flores: Nikolai Ostrovski - Así se templó el acero Pablo Hásel y Siker https://youtu.be/O2WVmnn7Ue0?si=2lYEfRLi1vuXRLaY Juanma Olarieta: Marx y Engels, Manifiesto comunista Lenin, ¿Qué hacer? Películas: Novecento, 1976, de Bernardo Bertolucci La sal de la tierra, 1954, Herbert J. Biberman t.me/EnfoqueCritico (https://t.me/EnfoqueCritico) debateafondo@gmail.com @EnfoqueCritico_ facebook.com/DebateAFondo facebook.com/josemanuel.corrales.750/ https://www.youtube.com/@EnfoqueCritico Instagram enfoquecritico Mastodon @EnfoqueCritico@masto.es Bluesky @enfoquecritico.bsky.social

Alder Keleman Saxena is an environmental anthropologist whose research looks at the links between agricultural biodiversity and food culture, especially in relation to nutritional health in the Bolivian Andes. Her collaboration with Anna Tsing, Feifei Zhou and Jennifer Deger for the online Feral Atlas project is an absolute gift to anyone concerned with ecology, but specifically from the perspective of reckoning with the impact of human activity on the planet. The book that came out of that digital adventure is called Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature, a riveting book that sets us up with a variety of different ways of approaching the destruction of nature and its disastrous consequences. Alder's chapter in the Field Guide is focuses on a patch that is very familiar to her: Flagstaff, Arizona, and the erratic ways that market capitalism is changing the demographic make-up of Flagstaff at a moment of increasing climate peril. This conversation about climate migration into Flagstaff takes us into the topic of housing, capitalism and climate impacts, the problem of how to communicate and contextualize climate disasters, and the question of how something like a field guide can encourage us to actually dwell with the idea that human beings are both a “geological force” and a “world-ripping” one.

Un informe de la empresa Microsoft afirma que el tiempo de las reuniones se ha triplicado desde 2020 y que el trabajador en una oficina ocupa el 57% de su tiempo comunicándose, es decir, con llamadas, reuniones, correos… Hoy el trabajo cognitivo se basa más en hablar de las cosas que en crearlas, por ello, Marta Peirano, apuesta por la lectura este verano y nos recomienda tres libros muy especiales que pueden cambiar nuestra manera de ver el mundo. En busca del árbol madre: descubre la sabiduría del bosque de Suzanne Simard, La seta del fin del mundo de Anna Tsing y Los peces no existen de Lulu Miller. Unas sugerencias perfectas para leer y disfrutar en la playa, la piscina o la montaña.Escuchar audio

“Il posto” di Annie Ernaux, “Lezioni di tenebra” di Helena Janeczek, “Lincoln nel Bardo” di George Saunders, “Primavera silenziosa” di Rachel Carson e “Il fungo alla fine del mondo” di Anna Tsing: questi sono i cinque libri che secondo Paolo Giordano possono salvare il mondo. Lo scrittore ne ha parlato con Silvia Nucini durante un incontro del Festival Chora Volume 1 che si è svolto a Milano dal 16 al 18 febbraio.

In this episode of High Theory, Neil Safier talks with us about the Plantationocene, a geological epoch that traces the effects of climate change to the historical systems of human and nonhuman environmental exploitation known as plantation agriculture. It is another name for the world we currently inhabit. In the episode, Neil describes how Donna Harraway and Anna Tsing invented the term Plantationocene in response to another recent term Anthropocene. Sources to check out include Donna Haraway's essay, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationcene, Chthulucene: Making Kin” Environmental Humanities 6 no. 1 (2015): 159-165. doi: 10.1215/22011919-3615934, and Paul Crutzen, “The ‘Anthropocene'” Earth Systems Science in the Anthropocene ed. Eckhart Ehlers and Thomas Krafft (Springer, 2006) pp. 13-18. He references B.F. Skinner's novel Walden Two (MacMillan, 1962) at the end of our conversation. Neil Safier is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brown University where he currently serves as Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the Watson Institute for International Affairs. He studies the history of science, agriculture, and other forms of knowledge-making in the late-eighteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing on the plantation cultures of the Caribbean and Brazil. He was recently the director of the John Carter Brown Library, at Brown University, and many years ago, when he was more optimistic about the current global epoch, he managed grants for the Sierra Club Foundation in San Francisco, California. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (U Chicago, 2008) and is cooking up two new projects, on the historical connections between natural science and plantation agriculture in the Amazon River basin and the global history of collecting. The image for this week comes from Neil's research on the history of plantation agriculture. This drawing of a plantation from Hispaniola (Saint-Domingue) was reproduced in José Mariano da Conceição Velozo's Fazendeiro do Brazil Tome III Part II (Lisbon, 1799), in the volume dedicated to coffee production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode of High Theory, Neil Safier talks with us about the Plantationocene, a geological epoch that traces the effects of climate change to the historical systems of human and nonhuman environmental exploitation known as plantation agriculture. It is another name for the world we currently inhabit. In the episode, Neil describes how Donna Harraway and Anna Tsing invented the term Plantationocene in response to another recent term Anthropocene. Sources to check out include Donna Haraway's essay, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationcene, Chthulucene: Making Kin” Environmental Humanities 6 no. 1 (2015): 159-165. doi: 10.1215/22011919-3615934, and Paul Crutzen, “The ‘Anthropocene'” Earth Systems Science in the Anthropocene ed. Eckhart Ehlers and Thomas Krafft (Springer, 2006) pp. 13-18. He references B.F. Skinner's novel Walden Two (MacMillan, 1962) at the end of our conversation. Neil Safier is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brown University where he currently serves as Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the Watson Institute for International Affairs. He studies the history of science, agriculture, and other forms of knowledge-making in the late-eighteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing on the plantation cultures of the Caribbean and Brazil. He was recently the director of the John Carter Brown Library, at Brown University, and many years ago, when he was more optimistic about the current global epoch, he managed grants for the Sierra Club Foundation in San Francisco, California. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (U Chicago, 2008) and is cooking up two new projects, on the historical connections between natural science and plantation agriculture in the Amazon River basin and the global history of collecting. The image for this week comes from Neil's research on the history of plantation agriculture. This drawing of a plantation from Hispaniola (Saint-Domingue) was reproduced in José Mariano da Conceição Velozo's Fazendeiro do Brazil Tome III Part II (Lisbon, 1799), in the volume dedicated to coffee production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of High Theory, Neil Safier talks with us about the Plantationocene, a geological epoch that traces the effects of climate change to the historical systems of human and nonhuman environmental exploitation known as plantation agriculture. It is another name for the world we currently inhabit. In the episode, Neil describes how Donna Harraway and Anna Tsing invented the term Plantationocene in response to another recent term Anthropocene. Sources to check out include Donna Haraway's essay, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationcene, Chthulucene: Making Kin” Environmental Humanities 6 no. 1 (2015): 159-165. doi: 10.1215/22011919-3615934, and Paul Crutzen, “The ‘Anthropocene'” Earth Systems Science in the Anthropocene ed. Eckhart Ehlers and Thomas Krafft (Springer, 2006) pp. 13-18. He references B.F. Skinner's novel Walden Two (MacMillan, 1962) at the end of our conversation. Neil Safier is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brown University where he currently serves as Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the Watson Institute for International Affairs. He studies the history of science, agriculture, and other forms of knowledge-making in the late-eighteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing on the plantation cultures of the Caribbean and Brazil. He was recently the director of the John Carter Brown Library, at Brown University, and many years ago, when he was more optimistic about the current global epoch, he managed grants for the Sierra Club Foundation in San Francisco, California. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (U Chicago, 2008) and is cooking up two new projects, on the historical connections between natural science and plantation agriculture in the Amazon River basin and the global history of collecting. The image for this week comes from Neil's research on the history of plantation agriculture. This drawing of a plantation from Hispaniola (Saint-Domingue) was reproduced in José Mariano da Conceição Velozo's Fazendeiro do Brazil Tome III Part II (Lisbon, 1799), in the volume dedicated to coffee production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

In this episode of High Theory, Neil Safier talks with us about the Plantationocene, a geological epoch that traces the effects of climate change to the historical systems of human and nonhuman environmental exploitation known as plantation agriculture. It is another name for the world we currently inhabit. In the episode, Neil describes how Donna Harraway and Anna Tsing invented the term Plantationocene in response to another recent term Anthropocene. Sources to check out include Donna Haraway's essay, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationcene, Chthulucene: Making Kin” Environmental Humanities 6 no. 1 (2015): 159-165. doi: 10.1215/22011919-3615934, and Paul Crutzen, “The ‘Anthropocene'” Earth Systems Science in the Anthropocene ed. Eckhart Ehlers and Thomas Krafft (Springer, 2006) pp. 13-18. He references B.F. Skinner's novel Walden Two (MacMillan, 1962) at the end of our conversation. Neil Safier is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brown University where he currently serves as Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the Watson Institute for International Affairs. He studies the history of science, agriculture, and other forms of knowledge-making in the late-eighteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing on the plantation cultures of the Caribbean and Brazil. He was recently the director of the John Carter Brown Library, at Brown University, and many years ago, when he was more optimistic about the current global epoch, he managed grants for the Sierra Club Foundation in San Francisco, California. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (U Chicago, 2008) and is cooking up two new projects, on the historical connections between natural science and plantation agriculture in the Amazon River basin and the global history of collecting. The image for this week comes from Neil's research on the history of plantation agriculture. This drawing of a plantation from Hispaniola (Saint-Domingue) was reproduced in José Mariano da Conceição Velozo's Fazendeiro do Brazil Tome III Part II (Lisbon, 1799), in the volume dedicated to coffee production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

In this episode of High Theory, Neil Safier talks with us about the Plantationocene, a geological epoch that traces the effects of climate change to the historical systems of human and nonhuman environmental exploitation known as plantation agriculture. It is another name for the world we currently inhabit. In the episode, Neil describes how Donna Harraway and Anna Tsing invented the term Plantationocene in response to another recent term Anthropocene. Sources to check out include Donna Haraway's essay, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationcene, Chthulucene: Making Kin” Environmental Humanities 6 no. 1 (2015): 159-165. doi: 10.1215/22011919-3615934, and Paul Crutzen, “The ‘Anthropocene'” Earth Systems Science in the Anthropocene ed. Eckhart Ehlers and Thomas Krafft (Springer, 2006) pp. 13-18. He references B.F. Skinner's novel Walden Two (MacMillan, 1962) at the end of our conversation. Neil Safier is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brown University where he currently serves as Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the Watson Institute for International Affairs. He studies the history of science, agriculture, and other forms of knowledge-making in the late-eighteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing on the plantation cultures of the Caribbean and Brazil. He was recently the director of the John Carter Brown Library, at Brown University, and many years ago, when he was more optimistic about the current global epoch, he managed grants for the Sierra Club Foundation in San Francisco, California. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (U Chicago, 2008) and is cooking up two new projects, on the historical connections between natural science and plantation agriculture in the Amazon River basin and the global history of collecting. The image for this week comes from Neil's research on the history of plantation agriculture. This drawing of a plantation from Hispaniola (Saint-Domingue) was reproduced in José Mariano da Conceição Velozo's Fazendeiro do Brazil Tome III Part II (Lisbon, 1799), in the volume dedicated to coffee production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In this episode of High Theory, Neil Safier talks with us about the Plantationocene, a geological epoch that traces the effects of climate change to the historical systems of human and nonhuman environmental exploitation known as plantation agriculture. It is another name for the world we currently inhabit. In the episode, Neil describes how Donna Harraway and Anna Tsing invented the term Plantationocene in response to another recent term Anthropocene. Sources to check out include Donna Haraway's essay, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationcene, Chthulucene: Making Kin” Environmental Humanities 6 no. 1 (2015): 159-165. doi: 10.1215/22011919-3615934, and Paul Crutzen, “The ‘Anthropocene'” Earth Systems Science in the Anthropocene ed. Eckhart Ehlers and Thomas Krafft (Springer, 2006) pp. 13-18. He references B.F. Skinner's novel Walden Two (MacMillan, 1962) at the end of our conversation. Neil Safier is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brown University where he currently serves as Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the Watson Institute for International Affairs. He studies the history of science, agriculture, and other forms of knowledge-making in the late-eighteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing on the plantation cultures of the Caribbean and Brazil. He was recently the director of the John Carter Brown Library, at Brown University, and many years ago, when he was more optimistic about the current global epoch, he managed grants for the Sierra Club Foundation in San Francisco, California. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (U Chicago, 2008) and is cooking up two new projects, on the historical connections between natural science and plantation agriculture in the Amazon River basin and the global history of collecting. The image for this week comes from Neil's research on the history of plantation agriculture. This drawing of a plantation from Hispaniola (Saint-Domingue) was reproduced in José Mariano da Conceição Velozo's Fazendeiro do Brazil Tome III Part II (Lisbon, 1799), in the volume dedicated to coffee production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/geography

In this episode of High Theory, Neil Safier talks with us about the Plantationocene, a geological epoch that traces the effects of climate change to the historical systems of human and nonhuman environmental exploitation known as plantation agriculture. It is another name for the world we currently inhabit. In the episode, Neil describes how Donna Harraway and Anna Tsing invented the term Plantationocene in response to another recent term Anthropocene. Sources to check out include Donna Haraway's essay, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationcene, Chthulucene: Making Kin” Environmental Humanities 6 no. 1 (2015): 159-165. doi: 10.1215/22011919-3615934, and Paul Crutzen, “The ‘Anthropocene'” Earth Systems Science in the Anthropocene ed. Eckhart Ehlers and Thomas Krafft (Springer, 2006) pp. 13-18. He references B.F. Skinner's novel Walden Two (MacMillan, 1962) at the end of our conversation. Neil Safier is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brown University where he currently serves as Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the Watson Institute for International Affairs. He studies the history of science, agriculture, and other forms of knowledge-making in the late-eighteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing on the plantation cultures of the Caribbean and Brazil. He was recently the director of the John Carter Brown Library, at Brown University, and many years ago, when he was more optimistic about the current global epoch, he managed grants for the Sierra Club Foundation in San Francisco, California. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (U Chicago, 2008) and is cooking up two new projects, on the historical connections between natural science and plantation agriculture in the Amazon River basin and the global history of collecting. The image for this week comes from Neil's research on the history of plantation agriculture. This drawing of a plantation from Hispaniola (Saint-Domingue) was reproduced in José Mariano da Conceição Velozo's Fazendeiro do Brazil Tome III Part II (Lisbon, 1799), in the volume dedicated to coffee production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

In this episode of High Theory, Neil Safier talks with us about the Plantationocene, a geological epoch that traces the effects of climate change to the historical systems of human and nonhuman environmental exploitation known as plantation agriculture. It is another name for the world we currently inhabit. In the episode, Neil describes how Donna Harraway and Anna Tsing invented the term Plantationocene in response to another recent term Anthropocene. Sources to check out include Donna Haraway's essay, “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationcene, Chthulucene: Making Kin” Environmental Humanities 6 no. 1 (2015): 159-165. doi: 10.1215/22011919-3615934, and Paul Crutzen, “The ‘Anthropocene'” Earth Systems Science in the Anthropocene ed. Eckhart Ehlers and Thomas Krafft (Springer, 2006) pp. 13-18. He references B.F. Skinner's novel Walden Two (MacMillan, 1962) at the end of our conversation. Neil Safier is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brown University where he currently serves as Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the Watson Institute for International Affairs. He studies the history of science, agriculture, and other forms of knowledge-making in the late-eighteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing on the plantation cultures of the Caribbean and Brazil. He was recently the director of the John Carter Brown Library, at Brown University, and many years ago, when he was more optimistic about the current global epoch, he managed grants for the Sierra Club Foundation in San Francisco, California. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (U Chicago, 2008) and is cooking up two new projects, on the historical connections between natural science and plantation agriculture in the Amazon River basin and the global history of collecting. The image for this week comes from Neil's research on the history of plantation agriculture. This drawing of a plantation from Hispaniola (Saint-Domingue) was reproduced in José Mariano da Conceição Velozo's Fazendeiro do Brazil Tome III Part II (Lisbon, 1799), in the volume dedicated to coffee production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Tsing is about mushrooms. Matsutake mushrooms, to be exact. But it's about a lot of other things too, including capitalism and hope for how we might live in a future marked by human destruction.This week, Hannah Cunningham and Sara Chitsaz discuss this book, some of the concepts in it, and how it made them feel.Link to the book.Here is the article referencing pericapitalist spaces that Hannah mentioned in the episode.Program log. ★ Support this podcast ★

In this episode of High Theory, Brian Fairley tells us about Polyphony, a concept from music that describes multiple melodic lines sounding at once. The many voices of polyphony have an ancient and colonial history, which has reappeared in some key reverberations in twentieth century criticism and theory. In the conversation, we discuss several texts, including Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1929); James Clifford and George Marcus, Writing Culture The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (UC Press, 1986); Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (Knopf, 1993); and one of Kim's favorite scholarly books, Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World (Princeton, 2021). Brian also discusses Denise Ferreira da Silva's work “On Difference Without Separability.” Brian Fairley received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from New York University in 2023; he is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Music at Amherst College.His manuscript in progress, Dissected Listening: Race, Nation, and Polyphony in the South Caucasus, excavates a series of experimental sound recordings from 1916 to 1966 to show how the concept of musical polyphony emerged in tandem with techniques of multichannel sound and imperial discourses of racial, national, and religious difference. His work has appeared in the journal Ethnomusicology and is forthcoming in Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory, as well as an edited volume titled Key Terms in Music Theory for Antiracist Scholars. The image for this episode is Paul Klee's 1932 painting “Polyphony,” which is in the public domain in the US and Europe. Digital image sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode of High Theory, Brian Fairley tells us about Polyphony, a concept from music that describes multiple melodic lines sounding at once. The many voices of polyphony have an ancient and colonial history, which has reappeared in some key reverberations in twentieth century criticism and theory. In the conversation, we discuss several texts, including Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1929); James Clifford and George Marcus, Writing Culture The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (UC Press, 1986); Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (Knopf, 1993); and one of Kim's favorite scholarly books, Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World (Princeton, 2021). Brian also discusses Denise Ferreira da Silva's work “On Difference Without Separability.” Brian Fairley received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from New York University in 2023; he is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Music at Amherst College.His manuscript in progress, Dissected Listening: Race, Nation, and Polyphony in the South Caucasus, excavates a series of experimental sound recordings from 1916 to 1966 to show how the concept of musical polyphony emerged in tandem with techniques of multichannel sound and imperial discourses of racial, national, and religious difference. His work has appeared in the journal Ethnomusicology and is forthcoming in Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory, as well as an edited volume titled Key Terms in Music Theory for Antiracist Scholars. The image for this episode is Paul Klee's 1932 painting “Polyphony,” which is in the public domain in the US and Europe. Digital image sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of High Theory, Brian Fairley tells us about Polyphony, a concept from music that describes multiple melodic lines sounding at once. The many voices of polyphony have an ancient and colonial history, which has reappeared in some key reverberations in twentieth century criticism and theory. In the conversation, we discuss several texts, including Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1929); James Clifford and George Marcus, Writing Culture The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (UC Press, 1986); Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (Knopf, 1993); and one of Kim's favorite scholarly books, Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World (Princeton, 2021). Brian also discusses Denise Ferreira da Silva's work “On Difference Without Separability.” Brian Fairley received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from New York University in 2023; he is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Music at Amherst College.His manuscript in progress, Dissected Listening: Race, Nation, and Polyphony in the South Caucasus, excavates a series of experimental sound recordings from 1916 to 1966 to show how the concept of musical polyphony emerged in tandem with techniques of multichannel sound and imperial discourses of racial, national, and religious difference. His work has appeared in the journal Ethnomusicology and is forthcoming in Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory, as well as an edited volume titled Key Terms in Music Theory for Antiracist Scholars. The image for this episode is Paul Klee's 1932 painting “Polyphony,” which is in the public domain in the US and Europe. Digital image sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

In this episode of High Theory, Brian Fairley tells us about Polyphony, a concept from music that describes multiple melodic lines sounding at once. The many voices of polyphony have an ancient and colonial history, which has reappeared in some key reverberations in twentieth century criticism and theory. In the conversation, we discuss several texts, including Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1929); James Clifford and George Marcus, Writing Culture The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (UC Press, 1986); Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (Knopf, 1993); and one of Kim's favorite scholarly books, Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World (Princeton, 2021). Brian also discusses Denise Ferreira da Silva's work “On Difference Without Separability.” Brian Fairley received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from New York University in 2023; he is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Music at Amherst College.His manuscript in progress, Dissected Listening: Race, Nation, and Polyphony in the South Caucasus, excavates a series of experimental sound recordings from 1916 to 1966 to show how the concept of musical polyphony emerged in tandem with techniques of multichannel sound and imperial discourses of racial, national, and religious difference. His work has appeared in the journal Ethnomusicology and is forthcoming in Theoria: Historical Aspects of Music Theory, as well as an edited volume titled Key Terms in Music Theory for Antiracist Scholars. The image for this episode is Paul Klee's 1932 painting “Polyphony,” which is in the public domain in the US and Europe. Digital image sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music

Mio Tsuneyama is a Japanese architect who works between Tokyo, Lausanne and also London, where she co-founded the studio mnm with Madeleine Kessler. Having worked for 4 years at HHF in Basel, she decided to return to Tokyo after the major earthquake of 2011. This disaster was a moment of crisis in her practice that changed her way of conceiving architecture. It is with a critical multicultural awareness that she takes a socially and ecologically committed approach, looking at architecture as a network of relationships rather than a single form. Mio's reading advice: The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing, 2015. — Interview by Roxane Le Grelle and Cyril Veillon. Production: Archizoom / Art direction and editing: Marie Geiser / Jingle and music: Cédric Liard

It is increasingly accepted that we cannot take nature for granted. But do we even know what nature is? Catherine Oliver brings her expertise in geography and sociology – plus her love of chickens – to the latest Uncommon Sense to reflect on what's at stake in how we think of and relate to “nature” – and how we might do better. Along the way, she considers what happens when neoliberalism shapes what “good” nature is – whether in regeneration or meddling with metabolisms.Alexis and Rosie also ask Catherine: how might the chicken be “thriving” yet also “extinct”? What potential is there in speaking of the “more than” and “beyond” human? And what responsibility do social scientists have for the age-old binaries that split humans from wider nature?Plus: a celebration of Andrea Arnold's “Cow”, Margaret Atwood's “MaddAddam” trilogy and – Alexis' favourite – “Captain Planet”.Guest: Catherine OliverHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongExecutive Producer: Alice BlochSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon Sense at The Sociological Review.Episode ResourcesCatherine, Rosie, Alexis and our producer Alice recommendedAndrea Arnold's film “Cow”Margaret Atwood's “MaddAddam” book trilogyTV series “Captain Planet and the Planeteers”Evia Wylk's essay collection “Death by Landscape”From The Sociological ReviewPerforming the classification of nature – Claire WatertonDaphne the Cat: Reimagining human–animal boundaries on Facebook – Verónica PolicarpoUnnatural Times? The Social Imaginary and the Future of Nature – Kate SoperBy Catherine OliverRising with the rooster: How urban chickens are relaxing the pace of lifeTransforming paradise: Neoliberal regeneration and more-than-human urbanism in BirminghamThe Opposite of ExtinctionReturning to 'The Good Life'? Chickens and Chicken-keeping during Covid-19 in BritainMetabolic ruminations with climate cattle: towards a more-than-human metabo-politics (co-authored with Jonathon Turnbull)Further reading“Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save” – Tyson Yunkaporta“Toward equality: Including non-human animals in studies of lived religion and nonreligion” – Lori G. Beaman, Lauren Strumos“A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet” – Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore“The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir” – Alice Walker“The Chicken Book” – Page Smith, Charles DanielRead more about the work of Zoe Todd, Adam Searle, Anna Tsing, Anna Guasco, Paige Colton and The Care Collective.

Economia Undeground, um podcast institucionalista. Neste episódio temos a honra de voltar a receber a nossa querida amiga prof. Magda Ribeiro, para discutirmos a deia de liberdade e suas contaminações pelo ideário neoliberal. Para tal, nos basearemos no texto "Livre na floresta: neoliberalismo popular e o rescaldo da guerra no Noroeste do Pacífico dos Estado Unidos" de Anna Tsing. Este texto é publicado como capítulo 4 do livro "Neoliberalismo, neoconservadorismo e a crise em tempos sombios", organizado por Chiara Albino, Jainara Oliveria e Mariana Melo. Nos siga no Instagram: @economiaunderground

At the Deanery Project this spring, I met with Dr. Jenn MacLatchy (she/they), who is an artist, a kayak instructor, and researcher of settler descent living in Mi'kma'ki. Her doctoral research was focused on using arts-based methods to engage with waste, weeds, and wastelands to form a settler method for decolonizing relationship with land and tending to liveable post-Anthropocene futures. In this episode, you'll hear about this fascinating doctoral research and her art practice, which is process-based and focused on marine plastics, waste paper, and invasive plants, and different ways of weaving these materials together to explore relationships in the inextricably interconnected living world. We hear her perspective of seeing garbage as artifacts that can help us understand our culture, and about the problem –and the irony– of plastics. She shares the view that humans aren't inherently bad for the environment, and offers an interesting twist on what it can mean to be less materialistic. We also talk about some lesser discussed aspects of Japanese knotweed (...and my secret love of the plant.)EPISODE RESOURCES:The Deanery Project The website of Marlene Creates, an artist in Newfoundland A website about the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes area and protectionBooks referenced by Jenn:Flotsametrics and the floating world: How one man's obsession with runaway sneakers and rubber ducks revolutionized ocean science. C. Ebbesmeyer & E. Scigliano (2009)Pollution is Colonialism. , M. Liboiron (2021)Waste. B. Thill (2015) Braiding Sweetgrass. Robin Wall Kimmerer (2015) Living Treaties: Narrating Mi'kmaw Treaty Relations. Marie Battiste (2016) Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt (2017)Staying with the Trouble. Donna J. Haraway (2016)Some website information about the Peace and Friendship Treaties from:Canadian EncyclopediaThe Government of CanadaL'nuey

On a récemment pris conscience que le développement économique des sociétés humaines affecte l'écologie, c'est-à-dire le système général du vivant, au point de remettre en cause à plus ou moins brève échéance l'habitabilité de la planète. L'« anthropocène », ère où l'action humaine modifie les conditions naturelles, est en réalité un « capitalocène », comme l'a souligné l'historien Jason W. Moore, au sens où ce n'est pas l'espèce humaine en elle-même, mais le mode de production capitaliste, qui est la cause du désastre en vue. Or le productivisme inhérent au capitalisme (on parle aussi, avec Anna Tsing et Dona Haraway, de « plantationocène », ère conditionnée par l'extractivisme dont la plantation est le modèle) n'a évidemment pas existé de tout temps. Mathieu Arnoux, Professeur d'histoire médiévale à l'Université Paris Cité, souligne dans un ouvrage récent que les sociétés du Moyen Âge occidental ne concevaient pas le monde autour d'elles comme un « environnement », c'est-à-dire comme un entrepôt de ressources illimitées à utiliser librement pour la production de biens et services, mais se pensaient au contraire en symbiose avec une Création à laquelle elles ne se considéraient pas comme extérieures.  Dans cet épisode de « La Grande H. », Mathieu Arnoux revient avec Julien Théry sur les trois thèmes abordés dans son ouvrage (« Un monde sans ressources. Besoin et société en Europe. XIe-XIVe s. », aux éditions Albin Michel) : la façon dont le « Roman de Renard » met en scène les déséquilibres sociaux provoqués par la première grande accélération de la croissance économique en Occident vers 1150-1250 ; la contribution d'un ordre religieux, celui de Cîteaux, à cet essor économique et commercial inédit ; enfin la place exceptionnelle occupée par Paris, mastodonte urbain (200 à 250 000 habitants vers 1300) aux dimensions mal adaptées à l'économie de l'époque. ▶ Soutenez Le Média :

El libro La seta del fin del mundo de la bióloga Anna Tsing habla de la inteligencia micorrícica de los hongos para crear estrategias de tejidos colaborativos entre especies. También reflexiona sobre la vulnerabilidad ecológica y el cuidado interespecie. Mónica Nepote es artista y exploradora. Se presenta como apuntadora y montañera.

It's a media haul episode, so Hope and Jackie are dining on a cornucopia of juicy topics. They discuss the recent Wall Street Journal article that contemplated the fashion choices of Chris Smalls and other labor organizers. Jackie talks about 3 takeaways she has after a rigorous review of Bama Rush Tiktok. Hope explains an event called Prada Frames where idol-of-the-pod Anna Tsing gave a talk. And finally, they talk about The Beauty of Blackness, a documentary on the revamp of former Ebony Magazine makeup brand Fashion Fair. Come and feast with them and they promise to never use this metaphor again. Sorry for the echo! We had some technical difficulties. Help Amazon workers fight for better working conditions! (actionnetwork.org) WSJ article: Labor Activists Get Fashionable—to the Chagrin of Old-Line Unionists We're socialists, so follow us on our socials! @fashismpod on Instagram and TikTok Email us at fashismpod@gmail.com

Producer Lindsey introduces a 2015 interview with anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jeff Dorchen delivers another Moment of (Super)Truth on a flashforward seance in the stone age, and we declare the winning answer to this week's Question from Hell!.

Shalini Sengupta thinks together ‘the mycological turn' in the humanities and the narrative and aesthetic work that mushrooms do in some modernist literature. She draws from Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World and the research of Sam Solomon and Natalia Cecire. Modernist mushrooms, if they are a thing, exist in the writings of Alfred Kreymborg, Djuna Barnes, and Sylvia Plath, and the photography of Alfred Stieglitz. Shalini is a final year PhD student at the University of Sussex, UK. Her thesis explores the concept of modernist difficulty in British and diasporic poetry through the lens of intersectionality. Her academic writing have appeared/are forthcoming in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, Contemporary Women's Writing, and the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. In 2021, she was selected as a Ledbury Emerging Critic. Image Art by Saronik Bosu Music used in promotional material: ‘How Many' by Windmill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Shalini Sengupta thinks together ‘the mycological turn' in the humanities and the narrative and aesthetic work that mushrooms do in some modernist literature. She draws from Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World and the research of Sam Solomon and Natalia Cecire. Modernist mushrooms, if they are a thing, exist in the writings of Alfred Kreymborg, Djuna Barnes, and Sylvia Plath, and the photography of Alfred Stieglitz. Shalini is a final year PhD student at the University of Sussex, UK. Her thesis explores the concept of modernist difficulty in British and diasporic poetry through the lens of intersectionality. Her academic writing have appeared/are forthcoming in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, Contemporary Women's Writing, and the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. In 2021, she was selected as a Ledbury Emerging Critic. Image Art by Saronik Bosu Music used in promotional material: ‘How Many' by Windmill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shalini Sengupta thinks together ‘the mycological turn' in the humanities and the narrative and aesthetic work that mushrooms do in some modernist literature. She draws from Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World and the research of Sam Solomon and Natalia Cecire. Modernist mushrooms, if they are a thing, exist in the writings of Alfred Kreymborg, Djuna Barnes, and Sylvia Plath, and the photography of Alfred Stieglitz. Shalini is a final year PhD student at the University of Sussex, UK. Her thesis explores the concept of modernist difficulty in British and diasporic poetry through the lens of intersectionality. Her academic writing have appeared/are forthcoming in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, Contemporary Women's Writing, and the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. In 2021, she was selected as a Ledbury Emerging Critic. Image Art by Saronik Bosu Music used in promotional material: ‘How Many' by Windmill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Shalini Sengupta thinks together ‘the mycological turn' in the humanities and the narrative and aesthetic work that mushrooms do in some modernist literature. She draws from Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World and the research of Sam Solomon and Natalia Cecire. Modernist mushrooms, if they are a thing, exist in the writings of Alfred Kreymborg, Djuna Barnes, and Sylvia Plath, and the photography of Alfred Stieglitz. Shalini is a final year PhD student at the University of Sussex, UK. Her thesis explores the concept of modernist difficulty in British and diasporic poetry through the lens of intersectionality. Her academic writing have appeared/are forthcoming in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, Contemporary Women's Writing, and the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. In 2021, she was selected as a Ledbury Emerging Critic. Image Art by Saronik Bosu Music used in promotional material: ‘How Many' by Windmill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/food

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Tsing is about  mushrooms. Matsutake mushrooms, to be exact. But it's about a lot of other things too, including capitalism and hope for how we might live in a future marked by human destruction. This week, Hannah Cunningham and Sara Chitsaz discuss this book, some of the concepts in it, and how it made them feel. Link to the book.Here is the article referencing pericapitalist spaces that Hannah mentioned in the episode.Program log.★ Support this podcast ★

90% are unknown still but the species which have been studied have given us penicillin, ways of breaking down plastics, food and bio fuels but they can also be dangerous. Neither animal nor vegetable, they are both amongst us and within us, shaping our lives in ways it is difficult to imagine. Merlin Sheldrake's book about fungi, Entangled Life, has won the Royal Society Science book of the year and the Wainwright Conservation prize so here's Matthew Sweet with him and others discussing the amazing life of mushrooms. Francesca Gavin curated an exhibition Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of the Fungi, which ran at Somerset House in London and is now available to view as an online tour. It features the work of 40 artists, musicians and designers from Cy Twombly to Beatrix Potter, John Cage to Hannah Collins. Sam Gandy is an ecologist, writer and researcher who has collaborated with the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/psychedelic-research-centre/ Begoña Aguirre-Hudson is Curator and Mycologist at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She helps look after the Kew Fungarium - the largest collection of fungi in the world. https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/people/begona-aguirre-hudson Producer: Alex Mansfield You can find other discussions in the Free Thinking archives about food https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wn51y Cows, farming and our view of nature https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000n0g8 Humans, animals, ecologies: conversations with Anna Tsing and Joanna Bourke https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sjmj

Jeff Diamanti is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities (Cultural Analysis & Philosophy) at the University of Amsterdam. At the beginning of this podcast's run, I recorded an interview with him where I asked some very broad questions about the relationship between humanity and our natural environment. Here, I had the chance to sit down with his new book Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum (www.bloomsbury.com/ca/climate-and-…-9781350191839/) and ask more pointed questions about not only the claims of that book, but about the pivotal moment we are currently in, where, as he notes, we are still continually “inundated with stuff drawn from the earth but not encountered as such;” we still, especially in the affluent parts of the world, experience the luxury of that sort of comforting disconnection of commodity from supply chain. But we also now face the mounting pressure of environmental collapse and the knowledge that collapse will be the consequence of this disconnection, where even “postindustrial” or digital capitalism is “coded in a language of intangibility” but still relies wholly upon “dead matter” to drive the system. The pandemic has forced many more of us to attend to the material conditions that allow life to flourish. It matters that, in an instant, what Mark Fisher calls “capitalist realism” can be “punctured,” in Diamanti's terms, and the possibility of system-wide change can feel within reach. Yet, at the same time, DIamanti admits that some important methods of engagement don't automatically translate, for him, into a politics; yet, these modes of thinking and feeling are vital pedagogically for encouraging a connection to what he calls the “elemental alterity of the earth.” Part of this is based on an ethic of being a theorist who is also in and of the world, who makes a deliberate effort to “slow down” and experience the overwhelming forces around you. Who works to ensure that we're allowing these encounters to inform our concepts, not the other way around. Anna Tsing's “arts of noticing” are quite a bit different from the language of a “world to win” and are still potentially quite powerful, I think, for environmental communication (a problem I'll take up in more detail in my conversation next week with Imre Szeman). The hope, nonetheless, is to devise stronger questions and to work beyond the “expected conclusions” provided by readymade frameworks that basically induce a sort of “epistemological illegibiilty” when it comes to energy markets and energy futures, which inevitably leads to the continuation of our current impasse: the paradox of knowing we are cooking the planet for future generations of people are nonhuman beings, but can't imagine real ways of correcting our course. In this context of profound blockage, Jeff likes to believe an engagement with the elemental alterity of the earth can open things up, these “massive and beautiful forces” can provides a grounds for revolutionary imaginings that don't prefigure the social or psychological configurations of an energy transition.

Erik Davis and Julia Pond talk about psychedelic dance and the way altered states of mind and movement interact. Topics range from bone-dancing at Grateful Dead shows ("The bands were incidental to the dance"), the way movement resonates through time and generations, and the salvage rhythms of late capitalism (with thanks to Anna Tsing for the phrase). People: Erik Davis, PhD, is an author, award-winning journalist, sometimes podcaster, and popular speaker based in San Francisco. He is the author of five books: High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the 70s (MIT Press/Strange Attractor Press); Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (Yeti, 2010); The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape (Chronicle, 2006), with photographs by Michael Rauner; and the 33 1/3 volume Led Zeppelin IV (Continuum, 2005). His first and best-known book remains TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (Crown, 1998), a cult classic of visionary media studies that has been translated into five languages and most recently republished by North Atlantic Press. He has contributed chapters on art, music, technoculture, and contemporary spirituality to over a dozen books, including Suzanne Treister's HFT: The Gardener(Black Dog), Future Matters: the Persistence of Philip K. Dick (Palgrave), Sound Unbound: Writings on Contemporary Multimedia and Music Culture (MIT, 2008), AfterBurn: Reflections on Burning Man (University of New Mexico, 2005), Rave Ascension (Routledge, 2003), and Zig Zag Zen (Chronicle, 2002). In addition to his many forewords and introductions, Davis has contributed articles and essays to a variety of periodicals, including Bookforum, Arthur, Artforum, Slate, Salon, Gnosis, Rolling Stone, the LA Weekly, Spin, Wired and the Village Voice.A vital speaker, Davis has given talks at universities, media art conferences, and festivals around the world. He has taught seminars at the UC Berkeley, UC Davis, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and Rice University, as well as workshops at the New York Open Center and Esalen. He has been interviewed by CNN, NPR, the New York Times, and the BBC, and appeared in numerous documentaries, as well as in Craig Baldwin's underground film Specters of the Spectrum. He wrote the libretto for and performed in “How to Survive the Apocalypse,” a Burning Man-inspired rock opera. He hosted the podcast Expanding Mind on the Progressive Radio Network for a decade, and earned his PhD in Religious Studies from Rice University in 2015. He currently writes the Substack publication Burning Shore.Julia Pond is a dance artist, teacher and researcher interested in how embodied practices and dance interact with social and political themes. Julia has worked primarily in the UK, US and Italy, and is currently completing an MFA in Creative Practice: Dance Professional at Trinity Laban / Independent Dance, as well as podcasting, parenting, and teaching. Read More: Erik Davis: https://techgnosis.com/Burning Shore Substack Newsletter: https://www.burningshore.com/Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. (2017) The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Claudia speaks to Michelle Westerlaken about the concept of Re-Design and how design can be used to generate multispecies worlds and opportunities. They discuss Michelle's background in design with and for animals, how she finds theory incredibly important for design processes, and the ways in which trying to create positive urban design might generate new multispecies opportunities.  Date recorded: 26 April 2021 Michelle Westerlaken is a Research Associate on the Smart Forests project in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She has a PhD in Interaction Design from Malmö University in Sweden where she did her dissertation on “Imagining Multispecies Worlds” in which presented 10 protagonist species and stories in a Multispecies Bestiary to illustrate a repertoire of world-making practices. As a designer, Michelle works with participatory methods that examine possibilities for humans and other species to propose interaction modalities for multispecies ways of living on this planet. So far, these projects have involved design negotiations together with cats, dogs, ants, and penguins, and various interactive technologies. Central to her work are the ways in which theory and participatory research practices continuously inform and inspire each other. Connect with Michelle on Twitter (@colombinary) or via email and find out more about the smart forests project at www.smartforests.net Featured:  It Matters What Designs Design Designs: Speculations on Multispecies Worlds (Video); Imagining Multispecies Worlds by Michelle Westerlaken; Designs for the Pluriverseby Arturo Escobar; When Species Meet by Donna Haraway; The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing; The Carrier Bag of Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin; What would animals say if we asked the right questions by Vinciane Despret

Shalini Sengupta thinks together ‘the mycological turn’ in the humanities and the narrative and aesthetic work that mushrooms do in some modernist literature. She draws from Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World and the research of Sam Solomon and Natalia Cecire. Modernist mushrooms, if they are a thing, exist in the […]

Joanna Bourke is an historian whose previous work has looked at fear, pain, sexual violence and dismemberment. Her new book is a history and examination of bestiality and zoophilia, tracing our changing understandings from Leviticus, to modern psychiatry, the animal rights movement, and beyond. Anna Tsing's book The Mushroom at the End of the World was an examination of human interactions with fungi and their environments, and vice versa, in post-industrial landscapes. Her new online project Feral Atlas charts the complex and shifting relationships between humans, animals, plants, bacteria and other natural phenomena. Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love by Joanna Bourke is out now. Her lecture series Exploring the Body for Gresham College is available online https://www.gresham.ac.uk/series/exploring-the-body/ Anna Tsing's book The Mushroom at the End of the World is out now. You can find her online project at https://feralatlas.org/ It is made in conjunction with Stanford University curated and edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou Matthew Sweet hosts a Free Thinking discussion Fungi: An Alien Encounter https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dr46 and looks at the ideas in Darwin's Descent of Man 1871 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s31z Other discussions about animals include Should We Keep Pets? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09hzj3y Does My Pet Love Me? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004dr9 Animals: Watching Us Watching Them Watching Each Other https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04nqv0n Producer: Luke Mulhall

Anna Tsing is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California: Santa Cruz and the author of books that show us how a multitude of different forms of life are bound together in a web of complex and fragile interdependence. Her books include Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, The Mushroom at the End of the World and Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. In this episode, we discuss her most recent project--Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene--an online platform that is available at feralatlas.org. The site is intended as an interactive showcase for research into what Tsing and her co-editors Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou call “feral species and feral dynamics,” but it also uses multimedia techniques to tell “stories of environmental injustice, radical diversity and scientific surprise.” Released through the Digital Repository at Stanford University Press, Feral Atlas contains a dizzying array of multidisciplinary engagements with the disturbing realities of the Anthropocene. And despite including more than one hundred essays, analyses, and artworks by leading scientists and artists, it has not yet received the level of attention that it deserves, as a text that maps the enduring social and ecological effects of Invasion, Empire, Capital, and Acceleration. We discuss the risks and pleasures that come with using a digital medium to experiment with modes of storytelling that are capable of inspiring both the hope and the fear necessary to convince people how urgently we need to protect and nurture the last remaining spaces of interspecies flourishing, as we attempt to dismantle, in Tsing's words, “the most harmful anthropogenic kinds of infrastructural effects.”

El reino fungi es una bisagra, una interfaz, un puente entre el mundo vegetal y el animal, entre la vida y la muerte, entre la realidad y la espiritualidad. Hablamos sobre él, en el exterior de la Tierra, y sobre los microorganismos que transportamos en el intestino, una metáfora inesperada del mundo.Autores citados: Margaret Cavendish, Rosi Braidotti, Samuel Butler, Jonathan Swift, Robert MacFarlane, Ed Yong, H.P. Lovecraft, Anna Tsing, David Quammen, Kevin Kelly, Lynn Margulis, David Benjamin, Kristel Peters, Francesca Gavin.

Do you feel lost in the Anthropocene? Would you like a map to chart your way through our changing world? How about an atlas? Well, the Feral Atlas Collective has something that might help you out. In this episode Anna Tsing, an anthropologist from U.C. Santa Cruz, tells us about the Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene.  Feral Atlas is one of the most unusual book projects that I have seen or been a part of (it includes my “field report” about colonial era sewer rats in Hanoi). It is a digital book published by Stanford University Press in 2020 and can be accessed for free here.  Exploring Feral Atlas is like taking a walk on the wild side as there is no structured or required way to enter into its various conversations. Instead, you are invited to explore at your own risk. There are luminary essays by Sven Beckert, Amitav Ghosh, Gabrielle Hecht, Karen Ho, Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, David M. Richardson, and Will Steffen; field reports by dozens of scholars from the humanities and sciences; and art ranging from video to poetry to music. Informative and thought-provoking, alternately humorous and emotionally gut wrenching, and provocative in both form and content, Feral Atlas invites you to go wild. Anna Tsing is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her numerous books include In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (1993) Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2005) and The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015). She has received far too many awards to list here but they include Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies, the Victor Turner Award, and a Guggenheim. The Feral Atlas Collective is composed of: Jennifer Deger: a visual anthropologist, filmmaker, and research leader at James Cook University, as well as the president of the Australian Anthropological Society; Alder Keleman Saxena: an environmental anthropologist at Northern Arizona University who examines the relationships linking agricultural biodiversity to human food cultures; Feifei Zhou: an artist and architect who explores ecological and cultural preservation through architectural interventions; and my guest, Anna Tsing. Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018). When he’s not reading or talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

Do you feel lost in the Anthropocene? Would you like a map to chart your way through our changing world? How about an atlas? Well, the Feral Atlas Collective has something that might help you out. In this episode Anna Tsing, an anthropologist from U.C. Santa Cruz, tells us about the Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene.  Feral Atlas is one of the most unusual book projects that I have seen or been a part of (it includes my “field report” about colonial era sewer rats in Hanoi). It is a digital book published by Stanford University Press in 2020 and can be accessed for free here.  Exploring Feral Atlas is like taking a walk on the wild side as there is no structured or required way to enter into its various conversations. Instead, you are invited to explore at your own risk. There are luminary essays by Sven Beckert, Amitav Ghosh, Gabrielle Hecht, Karen Ho, Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, David M. Richardson, and Will Steffen; field reports by dozens of scholars from the humanities and sciences; and art ranging from video to poetry to music. Informative and thought-provoking, alternately humorous and emotionally gut wrenching, and provocative in both form and content, Feral Atlas invites you to go wild. Anna Tsing is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her numerous books include In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (1993) Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2005) and The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015). She has received far too many awards to list here but they include Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies, the Victor Turner Award, and a Guggenheim. The Feral Atlas Collective is composed of: Jennifer Deger: a visual anthropologist, filmmaker, and research leader at James Cook University, as well as the president of the Australian Anthropological Society; Alder Keleman Saxena: an environmental anthropologist at Northern Arizona University who examines the relationships linking agricultural biodiversity to human food cultures; Feifei Zhou: an artist and architect who explores ecological and cultural preservation through architectural interventions; and my guest, Anna Tsing. Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018). When he’s not reading or talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you feel lost in the Anthropocene? Would you like a map to chart your way through our changing world? How about an atlas? Well, the Feral Atlas Collective has something that might help you out. In this episode Anna Tsing, an anthropologist from U.C. Santa Cruz, tells us about the Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene.  Feral Atlas is one of the most unusual book projects that I have seen or been a part of (it includes my “field report” about colonial era sewer rats in Hanoi). It is a digital book published by Stanford University Press in 2020 and can be accessed for free here.  Exploring Feral Atlas is like taking a walk on the wild side as there is no structured or required way to enter into its various conversations. Instead, you are invited to explore at your own risk. There are luminary essays by Sven Beckert, Amitav Ghosh, Gabrielle Hecht, Karen Ho, Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin, David M. Richardson, and Will Steffen; field reports by dozens of scholars from the humanities and sciences; and art ranging from video to poetry to music. Informative and thought-provoking, alternately humorous and emotionally gut wrenching, and provocative in both form and content, Feral Atlas invites you to go wild. Anna Tsing is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her numerous books include In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place (1993) Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2005) and The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015). She has received far too many awards to list here but they include Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies, the Victor Turner Award, and a Guggenheim. The Feral Atlas Collective is composed of: Jennifer Deger: a visual anthropologist, filmmaker, and research leader at James Cook University, as well as the president of the Australian Anthropological Society; Alder Keleman Saxena: an environmental anthropologist at Northern Arizona University who examines the relationships linking agricultural biodiversity to human food cultures; Feifei Zhou: an artist and architect who explores ecological and cultural preservation through architectural interventions; and my guest, Anna Tsing. Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018). When he’s not reading or talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A la question « où poussent les champignons ? » vous répondrez sans doute: en forêt, sur la mousse recouvrant les racines des arbres, dans les prairies ou les jardins, bref, tous les lieux humides propices à leur prolifération. Mais avez-vous déjà imaginé que ces organismes puissent pousser…sur des ruines?C’est le cas du matstutake. De Hiroshima aux forêts de l’Oregon - où les grands pins ponderosas ont été coupés pour alimenter l’industrie du bois, ce champignon apparaît sur les ruines causées par l’activité humaine. Après s’être intéressée au champignon sous toutes ses formes dans l’épisode #111, Emilie consacre cette brève au matsutake, également appelé le « champignon de la fin du monde ». Vous y entendrez Anna Tsing, anthropologue états-unienne qui a longuement étudié l’histoire du matsutake et propose à travers lui une lecture fascinante des ruines du capitalisme. Les références entendues dans l’épisode :Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Le champignon de la fin du monde: sur les possibilités de vie dans les ruines du capitalisme (La Découverte, 2017) La manufacture des idées, L’écologie de l’attention: dialogue entre Anna Tsing et Maylis Kerangal, 2019 Usbek&Rica, “Pourquoi ce “champignon de la fin du monde” a beaucoup à nous apprendre (novembre 2017)Bouffons est un podcast de Nouvelles Ecoutes que j’anime avec l’aide en coulisses de Laura Cuissard et les coups de main de Charline Yao. Montage par Ashley Tola. Mixage par Thomas Decourt. Générique réalisé par Aurore Meyer Mahieu.

Invité de la Rédaction : Au micro de Marika Mathieu, Frédéric Keck, Anthropologue et directeur de recherche au CNRS, pour son livre  « Signaux d'alerte, Contagion virale, justice sociale, crises environnementales » paru le 7 octobre 2020 chez Desclée de Brouwer. Sujet : Pandémie, une histoire de préparation À propos du livre : «Signaux d'alerte, Contagion virale, justice sociale, crises environnementales» paru aux Éditions Desclée de Brouwer Les signaux d'alerte se multiplient sur les catastrophes écologiques. La valeur de ces signaux n'est pas régie par le critère de la vraie ou de la fausse alerte, ni par le principe du bon ou du mauvais gouvernement, mais par l'attractivité du signal, c'est-à-dire sa capacité à susciter l'attention et l'intérêt de ceux qui le reçoivent. En s'appuyant sur une étude des sentinelles des pandémies dans les sociétés asiatiques, Frédéric Keck montre que les territoires qui émettent des signaux d'alerte, comme Hong Kong, Taïwan ou Singapour, ont entre eux des relations de compétition et de collaboration analogues à celles des oiseaux qui concourent pour alerter sur la présence d'un prédateur. Dans cette émulation, où les pays échangent des informations pour prendre les mesures les plus rapides, se joue une nouvelle forme de solidarité globale et de justice sociale. Pour prendre la mesure de ce phénomène, l'auteur propose une lecture de quelques penseurs des signaux d'alerte (Claude Lévi-Strauss, Amotz Zahavi, Anna Tsing) ; puis une histoire des grandes crises sanitaires depuis vingt ans ; enfin, une approche de certaines oeuvres d'art (romans, films, expositions), qui nous préparent aux prochaines crises en faisant travailler notre imaginaire. Frédéric Keck a publié plusieurs ouvrages sur l'histoire de l'anthropologie française (Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Émile Durkheim, Henri Bergson, Claude Lévi-Strauss) et deux livres sur les crises sanitaires causées par les maladies animales : Un monde grippé (Flammarion, 2010) et Les Sentinelles des pandémies (Zones sensibles, 2020). Il a reçu la médaille de bronze du CNRS en 2012 et a dirigé le département de la recherche du musée du quai Branly entre 2014 et 2018.

Why are anthropologists interested in mushrooms? Encounters creates difference. In this chapter we discuss how Anna Tsing encountered matsutake mushrooms, and how the Brazilian group LABFICC created a project called Thinking with Fungi, affected by Anna Tsing's book. 

This short introduction describes a little about this podcast and the series of chapters that compose the first episode, called The Mushroom at the End of World  after Anna Tsing's book. 

Que signifie encore aujourd’hui l’engagement politique ? Quels sont les actes à poser pour tenter d’améliorer le monde ? Alice Zeniter déploie ces questions dans son nouveau roman « Comme un empire dans un empire » (Flammarion). Pourquoi est-ce qu’Internet n’est pas né en France ? Eric Reinhardt a mené l’enquête. Il vient nous raconter. Il nous présente « Comédies françaises » (Gallimard), son nouveau roman. Dans « En toutes lettres ! », l’historien et écrivain Gil Bartholeyns écrit à « Nous ». Choix culturels : - « Mais leurs yeux dardaient sur Dieu » de Zora Neale Hurston (Editions Zulma). - « Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet » d’Anna Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan et Heather Swanson. - Le spectacle « Drumming » d’Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, à voir à La Monnaie à Bruxelles du 9 au 31 octobre. - « La dernière rose de l’été » de Lucas Harari (Sarbacane).

Cultures of Energy Podcast is now on iTunes! Stitcher soon! We celebrate Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz, one of the world's greatest analysts of globalization and the environment and the author (most recently) of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Then (6:16) Cymene and Anna talk about feminist legacies, more-than-human anthropology, capitalist ruins and how to think with weeds and mushrooms.