Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlicia Escott & Heidi Quante: The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a participatory artwork facilitated by artist Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante which collaborates with the public to create new words for feelings and experiences …
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Jonathan Cordero: Indigenous Sovereign Futures
Alternative visions for social change rooted in the frameworks of capitalism and colonialism only reproduce contemporary structures of power. How can indigenous perspectives and knowledge inform the …
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Denise Hearn: Embodied Economies
Economic policy can seem abstract and distant, but it manifests the physical world, affecting us all. Our economic stories shape our systems, and they in turn shape us. What myths continue to constra…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Jared Farmer: Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees
_What really interests me is how long-lived plants allow humans to think about—and emotionally relate to—long units of time. They provide a bridge between human time and geological time. - Jared Far…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Abby Smith Rumsey: Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures
As authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell ourselves about our collective history become a battleground for competing visions of the future. Drawing extensively from …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Henry Farrell: The Complex Aftermath of Globalization
Over the last two years, the US government has started thinking about the future of the world in a very different way. Across speeches and policy papers, a vision of world politics has emerged which …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Coco Krumme: The False Promise of Optimization
Coco Krumme traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America's founding principles, to its dominance as the driving principle of our modern world. Optimized models underlie ev…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Chelsea T. Hicks & Bette Adriaanse: Radical Sharing
Our bodies, our houses, our land, our space: we humans don’t always like to share. Author Bette Adriaanse engaged in deep discussion with fellow author Chelsea T. Hicks. as well as virtual guests Bri…
Published on 2 years ago
Anthropocene Magazine: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future
**Story & Performance Credits:** **Dodging the Apocalypse** story by Mark Alpert | Actor: Stuart Briggs | Video: Ruda Virginio | Score: Tristan de Liège **Victory Condition** story by Eliot Peper | A…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation
How can we turn the tide on species loss and help biodiversity and bioabundance flourish for millennia to come? Ryan Phelan is Executive Director of [Revive & Restore](https://reviverestore.org); the…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago