Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSteven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction" (Northwestern UP, 2024)
Episode 222
In Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP, 2024), Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay enact a dialogue between cinema, philos…
1 year, 6 months ago
An Existential Fight between Green and Carbon Assets (with Mark Blyth)
Episode 138
Welcome to What Just Happened, a Recall This Book experiment. In it you will hear three friends of RTB reacting to the 2024 election and discussing t…
1 year, 6 months ago
Todd Stern, "Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 195
From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 20…
1 year, 7 months ago
Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 109
Oil is everywhere. It’s in our cars, it’s in the fertilizer used to grow our food, and it’s in the plastics used to produce and transport our consume…
1 year, 7 months ago
Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning, "Beginning to End the Climate Crisis: A History of Our Future" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
Episode 194
"Climate change is the biggest crisis of humankind. We can’t watch other people drive our future right against the wall.”
This is a quote by Luisa Neu…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sarah Dimick, "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 319
As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the …
1 year, 7 months ago
Larisa Jasarević, "Beekeeping in the End Times" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Episode 331
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the ang…
1 year, 7 months ago
Omer Aijazi, "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 119
Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed co…
1 year, 7 months ago
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 29
News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and …
1 year, 7 months ago
Anna Lora-Wainwright, "Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 329
Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and…
1 year, 7 months ago