Cultures of Energy

186 - Joanna Zylinska


Listen Later

Cymene talks about her exciting new life as a contractor on this week's podcast. Then (10:14) we welcome the brilliant theorist, artist and curator, Joanna Zylinska (http://www.joannazylinska.net) to the podcast to discuss her excellent new book, The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (U Minnesota Press, 2018). We start with the central argument of the book that there is an intimate relationship between Silicon Valley technicism on the one hand and alt-right white supremacist populism on the other. We talk through genealogies of apocalyptic thinking and how they are interwoven with masculinist promises of salvation and Joanna explains why she thinks it is important to take seriously the sociopolitical precarity that is the norm for the vast majority of the world's human population. We turn from there to her thoughts on breaking the "apocalypse habit," why Isabelle Stengers's Gaia concept might be a helpful alternative, and the importance of minimal ethics for her approach to the Anthropocene. We discover whether there is a place for play and laughter in the Counterapocalypse and then talk about the difficulties of representing the Anthropocene in art and her own short film "Exit Man" (https://vimeo.com/203887003) which serves as a companion to The End of Man. Finally, we talk about the links she sees between Anthropocene stupidity and Artificial Intelligence. PS Your co-hosts duograph on wind power in Southern Mexico is now available with Duke University Press. To receive a 30% discount on each volume use the code E19BOYER for "Energopolitics" (https://www.dukeupress.edu/energopolitics) and E19HOWE for "Ecologics" (https://www.dukeupress.edu/ecologics) at checkout.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Cultures of EnergyBy Dominic Boyer

  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9
  • 4.9

4.9

55 ratings


More shows like Cultures of Energy

View all
The New Yorker Radio Hour by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

The New Yorker Radio Hour

6,795 Listeners

The LRB Podcast by The London Review of Books

The LRB Podcast

301 Listeners

On the Media by WNYC Studios

On the Media

9,237 Listeners

The Political Scene | The New Yorker by The New Yorker

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

4,042 Listeners

New Books in Psychoanalysis by Marshall Poe

New Books in Psychoanalysis

188 Listeners

Jacobin Radio by Jacobin

Jacobin Radio

1,460 Listeners

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker by The New Yorker

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

2,127 Listeners

Columbia Energy Exchange by Columbia University

Columbia Energy Exchange

399 Listeners

The Dig by Daniel Denvir

The Dig

1,597 Listeners

The War on Cars by The War on Cars, LLC

The War on Cars

922 Listeners

Tech Won't Save Us by Paris Marx

Tech Won't Save Us

576 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

16,096 Listeners

Ones and Tooze by Foreign  Policy

Ones and Tooze

355 Listeners

The Interview by The New York Times

The Interview

1,581 Listeners

Ordinary Unhappiness by Patrick & Abby

Ordinary Unhappiness

230 Listeners