Joseph Scalia III, Psya.D. is a psychoanalyst and social critic. He is in private psychoanalytic practice in Livingston, Montana, in the shadow of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and its towering Absaroka Mountains. Dr. Scalia is a former president, and a critic, of one of Montana’s politically and financially powerful environmental groups, the Montana Wilderness Association. He is current president of the Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance. On this topic, he has been published in Mountain Journal and interviewed on Wilderness Podcast, and published various Guest Editorials in Montana newspapers.

The work of Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Willy Apollon, Wendy Brown, George Mireaux, Cornel West, Jacques Lacan, Christopher Bollas, Wilfred Bion, Henry Giroux and John Lewis are mentioned in this episode.

Link to Wendy Brown's book Undoing the Demos: NeoLiberalism's Stealth Revolution (2015): https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/undoing-demos

For They Know Not What They Do (2007) by Slavoj Žižek:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/294-for-they-know-not-what-they-do

Links to Dr. Scalia's articles in Mountain Journal:

https://mountainjournal.org/the-fate-of-the-wildest-unprotected-mountain-range-near-yellowstone-will-soon-be-decided-forever

https://mountainjournal.org/a-leader-in-american-wildlands-protection-holds-conservation-movement-to-account

Link to Dr Scalia's interview on Wilderness Podcast:

https://www.wildernesspodcast.com/greater-yellowstone-podcast-miniser

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Photo: Dr. Joseph Scalia III snowshoeing up Buffalo Horn Creek, an area vital to the ecological integrity of the Great Yellowstone Ecosystem. Mainstream environmental groups recommend sacrificing it as a mountain biking mecca, which would drive out thousands of elk, other iconic wildlife, and untold numbers of grizzly bears who require this exact area for connectivity to the larger Northern Rockies Ecosystem if they are to survive in perpetuity.