The Book on Fire Podcast

To begin Season 2 we are following threads from last season's discussions of Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene before starting our next full book. Next time we will also have new music, so enjoy Reanimator one last time.

We discuss articles by two authors, all of which can be found online.

First up is a piece by Australian artist Tega Brain, called "The Environment is Not a System"

Then we move on to three articles by Stephanie Wakefield on living in the Anthropocene's "Back Loop" find them at these links:

https://brooklynrail.org/2017/06/field-notes/Field-Notes-from-the-Anthropocene-Living-in-the-Back-Loop

https://www.affidavit.art/articles/dreaming-the-back-loop

https://www.academia.edu/37771372/Inhabiting_the_Anthropocene_back_loop

Diagram of the adaptive cycle:

Also mentioned on the podcast:

Dave's article: Sun Medicine / Moon Medicine

Next time we will begin discussing Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation, a historical work about the previous worldwide transition that the planet experienced at the birth of capitalism in the era of European colonization.

Order it from AK Press here.

It can also be found free online as a scanned PDF here

And possibly as an EPUB ebook here?

See you next time!

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In the final episode of our first season we revisit highlights from the book, and ask ourselves how we would integrate the lessons and insights into our ongoing work. How could the ideas in book be extended? What does Haraway leave out that we can provide?

This is a thoughtful episode, processing and integrating many big ideas that we've been waiting until now to fully unpack.

Thanks to all who have stayed with us for the whole ride. We intend to continue this book club experiment with short readings throughout the summer, and begin a full new book in earnest in the fall. Stay tuned.

As a bonus, we managed to locate the full documentary "Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival" online. Follow the link to take it in.

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With some delay, this is our discussion of the last chapter of Staying with the Trouble, a speculative fiction called "The Camille Stories: Children of Compost".  Stay tuned for our for our final thoughts about Haraway's book before we move on to new material.

Mentioned in this episode:

The trailer for Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival

Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy

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Apologies! this episode was accidentally deleted and is now being re-posted.

Mentioned in this episode:

More about Dave & Janet

Ursula Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction essay (PDF)

Everything Matters: Why This is No Time for Cynicism by Janet

The Evolution of Beauty (book) by Richard O. Prum

A recent Radiolab episode about The Evolution of Beauty

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Two chapters this week: "Making Kin" and "Awash in Urine." Haraway proposes that voluntary non-reproduction may be a solution to ecological crisis. Is she right?

Mentioned in this episode:

Kim TallBear's lecture "Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sexualities"

Permaculture and the Myth of Overpopulation

and as always..

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Could our intestinal microbiome be luminescent? In this episode we discuss "Sympoiesis: Symbiogenesis and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble", chapter 3 of our book.

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Featured in the show:

The Hawaiian Bobtail Squid

The Bee Orchid comic from xkcd.com

Website for the Crochet Coral Reef

(note:  Dave's excited explanation of the hyperbolic mathematics involved in the crochet reef didn't make the final cut for this episode. But the math is fascinating. Check it out.)

The Indigenous Critique of the Green New Deal

Navajo Churro ram

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Discussion of Chapter 2 of Staying with the Trouble, "Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene"

Music by our friends Reanimator, from their album "Special Powers"

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We discuss the Introduction and First Chapter of Donna Haraway's "Staying with the Trouble". Music from our good friends Reanimator, from their 2000 album Special Powers.

Mentioned in the episode:

Navajo grandma shows her string figures

The Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin

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In this episode Janet & Dave introduce themselves, the podcast, and introduce the first book we'll be reading-- Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway.

(Music by Reanimator)

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