Midway through last month’s North American tour, the filmmaker Katie Teague sat me down to record an interview. Sometimes an interview happens at just the right moment, when all the work you’re carrying is on the top of your tongue. That’s what happened here – so with Katie’s permission, we’re releasing an audio version of her edit of what I told her that morning. The result is more or less a solo show, since you don’t hear Katie’s questions and my answers come in stories rather than paragraphs.

If you haven’t read At Work in the Ruins, then this episode is a good way into it – and if you have, then it will give you a sense of where I’ve been taken by the conversations the book led me into.

It also provides some good context for Pockets, Patterns & Practices, the five-week online series that I’ll be teaching next month.

Shownotes

* Katie Teague’s YouTube channel with other interviews, including Joanna Macey, Jonathan Rowson and more.

* Support Katie’s work through her Patreon.

* Vinay Gupta’s Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps aka “Six Ways to Die”

* Brian Eno’s definition of culture as “everything we don’t have to do”

* My interpretation of Eno’s definition in The Kitchen Table

* At Work in the Ruins now out in paperback

* Pockets, Patterns & Practices starts on 6 & 7 November 2024 and runs for five weeks. Full details at aschoolcalledhome.org

Homeward Bound theme music: ‘Hope and the Forester’ by Blue Dot Sessions

Thanks for reading Homeward Bound! This post is public so feel free to share it.

Thanks for reading Homeward Bound! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.homewardbound.org