Ep. #186 - Joanna Zylinska

dc.creatorBoyer, Dominic (podcast host)en_US
dc.creatorHowe, Cymene (podcast host)en_US
dc.creatorZylinska, Joannaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-25T16:07:18Zen_US
dc.date.available2022-07-25T16:07:18Zen_US
dc.date.issued2019-07-18en_US
dc.descriptionThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.en_US
dc.description.abstractCymene 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.en_US
dc.digitization.specificationsThis podcast was encoded using GarageBand 10.2.0 software at 128 kbps Audio Bitrate and 44100 Sample Rate in mp3 format.en_US
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dc.format.extentDuration: 0:55:15en_US
dc.identifier.citationBoyer, Dominic (podcast host), Howe, Cymene (podcast host) and Zylinska, Joanna. "Ep. #186 - Joanna Zylinska." (2019) Cultures of Energy, Rice University: <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112892">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112892</a>.en_US
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dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCultures of Energy, Rice Universityen_US
dc.relation.IsPartOfSeriesCultures of Energy Podcast Seriesen_US
dc.relation.IsReferencedByExit Man [short film] https://perma.cc/BRK4-5RTSen_US
dc.relation.IsReferencedByJoanna Zylinska https://perma.cc/5RNS-7LH8en_US
dc.rightsThis document is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_US
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dc.sourceCultures of Energy is a Mingomena Media production. Co-hosts are @DominicBoyer and @CymeneHoween_US
dc.subjectenvironmental humanitiesen_US
dc.titleEp. #186 - Joanna Zylinskaen_US
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