Ep. #021 - Jeff VanderMeer
| dc.creator | Boyer, Dominic (podcast host) | |
| dc.creator | Howe, Cymene (podcast host) | |
| dc.creator | VanderMeer, Jeff | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-25T15:44:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-07-25T15:44:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-06-23 | |
| dc.description | This 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. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Cymene and Dominic debate the merits of season 1 of Bloodline and quickly agree to disagree on this week’s Cultures of Energy podcast. Then (9:25) we get to the main event, our conversation with Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award winning writer Jeff VanderMeer, author of the NYT bestselling, Southern Reach Trilogy (FSG, 2014). Our friend Roy Scranton joins us on the line as well—since you last heard him, Roy has published his own novel War Porn (Soho Press, 2016) and become a Professor at Notre Dame: way to go, Roy!—and together we all get deep into Area X. We ask Jeff about the challenges of language and knowledge in the trilogy, whether Area X could be a metaphor for the Anthropocene, and what is going on with the doppelgangers. Jeff talks about his fascination with fungi and how they show we are always already contaminated. He discusses his use of dreams and how the speculative and uncanny elements of fiction can be a way of gaining new perspective on the world without lecturing the reader. He drops a terrific idea for a VR device that could make us see the invisible vectors in the world around us and we rashly promise to help him build it. There’s a film in the works for the first volume of the trilogy, Annihilation, and we talk about how not to let the Southern Reach be reduced to Hollywood formula. And, finally, we talk about Jeff’s upcoming projects including his novel about a Godzilla-sized psychotic flying bear, Borne. If you, like Jeff, are doing your best to contribute to a lack of bullshit in the world, then this episode is for you! | |
| dc.digitization.specifications | This podcast was encoded using GarageBand 10.2.0 software at 128 kbps Audio Bitrate and 44100 Sample Rate in mp3 format. | |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | born digital | |
| dc.format.extent | Duration: 1:05:38 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Boyer, Dominic (podcast host), Howe, Cymene (podcast host) and VanderMeer, Jeff. "Ep. #021 - Jeff VanderMeer." (2016) Cultures of Energy, Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112727. | |
| dc.identifier.digital | coe021 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112727 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Cultures of Energy, Rice University | |
| dc.relation.IsPartOfSeries | Cultures of Energy Podcast Series | |
| dc.rights | This 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. | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.source | Cultures of Energy is a Mingomena Media production. Co-hosts are @DominicBoyer and @CymeneHowe | |
| dc.subject | environmental humanities | |
| dc.title | Ep. #021 - Jeff VanderMeer | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Sound | |
| dc.type.genre | podcasts | |
| dcterms.accessRights | licensed | |
| schema.accessibilityFeature | transcript | |
| schema.accessibilitySummary | Simple AI-generated transcript is provided but has not been reviewed for quality issues. |