Ep. #087 - Hurricane Harvey (feat. Timothy Morton)

Boyer, Dominic (podcast host); Howe, Cymene (podcast host); Morton, Timothy

Ep. #087 - Hurricane Harvey (feat. Timothy Morton)

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coe087_harvey.mp3 (40.25 MB)

coe087_harvey_POLISHED.mp3_transcript.txt (45.62 KB)

Date

2017-08-27

Authors

Boyer, Dominic (podcast host)

Howe, Cymene (podcast host)

Morton, Timothy

Publisher

Cultures of Energy, Rice University

Abstract

On today’s emergency shelter in place edition of the Cultures of Energy podcast we speak to Timothy Morton to help process the Hurricane Harvey landfall and catastrophic flooding that Houston and SE Texas is experiencing right now. We muse on hyperobjects, human-nonhuman solidarities, hurricanes vs tornados, the optimal Harvey soundtrack, Charlottesville, samsara, denial, neoliberalism, storm porn, disasters vs catastrophes, and taking responsibility for the things we understand. It’s a little philosophical experiment from inside the storm. Sending love and support to our fellow Houstonians on what has shaped up to be our city’s most challenging day ever.

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.

Keywords

environmental humanities

Citation

Boyer, Dominic (podcast host), Howe, Cymene (podcast host) and Morton, Timothy. "Ep. #087 - Hurricane Harvey (feat. Timothy Morton)." (2017) Cultures of Energy, Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112793.

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