Posts tagged Anthropocene
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times [ENCORE] /285
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times [ENCORE] /285

Bayo invites us to pause and abandon solutionism, step back from the project of progress, and dance into a different set of questions: What does the Anthropocene teach us as a destabilizing agent that resists our taming? What happens when we unfurl into a space of slowness and relinquish human mastery to a wider cosmic net of relations?

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Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildslowing down, Anthropocene, fugitivity, fugitive spaces, the sacred, entanglement, decolonization, Yoruba mythology, relationality, intergenerational movements, queer negativity, queer failure, embodiment, nonlinearity, deterritorialize, imagination, bewilderment, grieving, mourning, ceremony, trickster spirit, poetry, dying well, allyship, Fred Moten, Karen Barad, Helena Norburg, Jack Halberstam, Stephen Jeninkson, fatherhood, unschooling, modernity, shapeshifting, compost, Donna Haraway Inspired, bayo akomolafe, Slow Study 1 Comments
MIKE PHILLIPS on Gray Wolves and the Vitality of Death [ENCORE] /275
MIKE PHILLIPS on Gray Wolves and the Vitality of Death [ENCORE] /275

Ayana and Mike touch on the history of cattle ranching and grazing rights, trophic cascades and the vitality of death, the violent lineages of conservation, and ecological restoration as an antidote to species loss.

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More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Conservation RestorationFor The Wildnational park, restoration, recovery, conservation, Yellowstone National Park, evolution, predators, trophic cascade, gray wolf, extinction, extinction crisis, bison, coyote, American mythology, the West, coexistence, cattle ranching, grazing rights, biological diversity, conservation model, Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund, endangered species, Endangered Species Act, Anthropocene, Song of the Dodo, beyond-human, Rocky Mountains, american plains bison, ecological literacy, Western ColoradoComment
Dr. NATASHA MYERS on Growing the Planthroposcene /204
Dr. NATASHA MYERS on Growing the Planthroposcene /204

Natasha discusses the necessity of finding non-human guides, the responsibility we have to make room for plants, anthropomorphism, restoration ecology, and reconfiguring our relationship to the future.

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More Than Human Kin, Plant Intelligence, Multispecies Justice, Cultural Strategy, Deep Ecology, Radical Imagination, Theory Scholarship, Media ArtFor The WildEcology, Restoration Ecology, Becoming Sensor, Anthropocene, Planthropocene, Toronto, Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle, Botany, Sustainability, Green Technology, Meditation, High Park, Urban Forestry, Eco-Philosophy, Oak Savannahs, Nature, Apocalypse, Apocalypse Imaginary, Happy Heart Salve Bright FuturesComment
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times /155
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times /155

Plunging into deep pools of philosophy and imagination, Ayana and Bayo’s conversation winds through dimensions of the new and the ancient: Yoruba mythology, children as guides to bewilderment, the strategy of separation, grieving as ceremony, trickster spirits, and the teachings of failure and brokenness.

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Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildslowing down, Anthropocene, fugitivity, fugitive spaces, the sacred, entanglement, decolonization, Yoruba mythology, relationality, intergenerational movements, queer negativity, queer failure, embodiment, nonlinearity, deterritorialize, imagination, bewilderment, grieving, mourning, ceremony, trickster spirit, poetry, dying well, allyship, Fred Moten, Karen Barad, Helena Norburg, Jack Halberstam, Stephen Jeninkson, fatherhood, unschooling, modernity, shapeshifting, compost, Donna Haraway Inspired Comments
MIKE PHILLIPS on Gray Wolves and the Vitality of Death /152
MIKE PHILLIPS on Gray Wolves and the Vitality of Death /152

Ayana and Mike’s conversation touches on the history of cattle ranching and grazing rights, trophic cascades and the vitality of death, the violent lineages of conservation, and ecological restoration as an antidote to species loss.

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More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Conservation RestorationFor The Wildnational park, restoration, recovery, conservation, Yellowstone National Park, evolution, predators, trophic cascade, gray wolf, extinction, extinction crisis, bison, coyote, American mythology, the West, coexistence, cattle ranching, grazing rights, biological diversity, conservation model, Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund, endangered species, Endangered Species Act, Anthropocene, Song of the Dodo, beyond-human, Rocky Mountains, american plains bison, ecological literacy, Western ColoradoComment
THE BUREAU of LINGUISTICAL REALITY on Seeding New Language /138
THE BUREAU of LINGUISTICAL REALITY on Seeding New Language /138

Heidi, Alicia, and Ayana break through the limits imposed by dominant languages, and invite radical freedom of expression to enrich our unique identities, experiences, our relationships with each other and with the earth.

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Decolonization, Direct Action, Radical Imagination, Cultural Strategy, Climate Change, Media ArtFor The WildIndigenous languages, language diversity, endangered languages, dominant languages, neologisms, environmental philosophy, anthropology, cultural revolution, traditional ecological knowledge, Anthropocene, Solastalgia Comments
Dr. MARY EVELYN TUCKER on Cosmological Re-inheritance /120
Dr. MARY EVELYN TUCKER on Cosmological Re-inheritance /120

Ayana and Mary Evelyn explore how spiritual traditions can respond to environmental crisis, why it is so valuable to understand the emergence of the early universe as we navigate the Anthropocene, and how we can nourish stories of birth, inheritance, and long lineage between body and universe.

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Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Deep Ecology, Spirituality TheologyFor The Wildcreation stories, religion, religious traditions, origin stories, anthropocosmic beings, ecological histories, religion and ecology, world religions, structures of change, spritual tradtions, Anthropocene, environmental crisisComment
JAMES BALOG on The Human Element /117
JAMES BALOG on The Human Element /117

James candidly speaks of the simultaneous beauty and horror of documenting the Anthropocene, on the complicity of industries like the arts and entertainment in contributing to fossil fuel emissions, and the importance of language and imagery in mobilizing climate momentum.

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Sacrifice Zones, Climate Change, Media ArtFor The Wildhuman impact, natural elements, dominant culture, air pollution, coastal cliamte change, frontlines of climate change, nature photographer, Anthropocene, arts and entertainment, fossil fuel emmissions, cliamte messaging, Extreme Ice Survey, Extreme IceComment
ELIZABETH KOLBERT on the Coming Age of Loneliness /28
ELIZABETH KOLBERT on the Coming Age of Loneliness /28

Coined by EO Wilson, is the term Eremocene - the Age of Loneliness. Joining us today, is Elizabeth Kolbert discussing this major juncture in Earth’s history.

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Transition TransformationFor The Wildanthropocene, eremocene, mass extinction, biodiversity, Anthropocene, industrial, geologic era, Homogenocene, the Age of Homogeneity, Mixocene, the Age of Slime, Eremocene, extinction crisis, catastrophe, Sixth ExtinctionComment