Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe

Cultures of Energy

Science EN ↓ 258 episodes

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. We believe in the possibility of personal and cultural change. And we believe that the arts and humanities can help guide us toward a more sustainable future. Cultures of Energy is a Mingomena Media production. Co-hosts are @DominicBoyer and @CymeneHowe

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Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe

Episodes

Ep. #8 - Diane Nelson 25.03.2016 1:00:21

This week’s Cultures of Energy podcast is brought to you by the number zero. Our co-hosts cover the need for more fun in academic life and Hollywood takes on the Anthropocene. Then (9:11) Cymene speaks with the ever joyful Diane Nelson, Professor of Anthropology at Duke University and author of Who Counts? The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide (Duke University Press, 2015). They talk ho...

Ep. #7 - FotoFest 2016 (featuring Judy Natal & Marina Zurkow) 11.03.2016 1:32:44

This week’s Cultures of Energy podcast is a double episode focusing on two art shows that CENHS has sponsored for Houston’s FotoFest 2016 biennial, “Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet” ( http://2016biennial.fotofest.org ). In the intro segment, Cymene and Dominic talk to Rice English Professor Joseph Campana, Director of CENHS’s Arts & Media Research Cluster. Joe curated t...

Ep. #6 - Imre Szeman 04.03.2016 58:47

Dominic and Cymene debate what Albertan city is most like Houston and then (6:44) talk to Imre Szeman, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies and Professor of English, Film Studies and Sociology at the University of Alberta. They discuss Imre’s work with the Petrocultures Research Group ( http://petrocultures.com ) and the many dimensions of its After Oil project ( http://afteroil.ca/ ). What i...

Ep. #5 - Stephanie LeMenager 24.02.2016 57:16

Cymene and Dominic embrace amateurism as they have trouble pronouncing names on this week’s podcast. Then ( 8:28 ) they talk to Stephanie LeMenager, Professor of English and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, author of Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (Oxford University Press, 2014) and founding co-editor of the journal, Resilience. The conversation explores ho...

Ep. #4 - John Hartigan 14.02.2016 1:02:57

Dominic Boyer and former Lost Boys extra, Cymene Howe, banter easily on this week's Cultures of Energy podcast. Cymene then (6:16) talks to anthropologist, multispecies ethnographer and national treasure, John Hartigan, about many things, including: the story behind the 'stache, animal domestication, culture as medium, infrastructural racism and the Flint water crisis, and his newest project on th...

Ep. #3 - Roy Scranton 08.02.2016 1:11:25

On this week’s Cultures of Energy podcast, Cymene and Dominic share getting up close and personal with the Anthropocene in the form of Tropical Storm Jonas. Then (6:26) Dominic talks with Roy Scranton, the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights, 2015) and our most recent postdoctoral fellow at CENHS. Dominic and Roy talk about how philosophy can help us come to terms intellectu...

Ep. #2 - Anna Tsing 19.01.2016 47:33

Cultures of Energy Podcast is now on iTunes! Stitcher soon! We celebrate Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz, one of the world’s greatest analysts of globalization and the environment and the author (most recently) of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Then (6:16) Cymene and Anna talk about feminist leg...

Ep. #1 - Paolo Bacigalupi 19.01.2016 1:07:21

Here's a little preview of the Cultures of Energy Podcast! Look for episodes on iTunes and Stitcher as soon as all the tubes get connected and all the magic podcast elves work through their holiday shopping. Cymene and Dominic answer the question ‘why do an energy humanities podcast?’ and confess their past radio sins. Then (9:14) Dominic interviews Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction wr...