by efc8d-admin | Mar 26, 2026 | Activism and Actions, Climate Crisis, Ecological Justice, Educational Liberation, Palestine
Today it gives me special pleasure to speak with Fernando Racimo, a leading scientist-activist, about his new book, Science in Resistance. This book gives a riveting account of the founding and growth of the international group Scientist Rebellion, in which now...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 28, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Empire and Colonialism, Environment and Biosphere, Labor, Politics and Culture, Technologies, Transnational Solidarities
Today I am both excited and frightened to talk with Tamara Kneese and Xiaowei Wang, two individuals whose research, writing, and activism has for years insisted on the materiality of the technologies that have brought us things like artificial intelligence, the Cloud,...
by efc8d-admin | Oct 8, 2025 | Ecology, Environment and Biosphere, Science
Today I am delighted to speak with primatologist Christine Webb about her new book, The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why it Matters. The title of the book itself is a concise and precise description of its two constituent halves. First, Webb...
by efc8d-admin | Feb 10, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Decolonization and Anti-Racism, Ecological Justice, Environment and Biosphere, Indigenous Rights, Labor, Politics and Culture, Race, Recovering Radical Histories
Today I talk with Tao Leigh Goffe about her new, magisterial Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis. Spanning many fields and disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, the humanities and the arts, Professor...
by efc8d-admin | Jan 27, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Climate Crisis, Decolonization and Anti-Racism, Ecological Justice, Environment and Biosphere, Indigenous Rights, Politics and Culture, Race, The Arts
Today on Speaking Out of Place I am delighted to be in conversation with Azucena Castro and Malcom Ferdinand. We start with a discussion of what Ferdinand calls the “double fracture”—the environmental division of humans from their connection to the biosphere, and the...
