Cultures of Energy

144 - Rosalind Fredericks

21 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Cymene and Dominic debate whether dogs can have bullshit jobs on this week's podcast. Then (13:46) we are most fortunate to welcome NYU's Rosalind Fre...

143 - Graeme Macdonald

14 Sep 2018

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Cymene and Dominic answer the timeless surrealist question, can raisins function as bait, on this week's podcast. We then (9:20) welcome to the podcas...

142 - Sleep Dealer

07 Sep 2018

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On this week's podcast, Cymene and Dominic recap their time at the marvelous Petrocultures 2018 event in Glasgow and tell tales of adventures with qui...

141 - Lacy M. Johnson

30 Aug 2018

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Dominic and Cymene report from Scotland where they have arrived for what looks to be an amazing Petrocultures 2018 event. Some talk of haggis and whis...

140 - Judit Hersko

23 Aug 2018

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Cymene and Dominic chat about the Wizard of Oz, unglacier tours, rocket toilets and motorized scooters to lead off this week's podcast. Then (12:37) w...

139 - Andri Snaer Magnason

16 Aug 2018

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Dominic and Cymene bask in 15 seconds of Icelandic limelight and discuss Madonna@60.  Then (14:28) to celebrate the premiere of our film, "Not Ok: A ...

138 - John Hartigan returns!

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Cymene and Dominic check in from Iceland on this week's edition of the podcast and talk about the virtues of the Icelandic horse. Then (12:36) we welc...

137 - Michael E. Mann & The Trouble

03 Aug 2018

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We start this week's double episode on climate science and climate policy with ruminations on Trumpian arguments against fuel efficiency, Europe break...

136 - Jennifer Gabrys

26 Jul 2018

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Your cohosts discuss what sensory technologies they might wish for their own home and the kind of multispecies encounters Cymene might have had in a T...

135 - Christina Cogdell

19 Jul 2018

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Cymene and Dominic talk surprising energy trends and how to make news more fun with games. Then (15:05) we talk with the marvelous Christina Cogdell f...

134 - Leo Coleman

12 Jul 2018

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Dominic and Cymene react to the new CENHS podcast studio and share a tale of robot sushi misadventure. Then (15:02) we welcome Leo Coleman (Hunter Col...

133 - María Puig de la Bellacasa

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dominic and Cymene indulge a little post-Pruitt glee on this week's podcast and speculate about the possibility of six foot tall low carbon lava lamps...

132 - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

29 Jun 2018

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Cymene and Dominic debate the Pet Rock as a capitalist or proto-new-materialist venture on this week's episode of the podcast. Then (16:59) we welcome...

131 - Waterworld

21 Jun 2018

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On this week's podcast, in honor of the summer solstice we bring to you another edition of Soylent Rainbow, our occasional special feature talking eco...

130 - Transhumanism (feat. Andrew Pilsch)

14 Jun 2018

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On this week's Cultures of Energy pod we discuss this week's disturbing revelations concerning the toxic work environment at the journal HAU (3:04)—...

129 - Juan Salazar

08 Jun 2018

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Live from Santa Cruz, CA, Cymene and Dominic cover the politics of homelessness, celebrity academic sightings, and the legacy of R.E.M. Then (13:01) a...

128 - Bethany Wiggin

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Cymene and Dominic talk about climate despair and climate violence on this week's edition of the Cultures of Energy podcast, and on a lighter note, a ...

127 - Ancient Civilizations & Climate Change (feat. Hervé Reculeau)

24 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dominic and Cymene wish Westworld was better on this week's episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast and then dry their tears with the news that the ...

126 - Jaume Franquesa

18 May 2018

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Cymene and Dominic talk air pollution and bumper stickers on this week's ozone action edition of the podcast. Then (9:19) we are happily joined by fel...

125 - Displacements Recap (w. Anand Pandian, Andrea Muehlebach & Marcel LaFlamme)

10 May 2018

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This week's podcast is devoted to discussing a prototype for making academic conferences less carbon intensive and more accessible to our colleagues o...

124 - Summerson Carr

04 May 2018

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Dominic and Cymene begin with a deep dive into the marvelous world of goat yoga and wonder what other animals should get into the game. Of course, we ...

123 - Elizabeth F.S. Roberts

27 Apr 2018

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Cymene and Dominic talk true crime and Pruitt crime on this week's podcast before (13:59) welcoming the fabulous Liz Roberts from the University of Mi...

122 - Making Alternate Worlds (feat. Ganzeer & Jeff VanderMeer)

20 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After Cymene and Dominic take a moment to call out for profit academic publishing and cheerleading, this week's podcast brings you (16:00) the keynote...

121- Heather Paxson

12 Apr 2018

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Dominic and Cymene plug Cultures of Energy 7—this year's energy humanities symposium at Rice which begins today, details at culturesofenergy.org—a...

120 - Brian Larkin

05 Apr 2018

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Dominic and Cymene discuss the Houston city government's recent decision to elevate new homes in the floodplains and they take a few moments to plan t...

119 - Petroculture Doubleheader (feat. Carola Hein, Rebecca Babcock & Jason Lagapa)

29 Mar 2018

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This week on the Cultures of Energy podcast we offer up a special double episode of petrocultural analysis. Cymene and Dominic set the stage with a ne...

118 - Candis Callison

22 Mar 2018

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Dominic and Cymene talk Tom Waits, velour jumpsuits and the long afterlife of Hurricane Harvey. And then (13:33) we are most fortunate to welcome to t...

117 - Orit Halpern

16 Mar 2018

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Cymene and Dominic share wild tales on this week's Spring Break edition of the Cultures of Energy podcast and make the case for #feralgarden4thward as...

116 - Dana Powell

08 Mar 2018

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Happy International Women's Day from the Cultures of Energy podcast! Cymene and Dominic struggle to remember an Indigo Girls song and reminisce about ...

115 - Joshua Reno

02 Mar 2018

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Dominic and Cymene make a cinematic announcement and offer dubious pronunciations. Then (13:05) we welcome to the podcast legendary anthropologist of ...

114 - The Shale Dilemma (feat. Shanti Gamper-Rabindran)

23 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The kids are all kinds of all right on this week's episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast. Then (12:55) we welcome our guest, environmental economi...

113 - Paul N. Edwards

15 Feb 2018

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Cymene and Dominic talk love and precarity and then (13:52) we are very fortunate to welcome Stanford historian of climate science extraordinaire, Pau...

112 - Graham Harman

09 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What do the Super Bowl, horse-based gymnastics, the fact that magic might be really real and bragging about Bruno Latour have in common? Why, they are...

111 - A Philosopher's Guide to Fracking (feat. Adam Briggle)

02 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Cultures (not Vultures) of Energy podcast, Cymene and Dominic declare Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom the cultural grandparent of all ...

110 - Lisa Sideris

26 Jan 2018

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Cymene and Dominic announce their latest educational venture, the Chicago Climate Change & Culture Institute (4CI) and ask y'all's help in getting the...

109 - Hannah Knox

19 Jan 2018

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Dominic and Cymene report on icy Rice and the raw and the cooked. And then (14:47) we speak to our dear friend Hannah Knox from University College Lon...

108 - Steve Mentz

12 Jan 2018

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Cymene and Dominic talk games and wombs of yore. And then (15:15) we turn to a conversation with the original blue humanist, Steve Mentz from St. John...

107 - Michael Watts

04 Jan 2018

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Cymene and Dominic report on the insane fireworks situation in Reykjavík. Then (16:02) Dominic chats with our esteemed energy humanist colleague Mich...

106 - Macarena Gómez-Barris

28 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cymene and Dominic kick off the last podcast of 2017 with an emotional year in review; there is talk of resolutions for 2018 and then Cym informs the ...

105 - Sheila Jasanoff

21 Dec 2017

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On this holiday edition of the Cultures of Energy podcast, Cymene and Dominic discuss redistributions of wealth and what they are looking for in a hol...

104 - Marianne Lien

14 Dec 2017

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Dominic and Cymene wonder if they could drink 12 diet cokes a day. That makes us thirsty for water and the life aquatic and so (11:44) we welcome the ...

103 - Astrida Neimanis

08 Dec 2017

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Coming to you this week from Kreuzberg, Cymene and Dominic imagine Truman Show Berlin. Then (9:04) we connect to Australia at long last with the help ...

102 - Kregg Hetherington

30 Nov 2017

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Cymene and Dominic report from the AAA meetings in Washington DC and talk love, monsters, vodkasts, sodcasts and godcasts. Then (10:49) we are joined ...

101 - Joe Masco

23 Nov 2017

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Cymene and Dominic explain "trunk cake" and then (9:27) we welcome to the podcast the fabulous Joe Masco, author most recently of Theater of Operation...

Ep. #100 - Robert Macfarlane

16 Nov 2017

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On this week's landmark 100th episode of the podcast, the artist-almost-known-as-Bebeny tells the true crime story behind her name. Then (14:07) we we...

Ep. #99 - Kath Weston

10 Nov 2017

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Cymene and Dominic review this week's blue wave and talk about becoming a more multispecies household. Then (10:57) we welcome to the podcast the bril...

Ep. #98 - Allan Stoekl

03 Nov 2017

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It's been a big week in Houston between Halloween and the World Series (Go Astros!) and your co-hosts process all that as well as recent developments ...

Ep. #97 - Nikhil Anand

26 Oct 2017

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Cymene and Dominic talk about Al Gore's visit to Rice and share thoughts on going solar both at home and in Puerto Rico. Then (12:25) we welcome Nikhi...

Ep. #96 - Matthew Burtner

19 Oct 2017

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Dominic and Cymene talk surprise interspecies encounters. Then (11:08) we talk to composer, musician and sonic activist Matthew Burtner (http://matthe...

Ep. #95 - Gretchen Bakke

12 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Ofcymene and Ofdominic share their thoughts on The Handmaid's Tale and then (17:20) we are delighted to welcome to the podcast, Gretchen Bakke, anthro...

Ep. #94 - The Yes Men

05 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Your co-hosts compare inaction on gun violence to inaction on climate change and rant a little about how we can hope for a better future world when we...

Ep. #93 - John Broome

28 Sep 2017

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Dominic and Cymene chat about community wind power, bioplastics, sucropolitics, and the inevitability of edible children's toys. Then (11:10) Cymene s...

Ep. #92 - Roy Scranton

22 Sep 2017

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Dominic and Cymene share fun facts about ice worms and water bears on this week's bonus episode of the podcast. Then (9:27) we continue our effort to ...

Ep. #91 - Environmental Injustice at the EPA

19 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cymene and Dominic wonder whether haunted houses can help in the fight against climate change. Then (11:55) we welcome Britt Paris (UCLA) and Sara Wyl...

Ep. #90 - Low Carbon Leisure & Pleasure (w. Daniel Aldana Cohen)

15 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Please enjoy our first live Cultures of Energy show in which Cymene, Dominic and Penn sociologist Daniel Aldana Cohen (of Hot & Bothered podcast fame,...

Ep. #89 - Naveeda Khan

07 Sep 2017

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Dominic and Cymene plug low carbon leisure and pleasure and consider the world of competitive dishwashing. Then (8:49) we welcome to the podcast the a...

Ep. #88 - Harvey's Aftermath (feat. Jim Blackburn)

31 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The sun is finally shining again over Houston but the process of coming to terms with Hurricane Harvey's catastrophic impact on the city and region ha...

Ep. #87 - Hurricane Harvey (feat. Timothy Morton)

27 Aug 2017

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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 landfa...

Ep. #86 - Kaushik Sunder Rajan

25 Aug 2017

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Hurricane Harvey is bearing down on the Texas coast, which prompts some moments of reflection from your co-hosts. Then (13:02) we welcome dear friend ...

Ep. #85 - Jason W. Moore

18 Aug 2017

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Cymene and Dominic talk capital and Vanilla Isis and then (11:21) we welcome to the podcast the one and only Jason W. Moore from Binghamton University...

Ep. #84 - Ashley Carse

10 Aug 2017

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It's all about the Panama Canal on this episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Dominic and Cymene sing Van Halen and share tales of self-sabotagin...

Ep. #83 - Jennifer Lieberman

04 Aug 2017

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Dominic and Cymene go into the vault to talk steam tunnels, heat wells, bland college town food and Enrico Fermi's ghost. Then (10:41) we are fortunat...

Ep. #82 - The Climate Media Net

27 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Cultures of Energy podcast we do a deep dive into a fascinating project, The Climate Media Net (https://theclimatemedia.net), which s...

Ep. #81 - Snowpiercer with Ragnar Hansson

20 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Summer's a good time to just relax and have a little fun, no? This week we're introducing a new occasional feature on the Cultures of Energy podcast, ...

Ep. #80 - Gökçe Günel

13 Jul 2017

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Dominic and Cymene eat crow about Larsen C, discuss d-bags and make an exciting announcement about next week's episode. Then (16:29) we welcome to the...

Ep. #79 - Antarctica! with Jessica O'Reilly

07 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

With Antarctica back in the news again, Dominic and Cymene share their feels about the imminent Larsen C calving and the possibly less probable rise o...

Ep. #78 - Sophia Roosth

29 Jun 2017

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Cymene and Dominic talk drone dreams, disappearing glaciers and boring sagas and then (13:07) the wonderful Sophia Roosth (Harvard, History of Science...

Ep. #77 - Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

22 Jun 2017

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Dominic and Cymene expose the truth behind a rabid raccoon attack and then (16:46) former CENHS star Matthew Schneider-Mayerson (now Yale-NUS) joins ...

Ep. #76 - Greta Gaard

15 Jun 2017

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Cymene and Dominic speak ecological truth to nostalgia and then (16:09) welcome to the pod Greta Gaard, Professor of English at the University of Wisc...

Ep. #75 - Claire Colebrook

08 Jun 2017

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Cymene and Dominic speculate about fonts and life after academe. Then the fantastic Claire Colebrook joins us on the pod. We begin by discussing her r...

Ep. #74 - Amelia Moore

01 Jun 2017

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Cymene and Dominic process today's news about the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement as well as yesterday's ExxonMobil shareholder insurrection...

Ep. #73 - Jennifer Wenzel

25 May 2017

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Dominic and Cymene talk about the carbon footprint of war, the best paper airplane design and map out an adventure to the center of climate change. Th...

Ep. #72 - Alexei Yurchak

17 May 2017

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To help us sort through a week dominated by spiraling Russo-American political intrigue, we welcome (13:01) to the podcast Berkeley anthropologist, Al...

Ep. #71 - Mike Hulme

11 May 2017

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Dominic and Cymene hide in the bushes to talk existential terror and low carbon pleasure. We then (10:23) chat with famed geographer Mike Hulme, autho...

Ep. #70 - Kairn Klieman

04 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cymene and Dominic discuss possible raccoon attacks that may have occurred near Marfa, the cuteness and moxie of javelinas, and the worst table servic...

Ep. #69 - Joe Dumit

26 Apr 2017

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Cymene and Dominic talk globalist cucks and S-Town and then (16:58) we sit down to a lovely cup of coffee with the multitalented Joe Dumit, author of ...

Ep. #68 - Matthew Taylor

21 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dominic and Cymene talk diet soda, dementia and the art of titling books and then (13:40) we welcome to the pod UNC English professor Matthew Taylor, ...

Ep. #67 - Cultures of Energy 6

19 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A special bonus podcast this week offers a mosaic of keywords and reflections from participants in CENHS's annual energy humanities extravaganza. Cyme...

Ep. #66 - Daniel Barber

13 Apr 2017

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Your co-hosts chat about the return of Veep and a new indie film under production by the rogue AI of the American Anthropological Association's panel ...

Ep. #65 - Saskia Sassen

06 Apr 2017

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Your co-hosts chat about hyperloops, hydrarails and that time Newt Gingrich flirted with Cymene. Then (16:54) renowned sociologist Saskia Sassen joins...

Ep. #64 - Hannah Appel

31 Mar 2017

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Dominic and Cymene discuss this week's rollback of the Clean Power Plan and Cymene's 1980s close encounter with Adam Ant. Then (14:55) we are delight...

Ep. #63 - TheGreatClimatePodSummit2017 (feat. Kate Aronoff and Daniel Aldana Cohen)

27 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's special bonus episode, ClimateKitten45 and CarbonYeti27 kick things off by scheming on how to get a million YouTube subscribers. Then w...

Ep. #62 - Stephen Gardiner

24 Mar 2017

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Cymene and Dominic honor the new river citizens of Aotearoa-New Zealand and India and try to give certain politicians credit where credit is due. Then...

Ep. #61 - Geoffrey Bowker

16 Mar 2017

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On this week's spring break edition of the Cultures of Energy podcast, Cymene and Dominic talk about the dangers of hiking and Trump's budget. Then [1...

Ep. #60 - David Hughes

09 Mar 2017

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Cymene and Dominic read their spam and ruminate on the evolving alien intelligence of the interweb. Then (14:40) our old friend David Hughes from Rutg...

Ep. #59 - Lisa Messeri

02 Mar 2017

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Dominic and Cymene marvel at the rise of transplanetary anthropology on this week's podcast, as well as outer space films (and sexed up goblins). Then...

Ep. #58 - Standing Rock Forever (feat. Jaskiran Dhillon)

24 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast, Cymene processes the news of the clearance of the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock with t...

Ep. #57 - Timothy Mitchell

16 Feb 2017

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Cymene and Dominic take a break from the political chaos and happily nostalgize the 1970s. Then (13:57) to help us better understand what kind of carb...

Ep. #56 - Jessica Barnes

10 Feb 2017

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Cymene and Dominic talk acupuncture, evil clone henchmen, environmentally questionable NYT recipes, and the interpretation of dreams. Then (15:30) we ...

Ep. #55 - Gabrielle Hecht

02 Feb 2017

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In a fittingly bizarre intro for these political times, Cymene and Dominic share weird fantasies and actual plans for resistance. We then (11:57) welc...

Ep. #54 - Saving Environmental Data (feat. Michelle Murphy & Nick Shapiro)

26 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dominic and Cymene briefly review The Disaster (week 1) and remind themselves that the best way to resist the schemes of evil rich men is to make full...

Ep. #53 - Jón Gnarr

19 Jan 2017

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Cymene and Dominic talk about, what else, the future tomorrow will bring. To sprinkle a little comedy on our tragedy, [12:37] Dominic has a chance to ...

Ep. #52 - Arlie Russell Hochshild

12 Jan 2017

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Cymene and Dominic talk secret information, anxious white masculinity, emotional labor and neoliberal America's bus to nowhere. Then (17:48) Berkeley ...

Ep. #51 - Nicholas Kawa

06 Jan 2017

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Dominic and Cymene talk about the past, plans for the future, and socks. Then (12:35) Ohio State environmental anthropologist Nick Kawa joins us on th...

Ep. #50 - Annise Parker

29 Dec 2016

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Cymene and Dominic ring out 2016 by sharing a few energy and environment stories you might have missed. Then (22:11) we welcome to the podcast Annise ...

Ep. #49 - Cindy Isenhour

22 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

On this week's episode of the podcast, Dominic and Cymene relate their fave holiday traditions and identify the one thing that any gift-giving culture...

Ep. #48 - Douglas Rogers

15 Dec 2016

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All this Russia hacking talk has Cymene and Dominic thinking about Boris, Natasha, Rocky & Bullwinkle. To set matters straight (12:02) Yale anthropolo...

Ep. #47 - Naomi Oreskes

08 Dec 2016

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Cymene and Dominic talk fake news and our alleged 'post-truth' condition and then (19:13) we are fortunate enough to welcome to the podcast distingui...

Ep. #46 - Paige West & J.C. Salyer

01 Dec 2016

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Dominic and Cymene talk Trumpism vs. Reaganism and whether we are somehow cycling back to the "culture wars" on race, gender and sexuality from the...

Ep. #45 - Standing Rock 2 (feat. Nick Estes & Kristen Simmons)

24 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

We're offering some food for thought on Standing Rock this Thanksgiving week. Our guests are the brilliant scholar-activists Nick Estes and Kristen Si...