A podcast exploring how culture shapes our relationship to the natural world
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The Episodes
Dinosaurs with Lydia Millet
The title of Lydia Millet’s last novel – Dinosaurs – seems to wink at the threat of human extinction, and, yet, its explicit referent in the book is to...
David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous with Trevien Stanger, Part 2
A continuation of my earlier episode in which Trevien Stanger – instructor of environmental studies at St. Michael’s College in Vermont – and I discuss Abram’s book, which, I...
Study of a Liminal Corridor with Michael Inglis
There’s a funny little corridor tucked away behind a park in the Village of Pleasantville, New York where I live, where bears and bobcats amble through, walking atop the...
William Taylor on the Domestication of Horses
When we think of major innovations in human history, what comes to mind are inert technologies – from the wheel to the computer – but one of the most...
David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous with Trevien Stanger, Part 1
I’ve mentioned this book numerous times on the pod. It’s fair to say that David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass are the...