Episodes
Friday Apr 03, 2020
The Great Witch Hunt, part 1 :: Caliban and the Witch, Chapter 4
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Arguably the most important chapter of the book. "The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe"
Mentioned:
Malleus Maleficarum or The Hammer of the Witches
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Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Taming the Rebel Body :: Caliban and the Witch, Chapter 3
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Capitalism needed to invent a new kind of person, a new subject to fit into its scheme. Science and rationalist philosophy was happy to provide.
Mentioned on the podcast:
Harriet Washington Medical Apartheid
Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene
Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel
Excellent critique of Diamond's book from the Savage Minds blog
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Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
We return to finish chapter 2.
Mentioned on the show:
The podcast series "Seeing White" from Scene on Radio
Dr. Kim Tallbear on For the Wild podcast
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Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Capitalism in a Nutshell, Part 1 :: Caliban & The Witch, Chapter 2
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
We begin discussing the pivotal second chapter. There was too much to fit into one episode, so this conversation will be continued.
Mentioned:
Q, the novel, by Luther Blissett
The World Turned Upside Down, by Christopher Hill
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Thursday Jan 30, 2020
The World Needs a Jolt :: Caliban & The Witch, Chapter 1
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
Life during feudalism, popular revolt, heretical resistance: "All the World Needs Jolt: Social Movements and Political Crisis in Medieval Europe".
Further reading:
Tragedy of the Commons on Wikipedia
"First as Tragedy, then as Fascism", article from The Baffler about the legacy of Garrett Hardin, who popularized the "tragedy" in a 1968 essay.
The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem (PDF)
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Friday Jan 17, 2020
Caliban and the Witch :: Introduction
Friday Jan 17, 2020
Friday Jan 17, 2020
Caliban and the Witch is much more than a book of history. Today we introduce our new book, get oriented to the subject matter, define some terms, and cover highlights from the preface and the introduction.
Order the book from AK Press here.
It can also be found free online as a scanned PDF here
And possibly as an EPUB ebook here.
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Also mentioned:
Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by Arthur Evans
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Friday Dec 06, 2019
Following threads in the Anthropocene
Friday Dec 06, 2019
Friday Dec 06, 2019
To begin Season 2 we are following threads from last season's discussions of Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene before starting our next full book. Next time we will also have new music, so enjoy Reanimator one last time.
We discuss articles by two authors, all of which can be found online.
First up is a piece by Australian artist Tega Brain, called "The Environment is Not a System"
Then we move on to three articles by Stephanie Wakefield on living in the Anthropocene's "Back Loop" find them at these links:
https://www.affidavit.art/articles/dreaming-the-back-loop
https://www.academia.edu/37771372/Inhabiting_the_Anthropocene_back_loop
Diagram of the adaptive cycle:
Also mentioned on the podcast:
Dave's article: Sun Medicine / Moon Medicine
Next time we will begin discussing Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation, a historical work about the previous worldwide transition that the planet experienced at the birth of capitalism in the era of European colonization.
It can also be found free online as a scanned PDF here
And possibly as an EPUB ebook here?
See you next time!
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Sunday Jun 02, 2019
SEASON FINALE::Haraway-Staying with the Trouble
Sunday Jun 02, 2019
Sunday Jun 02, 2019
In the final episode of our first season we revisit highlights from the book, and ask ourselves how we would integrate the lessons and insights into our ongoing work. How could the ideas in book be extended? What does Haraway leave out that we can provide?
This is a thoughtful episode, processing and integrating many big ideas that we've been waiting until now to fully unpack.
Thanks to all who have stayed with us for the whole ride. We intend to continue this book club experiment with short readings throughout the summer, and begin a full new book in earnest in the fall. Stay tuned.
As a bonus, we managed to locate the full documentary "Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival" online. Follow the link to take it in.
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Sunday May 12, 2019
Camille Stories::Haraway-Staying with the Trouble-Chpt 8
Sunday May 12, 2019
Sunday May 12, 2019
With some delay, this is our discussion of the last chapter of Staying with the Trouble, a speculative fiction called "The Camille Stories: Children of Compost". Stay tuned for our for our final thoughts about Haraway's book before we move on to new material.
Mentioned in this episode:
The trailer for Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival
Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy
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Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Apologies! this episode was accidentally deleted and is now being re-posted.
Mentioned in this episode:
Ursula Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction essay (PDF)
Everything Matters: Why This is No Time for Cynicism by Janet
The Evolution of Beauty (book) by Richard O. Prum
A recent Radiolab episode about The Evolution of Beauty
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