Ep 2 - "Petrocultures and the Energy Humanities" with Imre Szeman

noreply@blogger.com (GMU Cultural Studies Podcast) — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 15:53:00 -0700

In the second episode of the "Capitalism, Climate, and Culture" podcast series from GMU Cultural Studies, Amy Zhang interviews Imre Szeman, University Research Chair and Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo. They discuss the petrocultures project, which is an interdisciplinary attempt to untangle our reliance on fossil fuels by unmasking the ways petroleum products shape all aspects of our cultural landscape.

Find out more about Szeman's petrocultures project here: http://www.imreszeman.ca/research/petrocultures

Learn more about the podcast here: https://culturalstudies.gmu.edu/podcast

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Ep 1 - "Climate Science Denial and Information Inoculation" with John Cook

noreply@blogger.com (GMU Cultural Studies Podcast) — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:45:00 -0700

In the first episode of the "Capitalism, Climate, and Culture" podcast series from GMU Cultural Studies, Richard Todd Stafford talks with John Cook, research assistant professor at the Center for Climate Change Communication, about climate change denial and what can be done to inoculate the public against misinformation in "post-truth" society.

This podcast is produced by the Cultural Studies Department at George Mason University. The theme of our 2018-19 Colloquium is "Capitalism, Climate, and Culture." The industrial revolution liberated human beings from the cycles of nature — or so it once seemed. It turns out that greenhouse gases, a natural byproduct of coal- and petroleum-burning industries, lead to global warming, and that we are now locked into a long warming trend: a trend that will raise sea levels, enhance the occurrence of extreme weather events, and ultimately could threaten food supplies and other vital supports for modern civilization.

This podcast series examines the cultural and political-economic dimensions of our ongoing, slow-moving climate crisis. We engage experts from a variety of fields and disciplines to ask questions about capitalism and the environment. How did we get into this mess? How bad is it? Where do we go from here? What sorts of steps might mitigate the damage — or perhaps someday reverse it?

At stake are deep questions about humanity’s place in and relationship to nature — and what our systems of governance, production, and distribution might look like in the future.

— Roger Lancaster, Colloquium Organizer

www.culturalstudies.gmu.edu

Find out more about John Cook here: https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/portfolio-view/john-cook/

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