Podcasts 🎧

Tech Won't Save Us 🐌
https://www.patreon.com/techwontsaveus
How Degrowth Will Reshape Technology w/ Jason Hickel
June 27
Paris Marx is joined by Jason Hickel to discuss how technology would change in a degrowth society

Past Present Future 📕📗
https://shows.acast.com/pastpresentfuture

Past Present Future
History of Ideas: Thoreau
Season 1, Ep. 12
Thursday, July 13, 2023
For the third episode in this series about the great political essays, David explores Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’ (1849), a ringing call to resistance against democratic idiocy. Thoreau wanted to resist slavery and unjust wars.

Past Present Future
The Great Political Fictions: The Time Machine
Season 2, Ep. 73
Thursday, June 6, 2024
H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895) isn’t just a book about time travel. It’s also full of late-19th century fear and paranoia about what evolution and progress might do to human beings in the long run.

Past Present Future
History of Ideas: George Orwell
Season 1, Ep. 15
Thursday, August 3, 2023
This week David discusses George Orwell’s ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ (1941), his great wartime essay about what it does – and doesn’t – mean to be English.

Past Present Future
The Great Political Fictions: Gulliver’s Travels
Season 2, Ep. 40
Thursday, February 8, 2024
This week’s episode on the great political fictions is about Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) – part adventure story, part satire of early-eighteenth-century party politics, but above all a coruscating reflection on the failures of human perspective and self-knowledge.


Wheel of Genre 📕📗
Adventure, Romances, Mysteries, SF, Horror, and Westerns — exploring different types of genre fiction.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wheelofgenre/episodes/Ep--126-Childhoods-End-by-Arthur-C--Clarke-SF-22-e2lq64e

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wheelofgenre/episodes/Ep-31-Erewhon-by-Samuel-Butler-Utopian-4-e14cg79
Ep 31: Erewhon by Samuel Butler (Utopian #4)
Feb 26, 2021

Ep 39: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Post-Apocalyptic #4)
Mutants, strange forms of Christianity, and psychic New Zealanders.
Apr 23, 2021

Ep 35: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Dystopian #4)
Mar 26, 2021

Ep. 34: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin (Dystopian #3)
Mar 19, 2021

Ep. 28: Utopia by Sir Thomas More (Utopian #1)
Feb 05, 2021

The Fire These Times: Voices from the Periphery 🌳
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefirethesetimes/episodes/65Shifting-Towards-Climate-Just-Mobility-with-Anne-Kretzschmar-ersn35


94/ The Political Economy of Solarpunk w/ Andrew Dana Hudson ☀️
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefirethesetimes/episodes/94-The-Political-Economy-of-Solarpunk-w-Andrew-Dana-Hudson-e1cer61
This is a conversation with speculative fiction writer and  sustainability researcher Andrew Dana Hudson
Introduction to his essay “On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk“
The urgency of Solarpunk and the response to Cyberpunk
Post-normal fiction
Solarpunk and global network society: why did it start in the 2010s
Solarpunk and the future of cities
Solarpunk and utopias
Books mentioned + Recommended:
Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures edited by Priya  Sarukkai Chabria and Taiyo Fujii and Shweta Taneja (which includes a  story by Andrew)
Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures by Andrew (Pre-order now)
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Jan 07, 2022


74/ The Political Economy of Car Dependence: Understanding Systems of Provision (with Giulio Mattioli & Julia Steinberger) 🚙
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefirethesetimes/episodes/74-The-Political-Economy-of-Car-Dependence-Understanding-Systems-of-Provision-with-Giulio-Mattioli--Julia-Steinberger-ev3nf4

This is a conversation with Giulio Mattioli and Julia Steinberger about their article ‘the political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach‘ published in the ‘Energy Research & Social Science‘ journal.
Topics Discussed:
The five key elements of what we’re calling the ‘car-dependent  transport system’: i) the automotive industry; ii) the provision of car  infrastructure; iii) the political economy of urban sprawl; iv) the  provision of public transport; v) cultures of car consumption
The problem with focusing too much on consumption and the importance of covering the production side
How where we live can influence our politics, and how suburban car-oriented lifestyles are actually subsidized by the state
The importance of network planning
Looking for decoupling and finding degrowth instead
The problem with ‘sustainable’ growth
How the car industry shows the necessity of degrowth
Why more equitable societies are easier to decarbonize
The problem with the argument that personal choices do not matter
Dealing with climate anxiety through activism, work, research, learning
How come we knew so much and did so little?
Working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
What is ecologial economics?
Recommended Books
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature by  Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World by Jason Hickel
Degrowth / Postwachstum zur Einführung by Matthias Schmelzer and Andrea Vetter
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
May 09, 2021

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefirethesetimes/episodes/81-Solarpunk-and-Storytelling-the-Present-and-Future-With-Phoebe-Wagner-e13fti3

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefirethesetimes/episodes/91-Satisfying-Human-Needs-at-Low-Energy-Use-With-Jefim-Vogel--Julia-Steinberger-e185f2r



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