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How are spaces once imagined to be empty, vast, and mysterious transformed into something with material and cultural value? Two authors tackle this same question, one from the perspective of the seafloor, and one from Canada’s oil sands: key spaces where the meaning of sustainability is actively negotiated. Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor by Lisa Yin Han looks at oceanic media and shows how deepwater mediation is entangled in existential hopes and fears for our planetary future. Petroturfing: Refining Canadian Oil through Social Media by Jordan B. Kinder looks at how an increasingly influential network of pro-oil groups in Canada work to reform the public view of oil extraction as something socially, economically, and ecologically beneficial. Here, Lisa and Jordan are joined in conversation with Thomas Pringle. Lisa Yin Yan is assistant professor of media studies at Pitzer College. Jordan B. Kinder is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Thomas Pringle is assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the University of Southern California. Pringle is co-author, with Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler, of Machine. REFERENCES: Nature’s Metropolis / William Cronon Ethical Oil / Ezra Levant Tar Wars / Geo Takach Sustaining Seas / eds. Elspeth Probyn, Kate Johnson, and Nancy Lee (referencing essay by Lesley Green) Oceaning / Adam Fish Animal Revolution / Ron Broglio Zoe Todd, “Fossil Fuels and Fossil Kin: An Environmental Kin Study of Weaponised Fossil Kin and Alberta’s So-Called ‘Energy Resources Heritage,’” Antipode (2023) After Oil Collective Isabelle Stengers Praise for Deepwater Alchemy: “An essential contribution to the watery depths of the blue humanities.” —Jennifer Gabrys “Deepwater Alchemy tells a story vital to our present.” —Stefan Helmreich Praise for Petroturfing: “A profound and necessary book.” —Janet Walker “Offers great insight into an underdeveloped aspect of the cultural study of energy.” —Stephanie LeMenager

For Chris Marker, writing came before filmmaking. A decade after Marker’s death, critics continue to rediscover his remarkable oeuvre, which comprised writing, photography, film, video, radio, and digital media. Associated with the Left Bank subset of the French New Wave, Marker is perhaps best recognized for directing La Jetée (1962). To celebrate the publication of the first English translation of Marker’s early writings (published between 1948 and 1955), Steven Ungar, the editor of Chris Marker: Early Film Writings, with translator Sally Shafto, have joined Jean-Michel Frodo and Sam Di Iorio in conversation. “The French Cinema has its dramatists and its poets, its technicians, and its autobiographers, but only has one true essayist: Chris Marker.” —film theorist Roy Armes Chris Marker (born Christian Hippolyte François Georges Bouche-Villeneuve, 1921–2012) was a French writer, artist, and director. His time-travel film La Jetée (1962) is one of the most celebrated shorts ever made. A true polymath, his later creations ranged from videos and the interactive CD-ROM Immemory to the multimedia digital platform Second Life. Steven Ungar is professor emeritus of cinematic arts, French, and comparative literature at the University of Iowa. He is author of several books including Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave. Sally Shafto is a French film scholar and translator and assistant professor of English at Framingham State University. She is author of The Zanzibar Films and the Dandies of May 1968, and her translations include Jean-Marie Staub and Danièle Huillet’s Writings. She teaches at Framingham State University. Jean-Michel Frodon is a journalist and one of the most influential film critics and film historians in the world. He is author or contributor of several books including The World of Jia Zhangke and Le Cinéma Français de la Nouvelle Vague a Nos Jours, and wrote the foreword to “Night and Fog”: A Film in History by Sylvie Lindeperg. Frodon blogs at Projection Publique. Sam Di Iorio is Associate Professor of French at Hunter College and Deputy Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in French at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has written about postwar films and filmmakers, political theory, and cultural history for Screen, Trafic, Film Comment and the Criterion Collection. His essay “Comolli’s Detours: Free Jazz, Film Theory, Cinéma Direct” is forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press. EPISODE REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDED READING: -André Bazin -Robert Cannon’s Gerald McBoing-Boing -Alain Resnais -Agnès Varda -Jean Rouch -René Leibowitz -Joseph Rovan (born Joseph Adolph Rosenthal) -Nicole Védrès -Eternal Current Events (translated by Jackson B. Smith) -Le Dépays / Chris Marker -Camera Obscura piece by Ivan Cerecina translating Nicole Védrès’s “Les feuilles bougent” (“The Leaves Are Stirring”) and an accompanying essay -Republic of Images / Alan Williams -Le Cinéma Français de la Nouvelle Vague a Nos Jours / Jean-Michel Frodon -The Fragile Present: Statues Also Die with Night and Fog by Sam Di Iorio; article in South Central Review. -Trafic N°105 (Printemps 2018), with article by Sam Di Iorio MORE CHRIS MARKER: chrismarker.ch Gorgomancy.net The Criterion Channel Chris Marker: Early Film Writings is available from University of Minnesota Press. "One of the pleasures of Chris Marker’s films is the singular literary voice of his inimitable commentaries, in all its wit and quicksilver intelligence. That voice is present here, being honed through contact with others’ images and before Marker moved from the page to the screen himself. This groundbreaking collection introduces aficionados old and new to work likely unknown to them and allows us all to discover another dimension of this prodigious artist: Marker the film critic." —Chris Darke, author of La Jetée (BFI Film Classics)

Has the idea of the end of the world captured your imagination? Ted Toadvine’s book The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology contends that a preoccupation with the world’s precarity relies on a flawed understanding of time that neglects the past and present with the goal of managing the future. Toadvine integrates insights from phenomenology, deconstruction, critical animal studies, and new materialism to argue for a new philosophy of time that takes seriously the entangled temporal events spanning cosmic, geological, evolutionary, and human durations. Here Toadvine is joined in conversation with David Morris and Benjamin Décarie-Daigneault. Ted Toadvine is Nancy Tuana Director of the Rock Ethics Institute and professor of philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. David Morris is professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. Benjamin Décarie-Daigneault is a graduate student of philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. REFERENCES: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (body of works including Phenomenology of Perception) Immanuel Kant Dipesh Chakrabarty Michel Serres / The Incandescent Martin Heidegger Jacques Derrida Jean-Luc Nancy Jerome Miller Henri Bergson Edmund Husserl James Playfair James Hutton (Hutton’s Unconformity) John Sallis / Stone Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson / The Blind Spot Jane Bennett Donald S. Maier / What’s So Good About Biodiversity? Ferdinand de Saussure Émile P. Torres / Human Extinction Rachel Carson / Silent Spring Kyle Powys Whyte Alfred North Whitehead / The Concept of Nature The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology is available from University of Minnesota Press. “The Memory of the World achieves two important things: it steers our understanding of Merleau-Ponty toward a temporal interpretation of his thought and, at the same time, it uses that reading to make a critical intervention amongst theories of environmental apocalypse. Ted Toadvine’s concept of ‘biodiacritics’ should lead to a reorientation of the ‘eschatological imagination,’ producing effects in knowledge that are as insightful as they are impactful. This is a wonderful book that is a pleasure to think alongside.” —John Ó Maoilearca

Antoine Volodine is the primary pseudonym of a French-Russian writer of many books. The meditative, postapocalyptic noir Mevlido’s Dreams, translated by Gina M. Stamm, is an urgent communiqué from a far-future reality of irreversible environmental damage and civilizational collapse that asks what it means to love and care for others at the end of the world. Here, Stamm is joined in conversation with Joshua Armstrong about translating this key work in Volodine’s post-exotic fictional universe. Gina M. Stamm is assistant professor of French at the University of Alabama. Joshua Armstrong is associate professor of French at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mevlido’s Dreams: A Post-Exotic Novel is available from University of Minnesota Press. “Translator Stamm does an admirable job of rendering Volodine’s serpentine prose in English, and the noirish, surrealist story turns into an unlikely romp as it riffs on the absurdity of 20th-century political institutions and pop culture.” —Publishers Weekly “Certainly the strangest and arguably one of the most accomplished contemporary writers of fiction in French, Antoine Volodine has created a vast and perplexing universe of bad dreams in several dozen works under a variety of pseudonyms over the past forty years. Mevlido’s Dreams provides a new pathway into Volodine’s labyrinth, which for all the horrors it recounts is always cast in stylishly crafted prose.” —David Bellos, Princeton University

Joanna Brooks’s ancestors were among the early waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. Her book Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America’s First Immigrants reveals the violence and dislocation that propelled seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration, and follows American folk ballads back across the Atlantic to find histories of economic displacement, environmental destruction, and social betrayal at the heart of the early Anglo-American migrant experience. A tenth-anniversary edition of the book has just been released, which includes a new preface and develops a haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew. Here, Brooks is joined by Desmond Hassing in conversation. Joanna Brooks is an award-winning scholar and writer whose work tends to catastrophes of human belonging in American history. The author or editor of ten books on race, religion, colonialism, and social movements, her writing has been featured in the BBC, NPR, the Daily Show, CNN, MSNBC, and the Washington Post. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a San Diego native, Dr. Desmond Hassing is a conceptual artist, scholar, and activist who focuses on educating Western subjects on the intentionally disremembered subject of the Indigenous Peoples of North America. Hassing is founder of the Indigenous Peoples Reading Room, a planned open-access scholarship archive, and creator of The National Indian Project, an annotated bibliography of Native American, First Nations, and Pacific Islander representations in DC/National comic books of the same period. Hassing is lecturer in the Department of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University. Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America’s First Immigrants is available from University of Minnesota Press. “A surprising, bold, and altogether brilliant contribution to our understanding of why people crossed the Atlantic to live in a strange new world.” —Marcus Rediker

Everything Is Police is a new book by Tia Trafford, who argues that institutional and interpersonal policing have been central to colonial modernity, the result of which is a situation where we cannot practically experience or even imagine worlds free from policing. Trafford is joined here in conversation with Melayna Lamb. Tia Trafford is reader in philosophy and design at University for the Creative Arts in London. They are author of Everything Is Police and The Empire at Home, and coeditor of Alien Vectors. Melayna Lamb is lecturer at the University of Law, UK, and author of A Philosophical History of Police Power. EPISODE REFERENCES: Frank B. Wilderson III Rinaldo Walcott The Empire at Home / Tia Trafford Jared Sexton Tapji Garba Sylvia Wynter Frantz Fanon Sara-Maria Sorentino Saidiya Hartman David Marriott Biko Mandela Gray Sylvia Wynter Sara-Maria Sorentino Mute Compulsion / Søren Mau Immanuel Kant William Wimsatt on generative entrenchment Red, White & Black / Frank B. Wilderson III The First Black Slave Society / Hilary Beckles Sean Capener Paul Gilroy Stuart Hall John Locke Slavery is a Metaphor / essay by Tapji Garba and Sara-Maria Sorentino, published in Antipode Taija McDougall Petero Kalulé Everything Is Police is available from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available to read free online at manifold.umn.edu.

EL Putnam’s new book Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter considers how livestreaming constitutes new patterns of being together that are complex, ambivalent, and transformative. Digging into how humans and technology co-evolve, Putnam and Noel Fitzpatrick engage in conversation about relation and hyper-individualism, glitch and switchtasking, activism and hidden labor and performance and more. EL Putnam is an artist-philosopher and assistant professor of digital media at Maynooth University, Ireland. Putnam is author of Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter in the University of Minnesota Press Forerunners series and The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption. Noel Fitzpatrick is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics and the Academic Lead of the European Culture and Technology Laboratory at the Technological University Dublin. Episode references: Gilbert Simondon Bernard Stiegler Yuk Hui Hegel Kant Jackson Pollock Heidegger Paul Ricoeur Ayana Evans Ana Voog N. Katherine Hayles Miriam Wolf Diamond Reynolds and the livestream of Philando Castile’s murder Safiya Umoja Noble Christina Sharpe Saidiya Hartman Tonia Sutherland Jacques Rancière Simone Browne Èdouard Glissant Susan Sontag Sara Ahmed H. P. Grice Related works: On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects / Simondon On the Existence of Digital Objects / Hui Art and Cosmotechnics / Hui Oneself as Another / Ricoeur Memory, History, Forgetting / Ricoeur Resurrecting the Black Body / Sutherland Dark Matters / Browne Regarding the Pain of Others / Sontag Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter is available from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available to read free online at manifold.umn.edu.

Educators who underestimate children’s knowledge about citizenship and immigration status can marginalize or misunderstand these students and their families. In Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School, author Ariana Mangual Figueroa models new ways scholars might collaborate with educators, children, and families—and makes audible the experiences of immigrant-origin students in their own terms, ultimately offering teachers and researchers a crucial framework for understanding citizenship in the contemporary classroom. Here, the author is joined in conversation with collaborators Dra. Aurora Chang, Claudia Rolando, and Lumari Sosa Garzón. Ariana Mangual Figueroa is author of Knowing Silence and associate professor of urban education and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino cultures at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is a co-principal investigator at the CUNY Initiative on Immigration and Education (CUNY IIE). Dra. Aurora Chang is associate professor of higher education at Loyola University and incoming Director of Faculty Development and Career Advancement at George Mason University. Chang is founder of Academic Life Simplified. Claudia Rolando is a graduate of Brooklyn College and an educator in New York. Lumari Sosa Garzón is a Mexican student in the Macaulay Honors program with a TheDream.US scholarship at Brooklyn College, majoring in psychology and minoring in anthropology. Lumari is a co-author of the Afterword appearing in Knowing Silence. Episode references: -Published research of Michael Fix and Wendy Zimmerman (“All under One Roof: Mixed-Status Families in an Era of Reform,” International Migration Review) -The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students (Dra. Aurora Chang) -The Undocumented Americans (Karla Cornejo Villavicencio) -The New York State Youth Leadership Council -Lives in Limbo (Roberto G. Gonzales) -concept of Community Cultural Wealth / Dr. Tara Yosso -Plyler v. Doe, Supreme Court decision, 1982 -The New School’s Parsons Scholars Program Recommended reference: -Areli is a Dreamer / Areli Morales Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School is available from University of Minnesota Press. "No words can express all that I think and feel about this beautiful, brilliant book. Narrated innovatively and with the utmost of care, with rich analyses of language data and thought-provoking insights drawn from a longitudinal and intimate ethnographic research relationship, Knowing Silence will surely make you think, wonder, laugh, cry—and see and hear young people who are growing up in contexts of immigration in new ways." —Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, UCLA "Using child-centered methodologies, Ariana Mangual Figueroa unveils the critical yet often invisible aspects of students' lives and highlights unintended chilling effects of school practices. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this is an important and compelling contribution to the field." —Carola Suárez-Orozco, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Estado Vegetal is Manuela Infante’s riveting experimental performance art through which plants are charged with an agency capable of uprooting culturally grounded conceptions of the world. The book Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking, edited by Giovanni Aloi, is the first book dedicated to this performance and features essays from scholars and artists, including a fictional continuation of Infante’s work by Mandy-Suzanne Wong. Here, Infante and Wong join Art after Nature series editors Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard in conversation. Manuela Infante is a Chilean playwright, director, screenwriter, and musician who creates her own performances and tours in America, Europe, and Asia. Her works include Estado Vegetal and Metamorphosis. Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a Bermudian writer of fiction and essays. She is an award-winning author whose books include The Box and Drafts of a Suicide Note. Giovanni Aloi teaches art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is author or editor of many books on the nonhuman and art. Caroline Picard is a writer, cartoonist, curator, and founder of the Green Lantern Press. A performance of Manuela Infante’s Estado Vegetal (Vegetative State), performed by Marcela Salinas, is available to watch on YouTube. Art after Nature is a series edited by Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard that explores epistemological questions that emerge from the expanding, environmental consciousness of the humanities. Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking is available from University of Minnesota Press and includes pieces by Maaike Bleeker, Lucy Cotter, Prudence Gibson, Michael Marder, Dawn Sanders, Catriona Sandilands, Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem, and Mandy-Suzanne Wong. Episode references: The Conquest of America / Tzvetan Todorov Capitalist Realism / Mark Fisher Horizon / Manuela Infante

Masculinity in Transition is a book that moves the study of masculinity away from an overriding preoccupation with cisnormativity, whiteness, and heteronormativity, and toward a wider and more generative range of embodiments, identifications, and ideologies. Author K. Allison Hammer’s bold rethinking of masculinity and its potentially toxic effects lays bare the underlying fragility of normative masculinity. Here, Hammer is joined in conversation with Kale Bantigue Fajardo. This episode was recorded in late fall of 2023. K. Allison Hammer (they/them) is assistant professor and coordinator of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Southern Illinois University. Hammer is author of Masculinity in Transition. Kale Bantigue Fajardo (he/him) is associate professor of American studies and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Fajardo is author of Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization. REFERENCES: The Politics of Friendship / Jacques Derrida The Feeling of Kinship / David Eng Men in Place / Miriam J. Abelson True Sex / Emily Skidmore Masculinities in Theory / Todd Reeser Gertrude Stein Female Masculinity / Jack Halberstam Sons of the Movement / Bobby Noble The Future of Whiteness / Linda Martín Alcoff Disturbing Attachments / Kadji Amin Emily Dickinson Willa Cather Stone Butch Blues / Leslie Feinberg Minnie Bruce Pratt Andrea Gibson Reinaldo Arenas Marlon Riggs Presidential masculinity (Reagan, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden) The Color Pynk / Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley Nao Bustamante Judith Butler The Crying Game (film, 1992) Disclosure (film, 2020) Buddhism Care Work / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Trans Care / Hil Malatino Normal Life / Dean Spade Mutual Aid / Dean Spade Workers in Industrial America / David Brody Masculinity in Transition and Filipino Crosscurrents are available from University of Minnesota Press. MORE: Listen to more talks with K. Allison Hammer on the University of Minnesota Press YouTube page (with Greta Olson and Christopher Breu), the Gender Stories podcast, and on In Conversation with Frank Schaeffer. "A major intervention into masculinities studies, Masculinity in Transition brilliantly and consistently pushes the field toward a critical understanding of masculinity as a complex gender formation." —Christopher Breu, author of Hard-Boiled Masculinities "How might we understand masculinity if we turn toward culture rather than biology? K. Allison Hammer uncover(s) remakings of masculinity that center care, porosity, and unruly alliances—uplifting models for the precarious now." —Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance

During the past decade, new oil plays have unsettled energy landscapes and imaginaries in the US. Settling the Boom, a volume of essays, studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains of Williston, North Dakota, are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms. Here, the book’s coeditors Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun are joined in conversation. Mary E. Thomas is associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at The Ohio State University. She is coeditor of Settling the Boom, coauthor of Urban Geography, and author of Multicultural Girlhood. Bruce Braun is professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. He is coeditor of Settling the Boom and Political Matter, and author of The Intemperate Rainforest. Episode references: Cruel Optimism / Lauren Berlant Pollution Is Colonialism / Max Liboiron White Earth (film) Jessica Christy, Through the Window exhibition Location of focus: Western North Dakota, including Willison (Williston Basin) and Dickinson, within the Bakken Formation. Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil, is available from University of Minnesota Press. This edited collection includes contributions from Morgan Adamson, Kai Bosworth, Thomas S. Davis, and Jessica Lehman.

John Arena examines the more than two-decade struggle to privatize public schools in Newark, New Jersey—a conflict that is raging in cities across the country. Arena’s book Expelling Public Schools reveals the political rise of Cory Booker and Ras Baraka and what this particular case study illuminates about contemporary post-civil rights Black politics. Here, Arena is joined in conversation with David Forrest. John (Jay) Arena is associate professor of sociology at CUNY’s College of Staten Island. Arena is author of Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark and Driven from New Orleans: How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization. David Forrest is associate professor of politics at Oberlin College. He is author of A Voice but No Power: Organizing for Social Justice in Minneapolis. Works and scholars referenced: Adolph Reed Jr. (Stirrings in the Jug) David M. Kotz (The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism) Cedric Johnson Frances Fox Piven (Challenging Authority) Jane McAlevey (No Shortcuts) Preston H. Smith II (Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis) Sharon Kurtz (Workplace Justice) Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock (Justice at Work) Kristen Buras (Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space) Touré Reed (Toward Freedom) Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Laurence Cox (We Make Our Own History) Colin Barker, Laurence Cox, John Krinsky, and Alf Gunvald Nilsen, editors (Marxism and Social Movements) Rosa Luxemburg (Rosa Luxemburg Speaks) Chris Maisano (“What Does Revolution Mean in the 21st Century?”, Jacobin) Mark R. Beissinger (The Revolutionary City) People and organizations referenced: Cory Booker Chris Christie Ras Baraka Newark’s downtown Teachers Village complex Sharpe James Cami Anderson Christopher Cerf Randi Weingarten Albert Shanker Karen Lewis Al Moussab Newark Education Workers This episode was recorded in September 2023. Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark is available from University of Minnesota Press. "Expelling Public Schools offers a fascinating look into the racial politics of corporate school reform in Newark Public Schools. John Arena takes a long view—just over two decades—and examines the reform movements and countermovements in the district from the top down and the bottom up. In assessing corporate school reform efforts under mayors Cory Booker and Ras Baraka, this deeply researched book illuminates the mechanisms that maintain educational inequality." —Rand Quinn, author of Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools "It is rare to encounter a work that treats actually existing Black life, an approach best articulated by Cedric Johnson, to critically address contemporary Black urban regimes. Thoughtful, careful, and incisive, Expelling Public Schools does just that. In this moment when antiracism (and surface critiques of antiracism) is rife, John Arena’s work provides a wonderful tonic." —Lester Spence, author of Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics

More than twenty years ago, a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s history. It traveled 1,300 miles and lasted 22 hours, flattening nearly 500,000 acres of the Superior National Forest. Hundreds of campers and paddlers were stranded and dozens injured; amazingly, no one died. The historic storm ultimately reshaped the region’s forests in ways we have yet to fully understand. Here, author Cary J. Griffith is joined in conversation with scientist Lee Frelich and Peter Leschak, who was involved in the response and rescue effort. Cary Griffith is author of several novels and four books of nonfiction, including Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters and Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary Waters. He is recipient of a Minnesota Book Award and a Midwest Book Award. Lee Frelich is director of the Center for Forest Ecology at the University of Minnesota. He is listed among the top 1% of scientists in the Web of Science, Ecology, and Environment and has authored more than 200 publications, and has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, and the Washington Post. Peter Leschak was chief of the French Township fire department in Side Lake, Minnesota, for thirty years. He has written ten books and has worked in a variety of wildfire-related capacities and held positions of leadership in the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Forest Service. Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters is available from University of Minnesota Press. "In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, Cary J. Griffith brings readers into the Boundary Waters moment by moment as an epic gale sweeps through. Ample maps and in-depth interviews with witnesses both immerse us in one terrifying day and offer a glimpse of the past and future of Minnesota’s boreal forest." —Kim Todd, author of Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” "In Gunflint Falling, Cary J. Griffith provides an accurate, comprehensive narrative of those impacted by one of the region’s most devastating storms. The damage and pain brought by the derecho storm was more severe than anything previously experienced in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The reader is taken into the personal experiences of the injured and those searching for them for fourteen days in the million-acre wilderness, and Griffith’s narrative of these experiences demonstrates how, when faced with an emergency, we come together to help one another." —Jim Sanders, retired forest supervisor, Superior National Forest (1996-2011), USDA Forest Service

What is fossil civilization? In the book No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story of how we came to rationalize fossil fuel use through successive phases of sucropolitics (plantation sugar), carbopolitics (industrial coal), and petropolitics (oil and plastics), showing what tethers us to petroculture today and what it will take to overcome the forces that mire us in place. What can we do to make electroculture a more just and sustainable alternative? In this episode, Boyer is joined in conversation about modern energy politics with Cara Daggett. Dominic Boyer is an anthropologist, media maker, and environmental researcher who teaches at Rice University. His books include No More Fossils, Energopolitics, and Hyposubjects. Cara Daggett is associate professor of political science at Virginia Tech and author of The Birth of Energy. References: The Birth of Energy / Cara Daggett Anna Tsing Carbon Democracy / Timothy Mitchell Michel Foucault on biopower Sweetness and Power / Sidney Mintz Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History / Susan Buck-Morss Fossil Capital / Andreas Malm 15-Minute City John Locke Alexander Dunlap on Fossil Fuel+ Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More / Alexei Yurchak Staying with the Trouble / Donna Haraway Ariella Azoulay Kyle Powys Whyte Geontologies / Elizabeth Povinelli Low Carbon Pleasure / a collaborative experimental art and performance project by Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, and others Stacy Alaimo / ecophilia No More Fossils is available from University of Minnesota Press. An open-access edition is available to read free online at manifold.umn.edu.

In Visible Archives is a book that explores a number of feminist and cultural touchstones of the 1980s and examines how visual culture interacts with these pivotal moments. Author Margaret Galvan goes deep into the archives to bring together a decade’s worth of research that includes comics, collages, photographs, drawings, and other media produced by women including Nan Goldin, Alison Bechdel, Lee Marrs, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Galvan demonstrates how women represented their bodies and sexualities on their own terms and created visibility for new, diverse identities. Galvan is joined here in conversation with Anna Peppard and Ramzi Fawaz. Margaret Galvan is assistant professor of English at the University of Florida and author of In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s. Anna Peppard is a writer, researcher, podcaster, and educator. Peppard is an adjunct lecturer in the department of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University and editor of Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero. Ramzi Fawaz is an award-winning queer cultural critic, public speaker, and educator. Fawaz is a Romnes Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and author of Queer Forms and The New Mutants. Episode references: Trina Robbins Hillary Chute / Graphic Women Gloria Anzaldúa / Borderlands and This Bridge Called My Back Alison Bechdel Nan Goldin Diary (1982) from the Barnard Sex Conference (Hannah Alderfer, Beth Jaker, Marybeth Nelson) Kristen Hogan / The Feminist Bookstore Movement Lee Marrs / The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing (exhibit) Roberta Gregory Maria Cotera / Chicana por mi Raza (digital project) Chicana Movidas / edited by Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, and Maylei Blackwell In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s is available from University of Minnesota Press. This book has an open-access Manifold edition that is free to read online. "Margaret Galvan asks all the right questions about queer and feminist visual storytelling from the 1980s: Where were these works situated? How did communities use them? How have they been archived? Both commentary upon as well as an integral part of the activist project begun by the creators themselves, In Visible Archives helps keep these remarkable works visible for us all." —Justin Hall, California College of the Arts, editor of No Straight Lines "This wonderful book demonstrates the critical importance of community-based archives. Utilizing primary source materials, Margaret Galvan has produced an original and consequential contribution to the history of the feminist sex wars, and her attention to the visual aspects of those documents provides long overdue recognition to the period’s artists, designers, and activists." —Gayle Rubin, University of Michigan

Benjamin Meiches explores the role of animals laboring alongside humans (mine-clearance dogs, milk-producing cows and goats, disease-identifying rats) in humanitarian operations, generating new ethical possibilities of care in humanitarian practice—and opening up new ethical ways to think about being human in terms of how we interact with nonhuman animals. Meiches, author of Nonhuman Humanitarians, is joined here in conversation with Stefanie Fishel. Benjamin Meiches is associate professor of politics at the Univeristy of Washington-Tacoma. He is author of Nonhuman Humanitarians: Animal Interventions in Global Politics and The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide. Stefanie Fishel is lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Fishel is author of The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic and contributor to the edited volume The Long 2020. EPISODE REFERENCES: -Emmanuel Levinas, “The Name of a Dog, or Natural Rights,” in Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism (trans. Sean Hand) -Heifer International (organization) -J. M. Coetzee / The Lives of Animals -Brian Massumi / What Animals Teach Us about Politics -Liisa Malkki / The Need to Help -Timothy Morton / Dark Ecology -Timothy Morton / Ecology without Nature -David Shannon / Duck on a Bike -Jack Halberstam / Wild Things -Eugene Thacker / In the Dust of This Planet

What inspires desire for plants? In The Cactus Hunters, Jared Margulies takes readers through the intriguing world of succulent collecting, where collectors and conservationists alike are animated by passions that sometimes exceed the limits of the law. His globe-spanning journey offers complex insight into the fields of botany and criminology, political ecology and human geography, and psychoanalysis. Here, Margulies is joined in conversation with Samantha Walton. Jared Margulies is assistant professor of political ecology in the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama. Margulies is author of The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade. Samantha Walton is professor of modern literature at Bath Spa University in England. Walton is author of Everybody Needs Beauty: In Search of the Nature Cure and The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought. EPISODE REFERENCES: Nan Shepherd The Detectorists (British comedy series) Sheffield Branch of the British Cactus and Succulent Society Cactus and Succulent Society of America Jacques Lacan Sigmund Freud Hannah Dickinson Paul Kingsbury Anna Secor Lucas Pohl Robert Fletcher / Failing Forward Alberto Vojtech Frič Locations discussed: England Brazil Czech Republic Mexico The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade is available from University of Minnesota Press. "This book offers a powerful example of the value of close attention to the entangled lives of plants and their people." —Thom van Dooren, author of A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions "A deeply felt and nuanced reckoning with desire as a structurally produced and world-making force—a unique and major contribution to political ecology." —Rosemary Collard, author of Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade

“There is always some moment when other-than-human life bursts into presence amid the clamor of urban routine.” —Maan Barua, Lively Cities One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. The book Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities, drawing attention to a suite of beings, human and nonhuman, that make up the material politics of city making. From macaques and cattle in Delhi to invasive parakeet colonies in London, author Maan Barua examines the rhythms, paths, and agency of nonhumans across the city. Barua is joined here in conversation with Sandra Jasper. Maan Barua is a university lecturer in human geography at the University of Cambridge. Sandra Jasper, a geographer and urbanist, is assistant professor of geography and gender at Humboldt University of Berlin. References: Matthew Gandy Tom Fry Garry Marvin Vinciane Despret Anindya Sinha ARCH+ exhibit Cohabitation: A Manifesto for the Solidarity of Non-Humans and Humans in Urban Space (https://archplus.net/de/cohabitation-EN/) Yi-Fu Tuan Deleuze Charles Elton Marx Laura Fortunato Sylvia Federici Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology is available from University of Minnesota Press.

Terrorism on Trial examines the contemporary role U.S. domestic courts play in the global war on terror. Author Nicole Nguyen advocates for a rethinking of popular understandings of political violence and its root causes, and exposes how dominant academic discourses, geographical imaginations, and social processes have shaped terrorism prosecutions—and disempower communities of color. Author Nicole Nguyen is joined here in conversation with Nadine Naber. This conversation was recorded in August 2023. Nicole Nguyen is associate professor of criminology, law, and justice at the University of Illinois Chicago, and is author of Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures; Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror; and A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools. Nadine Naber is professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies programs at the University of Illinois Chicago. Naber is founder of Liberate Your Research Workshops. Terrorism on Trial is available from University of Minnesota Press.

In Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood, Charlotte Wrigley considers how permafrost—and its disappearance—redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity that affects both life and nonlife on earth. With a look at the coldest regions in the world, Wrigley examines the wild new economies and mitigation strategies responding to thawing permafrost, including such projects as Pleistocene Park, Colossal, and Sooam Biotech, and offers a new angle on extinction through the concept of discontinuity. Here, Wrigley is joined in conversation with Pey-Yi Chu. Charlotte Wrigley is a postdoctoral researcher at The Greenhouse – Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She is author of Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic. Pey-Yi Chu is associate professor of history at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She is author of The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science. PUBLICATION REFERENCES: The Life of Permafrost / Pey-Yi Chu Once Upon the Permafrost / Susan Crate The Breath of the Permafrost / Nikolai Sleptsov-Sylyk Cryopolitics / Joanna Radin and Emma Kowal, editors PLACES REFERENCED: -Yakutsk, the capital of the Russian region of the Sakha Republic -Chersky, Arctic port in the Sakha District on the Kolyma River -Permafrost bank on the Kolyma called Duvanny Yar -Pleistocene Park in Chersky PEOPLE MENTIONED: -Sergey and Nikita Zimov, geophysicist and son behind Pleistocene Park project -George Church of Harvard University, behind the business Colossal -Hwang Woo-Suk (Sooam Biotech), biotechnology expert and veterinarian who claimed to clone human embryonic cells and does work in Yakutsk with mammoths. -Stewart Brand, environmentalist and founder of the Long Now Foundation, known for quote: “We are as gods, so we have to get good at it.” More about the book: z.umn.edu/EarthIceBoneBlood