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UnLivable Cultures
by Unlivable Cultures
Because the world is actively made unlivable for too many. Join Julia, Clayton, and Cody as they experiment with social theory, politics of liberation and solidarity, and real world issues to question: How can we make livable cultures?Follow our Twitter (@unlivablepod) for sneak peaks of new episode topics before they release. More information at unlivablecultures.wordpress.com.
Episodes
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Theorizing the Nuance of Queer and Trans Life: A Conversation on Gender Without Identity with Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini
How can psychoanalysis support the flourishing of queer and trans life in light of the discipline’s contested history and present? Why is it preferable to understand gender as a process of becoming instead of something that is a preprogrammed part of the self? In this interview from July 2024,...
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Jeroen Oomen and David Keith debate the Solar Geoengineering Non-use Agreement
This episode got a little spicy, and is a must listen for anyone who cares about climate change, geoengineering, or collaboration between natural and social scientists. If you are confused, check out Cody's piece on geoengineering governance:...
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Youth advocates on exploratory research into Solar Geoengineering
In this episode, Cody talks with Anton Keskinen (Head of Strategy at Operaatio Arktis, and part time Rebel with Extinction Rebellion in Helsinki) and Clara Botto (Director of Youth Engagement Director of Youth Outreach for The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering, UNFCC Fellow,...
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A Lunar Anthropocene and Celestial Ejaculations: That’s Capitalism, Baby!
Human remains scattered on the moon, pollution in the night sky, colonizing outer space—that’s capitalism, baby! In this episode, Clayton, Julia, and Cody discuss the idea of a “lunar anthropocene” and how settler colonialism shapes space exploration. Sources The case for a lunar anthropocene by...
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Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate: Carbon Offsets and Taylor Swift (with special guest Injy Johnstone)
Curious about Taylor Swift's Carbon offsets? Well wonder no more. Oxford researcher talks to Cody and Clayton about carbon offsets, Taylor Swift, and what a functioning carbon market could do amidst their mostly catastrophic outcomes.
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De/Institutionalize: Learning from Unwellness and Crip Spacetimes (with Special Guests Margaret Price and Mimi Khúc)
In this conversation, Clayton is joined by Dr. Mimi Khúc and Dr. Margaret Price to discuss their new books dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss and Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life, both from Duke University Press. The three have a wide-ranging...
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De/Institutionalize: Multidimensional Care and Access in Academia (with the Access in the Making Lab)
Interview Transcript Link In this episode, Clayton is joined by members of the Access in the Making (AIM) Lab at Concordia University, Prakash Krishnan, Emery Vanderburgh, and Nicholas Goberdhan to discuss the work of the AIM Lab. The AIM Lab is an anti-colonial, anti-ableist, feminist research…
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The Pab-Low Theory in 'It's Pab-lomatic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby'
The It's Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby exhibit for the Brooklyn Museum of Art drew crowds and critiques. The multitude of harsh reviews suggest Gadsby should have stayed in their lane of comedy and stand up. But what does such criticism reveal about the art world itself? Sources...
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The Stories Suicide Tells: Relationships with Land, Water, and Justice (with Special Guest Jeffrey Ansloos)
How is suicide an issue of justice? How should our care for people experiencing suicidality connect with the Land and Water in which people live? What does it mean to care for the life of Land and Water as well as the lives of people? Special guest Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos joins us for a conversation...
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Valuations of Life: Eugenics, Disability, and Capitalism
It’s obvious that some lives are valued over others, and some commodities are valued more than life. How have these determinations been made? In this episode, we talk about how medical care prioritizes some patients over others—even to the extent of taking some people’s personal ventilators to…
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Will It Get Better? Dialogues on Queer and Trans Issues Since 2022
This is a big election year in the US, and legislative sessions across the country are beginning. It’s important to understand how we got here and recognize the patterns of anti-LGBTQ legislators and decision-makers to be strategic in our fight for livable worlds. Since 2022, we have recorded...
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Season 2!
It’s time for Season 2! We’ve been hard at work preparing our lineup of episodes for Season 2, and it’s finally time to go live! Thanks for joining us on this little journey. We hope you enjoy! Two quick notes: We won’t be following our previous schedule of releasing episodes every other…
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De/Institutionalize: The Value of Practicing Anthropology (with Special Guest Elizabeth K. Briody, August 2023)
With the growing conversations on student debt, the value of higher education, and the need for livable wages, Dr. Elizabeth K. Briody joins Un/Livable Cultures to talk about the need for Anthropology and other social sciences to train students for the world outside of academia. Anthropology…
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Black Mirror Reflections: Colonizing Futures, True Crime, and Metamodernism
Season 6 of Netflix’s Black Mirror is out, and we reflect on the first three episodes of the new season— from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes to the true crime “obsession” to companies “winking” at social justice. But imagining futures is not a neutral enterprise. Does Black Mirror contribute to…
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The Terms and Conditions of Suicide Prevention
*Content Warning: This episode mentions sensitive topics like suicide, psychological distress, hospitalization, and police violence. If you like Un/Livable Cultures, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon, or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter @UnlivablePod…
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De/Institutionalize: The Fear of Black Studies and Complex Thinking (with Special Guest Nishani Frazier)
Unlike any other AP course, AP African American Studies is the most complex course the College Board has produced. And it has also faced an unsurprising barrage of attacks unlike any other AP course. Why is there such a fear of Black Studies? Why do Texas textbooks now refer to enslaved folks as...
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Anglophilia and the Colonial Gaze
If Arthur’s Stone is an important British historical site yet we know very little of its history, why is it only now being excavated for the first time? Could it be that archaeologists knew the damage of excavating spiritually, politically, and/or historically significant sites in other cultures,...
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Stewardship vs. Acquisition: Imperialism and De/Colonization in Museums
“Museums are a gateway drug” - Cody Museums are typically a place of history, but museums have their own histories, which are also tied to cultural histories of imperialism, colonialism, capitalist exploitation, and white supremacy. How should museums care for our past, present, and futures? We...
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De/Institutionalize: Citing White Men and Other Academic Inheritances (with Special Guest Jessica Falcone)
Citation is reciprocity. Citation is legitimacy. And citations are the bricks that form the walls of academia. In conversation with special guest Dr. Jessica Falcone and drawing from the incisive critiques of Sara Ahmed, we discuss how writing culture in academia (specifically in the social...
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What’s Queer? What’s Monstrous? Kate Bush, Jack Halberstam, and Stranger Things
We’re talking about Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill,” Netflix’s Stranger Things, and queer theorist Jack Halberstam’s concept of “the wild” and monstrosity. What more is there to say? Sources Testo Junkie Paul Preciado Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory Deborah M. Withers Wild Things: The...
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State of the Unionizing: Labor Movements and Corporate Counter-Movements
The recent waves of unionizing in the US ranging from Amazon to Starbucks have garnered national attention. Not to mention the eye roll that is Elon Musk and his notorious Twitter takeover. Clayton, Julia, and Cody talk about the history of labor movements in the US, the union-busting tactics of...
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De/Institutionalize: The Cost of Knowledge in Capitalist Academia (with Special Guest Laurie M. Johnson)
De/Instutionalize is a new series from Un/Livable Cultures that focuses on the un/livability of academia and the ways in which academic institutions participate in regimes of oppression and subjugation. This first episode of the De/Institutionalize series covers the elitism of knowledge, the...
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The Danger of Ancient Apocalypse and Pseudoarchaeology
In today’s episode, resident archaeologist Julia teaches their co-hosts Clayon and Cody about the dark side of archaeology conspiracy theories, such as those forwarded by Graham Hancock’s popular Netflix Series, Ancient Apocalypse (Ancient Aliens connoisseurs beware—it may be next). In...
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Political Theater of Global Environmentalism: COP27 and COP15
In today’s episode, Cody, Julia, and Clayton discuss the outcomes, manipulations, failures, and long-term impacts of COP27 and COP15, along with a multitude of topics surrounding the issue of climate change and environmentalism . They bring in the philosophy of French theorist Bruno Latour and...
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Who are we? Why are we? Why does anything exist?
“I definitely write fan fiction of us three. … We break into an Anthropologie … take off the ‘ie’ and replace it with a ‘y’.” -Clayton In this introduction episode, Julia, Clayton, and Cody provide a breakdown of the trailer, explain their backgrounds, tell some jokes, and share their motivations...
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Trailer for Un/Livable Cultures
The trailer contains both snapshots of important issues and events that the podcast will cover as well as hints of ideas, social theories, and thinkers that we like to draw on in the podcast, such as Donna Haraway, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Slavoj Žižek, David Graeber. You can find our website at...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Because the world is actively made unlivable for too many. Join Julia, Clayton, and Cody as they experiment with social theory, politics of liberation and solidarity, and real world issues to question: How can we make livable cultures?Follow our Twitter (@unlivablepod) for sneak peaks of new episode topics before they release. More information at unlivablecultures.wordpress.com.
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Because the world is actively made unlivable for too many. Join Julia, Clayton, and Cody as they experiment with social theory, politics of liberation and solidarity, and real world issues to question: How can we make livable cultures?Follow our Twitter (@unlivablepod) for sneak peaks of new...
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