All Episodes

Jessica den Outer and Shauna Doll dig into the growing certainty that Nature has Rights

Alexis Shotwell urges us to reconnect, even if "we're irritating and we hurt each other"

Matthew Huber wants to incite a class realignment to fight global heating & the tyranny of capital

Nina Newington embraces the uncertainty of organizing to protect the natural world

Chris Benjamin and Kate Brooks thoughts on how to decarbonize our lives and build a stable, equitable world

Sadie Beaton rages against the extractive status quo and raves about resurgent geography

Katherine Stewart decrypts how Christian fundamentalism is seizing power in the United States

Alex Marland scrutinizes party loyalty in Canada as a program of coerced consent

Carl Wilson referees the poptimism wars & explores nostalgia, protest & world-building in music

Marta Figlerowicz thinks Maria Janion’s political insights are key to navigating our present chaos

Alexander Gallant & Joel Plaskett harmonize on concept albums & finding the lyrical in everyday life

Steven Swarbrick conceives of a world where Palestine is free because none of us "belong"

Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan want a world where "sustainability" isn't meaningless

Arang Keshavarzian examines the politics of modern Iran and devises an escape from perpetual war

Aaron Hagey-MacKay opines on satire as sensemaking, and scenarios where we 'bend but don't break'

Ava Val believes in comedy as a source of joy, site of community and weapon against cynicism

Wim Carton dissects the gore, gaslighting and chaotic consequences of fossil capitalism

Jeff Diamanti tracks the shockwaves disrupting the global economy as war rages on in Iran

C. Thi Nguyen troubles the way the art of play and agency in games is co-opted & commodified

Shora Esmailian refuses to abandon hope for freedom and self-determination in Iran

Alyssa Battistoni takes apart the hostile system that incentivizes taking selfishly from nature

Timothy Leduc finds meaning in humility, ecological wonder and pluralistic thinking

James Adomian goads us to laugh our way through the absolute absurdity of our moment

Harsha Walia reframes ICE fascism and American aggression in an era of border brutality

Anna Quon muses about mental health, social trust and the costs of inequality

Rana Zaman struggles for universal human rights and peace globally. Why is she being attacked?

Kai Bosworth wonders whether populism can turn us into climate activists

Nora Loreto and Alex Khasnabish argue for saving the university from itself

Sherene Seikaly knows the Nakba never ceased. Who will stop that history from being the future?

Sarah Stein Lubrano offers a recipe for reviving sociality and detoxifying democracy

Ingrid Waldron traces the psychological scars & medical neglect of trauma in Black communities

El Jones and Jonathan Liew decode how sportswashing works and why Israel is struggling to use it

Dominic Boyer derides the fossilized luxury and conveniences that bind us to ecological breakdown

Rupa Marya demonstrates the courage required to contest the neocolonial erasure of Palestine

Kilian Jörg plays with new ways of being toward nature and puzzles over the pitfalls of Reason

Alexander Gallant and Sarah Swire walk us through the ecstatic discipline of making music

Caleb Wellum treats the oil shocks of the 1970s as a byproduct of neoliberalism’s Cold War conquest

James Rowe finds insight and sites of social justice in a mindful relation to death

Imre Szeman spurns the standard logic of the energy transition: that capitalism will save the Earth

Max Haiven invites us to unleash chaos and grab the world’s wealth with Billionaires and Guillotines

Mark Bourrie rips Pierre Poilievre for being Canada's "Trump-lite,” sowing division and stoking political grievance

Judy Haiven knows we can't wait for the powerful to change, we have to organize against them

Deborah Britzman wants education to be antagonistic toward closemindedness, carelessness and violence

Abdaljawad Omar and Ajay Parasram outline postcolonial paths to peace via Palestinian liberation

Mark Stoll charts a path through histories of energy, extraction and profit

Sarah Marie Wiebe cares about care, insisting we fight climate change through love and reconnection

Ava Val gets bravery, but wonders why comedy can be so cowardly when it comes to trans lives

Wim Carton and Andreas Malm want a radical break to overcome the resignation to overshoot

Jennifer Wickham documents the fight of the Wetʼsuwetʼen against pipelines, pollution and plunder

Alder Keleman Saxena sees how climate impacts & neoliberalism exacerbate each other

Robert Neubauer traces how Right-wing populism sells the fiction that fossil fuels are inevitable

Alice Mah and Cara Daggett talk degrowth, doomerism and the ecological damage of endless growth

Allie Rougeot recounts her route to climate activism and shares her vision of a just transition

Ingrid Waldron gives us solutions to the scourge of environmental racism that reimagine space

Catherine Abreu expresses a deep commitment to climate action & explains why the system must change

Darin Barney, Jesse Goldstein & Hannah Tollefson narrate anti-capitalist energy futures

Abboud Hamayel interrogates the perpetual state of war Israel imposes on Palestinians

Sherene Seikaly yearns for what we can’t see: a world without genocide, ecocide or epistemicide

Nadia Yaqub chronicles the struggles and steadfastness of Palestine through visual culture

Jeff Karabanow bridges action and fieldwork in the struggle to end homelessness

Veronica Post zigzags through stories of care, crisis, migration and trauma

Gideon Levy implores us to thwart Israel’s wanton destruction of Palestinian life

Licypriya Kangujam staged an intervention for fossil fuel addicts out of concern for the planet

Hadil Kamal describes the beauty of living in Palestine and the brutality of Israeli occupation

Michael Hardt subverts ideas about political failure and revisits histories of liberation struggle

Mark Paul challenges the economic and environmental injustices of neoliberalism in a climate crisis

Seth Klein galvanizes us to fight a future of climate chaos and guards against historical amnesia

Margaret Galvan travels between visual archives to sense how memory is preserved & proscribed

Macarena Gómez-Barris refuses to abandon the hope for a future after extractivism

Matt Wolf makes documentaries that spotlight world-builders and risk-takers

Sara Ahmed extols the feminist killjoy and iterates on her sweeping oeuvre

Kyla Tienhaara sheds light on legal barriers to climate action & outlines a path to just transition

Gernot Wagner pulls apart the paradoxes of economics, expediency and growth in climate action

Casey Williams & Rhys Williams amplify the value of friction & rethink the promises of technology

Amanda Boetzkes contemplates what it means for waste to be charged with meaning

Sarah Marie Wiebe searches for strategies to resist disaster and incite joy

Raja Swamy moves from resilience to resistance in the struggle against exploitative development

Brenna Walsh factors in the social cost of carbon when fighting fossil fuel dependency

Paris Marx targets the gnarled roots of our broken transportation infrastructure

Thomas Beller takes a step back and looks at basketball more critically

Amy Cardinal Christianson on Indigenous fire stewardship as climate action & cultural practice

John Vaillant confronts the climate-induced brutality of modern wildfires

Dru Oja Jay & James Steinhoff guide us through the hype & hysteria around AI

Evan Newman dwells with the quandary of musicians concerned about the climate crisis

Angele Alook & David Gray-Donald breathe new life into the struggle for a habitable planet

Moira Weigel listens closely to entrepreneurs working within Amazon’s empire

Wendy Chun rejects the unsustainable assumptions that govern networks & make technology undemocratic

Alexander Etkind spotlights the asymmetrical sacrifice & oil curse at the core of the War in Ukraine

Natasha Lennard lauds the successes of social movements & the vitality of oppositional rage

Sarah King vies to end the plastic era by closing loopholes and confronting industry

Heather Davis and Mark Simpson deconstruct the toxic and unknown properties of plastics

Kim Fry rallies musicians to take a stand on energy transition and the climate crisis

Tanner Mirrlees wrestles with American militarism and the cultural projection of imperial power

El Jones strengthens the bonds of solidarity and fights for the abolition of prisons

Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay & Alexis Shotwell diagnose systems & document the timescales of disease

Fab Filippo & Gray Powell describe the humour & humility required to care & create in a messy world

Marcus Boon amplifies the spiritual, mathematical and political aspects of music

Ben Tarnoff untangles the histories and complex architectures of the modern internet

Ajay Parasram & Alex Khasnabish answer pressing questions about racism & anti-racist politics

Monty Scott laughs at the abyss and enlightens us on comedy in Canada