381) Stacy Alaimo: Our bodies are the Anthropocene
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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“All of these imaginings visually, as if we were in a spaceship and looking down on the Earth—whoever that we is, which is super problematic with the notion of the Anthropocene—safely above, looking at the mess we’ve created... And no. With Trans-corporeality, our bodies are already the Anthropocene.”
In this episode, we welcome Professor Stacy Alaimo, Professor of English and Core Faculty Member in Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (2000); Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (2010); and Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (2016).
Alaimo is currently writing a book entitled Deep Blue Ecologies: Science, Aesthetics, and the Creatures of the Abyss. Her work explores the intersections between literary, artistic, political, and philosophical approaches to environmentalism along with the practices and experiences of everyday life. She loves diving and snorkeling, hiking, paddling, and creating habitat gardens with native plants.
(The musical offering featured in this episode Eye of The Storm by Ali Dineen. The episode-inspired artwork is by Lucy Haslam.)
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| 1:35.5 | Where else would we be? We live on this planet. But all of these imaginings visually of as if we were in a spaceship and we're looking down on the earth and we're, you know, |
| 1:39.7 | whoever that we is, which is super problematic with the notion of the Anthropocene, are safely |
| 1:46.1 | above looking at the mess we've created. And no, I mean, with transcorporiality, our bodies are |
| 1:55.7 | already the Anthropocene. In this episode, we're speaking with Stacey Alamo, |
| 2:04.5 | professor of English and core faculty member |
| 2:07.3 | in Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. |
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