385) Thom van Dooren: The evolving cultures of the more-than-human world

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this episode, we welcome Thom van Dooren, a field philosopher and writer. Thom is Deputy Director at the Sydney Environment Institute and teaches at the University of Sydney and the University of Oslo. His current research and writing focus on some of the many philosophical, ethical, cultural, and political issues that arise in the context of species extinctions and human entanglements with threatened species and places. This research works across the disciplines of cultural studies, philosophy, science and technology studies, and related fields.

He has explored these themes in depth in three books: Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia University Press, 2014), The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (Columbia University Press, 2019), and A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions (MIT Press, 2022).

(The musical offering featured in this episode Hummingbird by Lea Thomas. The episode-inspired artwork is by Haruka Aoki.)

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1:42.8	One of the things I think is most fascinating about it is just why this restorative work needs to be done in the first place.
1:50.0	How did we ever arrive at such a silly notion of animal life that we would have bracketed out all of these complex processes of learning and sociality?
2:00.0	But we did, or at least dominant conservation
2:02.8	practices did. In this episode, we're speaking with Tom Vendoran, a field philosopher and writer.
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