Phone A Friend: Tad DeLay, author of Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change.
Unf*cking The Republic
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🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Phone A Friend. Today we’re speaking with Tad DeLay, the author of the newly released book Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change. Tad Delay is a philosopher, religion scholar and interdisciplinary critical theorist. His books include Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want?, The Cynic and the Fool, and God is Unconscious. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Baltimore. I positively devoured this book and am anxious to dig into his previous titles as well. There are so many intersections that speak to the work that we do on UNFTR that I know it will resonate with you. Philosophy. Theology. Science. And even the dismal science. Future of Denial takes a multidisciplinary approach woven together with factual anecdotes and projections of science fiction. It is at once deeply intellectual and approachable; a delicate feat. Marx and Engels in dialogue with Freud and Greta Thunberg concluding with the words of Rosa Luxemburg…obviously I was in pure heaven digesting this work.
Resources
Tad DeLay: Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change
Verso: Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change
First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)
John Tyndall: Heat considered as a Mode of Motion
Karl Marx: Capital Vol. 1, 2, & 3
John Bellamy Foster: Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
Erik M. Conway + Naomi Oreskes: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes when we talk, we don't know what the fuck, so we have to call, so we have to call and ask a friend. |
| 0:15.0 | I want to know the things you know |
| 0:22.8 | It'll make a better show |
| 0:26.6 | You're the one on whom we all depend Everybody, welcome. |
| 0:45.8 | Today, we're speaking with Tad Delay, the author of the newly released book, Future of Denial, the Ideologies of Climate Change. |
| 0:54.0 | Tad Delay is a philosopher, religion scholar, |
| 0:56.5 | and interdisciplinary critical theorist. His books include, against, what does the white evangelical |
| 1:01.9 | want? The Cynic and the Fool, and God is unconscious. He is an assistant professor of philosophy |
| 1:07.9 | in Baltimore, and I absolutely devoured this book so I'm |
| 1:11.8 | anxious to dig into his previous titles as well. There are so many intersections |
| 1:16.0 | that speak to the work that we do on UNFTR that I know it will resonate with you. |
| 1:20.3 | So without further ado my conversation with author and professor Ted DeLay. |
| 1:25.9 | Tad Delay thank you so much for joining the program today. |
| 1:30.8 | I appreciate you taking the time. |
| 1:32.5 | Wonderful to be here. |
| 1:34.0 | I decided to start by imagining where I asked to write a blurb for the book. |
| 1:42.0 | So this is what I put together. |
| 1:43.9 | Philosophy, theology, science, and even the |
| 1:48.3 | dismal science, a multidisciplinary approach woven together with factual anecdotes and projections |
| 1:55.0 | of science fiction alike, at once deeply intellectual and approachable, a delicate feat. |
| 2:01.1 | Marx and angles in dialogue with Freud and Greta Thunberg, concluding with the words of Rosa |
| 2:06.1 | Luxembourg. |
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