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Black WorldingThe Chimera Chronicles Duology - A BookStormHello, hello, hello play-cousins! We are back for another BookStorm! Join in the creative conversation as we construct an expansive fantasy world grounded in shifter magic and queerness. Chimera Chronicles features a gender-fluid, memory-reading, shapeshifter assassin protagonist named Genesis, who learns of their true nature and rebels against the empire that raised them.It's giving very Mystique, very mysterious, not-so-so-demure, very found family in the mist of game of thrones cultural intrigue! And yes, there are DRAGONS! Okay, okay, let's get it!What is a...2025-07-031h 40Black WorldingBlack Queer Baddies: On Freedom, Regimes, & The Hunger GamesHey, hey, hey! We haven’t forgotten about y’all; especially not in the season of Pride and Juneteenth!This week, we have a wide-ranging discussion on the intersections of Black queerness and our battles for freedom and liberation throughout history and in narrative storytelling. We engage with real-life Black queer baddie activists in concert with some of our favorites Black queer baddies in sci-fi & fantasy media to zero in on the current challenges of regime, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment and policy, islamophobia, potential war, colonialism, white supremacy, and antiblackness.In the midst of so m...2025-06-271h 26Black WorldingRemembering the Red Birds - An Interview with Diandra F. WingOn this episode of Black Worlding, we are back with writer and tech professional Diandra Ford-Wing to explore how Black storytelling becomes a vessel for grief, healing, and intergenerational memory.Diandra shares the journey behind her debut memoir, Red Bird, a powerful tribute to her late mother and aunt. We discuss the vulnerability of writing through grief, the complexities of family storytelling, and how spiritual signs became part of the healing process.From conversations about Black literature and childhood memories to reflections on aging, legacy, and joy, this episode celebrates the emotional depth and cultural...2025-06-161h 08Black WorldingThe Moments That Make Us: Octavia Butler, Beyoncé, & Black Storytelling Real LifeAnd we back, and we Black, and flyin' high off the Cowboy Carter Tour Act II tour and all the different ways we experience Black storytelling!This week, we interrogate all those "moments that make us," thinking about the pivotal moments of catalyzation in our lives, about representation, about what it means to present stories of our own lineages and legacies, and, ultimately, about how the lines between fantasy and reality are incredibly thin, especially when it comes to Black storytelling.Listen, representation will not save us...but sometimes, it can give...2025-05-221h 41Black WorldingThe Gathering - A BookStorm NovellaHey, hey, hey play cousins! We are back with another BookStorm and this time, we are trying something new! We gave ourselves a time limit experiment: Can Rae and Día successfully worldbuild in under an hour?? It seems we just might be able to! Enjoy this short little novella about reconnecting with your ancestral heritage in a world after the end of the world…Let’s get it!What is a BookStorm?BookStorming is like brainstorming, but an entire book, series, or short story. We st...2025-05-0853 minBlack Worlding"I Lied to You": A SINNERS ReviewHey hey hey! We are back for a VERY special impromptu review of the new and wonderfully iconic film by Ryan Coogler; Sinners! Buckle up for a wild ride through our immediate responses to this wonderful film in all its parts; acting, cinematography, plot, mechanics, the MUSIC, etc. And make no mistake, it will be FULL of spoilers!Alright, let's get it!2025-04-2859 min
The Anthrozoology PodcastEp 42 - More-Than-Human Worlding, with Dr Madi Mañetto Quick, pt2/2.Ep 42 - More-Than-Human Worlding: Analysis and Exploration of Farm Animal Sanctuaries, World-Building and Speculative Design, with Dr Madi Mañetto Quick, Part 2.In episode 42 of the Anthrozoology Podcast we join Dr. Madi Mañetto Quick, for the second part of a discussion on her PhD research which explored the narratives of farmed animals, focusing on farms and sanctuaries. In this episode Madi discusses her PhD research on speculative design in the context of farm animal sanctuaries and farms. She explained her use of a speculative co-design workshop that included humans, animals, and land, aiming to...2025-04-1822 minBlack WorldingWorldbuilding: Fantasy, Dreaming, & Reshaping Freedom!Hey hey hey, play cousins! We are back with a new episode for you, and we are diving deep into worldbuilding and how we go about it! Join us as we discuss the mechanics and socio-cultural aspects of worldbuilding, referencing some of our favorite sci-fi/fantasy stories. We ask questions like, “Why do we need fantasy and dreaming?” and “How do we reshape the world and consequences in our own BookStorms?” Buckle up for a great conversation!Let’s get it!Connect with Us:Visit our website for more in...2025-04-171h 29
Infosec DecodedThird-Worlding AmericaInfosec Decoded Season 5 #28: Third-Worlding AmericaWith Doug Spindler and sambowne@infosec.exchangeLinks: https://samsclass.info/news/news_041125.htmlRecorded Fri, Apr 11, 20252025-04-1132 minBlack WorldingMina Brower’s Daughters of Chaos - An Interview with the AuthorAnd we're back again with a very special interview episode with the wonderful Mina Brower, author of the Daughters of Chaos Series! Take a dive into our conversation about world-building, her series, and what it means to write in true representation. Buckle up for an exciting ride...let's get it!Connect with Us:Visit our website for more info on what we are up to with BWP: thisisblackworlding.com Follow us on instagram: @thisisblackworlding Support the Show:Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review...2025-04-031h 07Black WorldingThe Crafters, Pt. 2 - BookStormAnd the stories return! In this latest episode of Black Worlding, we are giving you part 2 to our Black magical HBCU-Julliard-meets-house-of-cards-meets scandal-meets-the-magicians-meets-historical-trauma-meets-reparations-meets-Black-art-always-been-magic! The Crafters explores a magic system rooted in the arts and afrodescendant culture, set around a mystical HBCU and in part 2, we go into a lot more detail on our thoughts for the characters, series, and new challenges. We gon' have to write this duology y'all!The doors to The Caroline Dye School of the Fine and Performing Arts are still open: gon’ head and get that application in!What is...2025-03-271h 53The Anthrozoology PodcastEp 41 - More-Than-Human Worlding, with Dr Madi Mañetto Quick, pt1/2.More-Than-Human Worlding: Analysis and Exploration of Farm Animal Sanctuaries, World-Building and Speculative Design, with Dr Madi Mañetto Quick, Part 1.In episode 41 of the Anthrozoology Podcast we join Dr. Madi Mañetto Quick , for part one of two on a discussion on her PhD research which explored the narratives of farmed animals, focusing on farms and sanctuaries. In this episode Madi discusses how she explored the interpretive framework of equalising human and non-human characters in stories. Madi emphasises a non-black-and-white approach and “stays with the trouble” in conversations around vegetarianism, veganism and livestock farming. She introduced the concep...2025-03-1923 minBlack WorldingMorpheus, Morgan Freeman, & Other Magical NegroesHey hey hey, play cousins! We are back with a new episode for you, and we are diving deep into the Magical Negro trope! Join us as we discuss the origins and applications of this trope, alongside some of your favorite and most controversial Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy media surrounding Magical Negroes. We focus on Afrofuturism, addressing the challenges and possibilities of envisioning a post-colonial, Black world. Let’s get it!Connect with Us:Visit our website for more info on what we are up to with BWP: thisisb...2025-03-061h 32
Black WorldingThe Crafters, Pt. 1 - BookStormAnd the stories return! In this latest episode of Black Worlding, we are giving you Black magical Julliard, baby! In this first Bookstorm of Season 2, we explore an magic system rooted in the arts and afrodescendant culture, set around a mystical HBCU. It’s a world, a government, a people, much like ours…but not exactly. This episode is very HBCU-julliard--meets-house-of-cards-meets scandal-meets-the-magicians-meets-historical-trauma-meets-reparations-meets-Black-art-always-been-magic. Y’all we seriously let no crumbs with this one; so much so that you might just get a part 2…!
It’s Black History Month and the doors to The Caroline Dye School of...2025-02-202h 04
Black WorldingThe Drama & The TraumaAnd we back and we Black and we back! Welcome back for Season 2 play cousins and kinfolk, and happy Black History Month!
We are starting off this new season with an exciting discussion of drama and trauma in all kinds of media, featuring our wonderful Luminary and marketing manager extraordinaire, Alex (aka Miss Meeba)! Listen as we discuss shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender, She-Ra, and Dragon Prince, and highlight how trauma in storytelling can influence character development and relationships. We also extend the conversation to literature, film, and other live-action television, discussing authors like N.K. J...2025-02-061h 59Black WorldingIt's Witches B*tches! - Witchcraft Deep Dive (A-Side)This week, in honor of spooky season, we are taking you all the way down, down, down the witches road! Join us as we explore the vast types of witchcraft and witches in history and popular media. Buckle up for some historical lessons, some spellbinding explorations, and some truly wicked rants form your play-cousins, the Good/Bad B*tches of the South! Let's get it!
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Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review our podcast on your favorite platform. You...2024-11-082h 22Black WorldingThe Four - BookStorm #4 (O-side)And the stories keep coming! Join us as we blaze a new trail with a pre-apocalypic, hidden-magic-based, systemic collapse-to-societal-transformation-influenced world in our 4th BookStorm (our 12th episode), "The Four." This episode can best be described as a Cowboy Carter brainchild mixed and matched with stories of the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse. It's a world much like ours...but maybe not at all. Buckle up, 'cause we gon' make it do what it do y'all!
Enjoy our fourth BookStorm!
What is a BookStorm?
BookStorming is like brain storming...2024-09-132h 48Black WorldingI’m a Damsel, My Name is Dorothy, and I’m in Distress... - Tropes (A-side)This week we are hitting tropes from the black hand side! From the beloved bildungsromans, to the dizzy bitches without cause, to the damsels in distress: Tropes, whether you love them or hate them, help to set the stage upon which the characters play. Strap in for some educational antics, fun ratings, and spirited rants about said dizzy bitches without a cause! Let's get it!
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Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review our podcast on your favorite platform. Your feedback an...2024-06-261h 44Black WorldingKND: Kid's Next Drive (On the Road Series)In this very special episode of Black Worlding, we are on the road for you! Join us as we discuss a range of topics around Children’s/Teen’s animated shows and cartoons, adult animation, and SFF live action television while traipsing about the southern highways!
Buckle in for some hot takes, personal anecdotes, and a little game we call, “Name that Genre”! Let’s get it!
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Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review our podcast on your favorite platform...2024-06-0555 minBlack WorldingFreefall - BookStorm #3 (O-side)And the Stories continue! Join us for our extraterrestrially explorative 3rd BookStorm (our 9th episode), "Freefall," where we craft a peri-apocalyptic world best described as E.T.-meets-Arrival shaken (not stirred) with ATLA-esque applications for navigating ecological devastation! E.T. ain't going home on this one y'all...
Enjoy our third BookStorm!
What is a BookStorm?
BookStorming is like brain storming, but an entire book, series, or short story. We start with a random idea for a character, a world, or a magic system—and we hash out the in...2024-05-152h 09Black WorldingLove, Friendship, & Shenanigans: A Walk With the StarsIn this very special episode of Black Worlding, we are introducing a new Celestial Body into the Panel! Join us as we recount our incredibly long friendship with one of our best Judy's, Amibe!
In this episode we discuss how sci-fi & fantasy brought us all together, and how, in some cases, it has kept us! Buckle in for some hot takes, friendship love, and a halluvalotta shenigans! Remember, if you shenan once, you will shenan-again!
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RadiolabFinding EmilieThis is a segment we first aired back in 2011. In it, we hear a story of a very different kind of lost and found. Alan Lundgard, a college art student, fell in love with a fellow art student, Emilie Gossiaux. Nine months after Alan and Emilie made it official, Emilie's mom, Susan Gossiaux, received a terrible phone call from Alan. Together, Susan and Alan tell Jad and Robert about the devastating fork in the road that left Emilie lost in a netherworld, and how Alan found her again.Then, at the end of the episode, and a...2024-03-2238 min
The Catholic Man ShowThe Death of 3 Men
Adam and David talk about the death of a secular man, a careless Christian, and a just man. What do their preparations of death look like? St. Alphonsus Liguori answers the question in his work entitled, Preparation for Death: Considerations on Eternal Truths.
In this episode we discuss:
The Death of a Secular Man
Seeking God at Death, But He will not find Him.
Anguish of the Dying Sinner.
Seek God when we can find Him.
The Death of a Careless Christian
Sad State of the Worlding
Desire of the Worlding
Tardy Regrets of a...2024-03-071h 02
New Books in Literary StudiesCheow Thia Chan, "Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2022)Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing.Highlighting Mahua literature’s distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese lite...2024-02-101h 06
New Books in Southeast Asian StudiesCheow Thia Chan, "Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2022)Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing.Highlighting Mahua literature’s distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese lite...2024-02-101h 07
Off the Page: A Columbia University Press PodcastCheow Thia Chan, "Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2022)Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing.Highlighting Mahua literature’s distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese lite...2024-02-101h 07
New Books in East Asian StudiesCheow Thia Chan, "Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2022)Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing.Highlighting Mahua literature’s distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese lite...2024-02-101h 08
New Books in Chinese StudiesCheow Thia Chan, "Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2022)Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mahua authors have produced creative and thought-provoking works that have won growing critical recognition, showing Malaysia to be a laboratory for imaginative Chinese writing.Highlighting Mahua literature’s distinctive mode of evolution, Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese lite...2024-02-101h 07Black WorldingFlowers of the Realm - BookStorm #2 (O-side)And the Stories continue! Join us for our wintry 2nd BookStorm (our 7th episode) "Flowers of the Realm," where we craft a world full of magic, intrigue, and seasonally appropriate protagonists! There are no Gods in this realm, only the Fey and their Flowers...
Enjoy our second BookStorm!
What is a BookStorm?
BookStorming is like brain storming, but an entire book, series, or short story. We start with a random idea for a character, a world, or a magic system—and we hash out the in-between!
How it Works?
We start with a To...2023-12-261h 34Black WorldingThe Reaper, The Red Cross, & The Apothecary Princess - Magic Systems (B-side)In this episode of Black Worlding, we are giving you magic system case studies! We navigate Hard, Middle, Soft magic systems through three book series: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron, & the Kingston Cycle by C.L. Polk. We discuss the importance of costs associated with magic and how it impacts characters' relationships with their abilities. In each series, we highlight the coming-of-age story, character development, histories of oppression, anger towards hierarchy, the pain associated with navigating the magic in each world, and personal growth.
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conscient podcaste147 worlding - what worlding stories do you hear ?i learned about the concept of ‘worlding’ from Vanessa Andreotti’s Hospicing Modernity and I danced in the rain TRANSCRIPTION OF EPISODE (bell and breath) (raindrops from https://simplesoundscapes.ca/e105-thunder/) I learned about the concept of ‘worlding’ from page 184 of Vanessa Andreotti’s Hospicing Modernity. Andreotti explains that : Worlding stories are not focused on the aesthetic perfection of form but rather on the integration of form and movement. Now this integration of fo...2023-11-1905 minBlack WorldingThe Phoenix, Them Fairies, & That White Man With the Sword - Magic Systems (A-side)In this episode of Black Worlding, we are giving you magic! From the shows we love like Charmed and X-Men to the books we still think about years later. We journey through the different types of magic systems and what authors we think have stand-out characters, worlds, and powers. We talk about abilities, hard and soft magic, restrictions, types of magic users, and favorite magic systems and characters. Buckle up!
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Avatar the Last Airbender
The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Claire
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Eragon by...2023-11-142h 15Black WorldingDirt Said to Sky - BookStorm #1 (O-side)And in the beginning Rae and Día created The Book and The Storm. And the storm was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of The Book moved upon the face the waters. And Rae and Día said, Let there be Story: and there was Story!
... And Rae and Día saw The Story, and it was good 😉
Enjoy our first BookStorm!
What is a BookStorm?
BookStorming is like brain storming, but an entire book, series, or short story. We start with a random idea for a...2023-10-312h 07New Books in Literary StudiesAnna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature’s newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system?Anna Ziajka Stanton's book The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability (Fordham UP, 2023) argues th...2023-10-1837 min
New Books in LanguageAnna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature’s newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system?Anna Ziajka Stanton's book The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability (Fordham UP, 2023) argues th...2023-10-1837 min
New Books in Middle Eastern StudiesAnna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer “embargoed” from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature’s newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the world literary system?Anna Ziajka Stanton's book The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability (Fordham UP, 2023) argues th...2023-10-1837 minBlack WorldingSave the World, End the World - Young Adult vs. New Adult (B-side)In this episode of Black Worlding, we delve deep into the theme of Young Adult vs New Adult fiction. We focus on the “Nsibidi Scripts” series by Nnedi Okorafor as a representative of the YA genre, and the "Broken Earth Trilogy" by NK Jemisin as New Adult representation.
YA often focuses on discovering identity within one's community while NA embraces diversity more openly without making it the central focus of the story.
We touch on the unique aspects of Young Adult (YA) novels, where characters navigate issues of belonging and rebellion. We emphasize how, in New...2023-10-171h 32Black WorldingWho the Hell is Sally Jackson? - Young Adult vs. New Adult (A-side)We explore age categories in literature, distinguishing between Young Adult (YA) and New Adult (NA). YA typically features characters ages 12-18, encompassing well-known titles like Legendborn by Tracy Deonn and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. New Adult (NA) focuses on characters ages 20+, often leaning towards those over 25. This conversation delves into the difference between natural age and functional age (maturity), the shift from morality to gray areas, and the heroine's journey. We ponder when these categories become unclear and examine specific examples like Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan and Plated Prisoners by Raven Kennedy.
B-Side Deep Di...2023-10-031h 11Black WorldingThe GenesisBlack Worlding is a dynamic podcast hosted by Día and Rae, celebrating diversity and inclusivity in science fiction and fantasy literature. This podcast explores representation and world-building through BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices. Through engaging discussions, author spotlights, and deep dives into specific media, we provide a platform for diverse narratives, emphasizing humor and respect. Black Worlding is a vibrant journey into the world of imaginative storytelling, fostering a sense of belonging first and foremost for all BIPOC listeners.
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* A-Sides for macro-level discussions like young adult literature, tropes, and magic systems. Plus, we'll s...2023-09-1944 minBlack WorldingSeason 1 Sneak PeekBlack Worlding is a dynamic podcast hosted by Día and Rae, celebrating diversity and inclusivity in science fiction and fantasy literature. This podcast explores representation and world-building through BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices.
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Follow us on Instagram @thisisblackworlding2023-09-1900 min
The Jim Rutt ShowCurrents 096: Jim & Michael Garfield Talk About EverythingJim has an extremely wide-ranging discussion with Michael Garfield. They discuss the upcoming book Michael is drafting in public, the exponential scaling of information production, Jurassic Park, mass distributed computation, a new topology for social connectivity, info agents, stereotyping & police violence, a dehumanizing pace of human interaction, Charles Stross's prophetic visions, heuristic induction, strong vs weak social links, restoration of the mesoscale, from the geographic polity to the noetic, the importance of the ground layer, semi-permeable membranes with commons inside them, Pokemon Go & behavioral control, generative AI & intellectual property, creating a commons to benefit culture, circular economies, dividend money & usury, hi...2023-06-071h 25
Indie Reads Aloud: A Storytelling PodcastEpisode #94 Randy D. Pearson and "Off-Worlding"About The Author: Randy D. Pearson has been displaying his creativity for as long as he can remember. Starting at an early age drawing comic strips and cartoon books, he quickly realized he enjoyed writing stories more than he did sketching.When he discovered his other childhood passion, the Atari computer, everything came together. He spent many late nights typing stories, winning several writing contests in the process.
His writing kicked into high gear in 2007 when he became a member of Writing at the Ledges. This Grand Ledge, Michigan based writing group helped him to t...2023-05-3127 min
Worlding PodcastEp #11.3 The interconnection between bodies and worlds | Worlding PodcastOn a -9° winters day in Rigor - Latvia, dance artist Agnese Bordjukova shared methods to develop awareness of processes within the human body that can then extend outwards to embrace our surroundings, making sensible the interconnection between bodies and worlds. Agnese often works with ‘non-motion’ such as sleeping or stillness, as a starting point for her choreographies. From this place, she focuses on the intensity of her internal activity which then inspires her to make dance works for video and stage. In this episode we discuss two of her short dance videos: ‘Hear me’ (2017) - a creation about sound gen...2023-03-1141 min
Worlding PodcastEp #11.2 Plant blindness - Relocating the real in the digital world | Worlding PodcastHuman inability to value the role of plants on earth and see or notice plants in one's everyday life is a phenomenon known as ‘plant blindness’. Media artist Daniel Hengst addresses this phenomenon through his work, asking whether we are willing to empathize with plants and grant them an autonomous intrinsic value. Daniel’s projects often center non-human subjects and deal with the potential of digital technologies to encourage social change. In this episode we focus on Daniel’s works ‘Blooming love’ - a virtual reality artwork that explores the simulated Peatlands of Latvia and ‘Nastien & Tropismen’ - a virtual-installa...2023-03-1139 min
Worlding PodcastEp #11.1 Art meets Science - The individuality of things | Worlding PodcastWhile scientists tend to categorize their objects of study in order to verify some pre-prepared hypotheses, visual artist Oliver Thie is focused on the individual within the species or class of things. In this episode we dive into two of Oliver’s solo exhibitions: ‘The truth about the origin of the world’ (2020) where he worked with an 18th century stone collection from the Siebengebirge in Germany and ‘Mapping the Invisible’ where Oliver explores a microscopic Hawaiian cave-dwelling cicada by enlarging it into a wall-sized drawing. In times of Anthropocentric landscapes and rapidly increasing insect extinction, his work is a persistent...2023-03-1143 min
Worlding PodcastEp #10.3 My autism shapes everything that I do | Worlding PodcastFocused on access and inclusion with regards to neuro-difference and disability, Anna Farley shares how she navigates her life and artistic work with support and family, placing her autism front and center. In her work, Anna creates Visual Guides for exhibitions that offer visitors another way of accessing the display without relying only on text or speech. Filled with images and simple short sentences, the guides provide an alternative future for how we talk about art and, more broadly, how we could share important information within public institutions.
Learn more at: http://renaeshadler.com/worlding
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Worlding PodcastEp #10.2 When was the last time you changed your mind? | Worlding PodcastIn her practice of art mediation, Viviane Tabach - a Brazilian curator and mediator - seeks to be porous to the visitors and facilitate the creation of a ‘collective body’, where all participants and entities within the gallery become channels of knowledge. Inspired by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian educator and philosopher, Viviane sees Worlding through the lens of the learning process, as Freire states: “No one educates anyone - no one educates themselves. We educate one another with the mediation of the world”.
Seeking to expand mediation and foster a shared dialogue, Viviane reflects on her experiences working a...2023-02-1429 min
Worlding PodcastEp #10.1 Crocodilian women from a world yet-to-come | Worlding PodcastTalking about mutant species and a speculative world yet-to-come, Kat Válastur - a Berlin-based choreographer and performer - shares her interest in film and how the editing process can be used as a tool within choreography and composition. In this episode we focus on her hybrid work ‘Stellar Fauna’: part performance and part film installation, the project merges reality and fiction in a minimal yet expressive way. Inspired by the cardiovascular system of a crocodile, Kat guides us through her processes of making the film, panning in and out on the details of a human body - biting nails...2023-02-1436 min
savanicho books{DOWNLOAD} Reassembling Rubbish Worlding Electronic Waste (Ebook pdf) by Josh LepawskyDownload Reassembling Rubbish: Worlding Electronic Waste Full Edition,Full Version,Full Book by Josh Lepawsky Reading Now at : https://happyreadingebook.club/?book=0262535335 OR DOWNLOAD EBOOK NOW! [PDF] Download {DOWNLOAD} Reassembling Rubbish: Worlding Electronic Waste (Ebook pdf) Ebook | READ ONLINE Download {DOWNLOAD} Reassembling Rubbish: Worlding Electronic Waste (Ebook pdf) read ebook online PDF EPUB KINDLE Download {DOWNLOAD} Reassembling Rubbish: Worlding Electronic Waste (Ebook pdf) PDF - KINDLE - EPUB - MOBI2023-02-1000 min
Worlding PodcastEp #9.3 Indigenous Imaginaries | Worlding PodcastIn the Andean world the human body, nature and community are united. In colonisation this connection is broken. A good example of this is the Mallqui - a mummy combining two bodies: that of an old man and an indigenous child from the Lower Valley of the Chillon River, which is now on public display at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. In the West the mummy is considered dead, in the Andean culture the mummy is still alive.
Daniela Zambrano Almidón is a Peruvian Quechua researcher and interdisciplinary artist with a focus on Andean-Amazonian popular culture. In...2023-01-1221 min
Worlding PodcastEp #9.2 Decolonising colonial museums is a fallacy | Worlding PodcastThe whole debate on the decolonisation of colonial museums is a misconception. The collection of cultural treasures from other societies in order to modernise the West, demonstrates that modernity has always been influenced by European white racism and required ‘primitive’ societies in order to feel superior.
Dr. Christoph Balzar - a curator and art scholar with a focus on Postcolonial theory - argues that we cannot remove this cultural heritage from Ethnographic Museums and therefore they should be defunded, in particular the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Christoph advocates for Decolonisation Councils that work independently from institutions and take...2023-01-1241 min
Worlding PodcastEp #9.1 Amazonia - the lungs of planet earth | Worlding PodcastSpeaking from her BIPoC perspective, Martha Hincapié Charry - a Colombian artist based in Berlin, with Quimbaya ancestors - reflects on the present, past and future of the Amazon rainforest. Focusing on her recent solo performance/video installation “AMAZONIA 2040”, Martha shares her ideas of home and community during our times of climate chaos and the disappearance of biodiversity. In her artistic and curatorial practice, Martha creates spaces for dialogue between continents, generating a critical reflection on the relationship between humans and nature, the visible and often invisible world.
Learn more at: http://renaeshadler.com/worlding
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Worlding PodcastEp #8.3 Unplanting the seeds of hatred | Worlding PodcastIn direct response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ‘Unplanting the seeds of hatred’ is a project that approaches the body as soil, in which physical and mental seeds can grow. In this episode, Vera Shchelkina - a Russian somatic dance artist and founder of the project - chats to Renae about how the practice has the potential to slow us down and recognise that what is happening mentally is also a process within our bodies. Even by observing the process of seeding we can already begin to change and transform it, encouraging the ‘plants’ to grow in new ways.2022-12-2651 min
The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Acoustic Atmospheres in Palau with Birgit AbelsBirgit Abels is professor of cultural musicology at the University of Göttingen. She has conducted ethnographic and ethnomusicological research in multiple sites across Asia, and she is the Principal Investoigor on the European Research Council project Sound Knowledge: Alternative Epistemologies of Music in the Western Pacific Island World. Today we are talking about Birgit’s new book, Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres and Meaningfulness. The book was released in 2022 as part of the Global Asia series published by IIAS and Amsterdam University Press. Chanting holds a special place in Palau. In this conversation, Birgit discusses the theoretical dimension of her...2022-11-1741 min
Worlding PodcastEp #8.2 Peak experiences and a divergence from default reality | Worlding Podcast“Everyone is working through something on the dance floor” says Ivan March, a curator, artist and raver who is leading a community house in Greece, and the co-creator of the Waking Life festival in Portugal.
Waking Life is an annual Music Festival for artistic experimentation and collective imagineering of the type of society we could cultivate, if there was freedom to diverge from default reality. In this episode Ivan shares why festival gatherings are such fascinating spaces and how peak experiences can relate to the seasons and weather patterns within our own bodies.
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Worlding PodcastEp #8.1 Co-living and structures of caretaking | Worlding PodcastBerlin born and raised shapeshifter, Jacob Hühn is currently dedicated to enabling a new project at Moos Berlin which encompasses an international residency, co-living community and event space.
In this episode Jacob and Renae chat about what it means to facilitate spaces and how Moos is finding its own rituals and structures of caretaking.
Moos has a mission to become less abstract and find new languages through which to make concrete and practical invitations to the community, both young and old. Jacob also shares his ambition to root into a place and practice ‘listening firs...2022-09-2651 min
Worlding PodcastEp #7.3 Detours and Slow Transitions | Worlding PodcastOften we know the efficient thing to do but what happens when this fills our body with anxiety? How can we revalue the ‘detour’ not as an inconvenience or procrastination but as an active choice to decelerate and sidestep the shortest, fastest and most productive path?
For Natal Igor Dobkin a detour is a question within his/their research into slow transitions where he/they investigate the temporality of slowness as a method for change. Dobkin, a performance artist, facilitator and adjunct professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Ben Gurion University, explores ‘mythical’ linear movements and how...2022-05-0453 min
Worlding PodcastEp #7.2 Facilitating radical spaces for and by sickos | Worlding PodcastZinzi Buchanan is a non-binary artist who in this episode shares their lived experience of being chronically ill and how that continues to shape their facilitation practice of enabling spaces that are by and for people who are sick, or that care for the sick. The focus is on Zinzi’s performance project ‘sick bed series’, an invitation to voice, dream and feel through a program of performances and talks. Zinzi tenderly unravels their search for aliveness in a world that makes us sick.
Learn more at: http://renaeshadler.com/worlding
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Worlding PodcastEp #7.1 It takes a village to be with grief | Worlding PodcastAfter her sister got diagnosed with an autoimmune illness and unexpectedly died within half a year Siegmar Zacharias, a Berlin-based performance artist and researcher, embarked on a life’s work to create collective and public places for grieving. In this episode, Siegmar shares her research into collective processes of death and dying as well as expanded notions of grief that arise due to climate change and the current mass sixth-extinction.
Drawing on her performance practice and American neuroscientist Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, Siegmar aims to create spaces where the inter-linking of nervous systems can become sensible and wher...2022-04-0653 min
Worlding PodcastEp #6.3 Rooting in the Arboreal | Worlding PodcastEnvironmental activist, artist and mindfulness practitioner Lucy Powell shares her process of creating 'Becoming Arboreal', a guided walk through Berlin’s Tiergarten that explores ideas and practices that enable us to dwell more easily in uncertainty, such as spending time with the park’s ancient trees which are rooted to the spot and not able to run away - trees that are literally staying with the trouble. ‘Becoming Arboreal’ draws on mindfulness, the Buddhist history of practicing meditation with and around trees as well as the Thai forest tradition. In times when the world feels increasingly unstable, Lucy looks to trees...2022-03-1035 min
Worlding PodcastEp #6.2 Sleep as an agent in the constitutions of worlds | Worlding PodcastDuring a recent artist residency on the island of Örö in the Finnish Archipelago writer, artist and researcher Ally Bisshop was overcome by a wash of fatigue. Sensing a pull between the two opposing forces of sleep and desire, she asked how exhaustion could help her to read this ecology with more curiosity, generosity and sensitivity.
Ally felt a tension between ambition and surrendering to her lethargy. She found it was useful to draw on the mythopoeia figures of Eros (desire) and Hypnos (sleep and death) as a device for getting out of the habits of thinking la...2022-02-2344 min
Worlding PodcastEp #6.1 Colliding Timescales | Worlding PodcastWhile observing the extension of Berlin’s A100 City Highway that is being tunneled close to her home in Berlin-Neukölln, artist and writer Catherine Rose Evans collected rocks at the site which were glacial erratics deposited there during the ice age. In this episode Catherine shares her interest in geologic time and where this intersects with our own human timescales as found in our bodies, their materiality and our lived histories. Often we think of rocks as stationary, heavy things but this is only due to our perception of time. If one looks at a scale much larger tha...2022-02-0926 min
Worlding PodcastEp #5.3 Enabling Dialogue | Worlding PodcastSynne Burnett is a dramaturg and writer working closely with last episode's guest dancer/choreographer Milla Koistinen. In this episode Synne shares her practice of creating spaces where ideas can co-exist, where we can be with our dilemmas and explore things that may at times be both comfortable and uncomfortable. We then discuss how different artists are working with the environment, exploring our relationship to our surroundings through the lens of dramaturgy.
Learn more at: http://renaeshadler.com/worlding
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Worlding PodcastEp #5.2 Gradual shifts in Time | Worlding PodcastMilla Koistinen creates dance works that often evoke a feeling of spaciousness and calm in the spectator. She was born and raised in a small cabin in the Finnish forest where in winter the main sources of light outside were the moon, stars and Northern Lights and in summer there was so much light that it never got dark. What she noticed was a slow transformation that she applies to her choreographic works, where things shift gradually over time.
In this episode we explore her recent collaborative work "Terrain” - an immersive installation for one visitor at a...2022-01-1226 min
Worlding PodcastEp #5.1 Lighting Imaginary Spaces | Worlding Podcast“I invite you for an imaginary night walk in my neighbourhood. We could meet in front of the supermarket, here on my corner, next to the flickering street lamp. I would suggest around 11:00 PM, in the middle of the week - Wednesday. So dress warm and I bring some tea and blankets for us. I also kindly ask you to be silent and aware of your surroundings during the walk.”
Sandra Blatterer is a Berlin based visual artist and lighting designer. In this episode we explore her research into ‘Imaginary Spaces’ created especially in the context of installa...2021-12-3126 min
Worlding PodcastEp #4.3 Trans-forming Ways of Being | Worlding PodcastTsuki is a dancer and choreographer originally from Australia and now based in Berlin. She is working from a queer feminine perspective and in this episode we dive into her research around deconstructing conditioned ways of being and facilitating spaces of more-than human exchange.
Recorded from a hotel room in Ipatinga (Brazil), Tsuki unravels her personal story of feeling alien in her body and how she changed her name and identity to come closer to her truth. This transition was made in relation to the moon cycle, with ’Tsuki’ in Japanese meaning ‘moon’.
Tsuki now leads Full Mo...2021-12-2028 min
Worlding PodcastEp #4.2 The Nuances between Words and Information | Worlding PodcastTzeshi Lei is a Berlin-based dance artist, born and raised in Taiwan, who in this episode shares her research into the complexity of language. Drawing on her personal experience of living and working between Mandarin - a dialect of Chinese, German and English, Tzeshi explores the dimensionality of language which she see’s as a ‘hyperobject’ that it is containing us, while at the same time we are containing the language.
In dialogue with her movement practice which is rooted in Qigong, Tai Chi and Butoh dance, Tzeshi has come to describe language as ‘embodied anatomy’, approaching language a...2021-11-2826 min
Worlding PodcastEp #4.1 Dilettantism and the Guiding Principle of Pleasure | Worlding PodcastDiego Agulló is an independent researcher and multifaceted artist, creating contexts that continue practicing and investigating the relation between body and the event. Inspired by the term ‘Dilettante’ which literally means to delight one's-self in doing an activity, Diego and Renae attempt to blur the perceived border between what is work and life.
From this guiding principle of pleasure, Diego discusses different practices in which you can create a constant awareness of what you do on a daily basis. He begins by acknowledging that the brain has, in certain cultures, become the dominant organ and in response looks...2021-11-1332 min
Worlding PodcastEp #3.3 Sewage Sludge as a Teacher of Interconnection | Worlding PodcastJulia Grillmayr is a cultural studies scholar, journalist and science communicator who spends most of her time in the muddy danubian wetlands. In this episode Julia shares her research into sewage sludge and experience visiting five waste-water treatment plants in Austria in the preparation for “Klärschlamm” (Sewage Sludge), an exhibition at WUK which she co-curated with Eva Seiler in 2020.
For Julia, sewage sludge is an interesting opaque substance that is never pure but instead made up of many different sediments. It is disgusting and unsettling, watering down the boundaries of alive or dead, active or passive, techni...2021-10-2537 min
Worlding PodcastEp #3.2 Did dragon stories originate from sturgeon sightings? | Worlding PodcastChristina Gruber is an artist and freshwater ecologist, who works at the intersection of art and science. In this episode we focus on her work at the LIFE Sterlet project to repopulate sturgeon in the Danube. Christina shares how the sturgeon, a rare species of fish, got a bit lost in the muddy waters, or we got out of touch. Once an important figure, it’s no coincidence that especially in Austrian history (Christina’s homeland) and in the Folklore of communities nested along large rivers across the world the sturgeon often appears, and having once grown to around five...2021-10-1535 min
Worlding PodcastEp #3.1 Complexity Theory and Caring-with | Worlding PodcastSamuel Hertz is a Berlin-based sound artist and researcher working at intersections of Earth-based sound, sonic sensualities, and climate change. This episode Samuel dives into complexity theory and shares listening practices that enable us to develop a more nuanced understanding of the sonic world. He proposes sound as a metaphor to reveal multiple layers of activity and bring us into a more nuanced understanding of what's happening around us.
Through the lens of complexity we discuss 'care' which Samuel critiques as generally being understood as something similar to stewardship that actually is considered an antiquated concept when...2021-10-0633 min
Worlding PodcastEp #2.3 Reparations and Response-ability | Worlding PodcastHow can you move, if you are separate pieces?
What needs to happen to initiate and enact a response, a movement?
What needs to be gathered?
Julia Metzger-Traber is a mother, dance artist and community process facilitator who is based in Virginia (USA) where she works and lives as part of a community project and farm called The Rhizome.
Julia reflects on the African American people who tended the lands that The Rhizome is built on, the people who were enslaved by the British and brought over against their will, the...2021-09-1544 min
Worlding PodcastEp #2.2 Being in Relation - Identity and Land | Worlding PodcastDance artist Zwoisy Mears-Clarke shares how Worlding intersects with his artistic practice, from exploring our ancestral relation with plants to questioning our interconnection with technology and what that means for the communication of time, rest and activity.
The episode then dips into Zwoisy’s current research with the Herero and Nama people that live in Namibia, and are part of the Diaspora. Zwoisy talks about how speaking intimately to Indigenous people has shifted his understanding of his personal journey of immigration from Jamaica, to the United States and from the United States to Germany.
Zwoisy and...2021-09-0844 min
Worlding PodcastEp #2.1 Sensory Tools for us to be in Touch | Worlding PodcastDance artist Jule Flierl questions how voicing, listening and breathing can be used to bring us into a sensual relationship with our past, present and future surroundings.
Jule shares, for example, how she worked with different temporalities in her solo dance piece “Störlaut” where she reinterpreted the sound dances of Valeska Gert, a German grotesque dancer of the 1920s, in order to create an articulation beyond today’s word capsules.
She then proposes a breathing score for listeners to embody her desire to bring breath, and physical practices more broadly, back into a realm where t...2021-09-0139 min
Worlding PodcastEp #1.3 Queer Mythology and/or Fantasy | Worlding PodcastErwan Roussel explores a queer mythology and/or fantasy that is speculative, that you can dream about, you can invent and can even expand to create your own Pantheon, your own history, your own myth.
Erwan left the binary view of the Christian religion because he felt that there was a huge diversity of expressions that could better represent his queerness. Influenced by the pagan rituals and legends of fairies, witches and goblins that he grew up with in Bretagne (France), Erwan set out to dream about what he wanted to be the heir of, what queer a...2021-08-1826 min
Worlding PodcastEp #1.2 Queer Kinship | Worlding PodcastBenny Nemer has always been curious about relationships, especially love relationships, but not exclusively. Benny works as a multidisciplinary artist, diarist and researcher. He came to an interest in kinship through an interest in queerness. Queerness as a method, as an aesthetic and also an intrigue in the way that queers form relationships beyond the kind of reproductive family structures that are valorised and emphasised by dominant western culture.
From there, Benny and Renae meander into more-than human realms by focusing on Benny’s audio guide “Trees Are Fags” (2018) which encourages the listener to find a park, or the...2021-08-1127 min
New Books in LGBTQ+ StudiesKanika Batra, "Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights" (Routledge, 2021)Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights (Routledge, 2021) demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance.The book's comparative focus on India, Jamaica, and South Africa extends the valences of postcolonial feminist and queer studies towards a historical examination of South-South interactions in the theory and praxis of sexual rights. Analyzing the circumstances of production and the contents of English-language and intermittently bilingual magazines and newsletters published between the late 1970s and the l...2021-08-051h 09
New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex WorkKanika Batra, "Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights" (Routledge, 2021)Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights (Routledge, 2021) demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance.The book's comparative focus on India, Jamaica, and South Africa extends the valences of postcolonial feminist and queer studies towards a historical examination of South-South interactions in the theory and praxis of sexual rights. Analyzing the circumstances of production and the contents of English-language and intermittently bilingual magazines and newsletters published between the late 1970s and the l...2021-08-051h 09
New Books in LawKanika Batra, "Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights" (Routledge, 2021)Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights (Routledge, 2021) demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance.The book's comparative focus on India, Jamaica, and South Africa extends the valences of postcolonial feminist and queer studies towards a historical examination of South-South interactions in the theory and praxis of sexual rights. Analyzing the circumstances of production and the contents of English-language and intermittently bilingual magazines and newsletters published between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, these s...2021-08-051h 09
New Books in Human RightsKanika Batra, "Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights" (Routledge, 2021)Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights (Routledge, 2021) demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance.The book's comparative focus on India, Jamaica, and South Africa extends the valences of postcolonial feminist and queer studies towards a historical examination of South-South interactions in the theory and praxis of sexual rights. Analyzing the circumstances of production and the contents of English-language and intermittently bilingual magazines and newsletters published between the late 1970s and the l...2021-08-051h 09
Worlding PodcastEp #1.1 More-than Human Museums | Worlding PodcastSusanne Schmitt, who works across ethnographic and artistic practices often with a multi species lens and through works situated at Natural History Museums and Botanical Gardens, guides us through her research of more-than human museums and creatively explores what Worlding could be.
Susanne shares her interest in the architecture of museums, their written and unwritten rules and how this choreographs the people that work in them. By playing with the genre of the audio walk, Susanne and her collaborators set out to turn museums into multi species sites by accounting for the very different kinds of species...2021-08-0432 min
Comic Issues PodcastComic Issues #13 - Wizard WorldingOriginal broadcast date May 4, 2011. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2011/05/comic-issues-13-wizard-worlding/
Hey gang! It's Wednesday which means another episode of Comic Issues. This week our Heroes return from Wizard World Anaheim and have plenty to discuss. Including talks about amazing artists we met. Then we prepare for the May 7th the joyous day of celebration Free Comic Book Day!!
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Beyond SpeciesImagining Multispecies WorldsEpisode 29. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Michelle Westerlaken. Michelle explains her concept of multispecies-isms or multispecies worlding – a response to speciesism that looks for traces of how we humans interact with other species in our everyday lives, so as to imagine how relationships might take place in a non-speciesist future. Michelle’s work draws in strands from a range of disciplines, including interaction design, posthumanism and indigenous ways of knowing. Michelle finds the ethic of care a challenging but generative concept worth exploring. She also discusses the concept of the Bestiary in her thesis, which opens up spaces for...2021-01-231h 08
Talking UncertaintyTU#02 Insight - Difference as abilityIn "Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies: Disability and Queerness," Eli Claire discusses their tremoring hands and the stigmatization they experienced as a queer, disabled person with cerebral palsy, and how they and their lover reframe tremoring as desirous and pleasureful. In relation, how does mnidoo-worlding articulate an Anishinaabe "refiguring of the world" that does not create a division between disabled and abled-bodied individuals? Whereas in western culture, difference is often perceived as a deficit that is stigmatized and not desired, Anishnaabe culture looks upon difference as ability. Disabled people are revered and believed to understand the world in ways that...2021-01-2013 min
Talking UncertaintyTU#02 Insight - Becoming (not acquiring) knowledgeHow do we practice and teach mnidoo-knowing in the face of dominant western ideologies? While western phenomenologists have considered knowledge as a material wealth that you acquire on your own, Anishnaabe people view knowledge as something you become with others. For Merleau Ponty, the rational self is disembodied - it floats above the world and surveys it as if it is not immersed in it. In this philosophy, he is extracting himself and trying to exist in the absolute present as the world emerges for him through his perception. As such, he is trying to stay in a knowing...2021-01-2012 min
Talking UncertaintyTU#02 Insight - Mnidoo-worlding, being finite and infiniteWhat is mnidoo-worlding? Mnidoo-worlding is a dynamic and slippery concept. In western thought, there is a logic that things must always add up (for example: 1 + 1 = 2). In contrast, for the Anishnaabe, there is always an account of things not adding up - things are not exactly as they appear to us. There’s always a knowledge of a paradox or a mystery – that there are other ways of being, knowing and communicating that exist, and we cannot ever fully track them down. And that is the other aspect of all existence and consciousness, which is infinite: mnidoo infinity. Consider the exam...2021-01-2009 min
Talking UncertaintyTU#02 - "The Murmuration of Birds: An Anishinaabe Ontology of Mnidoo-Worlding" by Dr. Dolleen ManningWhat does a bird actually see when it is part of a large flock? During these times of radical uncertainty, continuing threats of colonialism, capitalism and climate genocide, Dr. Dolleen Manning discusses what we can learn from wading into subtle mnidoo regions to collaboratively imagine new futures and formations. Read the talk insights here. https://www.urgentemergent.org/talking-uncertainty/mnidoo-worlding
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Postcolonial SpaceS1E13: What are Worlding and Worldliness?| PostcolonialismWhat is Worlding and Worldliness?| Postcolonial Theory| Postcolonialism| Gayatri Spivak| Edward Said
In this episode I have combined two lectures (worlding and worldliness) that were previously published in my Postcolonial Concepts Playlist on YouTube. I think if you view the two videos side by side, it would be better for clear understanding of the differences between the two terms, one theorized by Edward Said (Wordliness) and the other by Gayatri Spivak (Worlding).2020-11-2814 min
Positivity StrategistWhat is Transmaterial Worlding and Why do We Need to Pay Attention?Transmaterial worlding provokes us to pay attention. Once we start to realize that we are merely co-inhabitors of this world, we awaken to the notion we are making it, or breaking it, with each breath we take, each word we utter, and each action we take. The human species as all powerful and in control is a social-cultural construct. Globally right now, we need to listen differently to the distinct parts of the world and understand that other matter is also communicating. Humans need de-centering and de-throning from the illusion of being in control of the world. For more...2020-08-1155 min
Wombat RadioHolly Duranthttps://vimeo.com/373845963
"the amount of time it (the work) sits in activated states in front of other humans"Holly Durant
Holly Durant is an artist who crafts sites for performance with choreography to evoke senses of pleasure and empowerment. Her works consistently gather communities and provide platforms for interrogating how bodies occupy and negotiate space.
By exploring ideas of embodiment, co-presence and ‘worlding,’ her inhabited installations blur the boundaries between subject and environment, between private and public experience. Layered sensorial environments and disobedient gestures transform the body, questioning the concept of the ‘blank’ body onto which narratives and meaning are proje...2020-04-301h 19
Genuinely UsefulPt 2 - Embodied Energy of the Internet - Katie Singer“If people remain unaware, in the illusion of the simplicity of sending an email, then there isn’t really a way to move forward until Nature imposes limits on us” ---> Subscribe for new podcast episode Email Notifications HERE Where do we get these wonderful toys? What are the hidden costs of the Internet? How do we get silicon wafers for electronics manufacturing? And while we’re at it, how are we able to download podcasts for free? Or is it free? What is the true cost? Katie Singer is the author of...2019-12-061h 01
Marooned! on Mars with Matt and HilaryThe Martians 10: "Green Mars," Romanticism, Existentialism, and the Four PipsWe rejoin Roger Clayborne (no relation to Ann) and Eileen Monday as they're reunited for a climb up Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain in the solar system.
A lot to talk about in this episode, including Heidegger and Sartre, Romanticism, post-Romanticism, and nature, colonialism and history, somatic experiences, misery tourism, and worlding. Way too much to summarize!
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The Art World: What If...?!The Art World: In Other Words, Artist Ian Cheng: "The best art is like a Trojan horse"Ian Cheng wants to change the way you think. “I really want to make art that taps into some part of a viewer’s neurology and gets them into a different state,” Cheng says to host Charlotte Burns during this In Other Words podcast. The wide-ranging conversation covers topics from the freedom afforded humans by AI, to the genius of The Real Housewives television show. Cheng creates art with a nervous system: his practice often involves computer simulations that resemble video games—albeit ones that play themselves. His current exhibition “BOB: Bag of Beliefs” centers around an AI lifeform whos...2019-03-1448 min
WB202: The Critical Inquiry PodcastExperiments in Critical Practice: Coeditor Lauren Berlant Interviews Conference ParticipantsLauren Berlant asks participants of “The Soup Is On” about their engagement with theory and optimism for what writing can do. The June 2018 conference launched Berlant and Katie Stewart’s The Hundreds (2018), their forthcoming experiment in form, attention, and generative worlding. Apart from Stewart and Berlant, every conference experimenter wrote an index for the book, reorganizing it in their own register and mode. Their collaborative effort aspires to jumpstart a community conversation about what critical thinking can look like, sound like, and be for.
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Field of GeeksEpisode 99 - WIZARD WORLDING With NICHELLE NICHOLS and MORE!Welcome to Field of Geeks 99. Join Josh, Steve, Mitch, and Joey for a Giant-Sized episode. The geeks talked Wizard World Comic Con experiences, Josh got to interview an icon, Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura on Star Trek. Other items discussed were: Spawn, Top Gun 2, Al Pacino, Power Rangers, Joker, Solo, Crow, Trailers, Comics, Games, Reviews, and more!
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Cultures of Energy122 - Making Alternate Worlds (feat. Ganzeer & Jeff VanderMeer)After Cymene and Dominic take a moment to call out for profit academic publishing and cheerleading, this week’s podcast brings you (16:00) the keynote panel from CENHS’s Cultures of Energy 7 symposium, which explored the art, craft and significance of making alternate worlds. The conversation features famed Egyptian artist Ganzeer (The Solar Grid) celebrated novelist Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation, Borne) in conversation with Cymene (Unda) about worldmaking in the context of our the ecological crises besetting our planet and its species. All three explain their approaches to storytelling and worldmaking and the conversation that follows (43:51) ranges widely from what kinds of n...2018-04-201h 32
Expensive Science BabyEpisode 84: Rainy Days Are AwesomeAmee and Chris return during a rainy day of awesomeness! But, can Chris convince his wife that rain and cold are good things? I doubt it. Plus, babies are babying, cats are catting, and the world is worlding. Come friend with us!2018-03-2700 min
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AnthroPod7. Worlding with the BodyWe return again to the November 2013 American Anthropological Association meeting in Chicago to showcase the panel entitled "Worlding with the Body." In this episode the five panelists consider how the concept of "worlding" -- that is, how bodies are not simply objects that exist within the world, but agents that operate to partially make it - can help reveal new details about their diverse fields of research.2014-01-2352 min
Comic Issues PodcastComic Issues #13 – Wizard WorldingYou can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Hey gang! It’s Wednesday which means another episode of Comic Issues. This week our Heroes return from Wizard World Anaheim and have plenty to discuss. Including talks about amazing artists we met. Then we prepare for the May 7th the joyous day...
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