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Medical Nihilism: A Conversation With Jacob Stegenga

Recorded on 2020-03-10

Our guest on this podcast is Jacob Stegenga, the author of Care and Cure and Medical Nihilism. We discuss the effectiveness of medical interventions, the relationship between philosophers and practitioners, how to deal with complexity, the nature of sexual desire, and much more. In this episode:  How do doctors and other medical professionals respond to the argument for medical […]

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Genes, Collaborations, and Permissions with Adam Zaretsky

In this Biocoillider episode, Adam Zaretsky talks with Matej Vakula about multi-species collaborations in bioart. What does it mean to ask for permission, and how do we ask non-humans? Can language or training influence gene expression? What ideas truly underpin the aesthetics of transhuman enhancement? What does the hype around certain scientific discoveries–such as CRISPR–serve? […]

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Talking Trees

Recorded on 2017-09-12

Scot Gresham-Lancaster in conversation with colleague Bert Barten to touch bases on a decade-long project called Talking Trees. Talking Trees is a collaboration between artists, musicians and scientists who aim to connect people and nature together. The idea comes from artist Bert Barten who is aware of our unnatural way of living. When the Polish […]

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New Narratives of the Anthropocene or is it Chthulucene

Recorded on 2016-06-06

Ewen Chardronnet discusses the evolving myths and narratives about the anthropocene that he uncovered as he researched the special issue of the French MCD magazine Special Issue http://www.digitalmcd.com/mcd79-nouveaux-recits-du-climat/ . He discusses the artists residencies he is organising at the Roskoff Marine Biology Station. He also refers to Harrraway’s concept of the Chthulucene http://environmentalhumanities.org/arch/vol6/6.7.pdf . In […]

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Jana Winderen – Sound as a X-Ray of Nature

Recorded on 2015-07-17

Jana Winderen is a sound artist working mainly in water environments (rivers, seas, oceans). The sound recorded from these living elements raises issues about what it reveals on nature. The artist questions where the sounds come from, notably in wild places that are not readily accessible, recording mostly unknown (unheard, unperceivable) sounds. The artist’s process […]

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Negotiating the Term Intersex

Recorded on 2015-06-20

In this podcast, Poe Johnson interviews Dr. Teri Merrick on how the scientific community’s move away from the Intersex label, largely free of any consultatoin from any Intersex people, has had larger implications on the people who occupy that identity.

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Natural Technology: A Phytocentric Perspective (1/2)

Recorded on 2015-06-15

American artist Lindsey French considers herself as a facilitator of communication between living things and is only interested in non-human modes of perception. The podcast talks about her main directions of research which range from the slippage between nature and technology to the use of captors and sensors in translation processes. Music from “Phytovision (Road […]

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