The Subverse

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  • The Subverse, presented by Dark ‘n’ Light is a podcast that uncovers the hidden and marginal in stories about nature, culture and social justice. From the cosmic to the quantum, from cells to cities and from colonial histories to reimagining futures. Join Susan Mathews every fortnight on a Thursday for weird and wonderful conversations, narrated essays and poems that dwell on the evolving contingencies of life.
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The Subverse, presented by Dark ‘n’ Light is a podcast that uncovers the hidden and marginal in stories about nature, culture and social justice. From the cosmic to the quantum, from cells to cities and from colonial histories to reimagining futures. Join Susan Mathews every fortnight on a Thursday for weird and wonderful conversations, narrated essays and poems that dwell on the evolving contingencies of life.
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  • A Creature Called Earth: Movers, Shakers, and Rainmakers
    2024/11/04

    In this episode, host Susan Mathews is in conversation with Ferris Jabr, author of Becoming
    Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life (2024), and a contributing writer for The New York
    Times Magazine and Scientific American. The interview focused on the central question in
    the book: in what ways and to what extent has life changed the planet? From microbes to
    mammoths, life has transformed the continents, oceans, and atmosphere, turning a lump
    of orbiting rock into the world as we’ve known it. In the conversation, Jabr spoke of how
    Western science in particular has segregated geology from biology, regarding planet
    Earth essentially as a giant rock that happens to have some life, minimising the role of life
    in shaping the planet.

    Ferris Jabr has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, National
    Geographic, Wired, Outside, Lapham’s Quarterly, McSweeney’s, and The Los Angeles
    Review of Books, among other publications.

    He is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant, as well as
    fellowships from UC Berkeley and the MIT Knight Science Journalism Program. His work
    has been anthologized in several editions of The Best American Science and Nature
    Writing series.

    He has an MA in journalism from New York University and a Bachelor of Science from
    Tufts University. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner, Ryan, their dog, Jack, and
    more plants than they can count.

    You can find him @ferrisjabr on all social media (Twitter/X, Bluesky, Instagram, Threads,
    Mastodon).

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    39 分
  • Earthly Matters: An Ecosophical Approach
    2024/10/17

    We're back with The Subverse. In this episode of the season, host Susan Mathews talks to writer and ecological thinker Aseem Shrivastava about the current crises in modern cosmology. Ecosophy, which acknowledges the living earth, is a way to address this arrythmia and our current alienation from the earth to which we belong. Aseem Shrivastava is a writer,
    teacher, and ecological thinker with a doctorate in Economics from the University of
    Massachusetts, Amherst. He has lectured across the world on ecological issues emanating
    from globalisation. Shrivastava speaks of the present moment as an existential crisis, not just an intellectual crisis or a crisis of culture. During this fundamental upheaval in human affairs, the first thing you need to do is look at where your feet are. We need to ask fundamental questions about how we got here, and also address the terminal crisis in modern cosmology itself.

    “Without Nature, we are not.”- This is the start of an article Shrivastava wrote in The Open
    Magazine in 2021. He quotes Rilke and writes, “it appears that in the process of arising
    within us, the earth has dreams for us!” This earth is our only home, so he asks, “Are we
    ready to abandon her for the greener pastures of another planet that the space fantasists never
    fail to promise us? In a gentle defiance of the European Enlightenment vision, let us seriously
    consider the possibility that Rilke is right, that perhaps the Earth does have dreams for us, in
    the manner that a mother has dreams for her children. And like a mother’s dreams, the earth’s
    hopes for us must have power.”

    Ecosophy, unlike environmentalism or ecology, fundamentally tackles things like earth
    alienation and looks at the content of our vanishing relationship to the natural world in its full
    physical and metaphysical depth. We need a new mythos, and we can learn from
    Rabindranath Tagore in this context. Through his poetry, music, stories, plays and letter, the
    mythos is all there and you don’t need to go to science to find the meaning of life.
    We have a world that is arrhythmic, out of sync, not to mention suffering from psychic,
    cognitive and spiritual arrhythmia too. We need to understand the real roots of the crises we
    face, the limits of our knowledge, question our need to dominate and control and, in the end,
    face some heart reckoning and atonement.

    Aseem Shrivastava has taught at prestigious universities in India and the West and offered
    courses on Global and Indian Ecosophy at Ashoka University. He has been guiding and
    mentoring a number of graduate students and young people working in the realms of
    Philosophy, Ecosophy, Ecology, and Economics. He is the author (with Ashish Kothari) of
    the books ‘Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India’ (2012), and ‘Prithvi Manthan
    (2016). He is currently at work on several books on Ecosophy:‘The Grammar of Greed:
    Reflections on a Fatal Ecology’, ‘The Alphabet of Ecosophy: A Grammar for Twilight Modernity’, and ‘For Love of the Earth: Modernity, Ecosophy, Rabindranath Tagore’. All these works dialogue with the ecological challenges of 21st century global modernity.

    The Subverse is the podcast of Dark ‘n’ Light, a digital space that chronicles the times we live in and reimagining futures with a focus on science, nature, social justice and culture. Follow us on social media @darknlightzine for episode details and show notes.

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    45 分
  • Arcx - Vajra Chandrasekera
    2024/10/03

    Vajra Chandrasekera returns to Arcx for our season finale. Since we last spoke, Vajra has won a Nebula award, as well as Crawford and Locus awards for his debut novel, The Saint of Bright Doors. He has also been nominated for Le Guin, Ignyte, Hugo, Lammy, and British Fantasy Awards—and we’re sure there are more in the pipeline!

    Vajra’s short stories, poems and articles have appeared in many publications over the years, including Clarkesworld and West Branch. He has also worked as an editor for Strange Horizons, and Afterlives: The Year’s Best Death Stories.

    In this episode, we delve into his second cross genre novel, Rakesfall, exploring the complexity of this fascinating novel that follows two characters across space, time, and life cycles and explores themes of power, resistance, and connections. We also discuss political oppression, genocidal playbooks, shifts in the publishing industry, South Asian writers, the flattened postcolonial world we live in, and much more.

    You can follow Vajra Chandrasekera on X @_vajra

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    45 分

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