Ep. #003 - Roy Scranton

• Main Authors: Boyer, Dominic (podcast host), Howe, Cymene (podcast host), Scranton, Roy
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: Cultures of Energy, Rice University 2016
• Subjects: environmental humanities; Northwest Passage; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112709

This recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter. On this week’s Cultures of Energy podcast, Cymene and Dominic share getting up close and personal with the Anthropocene in the form of Tropical Storm Jonas. Then (6:26) Dominic talks with Roy Scranton, the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights, 2015) and our most recent postdoctoral fellow at CENHS. Dominic and Roy talk about how philosophy can help us come to terms intellectually and emotionally with the Anthropocene and about Roy’s recent cruise through the Northwest Passage.