Image: ©2011 Braydon Fuller
Guest: Robin Fay aka GeorgiaWebGurl
First broadcast October 25 2019.
“I’m delighted to point out that sometimes that’s known as a graveyard shift.”
Lost in the Stacks, Episode 443: Metadata of the Dead
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Supercontext: Learning To Die In The Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization, by Roy Scranton
This treatise on climate change argues that we should just accept that our civilization is going to die. We might survive however, by remembering our cultural heritage. We discuss Scranton’s experience at war, as well as the variety of reactions to his claim that we should just confront our own mortality, even when we’re posting to social media.
Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store:
- Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
- Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
- The Better Angels of Our Nature
- It’s a Disaster
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
- Melancholia
Additional Resources:
- 28 Authors on the Books That Changed Their Lives
- Impurity: Two Books on the Anthropocene
- LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: INTERVIEW WITH ROY SCRANTON
- Ison, Ray and Shelley, Monica. “Governing in the Anthropocene: Contributions from Systems Thinking in Practice?”
- Whitington, Jerome. “What Does Climate Change Demand of Anthropology?” Political and Legal Anthropology Review, May 2016.
Supercontext: David Bowie’s Blackstar
Looking at David Bowie’s final record Blackstar we ask, “Was he saying goodbye?” The public’s treasure hunt for meaning in both this record’s lyrics and art seems to say so. But how do people’s grief for dead celebrities invite such deeply personal connections?
The North Avenue Lounge: Cris Gray Wants to Talk About Death
Supercontext: Laird Barron’s Swift To Chase
One of the best horror writers of our time is experimenting with genre and structure in his new “mosaic novel” collection of stories. How does Laird Barron bring together Alaska, dogs, cosmic horror and inevitable death to make a new kind of literature?