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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Cara Daggett sparks a dialogue on dynamism and works to demystify the human relationship to energy.
Description: Cara Daggett is an assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech and the author of The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work (https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-birth-of-energy), a book that explores the histories of energy from the perspective of feminist political ecology.
In this conversation, Daggett makes it clear that the system of global capitalism has not captured all of our relationships and that other models of collective flourishing exist. That, in spite of the many indications that the late Anthropocene is accelerating past a crucial tipping point, we can still model a means...