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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Jeff Diamanti zooms in on the terminal & reminds us of the elemental otherness of dead matter
Description: Jeff Diamanti is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities (Cultural Analysis & Philosophy) at the University of Amsterdam. At the beginning of this podcast’s run, I recorded an interview with him where I asked some very broad questions about the relationship between humanity and our natural environment. Here, I had the chance to sit down with his new book Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum (https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/climate-and-capital-in-the-age-of-petroleum-9781350191839/) and ask more pointed questions about not only the claims of that book, but about the pivotal moment we are currently in, where, as he notes, we ar...