Last Born In The Wilderness
740 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 110 ratingsA podcast about death, dying, and the ruptures of life in between.
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Land & Reproductive Sovereignty w/ Hannah Dwyer | Patron Appreciation Series
August 25, 2021 15:00 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBThis is a segment of 'Land & Reproductive Sovereignty w/ Hannah Dwyer' on Patreon. Listen to the full discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54684987 In the second of my series of conversations with patrons of the podcast, I speak with Hannah Dwyer. She has been a listener and supporter of Last Born for some time, and I first became aware of her from an article she published at Gods&Radicals Press, ‘Magic Can Create a Decolonial Future’, and from an audio message she sent me for my Drop M...
Epilogue: Final Thoughts On Episode 300, A Call For Support
August 23, 2021 19:54 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBOh goodness, finally, it’s done. It took too long to produce — a month or so longer than I intended to put this all together. I became exhausted, weary of hearing my own voice, editing hours of audio, listening and trimming and organizing and reorganizing and recording my wandering commentary, cutting and slicing and trimming, exporting, finding mistakes, fixing and then re-exporting, uploading chunky hi-quality audio files, writing provocative titles and descriptions, editing eye-catching d...
#300 | Part Seven: Transitions, Death, The Ruptures Of Life In Between
August 18, 2021 00:00 - 3 hours - 199 MBFinally, we have reached the end—in more ways than one. This long series has been a labor of love. It took too long to produce, but ultimately, preparing and releasing each of these parts has been a gratifying, and even cathartic, experience. This last part, fittingly, is a meditation on endings, transitions, the death of things. And, most importantly, love—the love that accompanies all of it. We are meeting a time of many endings. The overly-complex systems that govern modern human life ar...
Exploring the Theological Fringe w/ Rachel Grace Blanton Walker | Patron Appreciation Series
August 09, 2021 16:00 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBThis is a segment of 'Exploring the Theological Fringe' w/ Rachel Grace Blanton Walker on Patreon. Listen to the full discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54312483 Subscribe to Rachel's channel Exploring the Theological Fringe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYQIO-eZX23rSPSZuqOzNA In the first of my series of interviews with patrons of the podcast, I speak with Rachel Grace Blanton Walker. She has been a long time listener and supporter of Last Born, and was one of the first to cont...
#300 Part Six: Hungry Ghosts, Unraveling Colonial Bodies
August 08, 2021 02:32 - 4 hours - 249 MBWe are haunted beings. Unintegrated traumas, like ghosts, possess us, poison us — until they don’t. Colonization, rupturous, severs the body from its relations, from ancestors and earth. It flattens the diversity of human experience, relying on the multifaceted dynamics of intergenerational trauma to replicate itself, in perpetuity. Like ghosts, these traumas haunt us, hijack us. The line between the abuser and the abused is blurred, trauma compounds, cutting in all directions. Decolonizat...
#300 | Part Six: Hungry Ghosts, Unraveling Colonial Bodies
August 07, 2021 00:00 - 4 hours - 249 MBWe are haunted beings. Unintegrated traumas, like ghosts, possess us, poison us — until they don’t. Colonization, rupturous, severs the body from its relations, from ancestors and earth. It flattens the diversity of human experience, relying on the multifaceted dynamics of intergenerational trauma to replicate itself, in perpetuity. Like ghosts, these traumas haunt us, hijack us. The line between the abuser and the abused is blurred, trauma compounds, cutting in all directions. Decolonizat...
#300 Part Five: Fascistic Flashpoints, Gazing Into The Void
July 18, 2021 18:45 - 3 hours - 200 MBLet us gaze into the void at the heart of this country. What happened on January 6th was neither the beginning, nor the endpoint, of the fascist trajectory this nation has been lurching headlong toward. It was a flashpoint. The events that led to this explosion of violence did not happen in a vacuum. Donald Trump’s rise to the highest political office in the land was neither an anomaly nor an accident. Decades of neoliberal decay, widespread white anxiety, and the inherent spiritual rot at ...
#300 | Part Five: Fascistic Flashpoints, Gazing Into The Void
July 18, 2021 00:00 - 3 hours - 200 MBLet us gaze into the void at the heart of this country. What happened on January 6th was neither the beginning, nor the endpoint, of the fascist trajectory this nation has been lurching headlong toward. It was a flashpoint. The events that led to this explosion of violence did not happen in a vacuum. Donald Trump’s rise to the highest political office in the land was neither an anomaly nor an accident. Decades of neoliberal decay, widespread white anxiety, and the inherent spiritual rot at ...
#300 Part Four: Righteous Rage, Stochastic Terror
June 20, 2021 21:05 - 3 hours - 196 MBEverything changed after the 3rd Precinct fell. In 2020, a pandemic began to course its way through the collective body, and the dead began to pile up. Tens of millions of U.S. citizens lost their jobs, and the capitalist system shuttered. As it turns out, these are the perfect conditions for revolt. On May 25th, George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in the streets of Minneapolis. Everyone saw the video, and it was undeniable. We witnessed something as old as this country itse...
#300 | Part Four: Righteous Rage, Stochastic Terror
June 20, 2021 00:00 - 3 hours - 196 MBEverything changed after the 3rd Precinct fell. In 2020, a pandemic began to course its way through the collective body, and the dead began to pile up. Tens of millions of U.S. citizens lost their jobs, and the capitalist system shuttered. As it turns out, these are the perfect conditions for revolt. On May 25th, George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in the streets of Minneapolis. Everyone saw the video, and it was undeniable. We witnessed something as old as this country itse...
#300 Part Three: Plague Days, Fertile Grounds
June 12, 2021 07:00 - 3 hours - 176 MBMay we live in interesting times. The fertile grounds that bred a novel, deadly coronavirus and the misinformation that accompanied its spread is our subject. Over the last year-and-a-half since COVID spilled over, and more specifically, when our collective reaction to it began to reshape every aspect of our lives, I conducted numerous interviews to make sense of this thing. Disruptions in the very fragile (and simultaneously resilient) global economic system, mass death, overburdened hea...
#300 | Part Three: Plague Days, Fertile Grounds
June 11, 2021 00:00 - 3 hours - 176 MBMay we live in interesting times. The fertile grounds that bred a novel, deadly coronavirus and the misinformation that accompanied its spread is our subject. Over the last year-and-a-half since COVID spilled over, and more specifically, when our collective reaction to it began to reshape every aspect of our lives, I conducted numerous interviews to make sense of this thing. Disruptions in the very fragile (and simultaneously resilient) global economic system, mass death, overburdened hea...
#300 Part Two: Last Born In Brazil
June 02, 2021 14:30 - 2 hours - 142 MBLet's proceed to part two. From December 2019 to February 2020, I was in Brazil. Without full comprehension, I (we) stood on the edge of a pandemic. The global scope of the crisis had yet to be fully felt and realized. Before "normal" ended. Before lockdowns, mask burnings, social isolation, uprising—I was in Brazil, with its complexities, beauties, intensities, realities. My time there left its mark on me, and is still felt to this day a year plus since—having informed almost every aspect...
#300 | Part Two: Last Born In Brazil
June 02, 2021 00:00 - 2 hours - 142 MBLet's proceed to part two. From December 2019 to February 2020, I was in Brazil. Without full comprehension, I (we) stood on the edge of a pandemic. The global scope of the crisis had yet to be fully felt and realized. Before "normal" ended. Before lockdowns, mask burnings, social isolation, uprising—I was in Brazil, with its complexities, beauties, intensities, realities. My time there left its mark on me, and is still felt to this day a year plus since—having informed almost every aspect...
#300 | Part One: Mother Earth, In Spite Of Everything
May 28, 2021 07:01 - 4 hours - 252 MBBear with me on this. I wanted to do something different, original, for this episode, this milestone of 300. As you will hear in my introduction, I will be releasing seven parts for this, covering numerous themes that I've explored over the past 100 episodes of Last Born In The Wilderness. This first part is quite substantial, in and of itself. Weaving together fifteen carefully selected interviews, I present a narrative that conveys one of the most persistent themes of my work: ecologica...
#300 Part One: Mother Earth, In Spite Of Everything
May 28, 2021 07:01 - 4 hours - 252 MBBear with me on this. I wanted to do something different, original, for this episode, this milestone of 300. As you will hear in my introduction, I will be releasing seven parts for this, covering numerous themes that I've explored over the past 100 episodes of Last Born In The Wilderness. This first part is quite substantial, in and of itself. Weaving together fifteen carefully selected interviews, I present a narrative that conveys one of the most persistent themes of my work: ecologica...
Ian MacKenzie: Emerging Masculinities In The Crater Of Calamity
May 18, 2021 15:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBThis is a segment of episode 299 of Last Born In The Wilderness “The Work Of Men: Emerging Masculinities In The Crater Of Calamity w/ Ian MacKenzie.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWmackenzie3 Learn more about The Mythic Masculine podcast and subscribe: https://www.themythicmasculine.com Ian MacKenzie — visionary filmmaker, storyteller, and host of The Mythic Masculine podcast — returns to discuss manhood, mythology, and emerging masculinities in the wake of calamity. This co...
#299 | The Work Of Men: Emerging Masculinities In The Crater Of Calamity w/ Ian MacKenzie
May 15, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 74.7 MB[Intro: 10:22] Ian MacKenzie — visionary filmmaker, storyteller, and host of The Mythic Masculine podcast — returns to discuss manhood, mythology, and emerging masculinities in the wake of calamity. This conversation runs deep. Ian and I attempt to navigate the complexities and shadows of men's work in our time of emerging inquiries and contemplation about gender identity and expression. We wholeheartedly acknowledge that as necessary as those discussions around these subjects are, as vita...
Ramon Elani: The Opposite Moment Begins (I Pity The Misanthropes)
May 12, 2021 15:00 - 8 minutes - 7.93 MBThis is a segment of episode 298 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Wyrd Against The Modern World: The Opposite Moment Begins w/ Ramon Elani.” Listen to the full episode and read the article: http://bit.ly/LBWelani2 / http://bit.ly/GRramon Purchase ‘Wyrd Against the Modern World’: http://bit.ly/wyrdagainst Acausal heathen poet and author Ramon Elani joins me to discuss his new book 'Wyrd Against the Modern World' published through Night Forest Press. This audio interview is actually a reading ...
Liz Oliva Fernández: Ground Level Impacts Of The U.S. Blockade On Cuba
May 07, 2021 07:01 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBThis is a segment of episode 297 of Last Born in The Wilderness “The War On Cuba: Ground Level Impacts Of The U.S. Blockade w/ Liz Oliva Fernández.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWfernandez Learn more about Belly of the Beast Cuba: https://bellyofthebeastcuba.com Liz Oliva Fernández, Cuban journalist and lead protagonist of ‘The War on Cuba’ documentary series, joins me to discuss her work with Belly of the Beast Cuba — a Havana-based media project made up of Cubans and foreig...
#298 | Wyrd Against The Modern World: The Opposite Moment Begins w/ Ramon Elani
May 05, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MB[Intro: 9:52 | Article: http://bit.ly/GRramon] Acausal heathen poet and author Ramon Elani joins me to discuss his new book 'Wyrd Against the Modern World' published through Night Forest Press. This audio interview is actually a reading of a written interview I conducted with him, originally published at the Gods&Radicals Press supporter-only blog Another World. From the article introduction: “The implications of global climate change have loomed large in my mind and heart for years, and ...
#297 | The War On Cuba: Ground Level Impacts Of The U.S. Blockade w/ Liz Oliva Fernández
May 01, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MB[Intro: 9:38 | Transcript: http://bit.ly/LBWbeast] Liz Oliva Fernández, Cuban journalist and lead protagonist of ‘The War on Cuba’ documentary series, joins me to discuss her work with Belly of the Beast Cuba — a Havana-based media project made up of Cubans and foreigners that highlight the daily lives and experiences of the Cuban people from the ground level. The United States has been engaging in a multipronged war with Cuba ever since their revolution in 1959. Whether that is through ec...
Dr. Shanna Swan: Toxic Disruptors & Reproductive Decline
April 28, 2021 21:27 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBThis is a segment of episode 296 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Count Down: Toxic Disruptors & Reproductive Decline w/ Dr. Shanna Swan.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWswan Learn more about Dr. Swan and purchase a copy of ‘Count Down': https://www.shannaswan.com / https://bit.ly/3dFlRK1 World-renowned environmental and reproductive epidemiologist Dr. Shanna Swan joins me to discuss her groundbreaking research identifying the causes and rate of rapid decline of fertility in th...
#296 | Count Down: Toxic Disruptors & Reproductive Decline w/ Dr. Shanna Swan
April 24, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MB[Intro: 9:08] World-renowned environmental and reproductive epidemiologist Dr. Shanna Swan joins me to discuss her groundbreaking research identifying the causes and rate of rapid decline of fertility in the Western world, documented in her new book ‘Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race.’ Humanity is in peril. Along with the ecological devastation expanding industrializati...
Peter Michael Bauer: Rewilding Beyond The Storm Of Collapse
April 19, 2021 15:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBThis is a segment of episode 295 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Congress Of Wills: Rewilding Beyond The Storm Of Collapse w/ Peter Michael Bauer.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWbauer Learn more about Peter and his work: https://www.petermichaelbauer.com Anthropologist, experimental archaeologist, and historian Peter Michael Bauer joins me to discuss several major subjects of his work, including rewilding, collapse, and humanity's place within these frameworks. I ask Peter t...
#295 | Congress Of Wills: Rewilding Beyond The Storm Of Collapse w/ Peter Michael Bauer
April 16, 2021 07:01 - 1 hour - 75.8 MB[Intro: 9:46] Anthropologist, experimental archaeologist, and historian Peter Michael Bauer joins me to discuss several major subjects of his work, including rewilding, collapse, and humanity's place within these frameworks. This discussion begins with Peter elaborating on the now often decontextualized and widely misrepresented concept of "rewilding." He contrasts the common, and popular, misunderstanding of this concept to his work with rewilding and its original intended meaning, and whe...
Roy Scranton: The "Ultimate Doomist" & The Existential Questions Of Climate Catastrophe
April 06, 2021 15:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBThis is a segment of episode 294 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Goodbye, 'Normal': The Existential Questions Of Climate Catastrophe w/ Roy Scranton.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWscranton Read Roy’s New York Times op-ed ‘I’ve Said Goodbye to ‘Normal.’ You Should, Too.’: https://nyti.ms/39AFgJE Roy Scranton, bestselling author of ‘We're Doomed. Now What?’ and ‘Learning to Die in the Anthropocene,’ joins me to discuss his recent op-ed in the New York Times, ‘I’ve Said Goodbye...
#294 | Goodbye, 'Normal': The Existential Questions Of Climate Catastrophe w/ Roy Scranton
April 02, 2021 07:01 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB[Intro: 8:31] Roy Scranton, bestselling author of ‘We're Doomed. Now What?’ and ‘Learning to Die in the Anthropocene,’ joins me to discuss his recent op-ed in the New York Times, ‘I’ve Said Goodbye to ‘Normal.’ You Should, Too.’ We begin this interview with Roy discussing the connections he draws between two of the major subjects he has written extensively about over the course of his career as an author: war and climate change. Having been deployed to Iraq while serving in the US Army duri...
Brian Mier: Bolsonaro's Neoliberal Agenda & Brazil's Ghosts Of Future Past
April 01, 2021 15:00 - 22 minutes - 20.1 MBThis is a segment of episode #293 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Genocídio: Bolsonaro's Neoliberal Agenda & Brazil's Ghosts Of Future Past w/ Brian Mier.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWmier4 Watch the Redfish documentary ‘Dismantling Brazil: Bolsonaro's Neoliberal Agenda’: https://youtu.be/_ToGVJ3Zk2I Brian Mier, co-editor at Brasil Wire and correspondent at teleSUR English, returns to the podcast to detail some of the most prominent and pressing issues facing Brazil today, ...
#293 | Genocídio: Bolsonaro's Neoliberal Agenda & Brazil's Ghosts Of Future Past w/ Brian Mier
March 29, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MB[Intro: 12:34] Brian Mier, co-editor at Brasil Wire and correspondent at teleSUR English, returns to the podcast to detail some of the most prominent and pressing issues facing Brazil today, much of which was documented in the recently released Redfish documentary ‘Dismantling Brazil: Bolsonaro's Neoliberal Agenda,’ which he co-produced. So much has happened in Brazilian politics since I interviewed Brian last year, just as the consequences of the pandemic was beginning to press down on us....
Emma Kathyrn: Wild Witchcraft & Building The Skills To Resist
March 27, 2021 15:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBThis is a segment of episode #292 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Reclaiming Ourselves: Resiliency, Magic, & Building The Skills To Resist w/ Emma Kathryn.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWkathryn Purchase Emma’s book ‘Reclaiming Ourselves’ from Gods&Radicals Press: https://abeautifulresistance.org/reclaiming-ourselves Emma Kathryn, author of ‘Reclaiming Ourselves’ from Gods&Radicals Press, joins me to discuss her writings exploring the practical steps we all can take to reclai...
#292 | Reclaiming Ourselves: Resiliency, Magic, & Building The Skills To Resist w/ Emma Kathryn
March 24, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 77.2 MB[Intro: 13:27] Emma Kathryn, author of ‘Reclaiming Ourselves’ from Gods&Radicals Press, joins me to discuss her writings exploring the practical steps we all can take to reclaim basic skill sets, such as foraging, cooking, folk medicine, and witchcraft. A large part of this discussion focuses around the steps we all can take to exert more personal autonomy and cultivate lasting connection to the land, the food we eat, our bodies, and the more-than-human world, and how this is crucial in re...
Kristen Ghodsee: Red Nostalgia & Arguments For Economic Independence
March 17, 2021 19:55 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBThis is a segment of episode #291 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Red Nostalgia: Post-Soviet Europe & Arguments For Economic Independence w/ Kristen Ghodsee.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWghodsee Learn more about Prof. Ghodsee’s work: https://kristenghodsee.com Kristen Ghodsee, professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, joins me to discuss her work and lived experience researching the collapse of the Soviet Union and state socialism in ...
#291 | Red Nostalgia: Post-Soviet Europe & Arguments For Economic Independence w/ Kristen Ghodsee
March 15, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 76.8 MB[Intro: 9:41] Kristen Ghodsee, professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, joins me to discuss her work and lived experience researching the collapse of the Soviet Union and state socialism in Eastern Europe, the immediate and long-term impacts this event had on those that previously lived under those regimes, and how the rapid privatization and the imposition of capitalism impacted their lives in the decades thereafter. Prof. Ghodsee, as documented in...
Richard Heinberg: Rolling Blackouts, Fragmented Realities
March 13, 2021 18:37 - 9 minutes - 9 MBThis is a segment of episode #290 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Systemic Failures: Rolling Blackouts, Decline, & Fragmented Realities w/ Richard Heinberg.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWheinberg2 Learn more about Richard and read Museletter: https://richardheinberg.com Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute, returns to the podcast to discuss the massive power outages several regions of the United States, in particular Texas, have experienc...
#290 | Systemic Failures: Rolling Blackouts, Decline, & Fragmented Realities w/ Richard Heinberg
March 09, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MB[Intro: 13:14] Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute, returns to the podcast to discuss the massive power outages several regions of the United States, in particular Texas, have experienced over several weeks in February, leaving millions of people without electric power and potable water. He explains the increasingly precarious situation we find ourselves in as fossil fuel energy production meets numerous intersecting crises, including, but not limited to...
Stephen Jenkinson: Disillusionment, Obligation, & Love In Troubled Times
March 06, 2021 18:42 - 18 minutes - 16.5 MBThis is a segment of episode #289 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Love Is Limitation: Disillusionment & Obligation In Troubled Times w/ Stephen Jenkinson.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWjenkinson3 Learn more about and purchase DARK ROADS and ROUGH GODS: http://bit.ly/DarkRoadsRoughGods Stephen Jenkinson, author of ‘Die Wise’ and ‘Come of Age,’ returns to the podcast to discuss love, or how we commonly understand love to be, versus what love really is and is practiced, and wha...
#289 | Love Is Limitation: Disillusionment & Obligation In Troubled Times w/ Stephen Jenkinson
March 02, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 79.8 MB[Intro: 13:25 | Outro: 1:17:23] Stephen Jenkinson, author of ‘Die Wise’ and ‘Come of Age,’ returns to the podcast to discuss what he and musical collaborator Gregory Hoskins have been up to since their Nights of Grief and Mystery global tour was cancelled when coronavirus lockdowns began last year. Released in November, they put together two albums, DARK ROAD and ROUGH GODS. “In the idleness that’s been forced upon us we’ve made two records. I learned this: music is human scaled miracle. “...
Akin Olla: The FBI's White Supremacy Problem
February 20, 2021 18:30 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBThis is a segment of episode #288 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Fool Me Once: The FBI's White Supremacy Problem & Big Tech OpSec w/ Akin Olla.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWolla Read Akin’s op-eds published at The Guardian: http://bit.ly/3b7FFmY / http://bit.ly/3ddDxwJ / http://bit.ly/2ZxZXRr Political strategist and organizer Akin Olla joins me to discuss the Federal Bureau of Investigation's long and violent history of surveilling, attacking, and undermining leftist orga...
#288 | Fool Me Once: The FBI's White Supremacy Problem & Big Tech OpSec w/ Akin Olla
February 16, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 63.1 MB[Intro: 11:04] Political strategist and organizer Akin Olla joins me to discuss the history of the FBI’s assault on left-wing activists over the decades and the absolute necessity for organizers to have operational security in today’s political climate as Big Tech companies “depoliticize” their platforms in the wake of the Capitol siege last month. We address several of his recent articles published at The Guardian, including ‘The FBI can't investigate white extremism until it first investig...
David Nickles: The Commodification Of Psychedelics & The Psychosocial Landscape
February 13, 2021 16:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBThis is a segment of episode #287 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Pharmacological Dystopia: A Critique Of The Commodification Of Psychedelics w/ David Nickles.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWnickles Follow Psymposia and read David’s work: https://www.psymposia.com / http://bit.ly/2LH8qhO Read the referenced article ‘Turn Off Your Mind, Relax—and Float Right-Wing?’ by Brian Pace: http://bit.ly/3b2ueNf Psychedelics have gone mainstream. With major corporate interests now pushi...
#287 | Pharmacological Dystopia: A Critique Of The Commodification Of Psychedelics w/ David Nickles
February 10, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 89.9 MB[Intro: 11:50] David Nickles — Managing Editor of Psymposia, underground researcher, and harm reduction advocate — joins me to discuss the ongoing commodification, medicalization, and corporatization of psychedelics and the intersections between the far right, conspirituality, and psychedelia. Psychedelics have gone mainstream. With major corporate interests now pushing for the legalization and commodification of psychedelic compounds in the US and abroad, David, along with his colleagues ...
Frank B. Wilderson III: Blackness, At The End Of This World
February 01, 2021 22:03 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBThis is a segment of episode #286 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Afropessimism: Blackness, At The End Of This World w/ Frank B. Wilderson III.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWwilderson Purchase a copy of ‘Afropessimism’: http://bit.ly/2MziVUw Award-winning writer, poet, and scholar Frank B. Wilderson III joins me to discuss his book ‘Afropessimism,’ a "seminal work on the philosophy of Blackness" that, through a combination of profound personal reflection and meta-critical th...
#286 | Afropessimism: Blackness, At The End Of This World w/ Frank B. Wilderson III
January 28, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB[Intro: 8:08] Award-winning writer, poet, and scholar Frank B. Wilderson III joins me to discuss his book ‘Afropessimism,’ a "seminal work on the philosophy of Blackness" that, through a combination of profound personal reflection and meta-critical theory, peers deeply into the heart of the Black experience in the world today. “Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery—in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms—continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black violence ...
Alex Vitale: The Future Of Policing & Domestic Terror Laws In The US
January 23, 2021 16:00 - 9 minutes - 8.37 MBThis is a segment of episode #285 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Capitol Failures: The Future Of Policing & Domestic Terror Laws In The US w/ Alex Vitale.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWvitale2 Learn more about and follow Prof. Vitale’s work: http://www.alex-vitale.info / https://twitter.com/avitale Professor Alex Vitale, sociologist and author of ‘The End of Policing,’ joins me to discuss the Capitol siege on January 6th, the role the Capitol police played in the event, and...
Spencer Sunshine: Capitol Breach & The Next Phase Of Far Right Terror
January 22, 2021 21:11 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBThis is a segment of episode #284 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Breaches & Fissures: Capitol Siege & The Next Phase Of Far Right Terror w/ Spencer Sunshine.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWsunshine3 Download and read ’40 Ways to Fight Nazis: Forty Community-Based Actions You Can Take to Resist White Nationalist Organizing’: http://bit.ly/3o5yVdM Journalist, activist, and researcher of far right movements Spencer Sunshine returns to the podcast to discuss the MAGA siege on th...
#285 | Capitol Failures: The Future Of Policing & Domestic Terror Laws In The US w/ Alex Vitale
January 20, 2021 17:09 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MB[Intro: 10:27] Professor Alex Vitale, sociologist and author of ‘The End of Policing,’ joins me to discuss the Capitol siege on January 6th, the role the Capitol police played in the event, and the deeply political reasons the police were under-resourced, under-staffed, and completely overwhelmed in the face of the mob. Prof. Vitale steps outside the narratives that have inevitably emerged in the wake of this event: 1) That the failure to secure the Capitol is due to a lack of police fund...
#284 | Breaches & Fissures: Capitol Siege & The Next Phase Of Far Right Terror w/ Spencer Sunshine
January 20, 2021 15:50 - 1 hour - 62.4 MB[Intro: 10:47] Journalist, activist, and researcher of far right movements Spencer Sunshine returns to the podcast to discuss the MAGA siege on the Capitol on January 6th, what led up to it, and what to expect from the far right as we transition into Joe Biden’s presidency. This discussion begins by addressing the years-long harassment Spencer has experienced by far right actors, such as being labeled the "leader of Antifa," and most recently as the "QAnon Shaman” (who famously participate...
Joe Brewer: The Future Indigenous & Cultivating The Mindset Of Regeneration
January 17, 2021 18:33 - 21 minutes - 20 MBThis is a segment of episode #283 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Design Pathway: Cultivating The Mindset Of Regeneration w/ Joe Brewer.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWbrewer4 Support the Barichara Regeneration Fund: https://gofund.me/940b9ba5 Read ‘The Design Pathway’: http://bit.ly/DesignPathway Joe Brewer — change strategist, complexity researcher, and cognitive scientist — returns to the podcast to update us on the regenerative land restoration work he and his family hav...
#283 | Design Pathway: Cultivating The Mindset Of Regeneration w/ Joe Brewer
January 13, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 89.6 MB[Intro: 14:13 | AMA 1/15: https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse] Joe Brewer — change strategist, complexity researcher, and cognitive scientist — returns to the podcast to update us on the regenerative land restoration work he and his family have been engaged in since we spoke early last year. This discussion includes themes elaborated on in his new book ‘The Design Pathway’ published on the Earth Regenerators website, as well as what it means to be "future indigenous" in our time of biospheric ...