UnLivable Cultures

Theorizing the Nuance of Queer and Trans Life: A Conversation on Gender Without Identity with Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini

How can psychoanalysis support the flourishing of queer and trans life in light of the discipline’s contested history and present? Why is it preferable to understand gender as a process of becoming instead of something that is a preprogrammed part of the self? In this interview from July 2024, Clayton speaks with Dr. Ann Pellegrini and Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou about their book Gender Without Identity [https://www.uitbooks.com/shop/gender-without-identity?srsltid=AfmBOoo7-cL7-4Quur39qBqZjGnt2-0aYVQHj1V-3Z7JRbjyf_Qn4lXd] and how their ideas and their psychoanalytic practice seeks to answer these questions. Avgi Saketopoulou [https://www.avgisaketopoulou.com/] is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC, and a member of the faculty at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia from the Sexual Cultures Series, NYU Press. Ann Pellegrini [https://annpellegrini.com/] is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a practicing psychoanalyst. Their books include Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (coauthored with Janet R. Jakobsen). Clayton Jarrard⁠ [https://twitter.com/JarrardClayton] is a graduate student at New York University's XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement program and works at the University of Kansas Center for Research, contributing to initiatives at the nexus of research, policy implementation, and community efforts.  If you like Un/Livable Cultures [https://t.co/cOYweRRx6w], share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/user?u=89403232] or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter @UnlivablePod [https://twitter.com/UnlivablePod] for updates.

Jeroen Oomen and David Keith debate the Solar Geoengineering Non-use Agreement

This episode got a little spicy, and is a must listen for anyone who cares about climate change, geoengineering, or collaboration between natural and social scientists. If you are confused, check out Cody's piece on geoengineering governance: https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/geoengineering-de-facto-environmental-governance-and-alternative-future-making/ References: Frank Biermann et al., “Solar Geoengineering: The Case for an International Non‐use Agreement,” WIREs Climate Change 13, no. 3 (January 17, 2022), https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.754. Gupta, Aarti, and Ina Möller. 2018. “De Facto Governance: How Authoritative Assessments Construct Climate Engineering as an Object of Governance.” Environmental Politics 28 (3): 480–501. doi:10.1080/09644016.2018.1452373. Parson, E. A., Buck, H. J., Jinnah, S., Moreno-Cruz, J., & Nicholson, S. (2024). Toward an evidence-informed, responsible, and inclusive debate on solar geoengineering: A response to the proposed non-use agreement. WIREs Climate Change, e903. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.903 [https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.903]

Youth advocates on exploratory research into Solar Geoengineering

In this episode, Cody talks with Anton Keskinen (Head of Strategy at Operaatio Arktis, and part time Rebel with Extinction Rebellion in Helsinki) and Clara Botto (Director of Youth Engagement Director of Youth Outreach for The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering, UNFCC Fellow, Advisory Board Member, Centre for Climate Repair and American Geophysical Union, among other things) about geoengineering, what Solar geoengineering is, geoengineering advocacy, its controversial nature, youth, climate justice, and Indigenous rights.   Sources: Sapinski, J. P., Holly Jean Buck, and Andreas Malm. Has it come to this?: The promises and perils of geoengineering on the Brink. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. Conditions for Responsible Research of SRM – Analysis, Co-Creation, and Ethos (Co-CREATE) (Co-CREATE) https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-participate/org-details/999999999/project/101137642/program/43108390/details [https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-participate/org-details/999999999/project/101137642/program/43108390/details]

A Lunar Anthropocene and Celestial Ejaculations: That’s Capitalism, Baby!

Human remains scattered on the moon, pollution in the night sky, colonizing outer space—that’s capitalism, baby! In this episode, Clayton, Julia, and Cody discuss the idea of a “lunar anthropocene” and how settler colonialism shapes space exploration.   Sources The case for a lunar anthropocene by Justin Allen Holcomb, Rolfe David Mandel & Karl William Wegmann  Works of Zoe Todd Staying with the Trouble by Donna J. Haraway The White House May Condemn Musk, but the Government Is Addicted to Him [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/us/politics/elon-musk-white-house-pentagon.html] Which animals will be the first to live on the moon and Mars? [https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/which-animals-will-be-the-first-to-live-on-the-moon-and-mars] Navajo Nation’s objection to landing human remains on the moon prompts last-minute White House meeting [https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/world/peregrine-moon-mission-navajo-nation-objection-human-remains-scn/index.html] A Cosmologist’s Case for Staying Put on Earth [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/a-cosmologists-case-for-staying-put-on-earth.html] Becoming Martian [https://thebaffler.com/salvos/becoming-martian-prescod-weinstein] by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Keep Capitalism Out of Space [https://techwontsave.us/episode/128_keep_capitalism_out_of_space_w_chanda_prescod_weinstein] by Tech Won’t Save Us podcast Navajo Nation 'relieved' human remains didn't make it to the moon. Celestis vows to try again [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/19/peregrine-moon-lander-human-remains-navajo-nation/72279509007/]

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate: Carbon Offsets and Taylor Swift (with special guest Injy Johnstone)

Curious about Taylor Swift's Carbon offsets? Well wonder no more. Oxford researcher talks to Cody and Clayton about carbon offsets, Taylor Swift, and what a functioning carbon market could do amidst their mostly catastrophic outcomes.