This production is part of Texas A&M University’s Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative, a three-year program that provides opportunities to collaborate and approach the big climatic, environmental, and existential questions we face in light of the climate crisis.
Created by Leonardo Cardoso and Donnie Secreast (PhD student, English Department, Texas A&M University)
Written and presented by Donnie Secreast
Produced by Leonardo Cardoso
Episode 1: Exploring the Anthropocene
In this opening episode, we gather insights from various experts to understand their perspectives on this topic. As part of Texas A&M University’s three-year initiative, we spotlight the role of humanistic inquiry in addressing and confronting the challenges of climate change.
Episode 2: Interview with Bruce Clarke
Join host Donnie Secreast, collaborator of the Humanities & the Anthropocene Initiative, for a conversation with literature and science scholar Dr. Bruce Clarke about his book Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene. In this episode, Donnie and Bruce discuss Lynn Margulis’s contributions to the Gaia Hypothesis, Margulis’s collaboration with James Lovelock, and the intersection of Gaian thought with neocybernetic systems theory. The conversation also delves into the rhetorical and affective dimensions of Gaian ideas and their impact on scientific discourse.