Last Born In The Wilderness
A podcast about death, dying, and the ruptures of life in between.
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How Big Oil Buys Silence / Mirna Wabi-Sabi (opens the original)
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Journalist, author, and translator Mirna Wabi-Sabi returns to the program. We go over her recent investigation into how the Brazilian majority state-owned company, Petrobras, silences scientific findings into the ecological impacts of its exploratory and extraction operations and its outsized influence on shaping political and economic realities of Brazil.It may seem contradictory that an oil company invests in nature and biodiversity protection projects. But as Mirna Wabi-Sabi identifies and de
Godzilla El Niño / Eliot Jacobson (opens the original)
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Professor Eliot Jacobson returns to discuss the currently developing and unprecedented El Niño event, elaborating on what makes this culminating event so alarming and devastating.Jacobson takes the time to define what an El Niño event is, how and where it forms, and how it impacts the global climate system and regional weather patterns. He has taken up calling this event “Godzilla” El Niño to emphasize the destructive potential this current event is demonstrating. Looking at the data, this Godzi
The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s SEIGE / Spencer Sunshine (opens the original)
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Author and researcher Spencer Sunshine returns to the podcast to discuss his 2024 book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege, published by Routledge.This discussion with Sunshine has three major themes. First, the origins and afterlife of Siege and the ideas of its Neo-Nazi author James Mason that inform it. Mason’s Siege has had tremendous influence on the development of contemporary neo-Nazism and its terroristic praxis. We discuss Su
Martial Arts as Liberation / Sam, Liberation Martial Arts (opens the original)
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I know almost nothing about martial arts. Aside from a few brief experiences, I am largely ignorant of the training and practices that fall under this broad and loosely defined category of body practices. My main exposure to martial arts is through popular culture: movies, TV shows, comic books, and ads for or clips from UFC fights. Obviously, my view is insufficient, clouded, and cartoonish.And alongside this dim view, any curiosity or compulsion I’ve had to train in any sort of self-defense or
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