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Broadcast: 7-8pm, Thursday 3rd December.
The speakers were Milly Getachew, Anna Armstrong and Nicky Falkof.
Milly led the discussion:
Some of the proposed geoengineering solutions to climate change are the stuff of science fiction. As science fiction now looks to become social reality, can we learn from our art/artists about what we should now expect? And what does it say of the gravity of the situation that we are now turning to outlandish or risky solutions? Are we in end-times? Or is this hysteria? Is the seeming indifference to climate issues really denial as a self-protection mechanism?
The show was hosted by Seph Rodney.
Speaker biographies:
Milly Getachew Zimeta is a philosopher and writer. She read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Somerville College Oxford, and completed an MPhil in Philosophy at King’s College Cambridge, and a PhD in Philosophy at University of York where she also served as President of the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association. Milly’s PhD was on intellectual paradigm shifts and radical social transformation. She is now a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton, and a Fellow of the NESTA Crucible programme for innovation in the sciences.
Anna Armstrong is an Associate Editor at Nature Geoscience, handling manuscripts and writing articles in the broad area of biogeochemistry. She obtained a degree in Biology and PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at the University of York. Following a couple of post-docs – one at the Australian National University and one in York – she decided to leave the lab and move into science writing and publishing.
Nicky Falkof holds a BA and a postgraduate Honours in English from the University of Cape Town, and a Masters in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex. Her doctoral research, an attempt to excavate a forgotten corner of the narrative of decolonisation, is on the cultural pathologies surrounding the end of whiteness in late apartheid South Africa. Other interests include Hollywood genre cinema, particularly action and science fiction; feminism; film and psychoanalysis; theorising the masculine body on screen; technology and the Cold War in 1980s popular culture; and the colonial and postcolonial occult. She has been, in various other incarnations, a journalist and editor, author of feminist polemics (Ball and Chain: the Trouble with Modern Marriage, Vision Books 2007) and singer in a Yiddish reggae band.