A Study of White Nationalist Avatars
All This Life Here with Jesse Callahan Bryant
Release Date: 10/10/2024
All This Life Here with Jesse Callahan Bryant
This is an experiment. This is an AI-generated podcast from a draft manuscript from a paper I just submitted for review. It uses Google's new very improved NotebookLM.
info_outline The Influence of the Nature-Culture Dualism on MoralityAll This Life Here with Jesse Callahan Bryant
This is an audio version of my new chapter with Justin Farrell in the new Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, V2 (2023) called "The Influence of the Nature-Culture Dualism on Morality." The new handbook was edited by Steven Hitlin, Shai M. Dromi, and Aliza Luft and is out from Springer-Verlag New York, LLC. Abstract: Nature and culture are perhaps the two most consistent moral categories in Western thought. And yet, despite their stability, what nature and culture represent within a given moral system varies widely. In this chapter, we argue that the nature-culture dualism (“NCD”)...
info_outline Nature and Cultural Theory (PhD Qualifying Exam)All This Life Here with Jesse Callahan Bryant
This is a long and boring answer to the first question on my PhD qualifying exams at Yale University from this past Spring. I used the new ElevenLabs AI to turn the answer into an audiobook quality thing. This was the question: Your attempt to develop a new “Sociology of Nature” raises questions—both old and new—about the relationship between society and nature. How was this relationship thought about in classical sociology, and where does the study of this relationship stand today?
info_outline Conservatism and the EnvironmentAll This Life Here with Jesse Callahan Bryant
I asked an AI-bot to read a little extended abstract I wrote for the American Sociological Association's annual meeting. It's pretty academic, but a good little summary of what my work has been focused on over the past few years: conservatism, nazism, ecofascism, nature, and the environment.
info_outline The Trouble With HomeAll This Life Here with Jesse Callahan Bryant
A brief reflection on Bill Cronon's 1998 essay "The Trouble With Wilderness". A lot of this thinking is built up on Bruno Latour's idea of "coming down to earth" and Isabelle Stenger's idea of "obligations."
info_outline Lauren Sadowski: Some Heady Thoughts on the Politics of Grizzly Bear ManagementAll This Life Here with Jesse Callahan Bryant
Lauren and I start with her work on the weird case of a woman in Jackson, Wyoming feeding the most famous bear in the world off her back porch and we end wondering about the philosophy of perception and causality and conflict. Good shit.
info_outline Emile Newman: Identity and subtle exploitation in the outdoor industry (Part 1)All This Life Here with Jesse Callahan Bryant
Emile Newman (@curlsinthewild) is a model and professional snowboarder based out of Jackson, Wyoming and a Masters student at the Yale School of the Environment. Navigating both worlds as a Black woman can be tough and rewarding and confusing.
info_outlineThis is an experiment. This is an AI-generated podcast from a draft manuscript from a paper I just submitted for review. It uses Google's new very improved NotebookLM.