Joe Masco's guest appearances

Joe Masco

Cultures of Energy

Anthropological Airwaves

Graham Harman

Gail Simmons

Timothy Morton

Jeff VanderMeer

Rosalind Fredericks

Katharine Hayhoe

Shannon Lee

Graeme MacDonald

John Broome

Robert Macfarlane

Matthew Taylor

Sophia Roosth

Caroline A. Jones

Jim Blackburn

David Farrier

OwlTail

This four-part series titled, "The Military Present," explores various aspects of how the present is shaped by war. To do so, we've invited anthropologists to help us make  sense of the current political moment. In this first episode, structured around the concept of newness and trying to understand the political work it does, Touhouliotis and Sogn present us with an anthropologically informed view of the militarized logics operating in our public discourse and speak with Dr. Joseph P. Masco (Chicago) to help historicize these logics and discourses to understand the work that they do in creating our “military present." Full episode transcript.   Featured Audio:  P.J. Harvey - "The Glorious Land"

This four-part series titled, "The Military Present," explores various aspects of how the present is shaped by war. To do so, we've invited anthropologists to help us make  sense of the current political moment. In this first episode, structured around the concept of newness and trying to understand the political work it does, Touhouliotis and Sogn present us with an anthropologically informed view of the militarized logics operating in our public discourse and speak with Dr. Joseph P. Masco (Chicago) to help historicize these logics and discourses to understand the work that they do in creating our “military present." <a href="https://www.americananthropologist.org/podcast/military-present-episode-01" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full episode transcript</a>.  Featured Audio:  P.J. Harvey - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1lFM1K8R1s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"The Glorious Land"</a>

Special Feature: "The Military Present" - Episode 1 (Feat. Joe Masco)

Cymene and Dominic explain “trunk cake” and then (9:27) we welcome to the podcast the fabulous Joe Masco, author most recently of Theater of Operations (Duke UP, 2014). The conversation starts with the relationship between affect and knowledge in the U.S. security state and whether Joe thinks biosecurity has maintained its noir character in the Trump era. We discuss the critical role the imaginary plays in counter-terrorist statecraft, how the war on terror helped to lay groundwork for the spread of propaganda and “alternative facts” today, and how today’s condition of climate emergency draws upon discourses and infrastructures of nuclear emergency developed in the 20th century. Joe explains how radioactive fallout studies helped shape the science of ecology and prompt the first international environmental treaties and why the department of defense today views climate change through the lens of weapons of mass destruction. We talk about what institutions of national security and a “deep (petro)state” are contributing to resistance to climate action and Joe tells us how the nuclear era is entering into a new phase in the 21st century even as nuclear statecraft appears to have abolished both “war” and “peace” from the political imagination. We close with a discussion of nuclear renaissance and nuclear sublime and why we must resist a climate sublime that is emerging to take its place.

Cymene and Dominic explain “trunk cake” and then (9:27) we welcome to the podcast the fabulous Joe Masco, author most recently of Theater of Operations (Duke UP, 2014). The conversation starts with the relationship between affect and knowledge in the U.S. security state and whether Joe thinks biosecurity has maintained its noir character in the Trump era. We discuss the critical role the imaginary plays in counter-terrorist statecraft, how the war on terror helped to lay groundwork for the spread of propaganda and “alternative facts” today, and how today’s condition of climate emergency draws upon discourses and infrastructures of nuclear emergency developed in the 20th century. Joe explains how radioactive fallout studies helped shape the science of ecology and prompt the first international environmental treaties and why the department of defense today views climate change through the lens of weapons of mass destruction. We talk about what institutions of national security and a “deep (petro)state” are contributing to resistance to climate action and Joe tells us how the nuclear era is entering into a new phase in the 21st century even as nuclear statecraft appears to have abolished both “war” and “peace” from the political imagination. We close with a discussion of nuclear renaissance and nuclear sublime and why we must resist a climate sublime that is emerging to take its place.

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