URBAN NATURE - Episode 2: Verena Conley and Gabriel Kozlowski

In this episode of URBAN NATURE, cultural and
critical theorist Verena Conley and
Gabriel Kozlowski talk about ecology in the
context of culture and philosophy while discussing its connection
to care ethics, feminism, and materialism. Conley argues that our
survival depends on realizing a more direct connection with
animals, plants and other life forms that share the same
ecosystems with us.


On the second episode, our guest is Verena Andermatt Conley.
Verena is a cultural and critical theorist who has been teaching
at Harvard since 1996 in Comparative Literature, and Romance
Languages and Literature. She writes on current dilemmas in the
natural and urban environments and her publications include among
many Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist
Theory (1997), Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and
World-Space in French Cultural Theory (2012) and
Rethinking Technologies (1993-1997). She also
has just finished On Care: A Plea for Etho-Ecology
(2022). Verena is an affiliate of the Harvard University
Committee for the Environment and an associate of the Harvard
Urban Mellon Initiative. 


"We have to do some rethinking of matter not as dead as it was
assumed to be, but matter that is everywhere. Explore the
liveliness of matter and see how the implications are, how the
relationship is between humans and nature, animal, plants and the
environment. Explore a way of a new alliance and rethink these
boundaries." -Verena Conley


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A '74PODCAST Series, URBAN NATURE is hosted by Gabriel Kozlowski,
Brazilian architect and curator working on urbanization from the
perspective of political ecology. The Series presents guests from
a diverse set of disciplines—including Anthropology, Biology,
Philosophy, Political Science, Political Theory, Geography,
Architecture, the Arts, among others—that have been reflecting on
the relationship between humans and nature.


Episode recorded on Zoom in April 2022.


Produced by ISTANBUL'74.