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Today Michael Thomas talks with Bryan camp about speculative fiction, its relationship to its pulp origins, its distinction from contemporary realism, and it’s possibilities for prompting new understanding. See the show notes for works cited in the episode. Bryan is a graduate of the Clarion West writing workshop, holds and MFA from the University of New Orleans and currently writes and teaches in New Orleans. Works Cited: - Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother. 1st Tor Teen, ed, 2010. - Doctorow, Cory. Homeland. Tor Teen, 2013. - Heinlein, Robert A. I Will Fear No Evil. Ace, 1987. - Heinlein, Robert A. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. 1st Orb Books ed, 1997. - Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land. Berkley, 1972. - Mieville, China. The City and the City. Del Rey Reprint ed, 2010. - Mieville, China. Embassytown. Del Rey, 2012. - Shakespeare, William. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. MIT, 1993.

Don Jackson talks with AK5A about regional economic development, its strategies and problems as well as a brief discussion the history of about automation. Don is a Research Manager at a small economic development firm in Austin, Texas, he holds TWO masters degrees from the the University of Texas in Community and Regional Planning and Sustainable Design. Works Cited: - Alperovitz, Gar. Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution (YouTube, 2013)(Video). - Alperovitz, Gar. What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution. (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013). - Imbroscio, David. Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy.(Cornell University Press, 2010). - Teresa Lynch and Adam Kamins, “Creating Equity: Does Regionalism Have an Answer for Urban Poverty? Can It?”. (Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, 2012)(PDF). Automation/Record-Replay Machine: - Nobel, David. Forces of Production. (Knopf, 1984). Organizational Links: - Community-Wealth.org - Institute for Local Self Reliance

AK5A talks with David Rheams about Ecology, the limits to our ecological knowledge in light of current technology and discourse and our expectations and understanding that result. David is a Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Studies at George Mason University. Correction: David refers to Skinner in reference to the idea of “small is beautiful”, he wrote to us to say he should have said “Schumacher”. Works Cited: - Andrew Ross, Bird on Fire : Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City (Oxford ;New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). - John Bellamy Foster, Marx’s Ecology : Materialism and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000). - John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York, The Ecological Rift : Capitalism’s War on the Earth (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010). - Marx, Karl. Capital : A Critique of Political Economy. Edited by Mendel. London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books in association with New Left Review, 1981. - Marx, Karl. “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844.” In The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by Robert C. Tucker. 2d ed. New York: Norton, 1978. - Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population. Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project, 1798. (PDF). - E. F Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered (New York, N.Y: Harper Perennial, 2010). --- Other References: New York Subway Map: - http://www.mta.info/maps/submap.html Drought map: - Texas Drought Map - from David: “There are many of these – hopefully I wasn’t coming across as critical of them – rather I was trying to use it as an example.” Hockey Stick Graph: - Wikipedia: Hock Stick Controversy - The Atlantic: “The Hockety Stick: the Most Controversial Chart in Science Explained” - Michael E Mann, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, 2014. Critiquing TED: - from The Guardian: “We Need to Talk About TED” - from Salon: “TED Talks are Lying to You” Spaceship Earth: - Not just a totally creepy ride at the Epcot Center: Wikipedia - Fuller, R. Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller Publishers, 2008.

This week's episode is a presentation by Michael Thomas on Whitehead and Sociology, delivered as part of the 7th Berlin Conference of Young Religious Philosophers titled "God and Nature. Perspectives in Whitehead". It was recorded Feburary 15, 2014 at the Katholische Akademie Berlin and organized by the Hanover Institute of Philosophical Research and the German Whitehead Society. http://philosophie-indebate.de/1666/philosophy-and-the-web-philosophie-to-go/ Works Cited: - Halewood, Michael – A.N. Whitehead and Social Theory: A Culture of Thought - Whitehead – Adventures of Ideas - Whitehead – Modes of Thought - Whitehead – Process and Reality - Whitehead – Religion and the Making

AK5A talks to Steve Godfrey about his fifty state bike tour, the first ten thousand miles of the trip and the unexpected sights and experiences along the way. Steve Godfrey’s Website, http://biketourdelife.org/ For information about the books he has documenting these trips, check with him via his website, or contact AK5A

Michael Thomas, PhD. candidate at the University of Chicago in the John U. Neff Committee on Social Thought, talks with Austin Meyers (AK5A) about speculation, the Whiteheadian notion of speculative inquiry and the value/utility of the speculative process. Works Cited: - Bryant, Levi et al. The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism. 1st re.press ed, 2011. - Descartes, Rene. Descartes Meditations First Philosophy. 3rd Hackett Publishing Co. ed, 1993. Hegel , G. W. F. Phenomenology of Spirit. Oxford University Press, 1976. - Kant, Immanuel. The Critique of Pure Reason. 1781 Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. 1st Harvard University Press ed, 2012. - Phelps, Edmund S. Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change. 1st Princeton University Press ed, 2013. - Stengers , Isabelle. Thinking with Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts. 1st Harvard University Press ed, 2011. - Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. 1st Free Press ed, 1967. - Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28). 2nd Free Press ed, 2010.