In this episode, Juliana talks with Nicholas R. Silcox, a scholar whose research and writing interests revolve around environmental issues and media & technology. They discuss the word "animal," creature interactions, climate justice, whales, art-making, and the need for communal and performative practices to get closer to grief and, perhaps, understanding nonhuman experiences.
----
Conversations With Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with filmmakers, ecological writers, curators, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, activists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter and other bonus animal content is released. Subscribe: animal.julianaroth.com
----
Nicholas R. Silcox is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of English at New York University. His research and writing interests revolve around environmental issues and media & technology. He is working on a dissertation on sensing and sensor technologies and environmentality.
Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was a 2022-23 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. She teaches writing at NYU.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/conversationswithanimals/support
What is the nonhuman? with Nicholas R. Silcox