In the era of climate change, how can we imagine better futures? AN ECOTOPIAN LEXICON is a collaborative volume of short, engaging essays that offer ecologically productive terms—drawn from other languages, science fiction, and subcultures of resistance—to envision what could be. The book connects thirty authors and fourteen artists from a range of backgrounds and locations, and three of them are here in discussion today: anthropologist and herbalist Charis Boke, visual artist Michelle Kuen Suet Fung, and Sam Solnick of the University of Liverpool.


For more information, visit ecotopianlexicon.com. 


Works and writers referenced in this episode in order of appearance: 
David Attenborough’s The Private Life of Plants 
Carolyn Fornoff 
The Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet, edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt 
bell hooks 
Evelyn Reilly 
Karen Barad 
Donna Haraway 
Climate Changed by Philippe Squarzoni 


Thanks to the conversants: 
Charis Boke, charisboke.com 
Michelle Kuen Suet Fung, michelleksfung.com 
Sam Solnick, @LitSciHub on Twitter