Emergence Magazine Podcast

Kinship, Community, and Consciousness – a conversation with Richard Powers

Jan 31, 2023

01:06:23

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Recognizing interconnectedness of all living beings through storytelling.

Advocating for a shift towards a community-based existence for ecological harmony.

Deep dives

Powers' Revelatory Encounter with a Redwood Tree

Richard Powers shares a profound experience with a redwood tree in California that awakens him to the interconnectedness of all living beings. Standing before an ancient redwood, Powers realizes the impact of human actions on the environment. This encounter prompts Powers to embark on a transformative journey to understand trees and reassess the human relationship with nature.

The Myths of Awe and Wonder

03:21

The Trees Sharing a Great Immune System

05:57

Stories That Focus on the Non-Human Relationship Are a Late Day Cultural Invention

01:54

Introduction

2min

The Overstory - A Novel About Trees

5min

How a Redwood Can Do Amazing Things in Less Than a Century

4min

The Over Story by Barbara Kings Oliver

3min

Stories That Focus on the Non-Human Relationship Are a Late Day Cultural Invention

2min

Overstory - A Book Review

3min

What Was the Conversion to Animism?

3min

Old Growth Forests in the Great Smoky Mountains

3min

What's That Been Like?

2min

10.

The Over Story Is Full of Myths About Trees

6min

11.

The Myths of Awe and Wonder

3min

12.

The Tree of Time by Joel Holle

5min

13.

Did You Feel Smaller as a Result of Being Dwarved?

2min

14.

The Overstory of the Environmental Crisis

4min

15.

The Trees Sharing a Great Immune System

6min

16.

The New Ecology of Digital Life

6min

17.

What Would You Tell Readers of Your Book?

1min

18.

Is the World a Living Place?

6min

This week we revisit our conversation with Richard Powers, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Overstory, a story that reweaves the fabric of our reality by entangling us within “plant consciousness.” Richard discusses the kind of storytelling that acknowledges the reciprocal, communal existence of all living things, how life-changing these stories can be, and how they might help shape our response to the ecological crisis.

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Emergence Magazine Podcast

Kinship, Community, and Consciousness – a conversation with Richard Powers

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Powers' Revelatory Encounter with a Redwood Tree

The Overstory's Narrative Approach

Shift from Human Exceptionalism to Interdependence

The Urgent Call to Action

The Myths of Awe and Wonder

The Trees Sharing a Great Immune System

Stories That Focus on the Non-Human Relationship Are a Late Day Cultural Invention

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts