Episode 2: ‘Gaia: The Ecosystem of All Ecosystems’ — Interview with Bruce Clarke

Cover Art: “Reflection in green” by Dianne LaForge

Join host Donnie Secreast, collaborator of the Humanities & the Anthropocene Initiative, for a conversation with literature and science scholar Dr. Bruce Clarke about his book Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene. In this episode, Donnie and Bruce discuss Lynn Margulis’s contributions to the Gaia Hypothesis, Margulis’s collaboration with James Lovelock, and the intersection of Gaian thought with neocybernetic systems theory. The conversation also delves into the rhetorical and affective dimensions of Gaian ideas and their impact on scientific discourse.

Special thanks to Dr. Bruce Clarke, to all involved with Texas A&M University’s The Humanities & the Anthropocene Initiative, and to the initiative’s sponsor, the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.

By: Donnie Secreast

Produced by: Leonardo Cardoso

Music: “Hung Over” by The Martini’s from Late Late Party (1965-67), Light In The Attic Records, 2011