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In this episode on the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with Tao Leigh Goffe about her new, magisterial Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis. Spanning many fields and disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, the humanities, and the arts, Professor Goffe weaves together a historically rich and geographically complex picture of how capitalism and racism undergird the climate crisis in ways made invisible or benign via the work of the west’s “dark laboratory.” Writing back through accounts of indigenous bird watching and Black provisional grounds, we talk about things as seemingly different as the massive guano industr ...
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Tao Leigh Goffe, Dark Laboratory, climate crisis, capitalism, racism, indigenous birdwatching, guano industry, Malcolm X, Audre Lorde, black provisional grounds, creative process, Stanford University, Columbus, Caribbean, poetics, decomposition, colo