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About Cody Skahan
Cody Skahan (cas12@hi.is) is a graduate of the MA program in Anthropology at the University of Iceland as a Leifur Eriksson Fellow and will be starting his DPhil at the University of Oxford in the fall of 2024. His work focuses on environmentalism in the Arctic, especially amidst conflicting and interrelated sociotechnical imaginaries originating from different sources such as youth environmentalists. Cody co-hosts a social theory and anthropology podcast with two of his friends called Un/livable Cultures (https://unlivablecultures.wordpress.com/) available wherever you get podcasts.NBN Episodes hosted by Cody:
November 1, 2024
Beginning to End the Climate Crisis
"Climate change is the biggest crisis of humankind. We can’t watch other people drive our future right against the wall.” This is a quote by Luisa Ne…
June 28, 2024
What Is Extinction?
Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extin…
May 18, 2024
Embracing Alienation
The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation? We often think of our exi…
April 11, 2023
Enjoyment Right & Left
Today I talked to Todd McGowan about his book Enjoyment Right & Left (Sublation Media, 2022). While understanding the psychic structure of pleasure…
February 21, 2023
Negative Ecologies
So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies: Fossil…
February 5, 2023
Half-Life of a Secret
In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee.…
June 22, 2022
Scorched Earth
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our ‘digital age’ is synonymous with the disastrous terminal …
June 10, 2022
Queering Chinese Kinship
China has one of the largest queer populations in the world, but what does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, an…