New performance and philosophy podcast: The Refrain – Getting in Sync With the World
Fight With a Stick Performance, a company that has been focused on live performance for years, and is concerned with our interconnectedness with the other-than-human, has ventured into the podcast creation. The main source material for the first episode is Eduardo Kohn's book, "How Forests Think: Towards an Anthropology Beyond the Human," and also features the thinking of Jane Bennett in her book, "Vibrant Matter," the work of forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, and others. The title of the podcast series is taken from Chapter 11 of Deleuze and Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus." That chapter is the focus of the upcoming…