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Plant KingdomAuthor: Catherine Polcz
Plant Kingdom is a conversation series about plants, nature and environment featuring scientists, artists, researchers, writers and healers.We release two conversations each month, and hear from people who have an intimacy with plants and nature. We discuss their work, stories and reflections from the field.We record in Sydney, Australia on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay respect to their elders - past, present and future.Hosted and produced by Catherine Polcz. Our music is by Carl Didur.Visit us at plantkingdom.earth Language: en Genres: Natural Sciences, Nature, Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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16: Josh Wodak: Think like a volcano
Tuesday, 2 December, 2025
Researcher, artist and author Dr Josh Wodak shares insights from his new book Petrified: Living during a rupture of life on Earth. In our conversation, we spoke about deep time, extinction and life on our volatile planet. Spanning 65 million years we cover the climate crisis, asteroid impacts, volcanoes and how pop culture can help us cope and make sense of it all.Bio:Dr Joshua Wodak is an artist, writer, and Senior Lecturer at the School of Arts, Western Sydney University. His lyrical, playful, and deadly serious work explores ideas about the unfolding rupture of life on Earth (climate crisis, Anthropocene, Sixth Extinction Event et. al.) in the context of this planet’s propensity to constantly unleash its own crises, time, and time again. That is: how to live on an inherently unstable Earth, and in an inherently catastrophic cosmos. His first book is ‘Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth’, published in the Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies series by Heidelberg University (De Gruyter, 2025).Get Petrified: Living During a Rupture of Life on Earth here: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111382937/html Plant Kingdom is hosted and produced by Catherine Polcz with music by Carl Didur. Post-production on this episode was completed on Worimi country as part of the Gunyah Artist Residency Program.
