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Oct 22, 2026
Sarah Perkins-KirkpatrickHOST
I do wonder how, how often does this actually happen? How many people sell out?
Iain StrachanHOST
Well, she, you know, if, if we go back to our other, our earlier, um, Allegory, drink, drink, drink.
Iain StrachanHOST
You know, if Cate Blanchett is representative of the seduction of collaborating with these kind of corrupt vested interests, his wife confronting him is the scientific community saying, hey, what are you doing? Stop working with these people.
Iain StrachanHOST
Source your shit out.
Johanna MeganHOST
His most recent books are Writing Gaia, The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, co-edited with Sébastien Dutreuil, out from Cambridge in 2022, and Gaien Systems, Lynn Margulis, New Cybernetics and the End of the Anthropocene, out from University of Minnesota Press in 2020.
Johanna MeganHOST
Previous monographs include Neo-Cybernetics and Narrative, also from Minnesota in 2014, Post-Human Metamorphosis, Narrative and Systems, from Fordham in 2008, and Energy Forms, Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics, from Michigan in 2001.
Johanna MeganHOST
With Henry Sussman, he co-edits the book series Meaning Systems, published by Fordham University Press.
Johanna MeganHOST
Since 2019, with David McConville, he has co-curated the website Gaian Systems Planetary Cognition Lab for transdisciplinary research communicating modes of participation with and within Earth's biotic and Martin E. Rosenberg, an independent scholar since 2002, wrote his dissertation on the cultural work across the arts of the scientific concept of self-organization or emergence.
Corey OlsenHOST
There are some bad allegories which are bad because their symbolism is bad.
Corey OlsenHOST
Allegory is really hard to write well.
Corey OlsenHOST
To make a good allegory, the story in which your allegorical message is couched needs itself to be a good story and compelling and drawing along the imagination.
Corey OlsenHOST
In addition, the message that you are trying to convey.
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Corey OlsenHOST
And then the question gets asked, well, why did he write about that allegorically? And the answer was to conceal this from the unlearned.
Corey OlsenHOST
Yeah.
Corey OlsenHOST
C.S. Lewis talks about this in The Allegory of Love and says, and of course, that this is really funny, right? Like that you must conceal love.
Corey OlsenHOST
the deep mystery that rain falls from the sky to water the crops from the peasants, lest they figure it out.
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Honor we these festal spaces; See the fast-increasing faces, Circles full of admiration.
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Herald, come, and in thy fashion, Ere we take from here our glories, Name us, and describe and show us; For we're naught but Allegories, Therefore 'tis thy place to know us.
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No, thy name from me is hidden; Could describe thee were I bidden.
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Try it.