In this podcast, three millennial scholars from different disciplines play around with a scene from Captain Planet, and the ways we’re haunted by childhood media. What binaries is this scene constructing around an idea of “nature”? What kind of hero are we looking for? What’s up with the mustaches?Follow us down the rabbit hole in this episode “There’s No Such Thing as a Good Bomb”. A few links to scholarship we reference: Ted Chiang and Halimah Marcus, “Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In”Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, “Navigating M/other-Son Plots as a Migrant Act: Autobiography, Currere, and Gender” in Mothering A Bodied Curriculum: Emplacement, Desire, Affect Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism Further Reading on Nature, Conservation, and American Environmentalism:Anna Tsing, “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins”William Cronon, “The Trouble With Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature” Bram Büscher (Editor), Wolfram Dressler (Editor), Robert Fletcher (Editor): “Nature, Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age” Irus Braverman, “Conservation Without Nature: The Trouble with In situ Versus Ex situ” Captain Planet, Season 6: Episode 6, “A Good Bomb is Hard to Find”

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