Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Extinction, Fast and SlowPub date: 2025-10-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOne of the difficulties in thinking about extinction, as Lorraine Daston argued in her recent review of Vanished by Sadiah Qureshi, is ‘the challenge of scale: the mismatch between our decades and centuries and the Earth’s epochs and aeons’.
Lorraine joins Tom to explore the ways that ideas about extinction are warped by our timescales and politics. They discuss how the language of natural selection was used to excuse violence and ecocide, and the continued influence of ‘empirical’ myths on approaches to conservation and human culture today.

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