Johanna Drucker: The Ecological Longview
b'Co-hosts Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by UCLA Professor Johanna Drucker, author most recently of a novel Downdrift and a work of social philosophy, The General Theory of Social Relativity. The conversation begins with Downdrift, a tale narrated by an Archaeon, the world\\u2019s oldest surviving species, who relates how non-human species are increasingly adopting human behavior in a world dominated by the ever-more-destructive Homo Sapiens Sapiens. As Johanna explains, we happily proclaim those documented instances in which animals act like us as \\u201cupdrift\\u201d because the reality is something we\\u2019d rather deny: we are destroying our mutually shared habitat and the other animals are feeling desperate. Johanna\\u2019s work is a clarion call for us to respect, and learn from, all those other species on earth, who in marked contrast to us, live in harmony with their environment.\\nAlso, Morgan Jerkins returns to recommend Jesmyn Ward\\u2019s Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2017.'