S17 E5: Massimo Pupillo

About this episode

The episode explores the relationship between humans and nature, inspired by Richard Powers' work.

In the last few 6 or 7 years – and bear with me here - I’ve become much more interested in the nature of the relationship between humans and other species, forces or whatever – animals, birds, trees, plants, the elements… nature, I guess. I think the genesis was when I listened to a conversation with the novelist Richard Powers and he was talking about his book The Overstory and how we should think of ourselves as being part of life itself, not think of living in terms of “our life” – a subtl...

People in this episode

Host: Giles Sibbald

Guest: Massimo Pupillo

Topics covered

• human-animal relationship
• nature
• environment
• literature
• self-reflection

Keywords

• nature
• human-animal relationship
• The Overstory
• Richard Powers
• environment

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Overstory

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