Episode 526: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's Literary Reading of the Universe
About this episode
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein discusses her literary approach to physics and her latest book.
"This is also me saying here's a literary reading of the universe through physics. There's a way you can read The Edge of Space-Time as me doing close-reading for a few 100 pages. I'm close-reading equations. I'm close-reading Dirac. I'm close-reading Hawking and Ellis, but it's all different versions of a literary practice," says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie (Pantheon Books). Coming at you at the speed of sound, CNFers, with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who is the author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred and her latest book The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie. It's published by Pantheon Books. She is an associate professor of physics and core faculty member in women's and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her work lives at the intersection of particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics and she's also a theorist of Black feminist science studies. Her book is accessible, for sure, but it's mind-bendy and it strikes me as the kind of book you want to read twice. One, it's good company, and two, the…
People in this episode
Host: Brendan O'Meara
Guest: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Topics covered
- literary reading of the universe
- physics
- cosmology
- particle physics
- Black feminist science studies
Keywords
- literary reading
- physics
- cosmology
- particle physics
- Black feminist science studies
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of New Hampshire, Pantheon Books
Books & works: The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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