The Dig Presents: Superhighway!
27 Apr 2023The Dig Presents: Superhighway!
We have as many roads in the United States as we have streams and rivers.
Produced by Caroline Kanner and Jackson Roach, with original music by Jackson Roach. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir and Alex Lewis.
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Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Guests: Chris Helzer, Lou Cornum, Chris Wells, Robert Moor, Emilie Snell-Rood, Ben Goldfarb, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Bibliography (in order of appearance):
A Field Guide to Roadside Wildflowers at Full Speed - Chris Helzer
Car Country: An Environmental History - Christopher W. Wells
On Trails: An Exploration - Robert Moor
Snell-Rood Lab Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet - Ben Goldfarb
A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Who Belongs to the Land: An Essay on Camps, Blockades, and Indigenous Models of Remaking the World - Lou Cornum
Further Reading (alphabetical):
Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity - Reviel Netz
Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide - Charles Foster
Between Space and Time: Reflections on the Geographical Imagination - David Harvey
Black and Blur: Consent Not to Be a Single Being - Fred Moten
Blue Highways: A Journey into America - William Least Heat-Moon
Burma-Shave [A Commemorative History of The Minnehaha Free State and Four Oaks Spiritual Encampment]
(https://cpezine.omeka.net/items/show/17) - Elizabeth Marie Egan
Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad - Manu Karuka
The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism - F. T. Marinetti
Landscapes on a Train - Cole Swensen
Latitudes - Catherine Wong and Max Vilgalys
The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society - Lucy R. Lippard
Native Wildflower Requirements - Federal Highway Administration
A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be - Ursula K. Le Guin
[Nothing But] Flowers - Talking Heads
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Robert A. Caro
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West - Rebecca Solnit
Roadside America - John Margolies
Roadside Picnic - Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Song of the Open Road - Walt Whitman
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Speed and Politics - Paul Virilio