Ep 38 Heather Houser ("Infowhelm", Austin Texas)

Bridging the Social Distance · May 15, 2020 · 59m

This episode features Heather Houser - Heather is an author, she's the Chair of "Planet Texas 2050", and she’s an Associate Professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin. Heather's new book "Infowhelm" is being released on Columbia University Press in June 2020, and while it was written prior to this Global Pandemic we've found ourselves in, there are incredible parallels. About Infowhelm: "How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate…