Lena and Gabriel talk through the history of industrial monoculture, from 19th century British high farming, to the Dust Bowl and the modern day and take a look at how farm simulator video games construct agricultural systems.
The transcript for this episode can be accessed here: https://gabriel.town/podcasts/2021/11/23/monoculture-transcript-polyculture-podcast/
Interlude: Send Us Your Song by Gabriel Coleman
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Bibliography:
The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift – John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s – Donald Worster
European Episodes, The Rural New-Yorker, 18 Mar 1950 – Herman A. Bennick
Animal Crossing New Horizons – Nintendo
The Overstory – Richard Powers
Stardew Valley – ConcernedApe
Farmville – Zynga Games
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