Meandering Through Hidden Currents of Power, Memory, and Sacrality
This week’s conversation is a river.
Not the kind mapped by engineers or governed by treaties — but a meander, a living flow that carries silt, emotion and story, memory and mourning. What Water Remembers is not just the title of our podcast episode — it is an journey. A provocation to curiosity. A way of listening to the submerged. Of engaging with the complexity and interconnection of our world.
In this episode, we trace the liquid intelligence of water across borders and seabeds: from the flooded fields on the banks of the River Trent to the military role of the island of Hainan, the Southernmost part of China, from the Mangala Dam’s displacement of Mirpuri families to the hidden routes of narco-submarines crossing oceans beneath our gaze. Along the way, we ask unsettling questions:
Who owns water?
What lives beneath our abstractions of the sea?
And what does it mean to think like a river rather than a regime?
We dive into the shadow architectures of hydropolitics, surfacing connections between data cables, imperial surveillance, necropolitical control, and the dreams of billionaires like Peter Thiel who seek to rule from unmoored sea-platforms — seasteads beyond the reach of nation-states and ethics alike.
Threaded through the episode is a refusal: a refusal to be governed by binaries, disciplines, or imposed silos of knowledge. Instead, what emerges is a vision of Hydrofeminism, Stewardship, and Creolised intellect — a way of thinking with water, not just about it.
This episode is a journey across time, space, memory, and geopolitics. It is a call to remember what has been buried beneath abstraction. And to reimagine what kinds of futures might become possible if we listen, again, to water.
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🗣️ Featuring: Meticulous Prime, Khadijah Carberry, and Alex Carberry
💬 We invite you to leave your reflections in the comments – the meander, the epic journey continues with you.
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