Toxic Life Podcast: Episode Three

Value, Waste, Remainder: A conversation with Neferti Tadiar

In this episode of the Toxic Life podcast, co-hosts Krista Lynes and Ayesha Vemuri talk with feminist scholar and critical theorist Neferti Tadiar about her book, Remaindered Life.

We discuss the "war" between the war to be human and being human in a time of war, what is remaindered life, how toxicity is located within capitalism and imperialism, and the role of vital platforms for minoritarian forms of living.

“Notice that it’s value, waste, remainder. That’s the method. That’s a way of seeing, and it’s both a methodology, but it’s also the setting for what we think, or how we locate what is remaindered.”


Show notes:

Neferti Tadiar, Remaindered Life (2022)


This episode was recorded on November 2, 2026.