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The Anti-Dystopians — 58 episodes
Astronauts on Strike! Spaceports, Colonial Telescopes and Labor Unions in the Stars
"We Cannot Rely on Five Nerds": AI Urbanism from Amazon Go to Tech Sovereignty
A World of VCs in Miniature: Silicon Valley's Ideology
But Daddy, I Love Him (My ChatGPT Boyfriend): Robots and Loveability
FROM THE ARCHIVE: The eye of the tiger: conservation tech, rural surveillance & the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reserves
Why Finance Guys Are Trying to Offshore the Planet
From the Archive: Nationalize Gmail!!!
On Dystopia, Fearing the Future and Political Imagination
An Intellectual History of LLMs
Abolish AI!!: Decomputing with Dan McQuillan
Public, Private and DOGE - Hybrid Sovereignty with Swati Srivastava
From DOGE to Subsea Cables: Global Infrastructures and Corporate Control
The Final Fun-Tier: WALL-E, Treasure Planet and Disney’s Nazi Rocket Scientist
South Africa and Silicon Valley: From Gold Mines to Elon Musk
From the Suez Canal Company to SpaceX: Experts, Expertise, Science in the Political
Engineering Territory: Silicon Valley in Space
Digital Misogynoir
Political Economy, AI and the Politics of Knowledge
"Automating Apartheid": Facial Recognition Tech in Palestine
Data colonialism and its discontents
Feminism, Reproductive Rights and Tech
Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
A History of Libertarian Exit
Elon Musk’s favorite philosophy: the perils of longtermism
Period-Tracking Post-Roe: Reproductive Justice, Eugenics & Feminist Cybersecurity
The Anti-Fascist Approach to AI
Social media and political publics in Kenya
Platform Socialism
The Road to Nowhere: Paris Marx on the automobile, Silicon Valley and the future of transportation
Time, Space and Social Media: The Politics of Technology and Temporality
How (Not) To Regulate Big Tech (Europe’s version)
Elon Musk, Twitter and the ‘Great Men’ of Social Media
‘Corporations are Robots’: David Runciman on AI, states and the first singularity
The Return of (Amazon) Ring
The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons
The eye of the tiger: conservation technology, rural surveillance and the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reserves
Who is Amazon?
Grab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppression
(Tech) Company Rule
Human rights and internet infrastructure
Snake oil or substance? Tech companies talk climate at COP26
Financial imperialism on the blockchain: Bitcoin in El Salvador
The Digital Landscape of Southeast Asia: From Fake News to 5G
Lost in Space: Audio Reading
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the Colonization of Outer Space
Can your computer see you?: A history of the screen, from radar to AR.
State, corporation, people: the global dimensions of tech regulation
Nationalize Gmail!: Climate Change, Critical Infrastructure, and the USPS
Is Facebook (and Google) a Public Utility?
The Digital Periphery: Technology, Migration and Racial Capitalism
Social Media and Social Movements: The Rise of the European Far-Right
Corporations, Content Moderation and Community-Centered Tech
No Tech for Tyrants
Biden and Big Tech
Data flows: gender, colonization and the limits of surveillance capitalism
The Philosopher King of Silicon Valley
The Politics of Tech Monopolies
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