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The Machinist — 255 episodes
Silicon Valley billionaires’ war on democracy
Our sexual desires built the internet – Mindy Seu
AI, inequality and basic income
ICE and the Architecture of Authoritarianism
The truth about Palantir
The AI Arms Race
Ep 43: Posts, Digital Infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence - From Global Principles to Practical Impact
FreshEd #336 – Digital Humanitarianism (Fleur Johns)
Helping schools respond to misogyny and the manosphere (ft. Professor Harriet Over)
Do Your Own Research: AI Is Not A Bubble. The Reality Is Far Worse w/ Garrison Lovely
Extremist Billionaires are Taking Over the Internet | Taylor Lorenz interview
It's giving incel: The evolution of internet slang
Fund Drive Special: Artificial Intelligence, the Media, and the Billionaire Class
Journalism in the Age of Techno-Kings
The Data Centers Are Coming: Ep. 1 - Planting a Flag
AIxMultilateralism: Why We Need Redlines for Data, with Emily Tucker
The Digital Infrastructure of New York Citys New Chinatown (Intro Excerpt)
Hany Farid on the erosion of shared reality in the age of deepfakes
Lisa Nakamura, "The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
How to Think About the Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute
Your data, commodified
Big tech is watching (with Kade Crockford)
Building the plane while it’s flying: data centers, utilities, and the new rules of power
The people vs. the cloud
Truth and AI in Minneapolis
441. The Fight Over AI Use in Mental Healthcare (ft. Ciara Keegan, Ilana Marcucci-Morris)
Counter-app (2/4): What is Uberisation?
News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota
E230 - Manosphere Politics and the Climate Crisis w/ Daniel Waite Penny
Lawfare Daily: The Defense Tech Paradox, with Susannah Glickman
Europe’s Subservience to the United States w/ Ben Wray
Data center backlash!
433. How to Think About Disability (ft. Becca Monteleone)
E224 - Silicon Valley and the Israeli Occupation w/ Omar Zahzah
Surveillance, with Justin Hendrix
Why We Need a War on Cars w/ Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear
You might be paying Amazon’s power bill
Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
546. Digital placemaking with marginalized communities - Sirin Hassan and Vineeta Shetty
Will A.I kill imagination?
Is Tesla Still a Car Company? w/ Ed Niedermeyer
FreshEd #399 – EdTech Philanthropy in South Africa (Amy Stambach)
A New Economy Will Deliver Better Technology w/ Aaron Benanav
Big Tech Emissions and the Truth About Corporate Climate Pledges
417. Whose AI Bubble Is It Anyways? (ft. Paris Marx, Brian Merchant)
8: CYBORG RIGHTS & THE CITY? A conversation on tech & urbanism with Simon Marvin & Allan McCay
Abolishing Silicon Valley, Building the Commons--A Different Way to Spend Your Life: A Conversation with Wendy Liu
Laura Bates: AI is reinventing sexism
Interrogating Tech Power and Democratic Crisis
Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms w/ Nitasha Tiku
Brazil's Battle to Rein In Big Tech w/ Laís Martins
Technology, Labor Rights, and Political Power in Kenya and Across Africa
Gaza is Silicon Valley’s Beta Test for Global Repression, w/ Yasha Levine
The Tech Bro Zone with Quinn Slobodian
405. AI is the Demon God of Capital (ft. Hagen Blix)
Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024)
From financialized capitalism to gamified fascism
Property Pieties - Luce deLire on digital tyrants, trans panics, and revolutionary hospitalities
Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao
#90: Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology
Inside the Chip-Making Machine the World Can’t Live Without
A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and Democracy
AI Hype Enters Its Geopolitics Era w/ Timnit Gebru
Public, Private and DOGE - Hybrid Sovereignty with Swati Srivastava
On the Economics, Geopolitics and Technological Challenges of AI
AI and Public Services
After DeepSeek: How China outsmarted America
The impact of big tech on Brazilian politics with Marianna Poyares
The Environmental Inequity of AI
Episode 2318: Mike Pepi on how to escape from the digital dystopia of platform capitalism
Algorithms create a dull conformity — off and online
Live! Silicon Valley's Class War and the New Defense-Industrial Complex w/ Max Read | Ep. 215
Big money, big tech: The new rules of the political playbook
How the Hedge Fund Magnetar Is Financing the AI Boom
AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli
AI, Art and New Technology: Threat or Opportunity
Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?
Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency w/ Brian Merchant
AI in Hiring: The Promise, Perils, and Unintended Consequences
Angela Zhang: What's Really Happening with AI (and AI Governance) in China
The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry
Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism
The Future Behind Us | Ep. #5: Social Justice, Satire and Video Games [w/ Paolo Pedercini from MOLLEINDUSTRIA]
“Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” with Professor Payal Arora
FreshEd #368 – Data-Driven Universities (Janja Komljenovic)
FreshEd #367 – Digital Infrastructures of Education (Ben Williamson)
Memory and Diaspora | 'Balkanism' and Digital Geographies of Cultural Objects
Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling & Kathryn Friesen
The End of Google As We Know It?
No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi Schubiner
Behind the News: J. D. Vance's Tech Ties w/ David Palumbo-Liu
Lawfare Daily: Alissa Starzak on Keeping the Internet Running in the Age of AI
From Memes to Extremism: How the Internet Fueled Far-Right Movements (with Elle Reeve)
Are the big US media platforms swallowing our culture?
Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Cybernetics, Digital Surveillance, & the Role of Unions in Tech Governance, with Elisabet Haugsbø
How China Regulates Tech
The geopolitics of undersea cables in the Indo-Pacific
Silicon Valley is Courting Gulf Monarchies to Fund AI w/ Nitasha Tiku
Episode 486: The Computable City
A Perspective on Meta's Moderation of Palestinian Voices
Human Rights & Robot Wrongs w/ Dr. Susie Alegre
Digital surveillance and reproductive rights
Episode 370 - Escaping Surveillance Capitalism (w/ Matthew Crain)
Forward Thinking: Can feminism fix the internet?
New Robber Barons Prevent Using Tech for the Common Good / Loretta Napoleoni
Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud
How Palantir Is Using AI in Ukraine
Episode 2012: David Donnelly on the catastrophic costs to humanity of Silicon Valley surveillance capitalism
Episode 199: The Golden Age of Crybullyism
Paolo Gerbaudo on algorithms, markets, China-US relations, social movements, and autonomism
Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024)
AI and Digital Love - Part 2
What’s Really Killing the News Media? w/ Victor Pickard
How Spotify Tried to Take Over Podcasting w/ Eric Silver
AI Hype Distracted Us From Real Problems w/ Timnit Gebru
Would a World Without Algorithms Be Better? — With Kyle Chayka
Power Grab: David Runciman on the Reach of Corporations, States and AI
The Platform Society, Public Values, and Politics, with Prof. José van Dijck
Won't Somebody Please Think of the Workers?!
The spy tech firm managing NHS data
The Fight Over the Future of OpenAI w/ Mike Isaac
How I is AI?
19 Kenneth Saltman - Beyond Bodies and Numbers: AI, Education, and the Digital Politics of Knowledge
Open, with David Gray Widder
Exploring Language Modeling and Cybernetics: A Conversation with Mark Rainey
Faculty Spotlight: R.H. Lossin on Sabotage, Luddites, Violence, and the Digital Library Dystopia
Platforms, Power, and Politics — with Bruce Mutsvairo
Christa Laser on the Law of the Blockchain
Inside Crypto's House of Cards
Disinformation In Warfare with Olga Tokariuk
The Problem with the "Big" in Big Tech
Chatter: Geopolitics and the Rise of the English Language with Rosemary Salomone
281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
How Do We Assure Social Security to Gig Workers?
Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)
An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments with Dr Oriol Caudevilla
Logistics and Labour - Charmaine Chua on Amazon's supply chains and workers' resistance (WSS02)
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
Technology and Surveillance on Migrants, with Austin Kocher and Jake Wiener, Pt 2
Labor Precarity in the Digital Age with Rafael Grohmann
Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of "enshittification"
Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us All
The Dark History of the Information Age
Dru Oja Jay & James Steinhoff guide us through the hype & hysteria around AI
The promise and the pitfalls of everyday artificial intelligence.
AI, Avatars, and Augmented Reality
Does Banning TikTok Make Sense? w/ Shoshana Wodinsky & Daniel Greene
106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentient
A US-EU Trade War?
Can we control Artificial Intelligence?
Samuel Woolley on Bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Propaganda
230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
Silicon Valley Bank Failure Roils Tech and Finance Industries
24 | Cathy O'Neil, Algorithm Auditor, Author of WMathD
Protopia, Not Utopia
S02E41 - Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic Governmentality
236. Butterflies on History’s Collage (ft. Malcolm Harris)
Curate
Episode 4.9: Black Software: The Technological Lead-ups to Black Lives Matter – Charlton McIlwain
AI's Regulatory Future in the US, China, and EU
How the Xerox Machine Launched A Bay Area Art Movement
Wendy Chun - Engineering, Networks, and Social Justice Across Disciplines
Inventing American Telecommunications
Ep. 378: Ruha Benjamin on the Digital Divide and the "New Jim Code"/Did You Know That People are "Racist" Against Black Robots?
Digital surveillance in the Middle East
FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency with Robert Hockett
Heather Ford, "Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2022)
Soviet Cybernetics and the Promise of Big Computer Socialism
David Gunkel on robot rights
S3, E5 Panel on Platforms for deliberation or disinformation? social media and development
Agroecological Farming: Prehistories of Agriculture’s Digital Turn with Alexander Liebman
Art and Religion as Technology
Moving Images In Absentia Courtroom Looking In The Age Of Hyper - Mediation
Al, Anti-Discrimination Law, and Your (Artificial) Immutability
Belabored: Courier Class War
The Perils of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Publishing
Chris Salter, "Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2022)
UO Today interview: Juliet Schor, Economist and Professor of Sociology, Boston College
A Harem of Computers: The History of the Feminized Machine
Chip exports and US-China relations
On Social Media and Hinduism
Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East & Authoritarian Adaptation (S. 12, Ep. 6)
Dead End: How Tech is driving gridlock
The Anti-Fascist Approach to AI
Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)
Christopher Lukman, "Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games" (Lit Verlag, 2022)
The Battle Over Semiconductors & US-China Competition | Chris Miller
Data is not the new oil with Genevieve Bell
Data Privacy and Women’s Rights with Rebecca Finlay
Fill Your Love Gap feat. Jathan Sadowski
The Dark Arts of Online Advertising
Community Networks: Connecting the unconnected
Crises & Roots: Towards an Understanding of World-Ecology, Nature & the Capitalocene with Jason W. Moore - Episode 40
Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Spotlight: Kevin Witzenberger
Spotlight: Simon Taylor
Humans of AI - The Women Labour behind Data Annotation
Digital Lethargy with Tung-Hui Hu
The Philosophy of AI with Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh
Should the Government use AI? with Shion Guha
Are internet shutdowns evolving?
Understanding Crypto 6: Bruce Schneier: Security, Trust, and Blockchain
Algorithms of Education: Data and its role in education policy
Roberto J. González, "War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future" (U California Press, 2022)
15 Years of the iPhone w/ Brian Merchant
Understanding the cryptocurrency crash
Mark Andrejevic, "Automated Media" (Routledge, 2019)
Shitcoins: are pointless cryptocurrencies a scam or a gamble?
170. Seasons in the Crypto Abyss (ft. David Gerard)
Ellen Broad talks Cybernetics, Data Science, and Life.
Streaming Wars: Revenge of the Cinema? w/ Gita Jackson
Critical submarine cables: a deep dive into undersea infrastructure
Automated Warfare
Depeche Modem w/ Kevin Driscoll on early net culture (NM44)
Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Chiara Bonacchi, "Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data" (UCL Press, 2022)
Literary Archives in the Digital Age: An Overdue Conversation with Dr. Lise Jaillant
Cryptocalypse Now!
(Un)Stablecoins and the Crypto Crash w/ Bennett Tomlin
The Work of the Internet (w/ Justin E.H. Smith)
Sangeet Kumar, "The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web" (Indiana UP, 2021)
North Korean digital control
Facebook's African Sweatshop with Billy Perrigo
N°34 — Genevieve Bell from Cybernetics to Meta(verse)
Andrew McLuhan /// Techno-Maelstrom
The Asset in the Machine
All Eyes on Crypto
Pressure and Freedom: Technology and Formations of Public and Private Health Care in Phnom Penh
Algorithmic Destruction
/252/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics ft. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
“Distance and Criticality”: The Digital Humanities and the Potential for Art History Scholarship with Hubertus Kohle and Emily Pugh
Making creative laborers for a precarious economy.
Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
“Directed Towards How We See Ourselves”: Social Art History in a Digital World with Paul B. Jaskot and Barbara McCloskey
#74 - The Promise of Access - w/ Daniel Greene
Ep. 63: Bitcoin and Cyber-libertarianism—Interview with David Golumbia
On Caste and The Digital (Feat Riya Singh and Murali Shanmugavelan)
Alan Rubel et al., "Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Chris Bail on How To Make Social Media Platforms Less Polarizing
Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman, "The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World" (MIT Press, 2021)
2778 - "E-Carceration" Trapping Prisoners w/ James Kilgore
The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons
El Salvador's Bitcoin Experiment
Automated surveillance in education (Chris Gilliard)
*Unlocked* – Socializing Machines /// Machining Society (ft. Nick Chavez)
Episode 75 - A Cybernetic Future
Instagram, the Self, and the City with Justus Uitermark
S1 E5 The social life of programmers
Who is Amazon?
Crypto, The Uberization of Money, and Why Central Banks Want Digital Currencies
Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)