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Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast

Platypod is the official podcast of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. We talk about anthropology, STS, and all things tech. Tune in for conversations with researchers and experts on how technology is shaping our world. (Jingle by chimerical. CC BY-NC 4.0)

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12:14

Chaotic Oscillation: Understanding the Paradoxical...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/10/01

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Iván Flores can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/10/chaotic-oscillation-understanding-the-paradoxical-presence-of-video-games-in-contemporary-society/. About the post: Common sense tells us that play and work are opposing categories. However, in our society, we often encounter situations where the boundaries between these two categories become difficult to distinguish. It's common that people earn money from

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10:35

Critical Metals, Magic Tricks, and Energy Transition:...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/09/26

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by María Fernanda Lartigue Marín can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/critical-metals-magic-tricks-and-energy-transition-a-social-biography-of-lithium/. About the post: By exploring lithium's social biography, I hope to offer an example of ways in which anthropology can interrogate the magic tricks and technofixes that have come into existence in the context of global cooperation for climate change

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11:25

Geoengineering: De Facto Environmental Governance and...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/09/24

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cody Skahan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/geoengineering-de-facto-environmental-governance-and-alternative-future-making/. About the post: In the absence of an appropriate governing institution, de facto governance (i.e., governance that does not proceed through “proper” channels) of geoengineering has occurred through its inclusion in a series of high-level scientific reports without being

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Space Anthropology with Savannah Mandel

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/09/04

Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration chronicles the author’s journey as a scholar and a young woman working in the commercial space industry in the US. It also talks about the difficulties of gaining access to certain technical field sites. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/space-anthropology-with-savannah-mandel/

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15:30

From a Hashtag to the Right for Indoor Air Quality: A...

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2024/09/03

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Beatriz Klimeck can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/from-a-hashtag-to-the-right-for-indoor-air-quality-a-short-story-of-the-covidisairborne-movement/. About the post: Isolated during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, I started to follow on Twitter (social media platform now called X) a few scientists who were dedicating part of their time to share information about disease prevention. From that

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19:44

Foucault, Dialectics, and Randomized Clinical Trials:...

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2024/08/29

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ana Paula Pimentel Jacob can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/foucault-dialectics-and-randomized-clinical-trials-bridges-between-medicine-and-anthropology/. About the post: I hope that other scientists understand anthropology, but at the same time, it’s essential that anthropology also enters other spaces and accepts invitations outside of its own citadel. (This episode is available in additional languages

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16:14

From Foraging to Keeping Bees in Northeast Brazil

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/08/27

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cydney Seigerman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/from-foraging-to-keeping-bees-in-northeast-brazil/. About the post: For Rogério and other meleiros, greater awareness of the environmental impact of their foraging practices developed through their transition from meleiro to apicultor (apiarist or beekeeper). Yet some former meleiros explained that they eventually began to cut out only part of the

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22:25

Commodifying Disability as an Experience

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/08/20

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mine Egbatan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/commodifying-disability-as-an-experience/. About the post: In this post, I explore how disability is depoliticized when it is reduced to an individual, sensory experience within technologically reproduced spaces, isolated from the social, cultural, and political constructions of disability in Turkey. Does the sensory experience of disability reveal new ways

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18:31

Medicine Disoriented

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/08/15

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Amanda Quan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/medicine-disoriented/. About the post: What follows is an object collection that troubles the arrival of The Clinic by engaging the historic underpinnings, cultural logics, and afterlives of its object parts. I think with the concept of simulation as one that refuses stable orientation as I deconstruct The Clinic, fold back its walls, and examine how each

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12:48

The Cloud is Too Loud: Spotlighting the Voices of...

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2024/08/13

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Madelyn Zander can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/the-cloud-is-too-loud-spotlighting-the-voices-of-community-activists-from-the-data-center-capital-of-the-world/. About the post: In this post, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork that began in 2021 with community activists in Northern Virginia, a place known as the “data center capital of the world,” to bring the cloud’s emerging sound pollution problem into

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20:29

Challenging Normalized Surveillance: “Birds on the...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/08/06

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mariel Garcia-Montes can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/challenging-normalized-surveillance-birds-on-the-wire-surveillance-in-mexico/. About the post: The ways that surveillance technology is acquired and deployed, often in the name of security, contributes to the establishment of a culture where surveillance is normalized. However, this move is not devoid of tensions, as the high social costs of

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15:56

Questioning the Market: How Does the South Korean...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/08/01

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Yuna Hwang can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/questioning-the-market-how-did-the-south-korean-camming-beot-bang-market-grow/. About the post: Drawing on new economic sociology to consider markets as social networks, along with a historical-institutional perspective emphasizing the sociopolitical contexts that enable market construction and operation (Chun and Lee, 2023), this work approaches Boet-bang

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14:27

Trolling: Breaking Rules, Poking Fun, or Just...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/07/30

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Chu May Paing can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/07/trolling-breaking-rules-poking-fun-or-just-outright-harassment/. About the post: What is the social function of trolling and in what context can trolling be an empowering act for those of us who are already systematically marginalized? What are the ways in which we could reduce online harm and harassment like this incident? (This episode is available in

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11:26

Digital Anthropology of the Senses: Connecting...

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2024/07/23

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Adriana Moreno can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/07/digital-anthropology-of-the-senses-connecting-technology-and-culture-through-the-sensory-world/. About the post: This post explores the relevance of studying the senses, particularly hearing and touch, from a digital anthropological perspective, taking advantage of the vast offer of audiovisual and transmedia content that already exists on the Internet:

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13:10

Cards and Codes: Spirituality and Magic in the...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/07/11

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by PEDRO DE MEDEIROS can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/07/cards-and-codes-spirituality-and-magic-in-the-biotechnological-era/. About the post: My proposal is to create a magical tool, a tarot deck, that provokes thought about how mystical and religious elements permeate the advancement of science and technology, especially in the field of biotechnology, and are in constant confluence with all aspects

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30:55

The Many Modes of Ethnography

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/07/03

This podcast episode talks to three anthropologists, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Rine Vieth, and Kara White, scholars working in three different parts of the world who use multimodal methods in their teaching and research. It is not a history of multimodal methods, or even a really detailed review of them, instead, it is a consideration of some of the issues they raise or resolve for ethnography. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2024/07/the-many-modes-of-ethnography/

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12:47

To Witness: Cell Phone Cameras, Immigrant...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/07/02

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jessica L. Olivares can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/07/to-witness-cell-phone-cameras-immigrant-communities-and-police-accountability/. About the post: What follows is a reflection on my fieldwork in Houston, Texas, during 2018 and 2019, focusing on how anti-surveillance advocates at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas used cell phones and their cameras as resistance tools. I focus on

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Anthropology of a Dream: The Stakes of Studying...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/06/25

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sean Muller can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/06/anthropology-of-a-dream-the-stakes-of-studying-addiction-in-america/. About the post: Addiction emerges as a problem alongside the fantasy of a “good life” characterized by “upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and lively, durable intimacy” (Berlant 2011: 3). What habits and histories shape the endurance of this dream and why do we

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22:54

Between the Bitterness of Anonymity and Ethics is...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/06/20

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by João Paulo Siqueira can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/06/between-the-bitterness-of-anonymity-and-ethics-is-racism-reflections-for-anthropological-research-on-science-in-the-backyard/. About the post: Therefore, my contribution to the discussion circle was to challenge the idea that we conduct research "at home" or "in our own backyard," as my interlocutors and I were constantly reminded in the field that

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18:15

On Disability, Infrastructure, and Shame

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2024/06/18

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Elizabeth Roberts can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/06/on-disability-infrastructure-and-shame/. About the post: Before the pandemic, I frequently went back and forth to Mexico City for work and flew regularly within the USA to give talks and workshops. The pandemic arrived just as my nerve pain made getting to a plane gate too far, which meant that, for a time, the pandemic made my immobility less

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