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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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12:12

Gender Dimensions of Platform Work: How Do They Shape...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/04/09

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Isha Bhallamudi, Anushree Gupta and Eesha Kunduri can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/04/gender-dimensions-of-platform-work-how-do-they-shape-unionizing/. About the post: The promise of flexibility has been a prime reason that attracted women workers to platforms like UC, as it enables them to access paid work while also attending to their housework and care work responsibilities. It is this very erosion of

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Techno-Ethics and Feminist AI: What Role for an...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/04/07

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Alena Thiel can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/04/techno-ethics-and-feminist-ai-what-role-for-an-african-studies-approach-to-science-and-technology/. About the post: As Francis Nyamnjoh reminds us, both “[b]odies and forms are never complete; they are open-ended malleable vessels to be appropriated by consciousness in its multiplicity. Bodies provide for hearts and minds to intermingle, accommodating the

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14:21

On Resolving Controversies: Enduring Regulatory...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/03/31

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Misria Shaik Ali can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/on-resolving-controversies-enduring-regulatory-neglect-in-southern-tamil-nadu/. About the post: This post addresses how the controversy around the Kudankulam nuclear power Plant is being resolved, nearly 15 years after the 2011 protest where around 9000 people were charged with sedition and 55000 under several other charges. The post treats resolutions

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16:04

The Human Cost of Precision

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/03/24

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Samiksha Bhan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/the-human-cost-of-precision/. About the post: The use of AI tools in diagnostics claims to shorten the long and exhausting "diagnostic odyssey" of people with rare diseases. As a result, AI-assisted diagnostics is being framed as a 'disruptive technology' able to deliver precise diagnoses or diagnostic cues in just minutes. This piece questions the claim

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13:31

Engineering Through Stuckness

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/03/10

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Meenakshi Mani can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/engineering-through-stuckness/. About the post: In this first addition to our series on Stuckness, Meenakshi Mani shows that the everyday work of typically well-paid tech professionals—whether that be within specific domains like EdTech or within Big Tech—are by no means without frustration. As actors within an organization and a social network, these

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13:18

Hip Hop Sampling and the Akai MPC as a Platform for...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/03/05

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jonathan Givan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/hip-hop-sampling-and-the-akai-mpc-as-a-platform-for-spatiotemporal-discourse/. About the post: This analysis moves away from exploring Hip Hop as a particular Black political action taking sonic form and towards an ontology of Black American Hip Hop production. This shift is valuable because the sonic underpinning of the beat is what contextualizes and

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8:10

Series: Theorizing Stuckness in Science and Technology

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/03/03

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Michelle Venetucci and Shoko Yamada can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/series-theorizing-stuckness-in-science-and-technology/. About the post: What might we learn by studying science and technology through the lens of stuckness? Scientific and technological practice has long been associated with notions of progress as a linear development, linked to key moments in history and developments that have led

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There is a Climate Emergency, and It's Called...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/02/26

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rachel Lim can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/there-is-a-climate-emergency-and-its-called-colonialism/. About the post: In this piece, author and artivist Rachel Lim highlights how the climate crisis is not a sudden "emergency" but the cumulative result of centuries of colonial dispossession and extraction. Lim critiques "crisis language," noting it often sidelines Indigenous sovereignty and favors

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A Promise of Safety for Everyone, Anywhere, Any Time:...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/02/24

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by William F Stafford Jr can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/a-promise-of-safety-for-everyone-anywhere-any-time-the-panic-button-the-city-and-the-box/. About the post: As a system which depends on the coordination of complex technologies and infrastructures of communication, commerce, and bureaucracy, the panic button is exposed to a wide range of potential failure points.

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Transnational Translations: An Interdisciplinary...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/02/18

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Malcolm Katrak, Anushree Gupta and Debopriya Shome can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/transnational-translations-an-interdisciplinary-dialogue-on-platforms-and-labor/. About the post: This post is an Interdisciplinary dialog on platforms and labor. We are a group of scholars and researchers who work with gig and platform worker unions in India in various capacities. We form the India chapter of the labor

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(Seed) Cycling Toward a Crossroads: Menstrual...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/02/04

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Anna Wood can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/seed-cycling-toward-a-crossroads-menstrual-positivity-and-hormone-practices-under-right-wing-regimes/. About the post: A constellation of women’s health advocates, right-wing influencers, and lay experts have helped to proliferate negative information around hormonal contraceptives, including testimonials about side effects and doubts about their safety. This

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Writing About/With Platform Unions: The Role of...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2026/01/28

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ambika Tandon, Debopriya Shome and Kaveri Medappa can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/01/writing-about-with-platform-unions-the-role-of-culture-politics-and-history/. About the post: Platform work has exposed larger numbers of workers, especially younger workers with little memory or experience of organising, to mobilise against capital and to do so using innovative means and campaigns. Through three

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The Lung Tumor We Know Exists Yet That We Cannot See

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2025/12/19

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Chen Shen can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/12/the-lung-tumor-we-know-exists-yet-that-we-cannot-see/. About the post: “The lung tumor we know exists yet that we cannot see” is a found footage essay film that assembles publicly available medical materials and original footage to explore how lung cancer is rendered visible—and remains invisible—through clinical regimes, and to reflect on how visibility

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What Not To Do If You Are Accused Of Harassment: The...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2025/12/17

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Daniela Manica and Fabiene Gama can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/12/what-not-to-do-if-you-are-accused-of-harassment-the-case-of-boaventura-de-souza-santos/. About the post: In this text, we intend to revisit the well-known case of the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Souza Santos, following its unfolding since the accusations that surfaced after the publication of this book "Sexual Misconduct in

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14:35

From the ‘Grid’ to the ‘Field’: Visualizing the...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2025/12/16

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Marilou Polymeropoulou can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/12/from-the-grid-to-the-field-visualizing-the-chipscene/. About the post: I was introduced to chipmusic and its scene: online communities, netlabels, visual performers, musicians and sound artists, a whole network of creatives which would often physically materializse in events across the world, such as Error Code. That night I returned home and went

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Touch to Make: An Index Finger’s Path into the...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2025/12/12

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Renee Yu Jin can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/12/touch-to-make-an-index-fingers-path-into-the-sculpture-factories-in-china/. About the post: How do digital platforms reconfigure the ways we come to know sites of artistic labor before we ever enter the workshops? What began as a simple search for sculpture factories near Beijing became an encounter with how algorithmic recommendation, platform aesthetics,

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Doing Research Between Adolescence and Cyborgs

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2025/11/26

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Irene do Planalto Chemin, Geovana Luna dos Santos, Kauan Alves da Silveira Aristides, Raylane Souza de Moura, Samara Lopes de Oliveira and Veronica Martins Da Silva can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/11/doing-research-between-adolescence-and-cyborgs/. About the post: Cyborgs and adolescence have historically coexisted and have a love-hate relationship. Daily connected, their bodies inhabiting poorly

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14:45

Renouncing and Returning to Shareholder Value

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2025/11/18

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sakari Mesimäki can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/11/renouncing-and-returning-to-shareholder-value/. About the post: Are global environmental problems most likely to be solved through businesses that operate at scale? As Finnish national politics have moved towards austerity measures, progressive causes are gravitating towards entrepreneurial spaces. Exploring how progressive actors are narrating their

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16:56

Space for the Departed: Bone Ash Apartments as an...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2025/11/13

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by xinyi wu can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/11/space-for-the-departed-bone-ash-apartments-as-an-alternative-to-cemeteries-in-urban-china/. About the post: The Bone Ash Apartments are at a grey zone of policy because turning residential units into burial sites is not allowed. As per the civil affairs official, "It goes against the residential function of housing and public norms." But in reality, the state

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11:01

Space Selfie: Rethinking Scalarity Between Orbit and...

Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast ·

2025/11/06

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Denis Sivkov can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/11/space-selfie-rethinking-scalarity-between-orbit-and-home/. About the post: By attempting a space selfie, ham radio enthusiasts are not expanding their home to the size of the universe, nor are they simply connecting home and places in the outer space. As Dmitry notes in his account of regular switching between being part of the global expanse and pursuing

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