Podcast: A Public Affair (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Present and Future of SurveillancePub date: 2021-05-07“The degree to which we are surveilled, the persistence with which we are surveilled, and the variety of ways in which we are surveilled has exploded in the last decade,” says Arthur Holland Michel. “We are being watched in some way or another, 24/7, wherever we are.” Today, he joins us to discuss his latest piece in WIRED about data fusion and

Podcast: Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society: Audio Fishbowl (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Foresight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech EthicsPub date: 2021-05-12Can humanitarian actors play a more intentional role in designing just and equitable digital futures? Could we, in fact, design worlds that don't imagine some figures, particularly populations that we serve in the global south, to merely be passive beneficiaries and outside of the borders of expertise we seek

Podcast: New Books in Systems and Cybernetics (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Steve Dixon, "Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance" (Routledge, 2020)Pub date: 2021-05-11Like the transdiscipline of cybernetics, the philosophical movement known as Existentialism rose to prominence in the decade following World War II, was communicated to the general public by a handful of charismatic evangelizers who, for a time, became

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 66. Down and Out in the Neoliberal Code Academy (ft. Daniel Greene)Pub date: 2021-05-05We’re joined by Dan Greene, author of an excellent new book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope. Dan’s work provides a deep analysis of how public institutions like libraries and schools are being transformed in the image of startups — pivoting away from the communities and missions they ought