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South Africa and Silicon Valley: From Gold Mines to Elon Musk
In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr. Tim Karay...
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Dec 1 2024 1h 12m
From the Suez Canal Company to SpaceX: Experts, Expertise, Science in the Political
On this week’s podcast, Alina Utrata talks to Jan Ei...
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Nov 18 2024 1h 9m
Engineering Territory: Silicon Valley in Space
On this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, your usual h...
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Dec 7 2023 1h 6m
Political Economy, AI and the Politics of Knowledge
For this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrat...
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Aug 28 2023 48m
"Automating Apartheid": Facial Recognition Tech in Palestine
For this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrat...
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Aug 21 2023 1h 3m
Data colonialism and its discontents
On this week’s episode of The Anti-Dystopians, Alina...
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Apr 10 2023 1h 1m
Feminism, Reproductive Rights and Tech
On this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Maha Atal is...
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Apr 3 2023 56m
Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
In this episode, Alina Utrata talks Mary-Jane Rubens...
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Dec 19 2022 1h
A History of Libertarian Exit
In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Raymond Craib...
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Nov 21 2022 1h 14m
Elon Musk’s favorite philosophy: the perils of longtermism
On this episode of the podcast, Alina Utrata speaks ...
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Nov 7 2022 1h 9m
Period-Tracking Post-Roe: Reproductive Justice, Eugenics & Feminist Cybersecurity
In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Julia Slupska...
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Oct 27 2022 1h 2m
The Anti-Fascist Approach to AI
The Anti-Dystopians is back from its summer hiatus! ...
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Oct 19 2022 1h 1m
Social media and political publics in Kenya
On this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata...
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Jul 25 2022 52m
The Road to Nowhere: Paris Marx on the automobile, Silicon Valley and the future of transportation
On this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Paris Marx, h...
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Jul 4 2022 1h 6m
Time, Space and Social Media: The Politics of Technology and Temporality
Alina Utrata chats with Nanna Saeten, a PhD candidat...
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Jun 20 2022 50m
How (Not) To Regulate Big Tech (Europe’s version)
On this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata...
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May 23 2022 57m
Elon Musk, Twitter and the ‘Great Men’ of Social Media
Alina Utrata sits down with John Naughton, a technol...
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Apr 24 2022 56m
‘Corporations are Robots’: David Runciman on AI, states and the first singularity
David Runciman is a professor of Politics at Cambrid...
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Apr 5 2022 54m
The Return of (Amazon) Ring
Alina Utrata speaks with Lauren Bridges, a PhD ...
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Feb 21 2022 53m
The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons
Alina Utrata talks to Dr Siân Brooke, a Leverhulme F...
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Feb 14 2022 58m
The eye of the tiger: conservation technology, rural surveillance and the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reserves
In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Trishant S...
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Feb 6 2022 48m
Grab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppression
On this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talks to Stefan...
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Jan 22 2022 52m