The Anti-Dystopians

By Alina Utrata

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Is social media really destroying democracy? Should Facebook be considered a public utility? How does cryptocurrency affect state sovereignty? And what exactly is surveillance capitalism? For all your political questions about tech, this is The Anti-Dystopians.


The Anti-Dystopians is hosted and produced by Alina Utrata. All episodes are freely available, wherever you get your podcasts. Follow the show on Twitter @AntiDystopians.


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Episode Date
Engineering Territory: Silicon Valley in Space
Dec 07, 2023
Digital Misogynoir
Sep 18, 2023
Political Economy, AI and the Politics of Knowledge
Aug 28, 2023
"Automating Apartheid": Facial Recognition Tech in Palestine
Aug 21, 2023
Data colonialism and its discontents
Apr 10, 2023
Feminism, Reproductive Rights and Tech
Apr 03, 2023
Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
Dec 19, 2022
A History of Libertarian Exit
Nov 21, 2022
Elon Musk’s favorite philosophy: the perils of longtermism
Nov 07, 2022
Period-Tracking Post-Roe: Reproductive Justice, Eugenics & Feminist Cybersecurity
Oct 27, 2022
The Anti-Fascist Approach to AI
Oct 19, 2022
Social media and political publics in Kenya
Jul 25, 2022
Platform Socialism
Jul 10, 2022
The Road to Nowhere: Paris Marx on the automobile, Silicon Valley and the future of transportation
Jul 04, 2022
Time, Space and Social Media: The Politics of Technology and Temporality
Jun 20, 2022
How (Not) To Regulate Big Tech (Europe’s version)
May 23, 2022
Elon Musk, Twitter and the ‘Great Men’ of Social Media
Apr 24, 2022
‘Corporations are Robots’: David Runciman on AI, states and the first singularity
Apr 05, 2022
The Return of (Amazon) Ring
Feb 21, 2022
The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons
Feb 14, 2022
The eye of the tiger: conservation technology, rural surveillance and the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reserves
Feb 06, 2022
Who is Amazon?
Jan 30, 2022
Grab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppression
Jan 22, 2022
(Tech) Company Rule
Dec 13, 2021
Human rights and internet infrastructure 
Nov 29, 2021
Snake oil or substance? Tech companies talk climate at COP26
Oct 29, 2021
Financial imperialism on the blockchain: Bitcoin in El Salvador
Sep 26, 2021
The Digital Landscape of Southeast Asia: From Fake News to 5G
Sep 19, 2021
Lost in Space: Audio Reading
Jul 15, 2021
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the Colonization of Outer Space
May 16, 2021
Can your computer see you?: A history of the screen, from radar to AR.
Mar 28, 2021
State, corporation, people: the global dimensions of tech regulation
Mar 18, 2021
Nationalize Gmail!: Climate Change, Critical Infrastructure, and the USPS
Mar 07, 2021
Is Facebook (and Google) a Public Utility?
Feb 26, 2021
The Digital Periphery: Technology, Migration and Racial Capitalism
Feb 10, 2021
Social Media and Social Movements: The Rise of the European Far-Right
Feb 02, 2021
Corporations, Content Moderation and Community-Centered Tech
Jan 18, 2021
No Tech for Tyrants
Dec 21, 2020
Biden and Big Tech
Dec 11, 2020
Data flows: gender, colonization and the limits of surveillance capitalism
Nov 25, 2020
The Philosopher King of Silicon Valley
Nov 16, 2020
The Politics of Tech Monopolies
Nov 09, 2020
Trailer
Oct 25, 2020