Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast

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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)

Episode Date
Waves of Well-being: Surfing at the Shaka Surf Club in Kodi Bengre, India
May 21, 2024
“We had to rethink many, many things”: Reflexivity in Scientific Practices during the Zika Epidemic in Recife, Brazil
Apr 25, 2024
Tear Gas as Punishment
Apr 18, 2024
Spatial Approaches to Livestreaming: A Methodological Exploration in Digital Ethnography
Apr 16, 2024
Two Insomniacs Discuss Routine and Restlessness Through Google Tracking
Apr 04, 2024
Recipes of Resistance: Global Digital Gastrosolidarity for Palestine
Mar 26, 2024
Bed-Time Storytelling
Mar 12, 2024
Who Knows About Ethical Research?: Reflections on Research Ethics and Vulnerability in Abortion Research
Mar 05, 2024
Anthropology, STS, and the Politics of Imagination in Navigating Socio-Environmental Change
Feb 27, 2024
Lonely Planet Looking for Connection: Citizen Science SETI Research at NASA
Feb 20, 2024
Water Scarcity, Hydropolitics, and the Importance of Materiality at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains
Jan 30, 2024
Milei, Crowds, and Concrete Waves in Argentina
Dec 21, 2023
Platypod, Episode Eight: CASPR 2023
Dec 12, 2023
Algorithmic Imaginations in Agriculture: Automation?
Nov 28, 2023
High Costs, Entangled Politics: What All Comes Inside a Medication’s Packaging
Nov 21, 2023
Belly Versus Bin: How Digital Autoethnography Brought Me Back From the Brink of Disordered Eating
Nov 14, 2023
On Algorithmic Divination
Oct 31, 2023
Plastic Chronicles: Navigating Mumbai’s Material Mazes
Oct 24, 2023
Funeral for an Embryo
Oct 17, 2023
How to Imagine the Unknown: Choosing an Arm Prosthesis
Oct 12, 2023
Staring Contest
Oct 10, 2023
The Wild Pantry
Oct 03, 2023
"The Day I Discovered I Was Collaborating on a Eugenics Project": On Imponderables in Collaborative Research
Sep 26, 2023
Making Companion Species at a Robotics Lab
Sep 21, 2023
"Blooming Biomes Mean Blooming Profits": 'Nature-based' Industrial Farming and the Politics of the Industrial Animal Microbiome
Sep 12, 2023
AI as a Feminist Issue
Sep 05, 2023
Female Truck Drivers in China Navigate Gender Norms on Douyin
Aug 22, 2023
Between Pain and Relief: Morphine's Ambiguities in India
Aug 17, 2023
Madam Cistern
Aug 15, 2023
Fake, Real, Real, Fake: Salvarsan on the US Medical Market
Aug 08, 2023
Hippocrates Against Protocols: Experiments, Experience, and Evidence-Based Medicine in Brazil
Jul 25, 2023
AI, Climate Adaptation, and Epistemic Injustice
Jul 20, 2023
Tokens, Voids, and Archives: Locating Berlin's NFT Projects
Jul 18, 2023
Ways of Knowing: Lessons on Agroecological Transitions from a Pothwari Farm
Jul 11, 2023
A Vocabulary for Junk in Four Movements
Jul 06, 2023
Junk Anthropology: A Manifesto for Trashing and Untrashing
Jul 04, 2023
Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Entropy: Internet and Synthetic Biology Pioneer Randy Rettberg’s Story on How Information Was Forged
Jun 27, 2023
Making Bioethnographic Teams Work: Disciplinary Destabilization, Generative Friction, and the Role of Mediators
Jun 22, 2023
How Microbes Became Friendly: Visualizations of the Microbiome in Public Media
Jun 15, 2023
Platypod, Episode Seven: An Anthropology of Data, AI, and Much More
Jun 13, 2023
Setting Traps: For an Insurgent and Joyful Science
May 25, 2023
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?": Food, Cooking, and Eating in Video Games
May 09, 2023
Violence/Freedom: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance in Public Parks
May 02, 2023
Birding in Ruins: Multispecies Encounters and the Ecologies of Evidence
Apr 25, 2023
The Perfect Fit
Apr 18, 2023
The Illness Experience of a Forty-year-old Hispanic Woman
Apr 13, 2023
The Use of Patent Information to Investigate Algorithmic Systems
Apr 11, 2023
Platypod, Episode Six: An Anthropology of Algorithmic Recommendation Systems
Apr 06, 2023
Making Forecasts Work: The Evolution of Seasonal Forecasting by Funceme in Ceará, Northeast Brazil
Apr 04, 2023
Digital Multiples and Social Media
Mar 28, 2023
Transpositioning, a Hypertext-ethnography
Mar 21, 2023
Dining with the Diaspora: Khmerican Digital Gastrodiplomacy
Mar 07, 2023
Grafting with Care: Encountering Human-Plant Relations Through Experiments with Roses
Feb 14, 2023
Little Experiments in Worldmaking with Amor Mundi Lab
Dec 08, 2022
Uncovering Ethnography in Creative Practice Research with Machines
Dec 06, 2022
You Are What You Grow: Crops, Cultivation, and Caste in India
Nov 15, 2022
Toxicity, Violence, and the Legacies of Mercury and Gold Mining in Colombia
Nov 09, 2022
Platypod, Episode Five: CASPR - CASTAC in the Spring 2022
Nov 03, 2022
Platypod, Episode Four: Connections and Disconnections on Social Media
Oct 27, 2022
Embracing Black Positionalities, (Re)Centring Slowness: A Challenge to Anthropology’s Anti-Racism Efforts
Oct 18, 2022
Injury and Fitness: Responsibility through Biomedicine 
Oct 04, 2022
Platypod, Episode Three: Disability, Toxicity, and the Environment
Sep 27, 2022
All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa: Building Colonies without Colonization
Sep 13, 2022
Photoshopping Desire: Gender, Caste, and the "Authentic" Self
Sep 06, 2022
Interactive Science Museums: Replicating Science Without a Context
Aug 25, 2022
PrEP on Trial: the Future of HIV in Indonesian Policy Worlds
Aug 23, 2022
Platypod, Episode Two: Ableism in Anthropology and Higher Ed
Aug 09, 2022
Counting on Montane Birds: Biologists, Verticality, and Territorial Defense in Colombia
Aug 02, 2022
Platypod, Episode One: Technologies and Politics of Accessibility
Jul 26, 2022
(Mis)Managing Algorithms of Hate: The Nexus of Big Tech and the State in India
Jul 19, 2022
The Allowable Limit of Disability
Jun 22, 2022
Detangling Molecular Hauntings: Hair as a Site of Preserving Lived Experience
Jun 14, 2022
Inclusion and Opportunities for Equal Participation for Autistic University Students in France
Jun 07, 2022
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Epistemologies – The Line Between Bodies and Ideas?
May 31, 2022
Technologies of Equal Participation: Formats, Designs, Practices. Introduction.
May 17, 2022
Viral Entanglements in Malaysian Porcine Worlds
May 12, 2022
Thinking in Constellations: Problematizing Indigeneity in the Atacama Desert, Chile
May 10, 2022
Revisiting Human-Machine Relationships and Efforts of Feminist STS
May 03, 2022
Alliances and Institutional Partnerships for an Engaged Anthropology of Science and Technology
Apr 26, 2022
Disability Dongle
Apr 19, 2022
Powerpoint Karaoke, a Ph.D. Version
Apr 14, 2022
People Are Not Fixed Media
Apr 12, 2022
Climatic Futures and Tree Response-ability: Can Urban Forests Restore Human-Tree Relations?
Apr 05, 2022
​​Traveling but Not Arriving: Hieroglyphics of Caste in Computing
Mar 29, 2022
Netlicks and Chill: Digitalization and Food Politics in Taste the TV (TTTV) Technology
Mar 15, 2022
Ethnographies of Nuclear Life: From Victimhood to Post-Victimization
Mar 01, 2022
From Amusement to Conscientization: The Purpose of Media Literacy in the Age of Misinformation
Feb 15, 2022
Queered Ruptures: The Politics of Anti-irradiation Maternalism in the TEPCO Nuclear Disaster, Kokutai, and Hentai
Feb 10, 2022
Reactions and Ruptures: Ethnographies of Nuclear Life
Feb 01, 2022
Platypus in 2022
Jan 25, 2022
A Very Lengthy Swedish Introduction: Hype, Storytelling, and the Question of Entrepreneurial Allies
Aug 03, 2021