Latest Cultural studies Podcast Episodes
Dinosaurs with Lydia Millet
In the Weeds - February 26, 2024 18:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe title of Lydia Millet’s last novel - Dinosaurs - seems to wink at the threat of human extinction, and, yet, its explicit referent in the book is to birds, those sometimes-alien creatures who survived the impact of the asteroid that wiped out most of their kind. This kind of double meaning, s...
David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous with Trevien Stanger, Part 2
In the Weeds - July 29, 2023 19:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsA continuation of my earlier episode in which Trevien Stanger - instructor of environmental studies at St. Michael's College in Vermont - and I discuss Abram's book, which, I think it's fair to say, has had a profound effect on both of us. This time, we focus on Abram's argument about the impact...
Study of a Liminal Corridor with Michael Inglis
In the Weeds - June 02, 2023 18:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThere’s a funny little corridor tucked away behind a park in the Village of Pleasantville, New York where I live, where bears and bobcats amble through, walking atop the Catskill Aqueduct, the 100-year-old artery that delivers water from the Catskill mountains to New York City. Fellow resident, ...
46: The Scourge of Modern Civilization
Reasonably Sound - May 16, 2023 18:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsAn episode about how scam and spam calls (and texts) work, why they've been so hard to stop, and what they can teach us about labor. -- Support the show at http://patreon.com/mikerugnetta -- Reasonably Sound is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/reasonablysnd And Instagram: http://instagram....
William Taylor on the Domestication of Horses
In the Weeds - April 19, 2023 15:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhen we think of major innovations in human history, what comes to mind are inert technologies - from the wheel to the computer - but one of the most significant developments occurred as the result of the relationship between humans and another animal, horses. The domestication of horses brought...
RM03: Grumble, Bubble, Roil and Rumble
Reasonably Sound - March 20, 2023 16:18 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsA short Rumination on stomach noises. -- https://anad.org/ – 1 (888)-375-7767 - ANAD is "the leading nonprofit in the U.S. providing free, peer support to anyone struggling with an eating disorder." https://nedic.ca/ - 1-866-NEDIC-20 - NEDIC "provides information, resources, referrals and su...
43: Hold, Please Extra - Vertical Time
Reasonably Sound - March 05, 2023 16:12 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsFormerly an RS Patreon Exclusive, made public on the occasion of the RS Patreon's (purposeful) deactivation. Enjoy! -- You can find a full recording the piece which plays under this extra, "From the Center, Out" on Bandcamp: https://mikerugnetta.bandcamp.com/track/from-the-center-out -- ...
41: A Not So Quiet Place Extra – The Silent Brigade
Reasonably Sound - March 05, 2023 16:11 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsFormerly an RS Patreon Exclusive, made public on the occasion of the RS Patreon's (purposeful) deactivation. Enjoy! -- A section of Episode 41 which didn't make it in because of time for RS Patrons only <3
39: Automated Copywrongs Extra – Full Parker Interview
Reasonably Sound - March 05, 2023 16:11 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsFormerly an RS Patreon Exclusive, made public on the occasion of the RS Patreon's (purposeful) deactivation. Enjoy! -- Full, lightly edited interview with Parker Conducted for Episode 39: Automated Copywrongs
39: Automated Copywrongs Extra – "Perceptual Technics"
Reasonably Sound - March 05, 2023 16:11 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsFormerly an RS Patreon Exclusive, made public on the occasion of the RS Patreon's (purposeful) deactivation. Enjoy! -- This felt like a big thesis to just sorta... throw in to the episode and move on from. It was originally around the spot where, in the final version of the episode, we listen t...
Maddie
In the Weeds - January 30, 2023 20:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsJennifer Lynch Fitzgerald tells the story of her relationship with Maddie, a mustang rescued in Habersham County, Georgia from a man who was collecting horses to sell for meat. When Maddie was found, she’d been tied to a tree for months, was malnourished and very angry. Jen tells how, in spite...
David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous with Trevien Stanger, Part 1
In the Weeds - January 06, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsI’ve mentioned this book numerous times on the pod. It’s fair to say that David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass are the two books that really kicked off the idea for In the Weeds. And it feels like time to dig into Spell. All the more so since my c...
The Invention of the Alphabet with Johanna Drucker
In the Weeds - December 06, 2022 22:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratings“Letters have power,” Johanna Drucker tells me. But what is the nature of this power and how did it all begin? Unlike writing, the alphabet was only invented once. Somewhere in Egypt or the Sinai Peninsula, about 4,000 years ago, speakers of a Semitic language adapted Egyptian hieroglyphics to ...
William Bryant Logan on the Ancient History of Managed Woodlands
In the Weeds - October 31, 2022 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWilliam Bryant Logan’s book Sproutlands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees opens the door to a little known history, in which people all over the world, from Norway to Japan to pre-colonial California, managed trees in a way that was beneficial to trees and humans alike. Logan stumbled upon th...
Episode 7 (2022) Ola Michalec - Engineer-as-a-service. What is the future of engineering professionals in the digital world?
Hacker Cultures: The Conference Podcast - October 04, 2022 07:00 - 13 minutesWe have the pleasure to chat with Ola Michalec, a Senior Research Associate at University of Bristol. Don't miss on our discussion with Ola in 2020. For decades, nuclear plants, power stations, or wastewater facilities were safe from the hype of digital innovations. These industries have tradit...
Episode 6 (2022) Annika Richterich - Chaos reigns. Hacktivism as health data activism
Hacker Cultures: The Conference Podcast - October 04, 2022 06:00 - 16 minutesWe speak with Annika Richterich from Maastricht University where she works as an Assistant Professor in Digital Cultures at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Annika was with us earlier in 2020, check out that episode too. This paper discusses how the Chaos Computer Club, a German hacker as...
Episode 5 (2022) Maja Urbanczyk - Hacking decision-making
Hacker Cultures: The Conference Podcast - October 04, 2022 05:00 - 15 minutesThis episode brings us Maja Urbanczyk who is a PhD Candidate at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. On more and more occasions, political decision-makers decide over software that is to be used by the public. In these situations, decision-makers rely on expert knowledge and risk ass...
Episode 4 (2022) Jan Schmutzler and Estrid Sørensen - Playing with fire. Re-identification hacks and organisational micro-politics
Hacker Cultures: The Conference Podcast - October 04, 2022 04:00 - 17 minutesWe hear from research by PhD Candidate Jan Schmutzler and Professor Estrid Sørensen, both from Ruhr University Bochum. Data anonymisation has long been the central measure for social scientist to protect the privacy of the subjects from whom they collect data. Recent years computational methods...
Episode 3 (2022) Tim Cowlishaw - Tiny tools and little loops. Software art as care-ful software practice
Hacker Cultures: The Conference Podcast - October 04, 2022 03:00 - 19 minutesWe speak with Tim Cowlishaw, BAU, Doctoral Candidate at College of Arts & Design Barcelona. Whether as part of giant technology corporations or open-source software projects, software developers are increasingly responsible for defining, building, and maintaining the infrastructure of our socia...
Episode 2 (2022) Cansu Güner - Hack the house! Reconfiguring domesticity in co-living spaces
Hacker Cultures: The Conference Podcast - October 04, 2022 02:00 - 19 minutesThis episode is with Doctoral Candidate Cansu Güner from School of Social Sciences and Technology at Technical University of Münich. This podcast is about hacking houses. Entrepreneurs with engineering backgrounds who live in co-living spaces tend to hack their houses either as part of a hackat...
Episode 1 (2022) Maja-Lee Voigt - CTRL + F_eminist futures_. Hacking algorithmic architectures of cities to come
Hacker Cultures: The Conference Podcast - October 04, 2022 01:00 - 17 minutesIn this episode we are joined by Maja-Lee Voigt, a Research Associate at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. To this day it remains a question of power who is granted the right to visibly take up and claim urban space; both physically and virtually. A societal an...
John Roulac on Agroforestry
In the Weeds - September 21, 2022 20:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsPicking up where we left off in the spring, we return to the topic of farming through a conversation with John Roulac, entrepreneur and executive producer of the movie Kiss the Ground. Roulac’s latest project, Agroforestry Regeneration Communities, supports initiatives in Central America and E...
Nate Looney on Urban Farming, Jewish Ethics and Diversity Equity and Inclusion
In the Weeds - July 01, 2022 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsFor the second of three episodes on farming, I talk to Nate Looney about Jewish ethics, Diversity Equity and Inclusion and, yes, farming, specifically, his experience as an urban farmer using hydroponics and aquaponics to produce gourmet leafy greens and microgreens for restaurants and farmers m...
Filmmaker Jim Becket on The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
In the Weeds - June 14, 2022 17:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratings“When you control seed, you control life on earth,” says Indian environmental activist and scholar Vandana Shiva in the new documentary film The Seeds of Vandana Shiva. Known as “Monsanto’s worst nightmare,” Vandana Shiva has been a champion of small, organic farms, since she established seed b...
Lydia Millet's Mermaids in Paradise
In the Weeds - May 06, 2022 14:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsMermaids are the fly in the ointment in Lydia Millet’s very funny satirical novel Mermaids in Paradise, “an absurdist entry into the mundane,” as she puts it. And, yet, her mermaids, who have bad teeth and the particular features of individuals, also draw us into the wonders of the ocean itself....
So You Think You Know What a Mermaid Is...
In the Weeds - April 08, 2022 15:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAs co-editors of The Penguin Book of Mermaids, a compendium of stories from all over the world, Marie Alohalani Brown and Cristina Bacchilega show us that mermaids are not always white, not always beautiful and don’t even always have a fish tail (sometimes mer creatures have the tail of a whale ...
More Real Than Real: VR and the Metaverse with Lisa Messeri
In the Weeds - March 18, 2022 21:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAccording to Mark Zuckerberg and others, the metaverse - a would-be digital double of the real world - is good for the environment, because it will make us drive less, fly less. We won’t have to visit the barrier reef in person; we can experience it from our own living rooms. But will this desce...
Air Travel, Climate Change and Don’t Look Up with Chris Schaberg
In the Weeds - February 10, 2022 18:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsChris Schaberg, whom you might remember from my episode on SUV commercials, has written a number of books on air travel. I wanted to talk to him about the impact of air travel on climate change but also about what air travel - and, increasingly, the fantasy that we can be tourists in space as we...
Art as Climate Action with Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris
In the Weeds - January 21, 2022 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsSusannah Sayler and Ed Morris have been working at the intersection of art and climate activism for the last fifteen years. They are co-founders of the Canary Project, started in 2006 and inspired by a series of articles that Elizabeth Kolbert published in The New Yorker that eventually became h...
On the Origins of Christmas Trees with Judith Flanders
In the Weeds - December 16, 2021 19:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIn time for the winter solstice, we revisit our episode on the history of Christmas trees with historian Judith Flanders, author of Christmas: A Biography (2017) as well as numerous books on the Victorian period, including The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Reveled in Death and Detectio...
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