Best Committee For The Anthropology Of Science Technology And Computing Podcasts (2025)

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Toward a Linked Data Approach to Shifting Identities and NULL Values in Data Sets

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Andrew Wiebe can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/toward-a-linked-data-approach-to-shifting-identities-and-null-values-in-data-sets/. About the post: Acknowledging shifting identities and embracing NULL values complicates data analysis but can ultimately prod…

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Data Centers, Transnational Collaborations, and the Differing Meanings of Connection

12d ago

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes and Felipe Figueiredo can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/data-centers-transnational-collaborations-and-the-differing-meanings-of-connection/. About the post: As anthropologists researching data centers, one of our goals is to poi…

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From Bin to Bank: Recycling Household Waste in Urban Indonesia

17d ago

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jiwon Kim can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/from-bin-to-bank-recycling-household-waste-in-urban-indonesia/. About the post: Environmental activists and industry professionals were hesitant to view them more than “housewives’ plaything (main-mainan).” The q…

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Who Will Protect Andean Potatoes in the Near Future? Uncertainties About the Next Generation of Native Potato Conservationists

19d ago

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sebastian Zarate can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/who-will-protect-andean-potatoes-in-the-near-future-uncertainties-about-the-next-generation-of-native-potato-conservationists/. About the post: While potato farmers have been referred to as “guardians” of …

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Bodies as Proxies, or The Stratigraphic Evidence of Our Appetites, at Metabolic Scales from the Human to the Planetary, on the Occasion of the Anthropocene’s Ongoing Debate About Itself

24d ago

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Allie E.S. Wist can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/bodies-as-proxies-or-the-stratigraphic-evidence-of-our-appetites-at-metabolic-scales-from-the-human-to-the-planetary-on-the-occasion-of-the-anthropocenes-ongoing-debate-about-itself/. About the post: In a l…

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Witnessing the Porous World

26d ago

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Misria Shaik Ali can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/witnessing-the-porous-world/. About the post: This blog series emerges from porous interventions at the intersections of environmental humanities and science and technology studies whereby scientized objec…

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Following Primates

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Virendra Mathur and Aarjav Chauhan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/03/following-primates/. About the post: If the langurs moved to the agricultural fields or crossed the village, no data could be collected for a couple hours or more. In those moments, we wo…

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The Limits of Identity: How Race and Gender Constructs in Biometric Technology Narrow Who We Are

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Brittany Fields can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/03/the-limits-of-identity-how-race-and-gender-constructs-in-biometric-technology-narrow-who-we-are/. About the post: Identification through technologically assisted vision is therefore not revolutionary or tra…

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Experimental Methodologies for Listening to the Present: An Interview with Alejandra Osejo-Varona

2M ago

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Alejandra Osejo-Varona, Karina Aranda and nicolás gaitán-albarracín can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/03/experimental-methodologies-for-listening-to-the-present-an-interview-with-alejandra-osejo-varona/. About the post: Feminist critiques and environmental an…

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The Politics of Civic Education

2M ago

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Elif Memis can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/03/the-politics-of-civic-education/. About the post: Educational institutions promote civic education through various simulations, to inform communities about democracy and citizenship. Although such practices inde…

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What are “Walking Simulators,” Ethnographically?

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Yifan Xia can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/03/what-are-walking-simulators-ethnographically/. About the post: “Gaming” is conceptually branching out. It “virtually” overlaps with museum visuals and actively engages with lived cultures and heritage. Both devel…

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Responsible AI in Action: Beyond Policy Regimes

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cheryl Hagan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/02/responsible-ai-in-action-beyond-policy-regimes/. About the post: Researchers at RAIL are acting in good faith and their research requires them to negotiate and make choices that result in both inclusion and ex…

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The Cyborg is Dead: The Node Rises

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Katrina Nicole Matheson can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/02/the-cyborg-is-dead-the-node-rises/. About the post: As social scientists, we can contribute to the creation of liberatory networks by shifting from investigations of embodied hybridity to examinatio…

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Major Internet Outages are Getting Bigger and Occurring More Often: A Reflection on the CrowdStrike IT Outage

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by A.R.E. Taylor can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/02/major-internet-outages-are-getting-bigger-and-occurring-more-often-a-reflection-on-the-crowdstrike-it-outage/. About the post: The CrowdStrike outage provided us with an eye-opening reminder of the vulnerabil…

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Disruptions in Grace: Embracing Mutation and Disability in Nature through Art

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Emery Vanderburgh can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/02/disruptions-in-grace-embracing-mutation-and-disability-in-nature-through-art/. About the post: For disabled audiences, an artistic language that represents how we see our skills, barriers and bodies can h…

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Thinking with Epistemic Things: Quality and its Consequences in Agri-Commodities Markets

3M ago

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Amrita Kurian can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/01/thinking-with-epistemic-things-quality-and-its-consequences-in-agri-commodities-markets/. About the post: What happens when an "epistemic thing"—an unstable, experimental object of scientific research—is take…

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On Menstruation and Feeling Shame

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rosario Rm can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/12/on-menstruation-and-feeling-shame/. About the post: Menstruation as a subject of study is not new. Margaret Mead, Mary Douglas, Chris Bobel, Miren Guillo, and Karina Felitti, among many others, have discussed ho…

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Swimming Against the Current: Navigating Distrust in Open Science

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Valerie Berseth can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/12/swimming-against-the-current-navigating-distrust-in-open-science/. About the post: In the effort to build trust in science, the complexities of distrust must be confronted. Open science practices alone are …

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Common(s) in Science and Technology? Dispatches from the SEEKCommons Network

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Insha Bint Bashir, Luis Felipe R. Murillo and Matias Milia can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/12/commons-in-science-and-technology-dispatches-from-the-seekcommons-network/. About the post: As a distributed network of researchers, technologists, and environment…

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“Work together, eat bread together”: Stardew Valley and the Dream of the Commons

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Henry Snow can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/12/work-together-eat-bread-together-stardew-valley-and-the-dream-of-the-commons/. About the post: “The Farm” is a saccharine settler colonialist homestead fantasy that legitimizes an industrial production process a…

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Underneath It All: Unveiling the Toxic Reality of Fast Fashion Underwear and the Social Dimension of Health

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by PRATYUSHA KIRAN can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/11/underneath-it-all-unveiling-the-toxic-reality-of-fast-fashion-underwear-and-the-social-dimension-of-health/. About the post: The health concerns related to fast fashion primarily stem from chemicals in synt…

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Dining With Dogs: More-than-Human Relations in Food Media

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam and Maythe Han can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/11/dining-with-dogs-more-than-human-relations-in-food-media/. About the post: Human and nonhuman lives may have first become closely entangled with the rise of agriculture as we raised a…

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Green Lady Cambodia: A Small Initiative for A Big Change on Menstrual Health and Hygiene Education

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aikaterini Mitselou and Isabell Hedke can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/11/green-lady-cambodia-a-small-initiative-for-a-big-change-on-menstrual-health-and-hygiene-education/. About the post: Achieving menstrual health is crucial for attaining good health and …

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The Evolution of the Digital Divide: New Dimensions of Digital Inequality

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Guillermo Echauri can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/11/the-evolution-of-the-digital-divide-new-dimensions-of-digital-inequality/. About the post: From the emergence of the Web, through milestones such as the rise of mobile phones and social media, and up to t…

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Trade versus Academic Press: Part 2 of Publishing in Academia

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Savannah Mandel can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/10/trade-versus-academic-press-part-2-of-publishing-in-academia/. About the post: The decision between the two publishers was not simple. It was financial. It was personal. It was intellectual. It was also ide…

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How to Create Figurations and Inhabit Feminist STS Research: A DIY Manual 15:33

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Clarissa Reche can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/10/how-to-create-figurations-and-inhabit-feminist-sts-research-a-diy-manual/. About the post: This is a DIY manual for working with figurations to inhabit feminist STS research. The methodological proposal of f…

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Do Academics Need Agents?: Part 1 of Publishing in Academia

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Savannah Mandel can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/10/do-academics-need-agents-part-1-of-publishing-in-academia/. About the post: If you hope to someday publish with a trade press such as Penguin, Harper Collins, or Simon & Schuster, or are interested in havin…

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Brush Strokes to Bytes: Anthropological Praxis in Business

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Matt Artz can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/10/brush-strokes-to-bytes-anthropological-praxis-in-business/. About the post: My research revealed how these digital platforms, despite their initial promise of democratizing the art world, often reinforced and eve…

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Worrying over Speaking and the Pretentiousness of Podcasts

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A podcast about making a podcast which is really just a conversation among two friends who used to be close friends, a long time ago. Transcript available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y8dOEXz7FEqWQEMPHHsH3EU0NFIlpTVx/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108539968411457483057&rtpof=true&sd=true Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2024/10/wor…

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Chaotic Oscillation: Understanding the Paradoxical Presence of Video Games in Contemporary Society

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Iván Flores can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/10/chaotic-oscillation-understanding-the-paradoxical-presence-of-video-games-in-contemporary-society/. About the post: Common sense tells us that play and work are opposing categories. However, in our society, we …

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Critical Metals, Magic Tricks, and Energy Transition: A Social Biography of Lithium

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by María Fernanda Lartigue Marín can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/critical-metals-magic-tricks-and-energy-transition-a-social-biography-of-lithium/. About the post: By exploring lithium's social biography, I hope to offer an example of ways in which anthropo…

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Geoengineering: De Facto Environmental Governance and Alternative Future Making

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cody Skahan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/geoengineering-de-facto-environmental-governance-and-alternative-future-making/. About the post: In the absence of an appropriate governing institution, de facto governance (i.e., governance that does not proce…

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Space Anthropology with Savannah Mandel

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Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration chronicles the author’s journey as a scholar and a young woman working in the commercial space industry in the US. It also talks about the difficulties of gaining access to certain technical field sites. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/space-anthropology-with…

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From a Hashtag to the Right for Indoor Air Quality: A Short Story of the #covidisairborne Movement

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Beatriz Klimeck can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/from-a-hashtag-to-the-right-for-indoor-air-quality-a-short-story-of-the-covidisairborne-movement/. About the post: Isolated during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, I started to follow on Twitter (so…

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Foucault, Dialectics, and Randomized Clinical Trials: Bridges Between Medicine and Anthropology

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ana Paula Pimentel Jacob can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/foucault-dialectics-and-randomized-clinical-trials-bridges-between-medicine-and-anthropology/. About the post: I hope that other scientists understand anthropology, but at the same time, it’s essen…

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From Foraging to Keeping Bees in Northeast Brazil

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cydney Seigerman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/from-foraging-to-keeping-bees-in-northeast-brazil/. About the post: For Rogério and other meleiros, greater awareness of the environmental impact of their foraging practices developed through their transit…

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Commodifying Disability as an Experience

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mine Egbatan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/commodifying-disability-as-an-experience/. About the post: In this post, I explore how disability is depoliticized when it is reduced to an individual, sensory experience within technologically reproduced spac…

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Medicine Disoriented

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Amanda Quan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/medicine-disoriented/. About the post: What follows is an object collection that troubles the arrival of The Clinic by engaging the historic underpinnings, cultural logics, and afterlives of its object parts. I…

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The Cloud is Too Loud: Spotlighting the Voices of Community Activists from the Data Center Capital of the World

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Madelyn Zander can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/the-cloud-is-too-loud-spotlighting-the-voices-of-community-activists-from-the-data-center-capital-of-the-world/. About the post: In this post, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork that began in 2021 with communi…

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Challenging Normalized Surveillance: “Birds on the Wire” Surveillance in Mexico

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mariel Garcia-Montes can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/challenging-normalized-surveillance-birds-on-the-wire-surveillance-in-mexico/. About the post: The ways that surveillance technology is acquired and deployed, often in the name of security, contributes…

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Questioning the Market: How Does the South Korean "Camming" (Beot-bang) Market Grow?

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Yuna Hwang can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/questioning-the-market-how-did-the-south-korean-camming-beot-bang-market-grow/. About the post: Drawing on new economic sociology to consider markets as social networks, along with a historical-institutional per…

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Trolling: Breaking Rules, Poking Fun, or Just Outright Harassment?

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Chu May Paing can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/07/trolling-breaking-rules-poking-fun-or-just-outright-harassment/. About the post: What is the social function of trolling and in what context can trolling be an empowering act for those of us who are already s…

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Digital Anthropology of the Senses: Connecting Technology and Culture Through the Sensory World

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Adriana Moreno can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/07/digital-anthropology-of-the-senses-connecting-technology-and-culture-through-the-sensory-world/. About the post: This post explores the relevance of studying the senses, particularly hearing and touch, from …

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Cards and Codes: Spirituality and Magic in the (Bio)technological Era

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by PEDRO DE MEDEIROS can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/07/cards-and-codes-spirituality-and-magic-in-the-biotechnological-era/. About the post: My proposal is to create a magical tool, a tarot deck, that provokes thought about how mystical and religious elements …

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The Many Modes of Ethnography

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This podcast episode talks to three anthropologists, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Rine Vieth, and Kara White, scholars working in three different parts of the world who use multimodal methods in their teaching and research. It is not a history of multimodal methods, or even a really detailed review of them, instead, it is a consideration of some of the is…

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To Witness: Cell Phone Cameras, Immigrant Communities, and Police Accountability

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jessica L. Olivares can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/07/to-witness-cell-phone-cameras-immigrant-communities-and-police-accountability/. About the post: What follows is a reflection on my fieldwork in Houston, Texas, during 2018 and 2019, focusing on how anti…

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Anthropology of a Dream: The Stakes of Studying Addiction in America

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sean Muller can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/06/anthropology-of-a-dream-the-stakes-of-studying-addiction-in-america/. About the post: Addiction emerges as a problem alongside the fantasy of a “good life” characterized by “upward mobility, job security, polit…

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Between the Bitterness of Anonymity and Ethics is Racism: Reflections for Anthropological Research on Science in the 'Backyard'

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by João Paulo Siqueira can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/06/between-the-bitterness-of-anonymity-and-ethics-is-racism-reflections-for-anthropological-research-on-science-in-the-backyard/. About the post: Therefore, my contribution to the discussion circle was to …

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On Disability, Infrastructure, and Shame

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Elizabeth Roberts can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/06/on-disability-infrastructure-and-shame/. About the post: Before the pandemic, I frequently went back and forth to Mexico City for work and flew regularly within the USA to give talks and workshops. The pa…

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What Will Be Lost: A Cat, a Man with a Horse, and the Battle at Court

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Carolina Angel Botero can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/06/what-will-be-lost-a-cat-a-man-with-a-horse-and-the-battle-at-court/. About the post: This essay joins ethnographic fieldwork with a visual storyboard to explore speculative futures that arise from ong…

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