The Exorcism of Emotion in Rational Science (and AI) with Lorraine Daston
In this episode, the historian of science Lorraine Daston explains why science has long been allergic to emotion, which is seen to be the enemy of truth. Instead, objective reason is science’s virtue....
15 Marras 202238min
Queer Data with Kevin Guyan
How should governments collect personal data? In this episode, we talk to Dr Kevin Guyan about the census, and the best ways of asking people to identify themselves. We discuss why surveys that you fi...
1 Marras 202236min
Data Activism Against Everyday Racism with Mónica Moreno Figueroa and Ella McPherson
In this episode we speak to two brilliant professors here at Cambridge, Mónica Moreno Figueroa and Ella McPherson about a data project they launched at the University of Cambridge to track everyday ra...
18 Loka 202237min
Why Machine Learning is Political with Louise Amoore
In this episode, we talk to Louise Amoore, professor of political geography at Durham and expert in how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. Lo...
4 Loka 202240min
Reproductive Technologies and Feminist Research Ethics with Sarah Franklin
In this episode we talk to Sarah Franklin, a leading figure in feminist science studies and the sociology of reproduction. In this tour de force of IVF ethics and feminism through the ages, Sarah disc...
20 Syys 202238min
Anti-Asian Racism across Time and Space with Michelle N. Huang
In this episode we chat to Michelle N. Huang, Assistant Professor of English and Asian American literature at Northwestern University. Chatting with Michelle is bittersweet, as we think collectively t...
6 Syys 202233min
Understanding Tech Ethics from the Ground Up with Sareeta Amrute
In this episode we talk to Sareeta Amrute, Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington who studies race, labour, and class in global tech economies. Sareeta discusses happened when R...
23 Elo 202236min
Techno-Feminisms and Why Nature is Far Stranger Than We Think with Sophie Lewis
In this episode Sophie, author of Full Surrogacy Now and self-defined wayward Marxist, talks about defining good technology for the whole of the biosphere, why the purity of the human species has alwa...
3 Elo 202234min
