Astronauts on Strike! Spaceports, Colonial Telescopes and Labor Unions in the Stars
In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Kate Sammler, a geographer who looks at the intersection of science and politics in the oceans, atmospheres, and outer space. They discussed how colonialism a...
20 Feb 1h 10min
"We Cannot Rely on Five Nerds": AI Urbanism from Amazon Go to Tech Sovereignty
In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata talks to Casey Lynch, the Ramon y Cajal researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of Girona. Casey is a human geographer with int...
19 Jan 1h 19min
A World of VCs in Miniature: Silicon Valley's Ideology
On this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Olivier Jutel, a lecturer at the University of Otago and an expert in cyberlibertarianism. They discuss the ideology of many technology industry elites and the s...
17 Dec 20251h 1min
But Daddy, I Love Him (My ChatGPT Boyfriend): Robots and Loveability
Alina Utrata talks to Dr Jenny Carla Moran, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at the Trinity Long Room Hub and a faculty member at TCD-TU Dublin Joint Centre for the Sociology of Humans and Machine...
3 Dec 202559min
FROM THE ARCHIVE: The eye of the tiger: conservation tech, rural surveillance & the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reserves
FROM THE ARCHIVE: In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Trishant Simlai, a conservation researcher studying the politics and geographies of wildlife conservation in India, who just received his Ph...
12 Nov 202548min
From the Archive: Nationalize Gmail!!!
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Alina Utrata talks with Josh Lappen, a fellow Californian and environmental historian researching at Oxford University, who studies some of the most important technology there is: cr...
29 Okt 202557min
On Dystopia, Fearing the Future and Political Imagination
This week, the Anti-Dystopians talks to an expert in dystopia! Matthew Cole is a scholar of political theory and an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences Binghamton University. His boo...
25 Aug 20251h 17min
