‘Corporations are Robots’: David Runciman on AI, states and the first singularity
David Runciman is a professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the host of the critically acclaimed podcast Talking Politics. In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, he speaks to Alina Utrata a...
5 Apr 202254min
The Return of (Amazon) Ring
Alina Utrata speaks with Lauren Bridges, a PhD candidate at the the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania who studies big data infrastructures and surveillance regimes. ...
21 Feb 202253min
The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons
Alina Utrata talks to Dr Siân Brooke, a Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and an associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Insti...
14 Feb 202258min
The eye of the tiger: conservation technology, rural surveillance and the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reserves
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 PhD in the Departmen...
6 Feb 202248min
Who is Amazon?
In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Rowena Squires, an ancient historian, asks Alina Utrata everything you ever wanted to know about Amazon. How did Amazon go from online bookstore to commercial e...
30 Jan 202255min
Grab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppression
On this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talks to Stefanie Felsberger, a PhD in Gender Studies at Cambridge University, and Muskan Shafat, an MS in Data and Society at the London School of Economics, abou...
22 Jan 202252min
(Tech) Company Rule
Alina Utrata talks to Dr Maha Atal, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow who studies the political economy of corporate power and was previously an award-winning journalist reporting on the tech in...
13 Dec 202156min
Human rights and internet infrastructure
Alina Utrata talks to Dr Corinne Cath-Speth, a recent graduate from the doctoral program at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Internet infrast...
29 Nov 202141min
