Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of con...
I got to speak with the brilliant Ali Alkhatib about his blog post "defining AI" -- an object, subject, metaphor, and discursive formation used amongst all of us trying to figure out how to grapple with AI's ownership, deployments, and impacts. Who gets to define AI? Is it just computer scientists? What are the stakes of having it defined only technologically? Recorded December 23, 2025. Released January 13, 2025.Ali Alkhatib (website)https://ali-alkhatib.com/Defining AIhttps://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Colonialism, with Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry
I start the new year with an episode on "data colonialism". I had the great pleasure of speaking with Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry about our contemporary relationship to corporations, about the idea that there’s no capitalism without colonialism (and vice versa), about how human lives are being exploited these days, and about data being a cheap resource. Recorded December 16, 2024. Released January 6, 2025. Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Backhttps://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo216184200.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Investigative, with Déborah López and Hadin Charbel
Such a delight speaking with Déborah López and Hadin Charbel, incredible artists-architects-scholars as investigators of future possibilities in light of climate change rapidly changing arctic (and other) landscapes. We discuss a range of art projects, from large installations to projections to speculative fiction, and how these modes and conditions can help us think and feel about alternate endings -- in our teaching and in our day to day embodied, lived realities. Recorded Dec 12, 2024. Released Dec 30, 2024. Artists websitehttps://pareid.com/Artists Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/pareid.architecture/ Pareid creates organ-like installation from corrugated plastic tubes in Madridhttps://www.dezeen.com/2022/04/20/pareid-everywhere-nowhere-installation-urvanity/Re: Arctichttps://vimeo.com/469736816?&login=true Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Collaborative, with Chris Gilliard
In this episode, I spoke with Chris Gilliard (@hypervisible) about AI’s encroachment on universities and what this means for collaboration — i.e. learning, writing, thinking and feeling. This conversation puts out a warning of sorts to universities adopting AI given that, as a technology, it is built off of stolen materials, relies on extraction and colonial labour practices, is racist, misogynist and transphobic in its outputs, and terrible for the environment — all issues the university claim to value and fight against? Recorded Dec 11, 2024. Released Dec 16, 2024. “ChatGPT Should Not Exist” by David Golumbia (Dec 14, 2022)https://davidgolumbia.medium.com/chatgpt-should-not-exist-aab0867abace“Practico-inertia” by Rob Horning (March 1, 2024)https://robhorning.substack.com/p/practico-inertia “Critical keywords of AI in education” by Ben Williamson (November 8, 2024 )https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/ “Big AI Companies Need Higher Ed … but Does Higher Ed Need Them?” by Collin Bjork (Dec 2, 2024)https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/12/02/universities-must-beware-reliance-big-ai-opinion Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Regulated, with Jennifer Holt
It was a real honour and joy to speak with someone whose work has so significantly shaped my own (and many of us writing about data centers): Jennifer Holt joined me for a chat about US cloud policy. The Cloud is understood in this episode through the lens of policy, which means we grapple with who owns data, its infrastructures and our data futures. We also talked a bit about what the latest US elections might mean for Big Tech... Recorded Nov 20, 2024. Released Nov 25, 2024.Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Datahttps://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548069/cloud-policy/ CMSW podcast: Jennifer Holt, “Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis”https://cmsw.mit.edu/podcast-jennifer-holt-cloud-policy-anatomy-regulatory-crisis/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers and feelers. Together we explore the significance of living in a world of data, and especially the growing trend of “digital humans” in the form of chatbots, holograms, deepfakes, ai images and videos, and even tech that revives the dead. The conversations are minimally edited, and serve as an archive of the collective thinking and feeling that is going into the Data Fix project. Please see thedatafix.net for more details and show notes. Thank you so much for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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