Water, with Rebecca Kilberg, Mary-Clare Bosco and Jonathan Gilmour
In this episode I speak with Rebecca Kilberg, Mary-Clare Bosco and Jonathan Gilmour who together use policy approaches to solve problems related to data center water usage and the various planetary and health outcomes that emerge from water consumption and extraction. They talk about how you get such data and what to do with it, and the importance of creating many local sites of resistance for a more sustainable future. Want in? Get in touch. Recorded May 19, 2025. Released June 16, 2025.Voices: Data centers must be transparent about water usage — for the sake of the Great Salt Lakehttps://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2024/12/31/voices-utah-data-centers-must-beReducing Data Centers’ Water Consumption https://aspenpolicyacademy.org/project/reducing-data-centers-water-consumption Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Solidarity, with Shannon Wait
In this episode, Shannon Wait — Alphabet Workers Union-CWA organizer — speaks with me about the labour conditions for data center and AI workers. We talk about contracts, sub-contracts, sub-sub-contracts, NDAs, invisible labour -- and how all of this leads to unions, solidarity, and a fight for tech workers’ rights globally. Recorded May 8, 2025. Released June 2, 2025. Interview with Shannon Wait, Alphabet Workers Union-CWA Organizer (2024)https://poweratwork.us/shannon-wait-interviewA union of Alphabet workers in the U.S. and Canadahttps://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/Google Raters Participated in Historic Action at Google HQ to Demand Google End Poverty Wages for 5,000 Workershttps://code-cwa.org/news/google-raters-participated-historic-actionThe woman who took on Google and won (2021)https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56659212 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Remade, with Allison Carruth
Allison Carruth and I talk about her new book which gets at some of the material infrastructure and social systems that have made the US a settler state ever obsessed with new frontiers, including space. We talk about tech imaginaries, worlds remade, and better futures — a vision that invites confronting the state of things head-on, a slower redoing, and is based on connection, love, and friendship (maybe with aliens, too). Recorded May 7, 2025. Released May 19, 2025.Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (2025)https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo239362741.htmlAllison Carruth https://allisoncarruth.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hype, with Dani Shanley and Gemma Milne
In this episode, Dani Shanley and Gemma Milne walk me through "hype" -- what it means in various technological contexts, how it works, what it is definitionally, how it feels in the body, who it serves, who it harms, and how we might need to nuance our relationship to it, especially as critical (tech) scholars. Recorded May 1, 2025. Released May 5, 2025.https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/gemma-milne/smoke-mirrors/9781472143655/https://radicalsciencepodcast.com/https://brainreel.substack.com/https://hypestudies.org/https://www.biss-institute.com/en/abouthttps://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/new-technologies-heroes-or-villains Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Damage, with Dustin Edwards
Dustin Edwards and I discuss the damage caused by digital infrastructure and its extractive requirements. We talk about data centers and copper mines, but more than this, we delve into the what a decolonial, feminist, anti-racist approach can look like for white settler scholars grappling with their inheritances and obligations to the landscapes and to the stories they tell themselves, as we make (new) worlds. Recorded Apr 8, 2025. Released April 28, 2025.Enduring Digital Damage: Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survivalhttps://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817322472/enduring-digital-damage/ The making of critical data center studiesDustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper and Mél Hoganhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231224157 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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