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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.
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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.
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Collin Bjork and I discuss the double (triple?) meaning of "extractive AI". Collin explains Otter.ai -- an AI powered voice-to-text transcription software, and the capitalist logics that enable it -- vs. Maori-led Te Hiku Media, based on principles of stewardship, community and collaboration. Collin also explains how rhetoric is about togetherness more than persuasion. Recorded Feb 12, 2025. Released March 24, 2025. Mentioned in ep: Bad Ideas About Writing (Ball & Loewe); Extractive AI and Its Challenge to Technical Communication (Bjork; forthcoming, Journal of Business and Technical Communication , October 2025); "The Acousmatic Question and the Will to Datafy" (Sterne & Sawhney); "Big AI Companies Need Higher Ed...But Does Higher Ed Need Them?" (Bjork); "ChatGPT Threatens Language Diversity" (Bjork); Te Reo Māori Speech Recognition (Te Hiku Media); Abundant Intelligences - Indigenous AI (Jason Edward Lewis, Hemi Whaanga, et al...) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
In this episode Hagen Blix and I talk about how the fear of AI, from the non-billionaire CEO class, comes from the threat of deskilling workers. Recorded Mar 5, 2025. Released March 17, 2025. Tech Workers Can Still Fight Silicon Valley’s Overlords by Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer https://jacobin.com/2025/02/tech-workers-silicon-valley-trump/ Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares Paperback – March 21 2025 by Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer https://www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
In this episode I speak with Kane Murdoch about the perils of contract cheating. As an integrity officer, he frames what's happening with "cheating" as an unlearning that we should all be paying attention to if we care about education. Recorded Feb 6, 2025. Released March 10, 2025. Guerilla Warfare https://www.guerillawarfare.net/ Ellis, C., & Murdoch, K. (2024). The educational integrity enforcement pyramid: a new framework for challenging and responding to student cheating. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education , 49(7), 924–934. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2024.2329167 Lures and violent threats: old school cheating still rampant at Australian universities, even as AI rises — The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/01/lures-and-violent-threats-old-school-cheating-still-rampant-at-australian-universities-even-as-ai-rises Ghost writers helping UNSW students to cheat on assessments, leaked report reveals https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/cheating-unsw-students-hire-ghost-writers-from-messaging-site-wechat-to-complete-work-20200505-p54q3f.html Cheating found at UNSW up by 2000% as new detection methods used https://www.smh.com.au/education/cheating-found-at-unsw-up-by-2000-percent-as-new-detection-methods-used-20190814-p52gz4.html University students caught paying others to do their work at record levels https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/university-students-caught-paying-others-to-do-their-work-at-record-levels-20221025-p5bsrx.html The Rise of Plagiarism: Contract Cheating https://www.turnitin.ca/products/originality/contract-cheating Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
AI images are circulating more and more online and sometimes we can't tell the 'real' from AI-generated. But as I discuss with the inimitable Gillian Rose and Roland Meyer, we need to think about AI images beyond their indexicality, i.e. the idea that a photograph is a direct representation of the subject it captures. In this episode, we grapple with AI generators that are part of extractive, colonial industries, and how that shapes the affect of AI visuals. Recorded Jan 29, 2025. Released Feb 24, 2025. It’s a flat world. The Synthetic Realities of Sora https://rrrreflect.org/special-issue-1/its-a-flat-world-the-synthetic-realities-of-sora “It’s a flat world. The Synthetic Realities of AI Video” by Roland Meyer at Hidden Layers 24 https://vimeo.com/1011342969 The New Value of the Archive AI Image Generation and the Visual Economy of ‘Style’ https://image-journal.de/the-new-value-of-the-archive/ “Generic Pastness. AI Image Synthesis and the Virtualization of the Archive” https://vimeo.com/873978726 Models All The Way Down by Christo Buschek & Jer Thorp https://knowingmachines.org/models-all-the-way Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography Fellow of the British Academy and Academy of Social Sciences webpage: https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/grose.html bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/profgillian.bsky.social blog: visualmethodculture.wordpress.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
In this episode Jathan Sadowski discusses the 'risk industry' as imagined by FIRE (finance, insurance and real estate) and the asymmetries they create. Recorded January 15, 2025. Released February 10, 2025. The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite/paper This Machine Kills: A podcast about technology and political economy https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Charles Logan is the go-to person to talk to about how AI is infiltrating the many layers of education, from K-12 to universities. In this conversation, we learn our lessons; we talk about what Ed Tech is, its promise and hype, and (ultimately) how to refuse it as professors and teach students to resist it as well. We also wonder about 'AI-proofing' the classroom and wether this is the way to deal with its onslaught. Recorded January 14, 2025. Released January 27, 2025. Applying the Baldwin Test to Ed-Tech https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/applying-the-baldwin-test-to-ed-tech The Captivating Creature from Educaria and Other Scary Stories https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/the-captivating-creature-from-educaria-and-other-scary-stories Iggy Peck, Architect Is an AI Doomer and Other Things I Struggle to Talk with My Kids About https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/iggy-peck-architect-is-an-ai-doomer-and-other-things-i-struggle-to-talk-with-my-kids-about Lessons on How to Practice Everyday Resistance and Refusal https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/lessons-on-how-to-practice-everyday-resistance-and-refusal You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/05/1079009/you-need-to-talk-to-your-kid-about-ai-here-are-6-things-you-should-say Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
In this episode I speak with Dillon Mahmoudi and Anthony Levenda about the relationship (feedback loop) between data and urban planning. We focus on the idea of 'storying' data to make it compelling and to get past the inertia of data delivered as mere stats or numbers that have little resonance and don't (or no longer) move people to action, towards better living conditions. Recorded January 13, 2025. Released January 20, 2025. The urban-tech feedback loop: a surveillance and development data-walk in South Lake Union https://dillonm.io/papers/the-urban-tech-feedback-loop/ The Amazon Warehouse https://dillonm.io/papers/the-amazon-warehouse/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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 AI https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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 Back https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo216184200.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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 website https://pareid.com/ Artists Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pareid.architecture/ Pareid creates organ-like installation from corrugated plastic tubes in Madrid https://www.dezeen.com/2022/04/20/pareid-everywhere-nowhere-installation-urvanity/ Re: Arctic https://vimeo.com/469736816?&login=true Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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.…
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 Data https://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.…
Listen to the data center's hum with your feet first... on this episode, Trent Wintermeier and I discuss what it means to absorb sound through the body and "hear" vibrations with and through your limbs and ears. We discuss what this means for folks living near data centers, especially in places imagined as kinds of sacrifice zones. Recorded Oct 9, 2024. Release Nov 11, 2024. Trent Wintermeier https://trentwintermeier.cargo.site Affective Footprints https://www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/affective-footprints Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
In this episode, I have a conversation with Remmelt Ellen from AI Safety Camp. We discuss AI safety and his 44-page book Artifical Bodies outlining AI harms from the perspective of someone really grappling with the ethics, hype, and harms of the industry and beyond. Recorded Oct 4, 2024. Released Oct 28, 2024. Artificial Bodies https://workflowy.com/s/artificial-bodies/znDloerXJaEQvKF6#/846236876b45 AI Safety Camp https://www.aisafety.camp/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
Everyone should read Lisa Yin Han's Deepwater Alchemy! It's a stunningly well written book about how we come to value the ocean through various extractive mediations. Recorded Sept 27, 2024. Released Oct 14, 2024. Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor How underwater mediation has transformed deep-sea spaces into resource-rich frontiers https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517915940/deepwater-alchemy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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