Girl Employee
Episodes
Ep 31 - First Phone and the Ontologies of Technology with Ruba Al-Sweel
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! Today, we are in conversation with artist Ruba Al-Sweel, talking about art and film-making, research on hardware suprem...
Ep.30 - Community Theory with Ester Freider
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Ester Freider talks about the online community she built through her Instagram account &a...
Ep. 29 - LLM and heartbreak and LLM as heartbreak
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Carmen presents some of her research and insights on LLMs as tools to process heartbreaks...
Ep. 28 - What are XenoVisual Studies?
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Carmen discussed XenoVisual Studies with Mar Osés, Pilar del Puerto, and Esther Rizo-Cas...
Ep.27 - Digital Occultism with Sophie Publig and Mikkel Rørbo
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Sophie Publig and Mikkel Rørbo share their recent research on the language of occultism ...
Ep. 26 - The Marketization of the Occult Online
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today’s special episode, Morgane shares research on The Marketization of the Occult Online, illustrated through he...
Ep. 24 - Trad Wives, New Media and its Discontents
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! In today's special episode, Carmen will share some research on trad wives and feminine lifestyle aesthetics. Than...
Ep. 23 - Corporate Aesthetics with Muj Abdulzade
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! Today's special episode is an interview with Muj Abdulzade on corporate aesthetics, performativity in the workplac...
Ep. 22 - Techno-Spirituality with Anan Fries
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! Today's special episode is an interview with Anan Fries and their research on technology, spirituality and digital...
Ep. 21 - Woman at Work with Lua Vollaard
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! Today's special episode is an interview with Lua Vollaard and her fascinating research on women and work, women an...
Ep. 20 - Social Media Love Gurus
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! Today's special episode is about Social Media Love Gurus and our experience with those... You can find more recomm...
Ep.19 - 2024 Readings : Academia versus the Outside World and Female Cyborgs in Soviet Cinema
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! Today's special episode wraps up 2024 as we share insights on two pieces of writing we particularly enjoyed. You c...
Ep.18 - Girl Online with Sophie Publig
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Girl Employee! We’re thrilled to have a very special guest joining us today—an exceptional researcher and a dear friend, Sophie Pu...
Ep.17 - Dead Internet Theory and Internet Studies
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to girl employee. This month, we'll share some thoughts and discoveries on the dead internet theory and how it might challenge the f...
Ep. 16 - Generative AI Aesthetics & Architecture
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to girl employee. This month, we'll share some thoughts on how generative AI impacts the research and development of architecture, a...
Ep.15 - Video Game Graphics : Why so Cinematic?
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to girl employee. This month, we'll share some thoughts on the most recent video game graphics developments, the cinematic potential...
Episode 14 - Podcast, Listening and Platform Temporalities
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to girl employee. This month, we'll share some thoughts we produced on the history of podcasts and why sound now, produced in the co...
Episode 13 - AI PornBots
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the 13th episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capit...
Episode 12 - Design Accessibility and Canva's Aesthetics
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the 12th episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capit...
Ep. 11 - Platform criticism on Platforms?
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the 11th episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capit...
Ep. 10 - Big Tech Merges and Post-Capitalist Animism
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the 10th episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capit...
Ep. 9 - MMOs and Economic Ideologies
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
During this 9th episode, we will discuss the history of MMOs and how their business models shifted over time, leading online players to question issue...
Ep.8 - Femtech Co-Reading
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The book Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed has been published!You can order it here : https://www.setmargins.press/books/cycles-the-sacred-and-the-doo...
Ep. 7 - Love is blind, or love in the time of speculative finance
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the seventh episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform ca...
Ep.6 - AI lovers with Amy Boulton
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the sixth episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capi...
Ep. 5 - Femtech and the Glitch Ideology
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the fifth episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capi...
Ep. 4 - The Subversion of the Attention Economy
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the fourth episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform cap...
Ep.3 - Swiping cities : the Urbanism of Dating Apps
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the third episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capi...
Ep. 2 - The Gamification of Life
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second episode of GirlEmployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform cap...
Ep.1 - The etymology of #girlboss
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of Girlemployee, a podcast where Carmen Hines and Morgane Billuart discuss topics around visual culture and platform capi...