Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast

Becoming-with Mushrooms: Multispecies Collective Autoethnography for Reworlding Educational Environments

19 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jennifer Foley, Dani Dilkes and Mandy Penney can be read at https://b...

Noclipping into the Contemporary: Anthropology in the Backrooms

17 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aaron Neiman and Erin Coleman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/...

A Progress Without People: Six Decades of Living Next to India’s First Nuclear Power Plant

15 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Prerna Gupta can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/a-progres...

Viral Afterlives: Toponymy of Zoonotic Ruptures in West Malaysia

12 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Nga Shi Yeu and Nga Shi Yeu can be read at https://blog.castac.org/20...

Cartographing the Brazilian Manosphere: Toponymic Aliases in a Public Forum

10 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Leonardo Thibau can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/cartog...

Tracing the Legacy of Human Resilience in the Debris of Ancient Campfires

08 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aylar Abdolahzadeh can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/tra...

Outbreak Mitigation at the Crossroads: Technical Expertise, Political Imperatives, and the Myth of John Snow

05 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Alejandro Cerón can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/06/outbr...

“Is This the End of Disability?”: Eugenics and the Technification of Normalization

03 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cristian Gustavo Gutiérrez Pinzón can be read at https://blog.casta...

Food (In)Security Under the Microscope

02 Jun 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Leonardo Vilaça Dupin, Ana Paula Perrota and Rosângela Pezza Cintrã...

Domesticating Affordances: From Surveillance to Navigation of Interfaces, How Affordances Are Reappropriated across Contexts by Rural Indian Women

29 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Debjani Chakraborty can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/do...

Why Do We Weave Networks? Mapping the Common Territory of Latin American Feminist Anthropology of Science and Technology

27 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Clarissa Reche can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/why-do-...

Introducing Citizen Technology: Ethnographic Insights from Makerspaces

25 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sandrine Lambert and Sandrine Lambert can be read at https://blog.cas...

Becoming Experts: Activists Working Against Science Based on Misinformation

22 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Kaitlyn Kathleen Rabach can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/0...

“Tech-ing” the “Justice Gap” and/or (Re)imagining Access to Justice in Africa

20 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Nicole Ahoya can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/tech-ing-...

Salt: A Provocation

18 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jackie Ashkin, Alexander Foster and Madeline Augusta Turner can be re...

Seeing, Acting, Believing: The CyberKnife and the Transformation of Medical Imaging

14 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Thomson Chakramakkil can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/s...

Microbes and the Permeable Body: Rethinking Health Through the Holobiont

12 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Bronte Jones can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/microbes-...

Animals in War: Multispecies Agency and the Memory of the Colombian Armed Conflict

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Valeria Sánchez-Prieto can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/0...

Making for the Feed: Creativity, Platforms, and Visibility in China

04 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Christina Kefala can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/makin...

What Would Happen if Ethnographers Learned to Process Signals?

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mauricio Baez can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/what-wou...

Blood Circulation: Opening Up a Closed System

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Awa Diagne can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/04/blood-circu...

What’s in a Name?

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Faridah Laffan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/04/whats-i...

What the Map Conceals: Sovereignty and the Sea in the Strait of Gibraltar

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Adam Matthew Mikhail can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/04/w...

Criminality, Risk, and Labor: Altruistic Surrogacy in Contemporary India

20 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ritu Ghosh can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/04/criminality...

Data Borders: Three Years Later

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Melissa Villa Nicholas can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/04...

Gender Dimensions of Platform Work: How Do They Shape Unionizing?

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Isha Bhallamudi, Anushree Gupta and Eesha Kunduri can be read at http...

Techno-Ethics and Feminist AI: What Role for an African Studies Approach to Science and Technology?

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Alena Thiel can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/04/techno-eth...

From Hotspots to Outbreaks: Keywords for (Un)Grounding Space, Temporality, and the Boundaries of Infection

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Joyce Lu, Katharina Rynkiewich and Pat Kinley can be read at https://...

On Resolving Controversies: Enduring Regulatory Neglect in Southern Tamil Nadu

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Misria Shaik Ali can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/on-re...

The Human Cost of Precision

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Samiksha Bhan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/the-huma...

Love at First Sprout: Wild Peanuts and Mars' Plan for Climate Security

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Eva Steinberg can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/love-at-...

Engineering Through Stuckness

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Meenakshi Mani can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/enginee...

Hip Hop Sampling and the Akai MPC as a Platform for Spatiotemporal Discourse

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jonathan Givan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/hip-hop...

Series: Theorizing Stuckness in Science and Technology

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Michelle Venetucci and Shoko Yamada can be read at https://blog.casta...

There is a Climate Emergency, and It's Called Colonialism.

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rachel Lim can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/there-is-a-...

A Promise of Safety for Everyone, Anywhere, Any Time: The Panic Button, The City, and the Box

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by William F Stafford Jr can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/...

Transnational Translations: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Platforms and Labor

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Malcolm Katrak can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/transna...

(Seed) Cycling Toward a Crossroads: Menstrual Positivity and Hormone Practices Under Right-Wing Regimes

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Anna Wood can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/seed-cycling...

Writing About/With Platform Unions: The Role of Culture, Politics, and History

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ambika Tandon can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/01/writing-...

The Lung Tumor We Know Exists Yet That We Cannot See

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Chen Shen can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/12/the-lung-tum...

What Not To Do If You Are Accused Of Harassment: The Case Of Boaventura de Souza Santos

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Daniela Manica and Fabiene Gama can be read at https://blog.castac.or...

From the ‘Grid’ to the ‘Field’: Visualizing the Chipscene

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Marilou Polymeropoulou can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/12...

Touch to Make: An Index Finger’s Path into the Sculpture Factories in China

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Renee Yu Jin can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/12/touch-to-...

Doing Research Between Adolescence and Cyborgs

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Irene do Planalto Chemin, Geovana Luna dos Santos, Kauan Alves da Sil...

Renouncing and Returning to Shareholder Value

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sakari Mesimäki can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/11/renou...

Space for the Departed: Bone Ash Apartments as an Alternative to Cemeteries in Urban China

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by xinyi wu can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/11/space-for-the...

Space Selfie: Rethinking Scalarity Between Orbit and Home

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Denis Sivkov can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/11/space-sel...

Series Introduction: The Politics of Writing About Platform Workers’ Organizing

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Isha Bhallamudi and Anushree Gupta can be read at https://blog.castac...

The Ones Who Walk Away from the Internet

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Martina Di Tullio can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/the-...

Freud Among the Geneticists

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rogelio Scott-Insua can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/fr...

Uterus Transplantation: A Scientific Advance or the Reflection of Gender Stereotypes?

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Juliana Vieira can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/uterus-...

When Queer Lovers Collaborate: The Rough Edges of Smooth Knowledge in a Diabetes Research Project

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lyndsey Beutin and Cal Biruk can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2...

Behind the Monster: Reading Frankenstein as a Warning Against Isolation, Greed, and Hubris in 21st Century Agritech

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Addison Kerwin can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/behind-...

Necrovitality and Porous Exclusions: On Dying amidst Chemical Vitalities

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Misria Shaik Ali can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/necro...

Dreaming of Security through Lanyards and Bollards

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Samuel DiBella can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/dreamin...

Reflections on a Feminist Anthropology or a Mutirão Anthropology: Karipuna Girls and Women

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ana Manoela Karipuna can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/r...

Digital Colonialism as “Progress”: What Will Convince You to Swap Your Guitar for an iPad?

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Harshit Gujral, Selena Ling, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed and Tahiya Chowdhur...

A Feeling for Information: Technological Potentiality and Embodied Futures in Post-Socialist China

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Yue Zhao can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/a-feeling-for...

Collaborating Bodies: Community Gardens and Food Forests in Central Texas

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Nadia Luis can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/collaborati...

Feeling Adrift in the Ethnography of a Laboratory

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mauricio Baez can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/feeling-...

Can We Make Space for Technique?: Politics and Play in Digital Coaching

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Martin Jesper Larsson can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/...

Odors, Leakage and Containment: The Story of a Southern California Landfill

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Emma Jahoda-Brown can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/odor...

For the Flourishing of Feminist Sciences: Distributing Seeds from the RAFeCT Network

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Clarissa Reche can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/08/for-the...

The Politics of Translation Across Policy, Grant Proposal, and Agricultural Landscapes

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cydney Seigerman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/08/the-p...

Hawa-laat: Polluted Air in Delhi, India

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Vasundhara Bhojvaid can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/08/ha...

Patch-“working” the Field: Methodological Reorientations During a Global Pandemic

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Anushree Gupta can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/07/patch-w...

Technics in the Dust

22 Jul 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Spencer Kaplan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/07/technic...

The Sovereignty of Wearables: Indigenous Health and Digital Colonialism in Taiwan

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aaron Su can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/07/the-sovereign...

“I Just Want to Be Happy!”: Singing, Scrolling, and Healing in a Chinese Senior’s Digital Life

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Hui Wen can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/07/i-just-want-to...

“Excavating” Cosmotechnical Diversity in Colombia and Sweden

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Eric Orlowski and Juan Forero-Duarte can be read at https://blog.cast...

Simulating Systemic Violence: Game Design as Speculative Ethnography in "Seven Days of Destruction"

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mayshu (Meixu) Zhan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/07/si...

Smart Wallets and the Shifting Boundaries of Trust in Decentralized Finance

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Kate Zogaj can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/06/smart-walle...

Submarine Cyborgs: At Sea with Haraway and Jue

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Elexis Williams Gray can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/06/s...

STS Academic Publishing As a Work of Service and Hope: A Conversation with Vivette García-Deister

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Vivette García-Deister can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/0...

Peasant Reserve Zones as Techno-socio-environmental Assemblages

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Julián Medina-Zárate and Nicolas Lara-Rodriguez can be read at http...

Homecoming: Tasting Death in a Vietnamese Forensic Laboratory 

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tiên-Dung Hà can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/06/homecom...

The Sugar Library

03 Jun 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Katie Ulrich can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/06/the-sugar...

The Porosity of Promise: Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and the New Science of Technofixation

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aaron Gregory can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/05/the-poro...

What if We’ve Been Thinking About Wildfire Smoke the Wrong Way?

20 May 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Arielle Milkman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/05/what-i...

The Ecosystem Multiple: Navigating the Transatlantic Fate of Biosphere 1 ½

08 May 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Elie Danziger can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/05/the-ecos...

“It's like... 'You’re welcome. Love, science'”: On Doing Critical Anthropology when the Enterprise is Under Attack

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aaron Neiman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/05/its-like-...

Laughter and Dreaming of Wins in Recovery

29 Apr 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Hannah Ali can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/laughter-an...

Toward a Linked Data Approach to Shifting Identities and NULL Values in Data Sets

17 Apr 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Andrew Wiebe can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/toward-a-...

Data Centers, Transnational Collaborations, and the Differing Meanings of Connection

15 Apr 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes and Felipe Figueiredo can be read at http...

From Bin to Bank: Recycling Household Waste in Urban Indonesia

10 Apr 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Jiwon Kim can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/from-bin-to-...

Who Will Protect Andean Potatoes in the Near Future? Uncertainties About the Next Generation of Native Potato Conservationists

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sebastian Zarate can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/who-w...

Bodies as Proxies, or The Stratigraphic Evidence of Our Appetites, at Metabolic Scales from the Human to the Planetary, on the Occasion of the Anthropocene’s Ongoing Debate About Itself

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Allie E.S. Wist can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/bodies...

Witnessing the Porous World

01 Apr 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Misria Shaik Ali can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/witne...

Following Primates

25 Mar 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Virendra Mathur and Aarjav Chauhan can be read at https://blog.castac...

The Limits of Identity: How Race and Gender Constructs in Biometric Technology Narrow Who We Are

18 Mar 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Brittany Fields can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/03/the-li...

Experimental Methodologies for Listening to the Present: An Interview with Alejandra Osejo-Varona

13 Mar 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Alejandra Osejo-Varona, Karina Aranda and nicolás gaitán-albarrací...

The Politics of Civic Education 

11 Mar 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Elif Memis can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/03/the-politic...

What are “Walking Simulators,” Ethnographically?

04 Mar 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Yifan Xia can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/03/what-are-wal...

Responsible AI in Action: Beyond Policy Regimes

27 Feb 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cheryl Hagan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/02/responsib...

The Cyborg is Dead: The Node Rises

25 Feb 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Katrina Nicole Matheson can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/0...

Major Internet Outages are Getting Bigger and Occurring More Often: A Reflection on the CrowdStrike IT Outage

18 Feb 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by A.R.E. Taylor can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/02/major-in...

Disruptions in Grace: Embracing Mutation and Disability in Nature through Art

06 Feb 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Emery Vanderburgh can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/02/disr...

Thinking with Epistemic Things: Quality and its Consequences in Agri-Commodities Markets

28 Jan 2025

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Amrita Kurian can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/01/thinking...

On Menstruation and Feeling Shame

19 Dec 2024

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rosario Rm can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/12/on-menstrua...

Swimming Against the Current: Navigating Distrust in Open Science

17 Dec 2024

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Valerie Berseth can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/12/swimmi...