Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Zhou Zhou can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/powerpoint-karaoke-a-ph-d-version/. About the post: The only way to “lose” the game, we decided, would be to remain trapped in grad school forever — on every campus, there are stories of ghosts of former students or professors haunting certain buildings.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ritwik Banerji can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/people-are-not-fixed-media/. About the post: Fixed media are the dominant media form social scientists and humanists use to depict human practice. If the goal is to portray human beings as they are, the dominant media form used to do this in the humanities...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tayeba Batool can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/climatic-futures-and-tree-response-ability-can-urban-forests-restore-human-tree-relations/. About the post: The consequences of afforestation projects such as the Miyawaki urban forests are larger than just a failure of scaling up or over-emphasizing effecti...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by P V can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/03/traveling-but-not-arriving-hieroglyphics-of-caste-in-computing/. About the post: If arrival is a trope to be appropriated in ethnographic writing, I want to underscore the value of traveling over arriving – more so for studying intangible things that “don’t exist” tha...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam and Antonio Oraldi can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/03/netlicks-and-chill-digitalization-and-food-politics-in-taste-the-tv-tttv-technology/. About the post: TTTV allows the user to taste the flavors of a particular food depicted on it, thus giving a whole new level of possibilities t...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Maxime Polleri can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/03/ethnographies-of-nuclear-life-from-victimhood-to-post-victimization/. About the post: Many ethnographies of nuclear life are increasingly producing scholarships that precisely move beyond tropes of victimization and damaged biologies. This “post-victimizati...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Annie Arulraj can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/02/from-amusement-to-conscientization-the-purpose-of-media-literacy-in-the-age-of-misinformation/. About the post: Annie Sadhana writes about media literacy as a tool to promote critical action as well as communication technology and points out that learning th...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tomoki Fukui can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/02/queered-ruptures-the-politics-of-anti-irradiation-maternalism-in-the-tepco-nuclear-disaster-kokutai-and-hentai/. About the post: This essay reflects on the significance of Chiharu’s description of herself and other women active in anti-irradiation efforts as...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Timothy Neale and Catherine Trundle can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/02/reactions-and-ruptures-ethnographies-of-nuclear-life/. About the post: This upcoming series brings together three scholars—Tomoki Fukui, Maxime Polleri, and Kirsty Howey—whose ethnographic research focuses on life as it is entangled wit...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Svetlana Borodina can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/01/platypus-in-2022/. About the post: As the new year and the new semester have been off to (hopefully) a good start, Platypus is coming back to work too. Building on a decade of work (this year Platypus turns 10!), in 2022, we will continue our commitment...

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Angela VandenBroek can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2021/08/a-very-lengthy-swedish-introduction-hype-storytelling-and-the-question-of-entrepreneurial-allies/. About the post: Hype storytelling permeates entrepreneurial spaces, from startup mission statements and investor pitches to marketing campaigns and exciti...