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			<![CDATA[ Platypod is the official podcast of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. We talk about anthropology, STS, and all things tech. Tune in for conversations with researchers and experts on how technology is shaping our world. (Jingle by <a href="https://freesound.org/people/chimerical/sounds/106842/">chimerical</a>. CC BY-NC 4.0) ]]>
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			<![CDATA[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://blog.castac.org/2026/04/from-hotspots-to-outbreaks-keywords-for-ungrounding-space-temporality-and-the-boundaries-of-infection/. About the post: This series examines the spatial, temporal, and conceptual boundaries of infection. As a primarily analytic approach, the authors in this series unpack epidemiologic keywords such as outbreak, hotspot and epidemic, to assess their uptake, uses and meanings amongst scientists, public health and healthcare practitioners, experts and broader publics. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<itunes:title>On Resolving Controversies: Enduring Regulatory Neglect in Southern Tamil Nadu</itunes:title>
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			<![CDATA[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-resolving-controversies-enduring-regulatory-neglect-in-southern-tamil-nadu/. About the post: This post addresses how the controversy around the Kudankulam nuclear power Plant is being resolved, nearly 15 years after the 2011 protest where around 9000 people were charged with sedition and 55000 under several other charges. The post treats resolutions in three ways: resolving between multiple aspects and interest groups in a controversy, resolution as clarity about a controversy by meaning of accounting for the diverse perspectives, knowledges in decision making, and the resolved-ness against regulatory neglect. Resolving scientific controversies are significant to a dignified existence in the age of environmental in the age of environmental contamination, plagued by compounded causes and vulnerabilities. As science procedurally solves contamination’s cause, victims in contaminated places await technoscientific answers to establish regulatory accountability. ]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-human-cost-of-precision/. About the post: The use of AI tools in diagnostics claims to shorten the long and exhausting "diagnostic odyssey" of people with rare diseases. As a result, AI-assisted diagnostics is being framed as a 'disruptive technology' able to deliver precise diagnoses or diagnostic cues in just minutes. This piece questions the claim of disruption arguing that it is precision instead that becomes an ideal under late capitalism and shapes how technologies are valued as benevolent. Working through what Anibal Quijano called the 'colonial matrix of power', precision diagnostics that promise to care for sick and disabled bodies depend on the uneven labor conditions in the global South that perpetuate conditions of harm and distress for data and healthcare workers. Connecting these seemingly parallel developments in precision medicine and the data economy pushes us to confront the human costs of precision.]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-first-sprout-wild-peanuts-and-mars-plan-for-climate-security/. About the post: Despite the toxicity and the chromosome doubling and the botanical reality of peanut reproduction, Mars’s portrayal of peanut breeding as an all-natural gendered family unit contrasts the stability of the nuclear family with the instability of climate change. In doing so, the commodity, in this case Mars candies, becomes an essential safeguard against total climate and societal collapse–a world without peanuts.]]>
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			<![CDATA[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/engineering-through-stuckness/. About the post: In this first addition to our series on Stuckness, Meenakshi Mani shows that the everyday work of typically well-paid tech professionals—whether that be within specific domains like EdTech or within Big Tech—are by no means without frustration. As actors within an organization and a social network, these seemingly powerful workers find themselves constantly having to navigate hierarchies and make compromises. These moments of stuckness help illuminate the structural forces and material conditions that constrain the range of possibilities  involved in technology building. By tracing stories of tech workers from India and the U.S, Meenakshi suggests that in the shared experience of stuckness, there are perhaps alliances to be conceived between different types of tech work and tech workers, across the Majority and Minority worlds.]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-sampling-and-the-akai-mpc-as-a-platform-for-spatiotemporal-discourse/. About the post: This analysis moves away from exploring Hip Hop as a particular Black political action taking sonic form and towards an ontology of Black American Hip Hop production. This shift is valuable because the sonic underpinning of the beat is what contextualizes and informs the lyrical production done in real time by the emcee during the process of writing and recording their lyrics. In doing this contextualizing work, Hip Hop music producers redeployed the sampler as not just a musical instrument but as a platform on which new forms of dialogue were able to blossom.]]>
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			<![CDATA[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.castac.org/2026/03/series-theorizing-stuckness-in-science-and-technology/. About the post: What might we learn by studying science and technology through the lens of stuckness? Scientific and technological practice has long been associated with notions of progress as a linear development, linked to key moments in history and developments that have led to our present moment. In this new series on Platypus, scholars who work directly with scientists and technological experts instead foreground moments of thwarted expectations and material constraints, highlighting that experts themselves do not necessarily experience their work as congruent with these notions of progress. By attending to moments when experts face obstacles to their work and feel stuck, the essays in this series draw out how people construct meaning out of these moments of becoming stuck, which then follows them into future decision-making.
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			<![CDATA[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-climate-emergency-and-its-called-colonialism/. About the post: In this piece, author and artivist Rachel Lim highlights how the climate crisis is not a sudden "emergency" but the cumulative result of centuries of colonial dispossession and extraction. Lim critiques "crisis language," noting it often sidelines Indigenous sovereignty and favors capitalist expansion over genuine accountability. By drawing on academic scholarship and solidarity work with land defenders from the Wet’suwet’en to the Amazon, Lim highlights how "green transitions" can replicate colonial violence if they ignore Indigenous jurisdiction. The piece serves as a call to move beyond fear-driven rhetoric toward a framework of reciprocity and history. Accompanied by Lim's illustration, "Rooted in Our Heart," the article demands that climate action addresses colonialism as its root cause to achieve true justice.]]>
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			<![CDATA[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/a-promise-of-safety-for-everyone-anywhere-any-time-the-panic-button-the-city-and-the-box/. About the post: As a system which depends on the coordination of complex technologies and infrastructures of communication, commerce, and bureaucracy, the panic button is exposed to a wide range of potential failure points.]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Malcolm Katrak, Anushree Gupta and Debopriya Shome can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/02/transnational-translations-an-interdisciplinary-dialogue-on-platforms-and-labor/. About the post: This post is an Interdisciplinary dialog on platforms and labor. We are a group of scholars and researchers who work with gig and platform worker unions in India in various capacities. We form the India chapter of the labor deck research network. We have been meeting regularly from across the globe to share cross-sectoral organizing strategies, track the political landscape around gig and platform movements, and discuss research and reflections from our place-based engagements. Our work sits at the critical intersection of scholarship and activism. It involves amplifying workers’ voices, supporting unionization efforts, and supporting workers in their struggles to lead more dignified and just working lives. Our discussions have inspired us to put together this blog series on the politics of writing about platform workers’ organizing. ]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-toward-a-crossroads-menstrual-positivity-and-hormone-practices-under-right-wing-regimes/. About the post: A constellation of women’s health advocates, right-wing influencers, and lay experts have helped to proliferate negative information around hormonal contraceptives, including testimonials about side effects and doubts about their safety. This has unfolded alongside a renewed embrace of non-pharmaceutically suppressed menstruation.]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ambika Tandon, Debopriya Shome and Kaveri Medappa can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/01/writing-about-with-platform-unions-the-role-of-culture-politics-and-history/. About the post: Platform work has exposed larger numbers of workers, especially younger workers with little memory or experience of organising, to mobilise against capital and to do so using innovative means and campaigns. Through three vignettes, we bring the everyday together with the cultural, political histories and contexts of three metropolitan Indian cities – Bengaluru, Delhi and Kolkata, cities in which we have lived and engaged in research and activism with platform workers. Spanning between 2019 and 2025, these vignettes reflect the political landscape in India. They shed light on the capital–state nexus that limits the power of workers, unionization efforts built on foundations of loyalty and often exclusionary hypermasculine politics. What are the tensions and contradictions that we confronted while doing research with ‘gig’ worker unions? To inhabit that space in between is to acknowledge t]]>
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			<![CDATA[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.org/2025/12/what-not-to-do-if-you-are-accused-of-harassment-the-case-of-boaventura-de-souza-santos/. About the post: In this text, we intend to revisit the well-known case of the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Souza Santos, following its unfolding since the accusations that surfaced after the publication of this book "Sexual Misconduct in Academia" in 2023. We summarize the main events since then, focusing on developing a counter-manual that didactically organizes the regrettable way in which the intellectual responded to the accusations and systematically retaliated against the victims. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[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/from-the-grid-to-the-field-visualizing-the-chipscene/. About the post: I was introduced to chipmusic and its scene: online communities, netlabels, visual performers, musicians and sound artists, a whole network of creatives which would often physically materializse in events across the world, such as Error Code. That night I returned home and went straight online on my computer to catch a glimpse of the chipscene: 8-bit graphics and sounds flooded my brain and I started wondering what does the chipscene world look like – both online and offline. Years later, I recognizsed the feeling of wanting to explore the digital social in Flynn’s words: what does the chipscene ‘grid’ look like and how can I get in?  ]]>
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			<![CDATA[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/renouncing-and-returning-to-shareholder-value/. About the post: Are global environmental problems most likely to be solved through businesses that operate at scale? As Finnish national politics have moved towards austerity measures, progressive causes are gravitating towards entrepreneurial spaces. Exploring how progressive actors are narrating their entrepreneurial aspirations as a way to access resources to address global-scale environmental concerns, this piece explores how new progressive narratives are rehabilitating the concept of shareholder value without any meaningful structural challenges to shareholder primacy. ]]>
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			<itunes:title>Space for the Departed: Bone Ash Apartments as an Alternative to Cemeteries in Urban China</itunes:title>
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			<![CDATA[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-departed-bone-ash-apartments-as-an-alternative-to-cemeteries-in-urban-china/. About the post: The Bone Ash Apartments are at a grey zone of policy because turning residential units into burial sites is not allowed. As per the civil affairs official, "It goes against the residential function of housing and public norms." But in reality, the state is under-invested in accessible, meaningful funerary alternatives that are low in price. Bone ash apartments therefore are a private solution to a public infrastructure failure—a way for people to stay connected to their dead in a system that has prioritized efficiency over intimacy. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-selfie-rethinking-scalarity-between-orbit-and-home/. About the post: By attempting a space selfie, ham radio enthusiasts are not expanding their home to the size of the universe, nor are they simply connecting home and places in the outer space. As Dmitry notes in his account of regular switching between being part of the global expanse and pursuing his everyday responsibilities, they practice scaling, whilst staying attuned to the incommensurability between a small home and the huge outer space. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[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.org/2025/11/series-introduction-the-politics-of-writing-about-platform-workers-organizing/. About the post: We are a group of scholars and researchers who work with gig and platform worker unions in India in various capacities. We form the India chapter of the Labor Tech Research Network collective, and have been meeting regularly from across the globe to share cross-sectoral organizing strategies, track the political landscape around gig & platform unions, and discuss research and reflections from our place-based engagements. Our work sits at the critical intersection of scholarship and activism. It involves amplifying workers’ voices, supporting unionisation efforts, and supporting workers in their struggles to lead more dignified and just working lives. Our discussions have inspired us to put together this blog series on the politics of writing about platform workers’ organizing.]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-ones-who-walk-away-from-the-internet/. About the post: In the Andean cosmovision, constellations are not formed by connecting the dots of stars, but rather from the spaces of darkness in the night sky. The most important one is the Yakana, shaped like a llama —the most essential animal for life in the Andes. What might be seen as void, then, can reveal as much as, or even more than, the brightest star. This brief text reflects on the relevance of attending to those spaces, moments, and situations that remain undigitized in order to understand the social role of digital technologies and how they shape our lives. Much like the dark voids that give form to Andean constellations, these intervals can illuminate dimensions of existence that are otherwise overshadowed by the glow of the screens. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[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/freud-among-the-geneticists/. About the post: Rather than striving to reinscribe their discipline in the right side of the scientific demarcation, psychoanalysts are creating a tertiary terrain between the radical science/non-science separation. It is not about becoming a science or rebating the epithets of pseudo-science. Instead, “being with science”, “not being a non-science”, or “helping science” are the signifiers that circulate. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 02:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<itunes:title>Uterus Transplantation: A Scientific Advance or the Reflection of Gender Stereotypes?</itunes:title>
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			<![CDATA[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-transplantation-a-scientific-advance-or-the-reflection-of-gender-stereotypes/. About the post: After all, to what extent do highly innovative medical technologies, such as uterus transplantation, cease to express a progressive vision of the future and instead reinforce morally conservative values related to motherhood, gender, and gestation? (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<itunes:title>When Queer Lovers Collaborate: The Rough Edges of Smooth Knowledge in a Diabetes Research Project</itunes:title>
			<title>When Queer Lovers Collaborate: The Rough Edges of Smooth Knowledge in a Diabetes Research Project</title>
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			<![CDATA[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/2025/10/when-queer-lovers-collaborate-the-rough-edges-of-smooth-knowledge-in-a-diabetes-research-project/. About the post: Our research on a medical condition that only one of us has but both of us live with is an apt site for considering questions of expertise, allocation of credit, and the complexities of embodied knowledge in collaborative anthropological research.]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<itunes:title>Behind the Monster: Reading Frankenstein as a Warning Against Isolation, Greed, and Hubris in 21st Century Agritech</itunes:title>
			<title>Behind the Monster: Reading Frankenstein as a Warning Against Isolation, Greed, and Hubris in 21st Century Agritech</title>
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			<![CDATA[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-the-monster-reading-frankenstein-as-a-warning-against-isolation-greed-and-hubris-in-21st-century-agritech/. About the post: An analysis of Mary Shelley's allocation of blame in the novel Frankenstein reframes what “franken” signals in the term “franken-food.” Rather than marking genetically modified crops as inherently monstrous, the modifier highlights the responsibility of agritech creators, the ‘Frankensteins’ who engineer and deploy the technology.]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<itunes:title>Necrovitality and Porous Exclusions: On Dying amidst Chemical Vitalities</itunes:title>
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			<![CDATA[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/necrovitality-and-porous-exclusions-on-dying-amidst-chemical-vitalities/. About the post: This piece introduces the concept of necro-vitality developed as a way of conversing about the intersection of materiality of chemicals and deathworlds. Responding to Gabrielle Hecht provocation and inspired by Achille Mbembe's necropolitics, the author discusses how death, deadly conditions and deadly materiality of pores excludes lower caste and class temporary workers, and residents at Tummalapalle Uranium Mine and Mill, Andhra Pradesh, India. Here people make life and living in deadly conditions of engineered porosity. ]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 02:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[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/dreaming-of-security-through-lanyards-and-bollards/. About the post: A perimeter is always porous, to certain people. Managing how it is perforated is a kind of professional work. Odd behavior is socially marked out and isolated. In the US security industry, by contrast, a similar function is exported to technologies of access control and credentialing. One of the central artefacts that exercises elements of both is the lanyard. Unlike the laminated ID alone, the lanyard presents a constellation of belonging all at once and, unlike the uniform, its lightweight profile and compact size allow more individual expression through clothing. In contrast to the social subtleties of the lanyard, I present a simple tool for physical security: the bollard. These metal poles offer a catastrophic resolution for problems of permission to access a space. ]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 02:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[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/reflections-on-a-feminist-anthropology-or-a-mutirao-anthropology-karipuna-girls-and-women/. About the post: The ethnic reaffirmation of my mother, also an anthropologist, was important in stopping the processes of forgetting and invisibility regarding my origins. I bring up those questions today in my anthropological research. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<itunes:title>Digital Colonialism as “Progress”: What Will Convince You to Swap Your Guitar for an iPad?</itunes:title>
			<title>Digital Colonialism as “Progress”: What Will Convince You to Swap Your Guitar for an iPad?</title>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Harshit Gujral, Selena Ling, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed and Tahiya Chowdhury can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/09/digital-colonialism-as-progress-what-will-convince-you-to-swap-your-guitar-for-an-ipad/. About the post: While Apple's controversial 'Crush' advertisement is about technological progress, this article argues that it represents a form of digital colonialism, where the compression of diverse, culturally significant creative tools into a single device reflects a historical pattern of devaluing cultural heritage in the name of a standardized vision of innovation.]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<itunes:title>A Feeling for Information: Technological Potentiality and Embodied Futures in Post-Socialist China</itunes:title>
			<title>A Feeling for Information: Technological Potentiality and Embodied Futures in Post-Socialist China</title>
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			<![CDATA[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-information-technological-potentiality-and-embodied-futures-in-post-socialist-china/. About the post: Medical anthropologists and STS scholars have examined the epistemic roles of biomedical practices in creating future-oriented narratives of life’s “potentiality” — visions of life that could and should be (Taussig et al., 2013). This post offers a historical glimpse into how information technologies—and the sociopolitical anticipation of their potential impacts—produced embodied forms of futurity in the context of reform-era China, shaping intellectual and popular practices around humans’ bodily sensory and cognitive capacities as sites of optimization and enhancement. I highlight two case studies in which historical actors in 1980s China imagined human bodies as information storage, sensors, and transmitters. In doing so, this post asks what it means to feel, sense, and be with information as the boundaries between nature and culture, the biological and technological, human and machine]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 02:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<itunes:title>Collaborating Bodies: Community Gardens and Food Forests in Central Texas</itunes:title>
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			<![CDATA[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-be-happy-singing-scrolling-and-healing-in-a-chinese-seniors-digital-life/. About the post: Like many older adults in China, Auntie Zhang has found her own way into the digital world. Her fascination with short videos is not about escaping reality, but her way of engaging with reality and making sense of it. When she scrolls, sings along, and lip-syncs, she holds onto her core values that life has often shaken but not erased. The sentimental ballads drifting through these online videos give shape to frustrations and bafflement that rarely find words. Although dismissed by outsiders as shallow or “tacky,” these short clips offer their creators something that lingers beyond fleeting internet trends: a way to reconcile with the past, to momentarily soften its sharp edges, and to craft a version of life that feels both bearable and expressive. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-ecosystem-multiple-navigating-the-transatlantic-fate-of-biosphere-1-%c2%bd/. About the post: Experimental "ecosystems" emerge from the relation between facilities. The DSE case shows how ecosystems are defined relationally, not only through interoperability (as with LEO), but also through ever-analogical definitions: the "ecosystem" idea is located at the meeting point of fully-interdependent instantiations by various experimental facilities across continents. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-youre-welcome-love-science-on-doing-critical-anthropology-when-the-enterprise-is-under-attack/. About the post: Should we refrain from kicking science when it is down? Ought the level of our critique be calibrated by how vulnerable the scientific enterprise is in a given moment? Would we dare release a book called Against Health (Metzl & Kirkland 2010) in 2025, when being against health seems to explicitly be the order of the day? And how do we speak honestly about how much worse things have gotten without rehabilitating the tepid liberalism which got us here in the first place?]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-and-dreaming-of-wins-in-recovery/. About the post: At Alliance Wellness, I also noticed how young Somali American men turn to humor and laughter to socialize experiences of sobriety or resist the structure and authority of Alcoholics Anonymous discourse while establishing rebellious rhythms and narratives of sobriety. However, as I played Ludo with these young men, I became more interested in how laughter also served as a ventilator of life and a space to imagine victory. The moment Somali American men entered their sober-living facilities, I would hear deep sighs of exhaustion and relief. Evenings at these sober homes became a site of raaxo (Somali for ease or pleasure) or nasasho (Somali for rest), phrases these young Somali American men informed me were among the many Somali words for healing.]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-linked-data-approach-to-shifting-identities-and-null-values-in-data-sets/. About the post: Acknowledging shifting identities and embracing NULL values complicates data analysis but can ultimately produce more accurate and respectful records.]]>
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			<![CDATA[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 https://blog.castac.org/2025/04/data-centers-transnational-collaborations-and-the-differing-meanings-of-connection/. About the post: As anthropologists researching data centers, one of our goals is to point to a deeper timeline of events that have given form to what data centers are today. Our goal is to put data centers in context, and to reject narratives that place them outside of history. In putting data centers in context, we understand that the technology and infrastructure supporting current data centers are not new or exist thanks to the works of a single mind – putting data centers in context shows how digital technologies of the 21st are enacting forbindelse, they’re combining pre-existing infrastructures and creating new relationships with other material technologies. They’re connected to the past, despite the focus of the tech industry in a distant future, and their rejection of history. ]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-bank-recycling-household-waste-in-urban-indonesia/. About the post: Environmental activists and industry professionals were hesitant to view them more than “housewives’ plaything (main-mainan).” The quantity of waste banks’ contribution to handling household waste pale in comparison to that of the informal waste pickers. Meanwhile, the members of waste banks themselves often describe their activity as “just social (sosial),” implying its communal nature is predicated on the absence of economic aspirations. This essay is an attempt to create a generative interval between them—one that pauses before settling into any singular narrative, allowing the complexity of waste bank practices to surface. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-will-protect-andean-potatoes-in-the-near-future-uncertainties-about-the-next-generation-of-native-potato-conservationists/. About the post: While potato farmers have been referred to as “guardians” of agrobiodiversity, little attention has been brought to the precarity of the continuity of this guardianship. The lack of youth and women farmers present at annual meetings and events puts into question who will be the agrodiversity guardians when the older generations of potato farmers pass on.  (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-as-proxies-or-the-stratigraphic-evidence-of-our-appetites-at-metabolic-scales-from-the-human-to-the-planetary-on-the-occasion-of-the-anthropocenes-ongoing-debate-about-itself/. About the post: In a looping story of strata and sediment and edible rocks, this essay similarly seeks to articulate the material instabilities of bodies in an epoch that itself resists clear definition. Through the generative space of contradictions, it serves as a somewhat experimental back-and-forth between permeable anthropos bodies and the epoch defined by the materials transgressing those bodies; between tangible forms of evidence and ephemeral ones; between precision and porosity.]]>
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			<![CDATA[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/witnessing-the-porous-world/. About the post: This blog series emerges from porous interventions at the intersections of environmental humanities and science and technology studies whereby scientized objects are opened to the world they animate through ethnographic engagements.]]>
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			<![CDATA[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.org/2025/03/following-primates/. About the post: If the langurs moved to the agricultural fields or crossed the village, no data could be collected for a couple hours or more. In those moments, we would either wait, patiently hoping that the langurs would move to a “researchable zone”. Friction and conflicts were shaping research, and in turn, the science that was ultimately going to be produced. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[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-limits-of-identity-how-race-and-gender-constructs-in-biometric-technology-narrow-who-we-are/. About the post: Identification through technologically assisted vision is therefore not revolutionary or transformative; instead, it perpetually sees others as they have always been seen. This line of sight ignores the immaterial, intangible, and unconscious but ever-present elements that constitute one’s being and shapes their becoming.]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Iván Flores can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/10/chaotic-oscillation-understanding-the-paradoxical-presence-of-video-games-in-contemporary-society/. About the post: Common sense tells us that play and work are opposing categories. However, in our society, we often encounter situations where the boundaries between these two categories become difficult to distinguish. It's common that people earn money from hobbies—activities that common sense typically does not associate with the effort required for any form of work and mostly because they are fun. These include recording oneself dancing on the street, doing product unboxings, or streaming while playing video games. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Beatriz Klimeck can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/from-a-hashtag-to-the-right-for-indoor-air-quality-a-short-story-of-the-covidisairborne-movement/. About the post: Isolated during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, I started to follow on Twitter (social media platform now called X) a few scientists who were dedicating part of their time to share information about disease prevention. From that personal curiosity emerged an interest in a feud happening between tweets, likes and retweets: the World Health Organization had tweeted a "fact-checking" publication stating that Covid was not airborne. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ana Paula Pimentel Jacob can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/foucault-dialectics-and-randomized-clinical-trials-bridges-between-medicine-and-anthropology/. About the post: I hope that other scientists understand anthropology, but at the same time, it’s essential that anthropology also enters other spaces and accepts invitations outside of its own citadel. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[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/2024/08/from-foraging-to-keeping-bees-in-northeast-brazil/. About the post: For Rogério and other meleiros, greater awareness of the environmental impact of their foraging practices developed  through their transition from meleiro to apicultor (apiarist or beekeeper). Yet some former meleiros explained that they eventually began to cut out only part of the beehive to preserve the colony’s integrity, illustrating how the introduction of beekeeping was not required for all meleiros to develop greater environmental awareness. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Amanda Quan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/medicine-disoriented/. About the post: What follows is an object collection that troubles the arrival of The Clinic by engaging the historic underpinnings, cultural logics, and afterlives of its object parts. I think with the concept of simulation as one that refuses stable orientation as I deconstruct The Clinic, fold back its walls, and examine how each component is socially and politically entangled. Moving beyond the functional utility of clinical objects, I reorient my attention to their social lives and stories in order to unravel the directions of white hegemony which have shaped medicalized subjectivities, categories of citizenship, and diagnostic consequences in contemporary campaigns of exclusion. This is a project that aims to disorient and reorient by destabilizing object surfaces and welcoming alternative paths of arrival.]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Mariel Garcia-Montes can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/challenging-normalized-surveillance-birds-on-the-wire-surveillance-in-mexico/. About the post: The ways that surveillance technology is acquired and deployed, often in the name of security, contributes to the establishment of a culture where surveillance is normalized. However, this move is not devoid of tensions, as the high social costs of surveillance efforts become visible and sectors of civil society begin to challenge the emerging sociotechnical status quo. I also point to the ways that these developments have made an impact beyond Mexican borders, in the global surveillance technology market, and among global advocacy movements organizing around privacy rights. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 02:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Yuna Hwang can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/08/questioning-the-market-how-did-the-south-korean-camming-beot-bang-market-grow/. About the post: Drawing on new economic sociology to consider markets as social networks, along with a historical-institutional perspective emphasizing the sociopolitical contexts that enable market construction and operation (Chun and Lee, 2023), this work approaches Boet-bang markets as socio-cultural constructs rather than a priori phenomenon. So, in what political and institutional context was the Beot-bang market created in Korea? (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Adriana Moreno can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/07/digital-anthropology-of-the-senses-connecting-technology-and-culture-through-the-sensory-world/. About the post: This post explores the relevance of studying the senses, particularly hearing and touch, from a digital anthropological perspective, taking advantage of the vast offer of audiovisual and transmedia content that already exists on the Internet: socio-digital platforms and streaming services. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lucas Nishida can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/11/high-costs-entangled-politics-what-all-comes-inside-a-medications-packaging/. About the post: In this process, the medication is not merely a chemical compound but is a product of and produces a network of relationships: with clinical trials and research results, with research subjects and their hopes and activism, with a production industry and its private health logic, with international intellectual property agreements and patent records, with a global drug market. All of this comes imported with the medication packaging when it comes to incorporating the drug into SUS. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Adwaita Banerjee can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/10/plastic-chronicles-navigating-mumbais-material-mazes/. About the post: It is here, amidst a sea of discarded materials, that a relationship evolves—one between the waste pickers, the myriad forms of plastics, and the urban space that surrounds them. This bond is grounded in empirical observations that bring order to the chaotic array of plastics, tying together the intricate dance of humans and materials within the city's polyphonic rhythms.]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Maggie Mang can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/09/blooming-biomes-mean-blooming-profits-nature-based-industrial-farming-and-the-politics-of-the-industrial-animal-microbiome/. About the post: This blog post details how hype, imaginations, and promises over the industrial animal microbiome circulate in industrial agritech circles. Such images, claims, and examples drive home the point that industrial animal metabolism – and the probiotic, ‘natural,’ patented tools designed to optimize it – is considered to be a profitable next frontier. ]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/09/ai-as-a-feminist-issue/. About the post: For this episode, we'll read a story written earlier this year. This is a story about the public funding of artificial intelligence in the US and how that's a feminist issue. We asked aman agah, a scholar and researcher in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University, to read the story for us. ]]>
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			<![CDATA[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/2023/08/madam-cistern/. About the post: It’s been a long time since someone has fetched water from me. I’m old now, dried up… it rained a lot this winter, but I am no longer able to hold on to the rain that falls. My time has come to an end… (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Colin Garon can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/08/fake-real-real-fake-salvarsan-on-the-us-medical-market/. About the post: Who could claim medical expertise? Should healers be allowed to advertise? What cures should laypeople be able to purchase for themselves? In the case of Salvarsan, the complex interplay of fakery and reality, which Cramp sought to discipline into clearly bounded regimes of (il)legitimacy, was in fact dictated by complex pattens of production and distribution, advertising and demand, and epistemic and therapeutic authority.]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[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/2023/07/tokens-voids-and-archives-locating-berlins-nft-projects/. About the post: Berlin joins cities like Los Angeles, New York, Lisbon, and London as a hub of blockchain ventures. Yet Berlin’s NFT projects, Immersion­ included, stand out in an important way. Projects elsewhere are typically detached from their physical places of origin, taking on a generic, if not sanitized, aesthetic. In sharp contrast, projects launched in Berlin tend to incorporate their local origins, taking on the city’s famously gritty and countercultural ethos. Some projects even seek to build entire virtual environments in a Berlin style, creating opportunities for virtual avatars to explore, experience, and sometimes even purchase pieces of a virtual Berlin, present or past.]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2023 02:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ayesha Shahid can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/ways-of-knowing-lessons-on-agroecological-transitions-from-a-pothwari-farm/. About the post: As a researcher and self-identifying ‘citizen planner,’ I was curious if new methods of agriculture could make the sector remunerative enough to counter the desire to convert agricultural land into real estate. Since I was familiar with the emerging significance of agroecology and regenerative agriculture  in climate adaptation, I was motivated to understand what it would take to help us transition towards practices closer to agroecology. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rebecca Carlson can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/junk-anthropology-a-manifesto-for-trashing-and-untrashing/. About the post: But what does something like “junk” have to do with mice ear punches, chemical transmutation and mundane laboratory failures? Garbage experiments are routine in scientific practice after all. But as any scientist might tell you, failure can be its own kind of productive.]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Clarissa Reche and Érico Sant Anna Perrella can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/06/earth-air-fire-water-and-entropy-internet-and-synthetic-biology-pioneer-randy-rettbergs-story-on-how-information-was-forged/. About the post: When questioned by us about the origins of the concept of information, Randy alternates between great historical facts, such as the second world war, memories of his work in laboratories, and intimate family memories. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Zoe Boudart and Catherine Borra can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/06/making-bioethnographic-teams-work-disciplinary-destabilization-generative-friction-and-the-role-of-mediators/. About the post: The making of truly interdisciplinary knowledge often requires overcoming epistemological paradigms through disciplinary destabilization. Mediators both manage interdisciplinary tensions and foster the generative friction that emerges, allowing for new kinds of knowledge to be produced together.]]>
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			<![CDATA[This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Janelle Curry and Alexandra Widmer can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/06/how-microbes-became-friendly-visualizations-of-the-microbiome-in-public-media/. About the post: We take up these insights and examine one way that these ontologies of body and environment circulate in public ways by analyzing how the human body is depicted in relation to microbes and environments through public visualizations of the human microbiome. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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