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Thinking Through the Archipelago of Resettlement and the New Southern Question with Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi
In today’s show, I speak with Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi about two pathbreaking studies which create new ways of thinking about populations bound by complex and contradictory notions of loyalty and psychological investment. Based on meticulous archival research and oral...

The Hidden Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence, and the Sociopathology of Elon Musk: A Conversation with Sarah T. Roberts
Today on Speaking Out of Place I talk with Sarah T Roberts about the hidden humans behind Artificial Intelligence, which is reliant on executives and business managers to direct AI to promote their brand and low-level, out-sourced, and poorly paid content managers to...

A Conversation with Laila Lalami on The Dream Hotel: dreaming beyond the algorithmic state
Today on Speaking Out of Place I talk with award-winning novelist Laila Lalami about her new novel, The Dream Hotel. What happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate...
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Speaking Out of Place is dedicated to highlighting voices confronting systems of colonial, carceral, economic, heteropatriarchal, racial, and ecological violence; and to building relations and conversations to advance justice and liberation across intertwined struggles, including through politics, culture, and art.
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