by efc8d-admin | Dec 8, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Art and Cultural Resistance, Capitalism, Labor, Political Economies, Politics and Culture, Technologies
Today I am delighted to welcome activist and scholar Erin McElroy to the podcast. She is the author of a remarkable book, Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies in Postsocialist Times. At the center of this rich and provocative study is the Romanian city of...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 28, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Empire and Colonialism, Environment and Biosphere, Labor, Politics and Culture, Technologies, Transnational Solidarities
Today I am both excited and frightened to talk with Tamara Kneese and Xiaowei Wang, two individuals whose research, writing, and activism has for years insisted on the materiality of the technologies that have brought us things like artificial intelligence, the Cloud,...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 17, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Capitalism, Labor, Poetry, Politics and Culture, Race, The Arts
Today I am delighted to talk with Eunsong Kim about her stunning book, The Politics of Collecting: Race & the Aestheticization of Property. It is remarkable in its theoretical conceptualization, argument, and archival work. Kim argues that the beginnings of elite...
by efc8d-admin | Sep 7, 2025 | Capitalism, Empire and Colonialism, Political Economies, Politics and Culture, Technologies
In this episode of Speaking Out of Place, investigative journalist Karen Hao explains that OpenAI is anything but “open”—very early on, it left behind that marketing tag to become increasingly closed and elitist. Her massive study, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares...
by efc8d-admin | Aug 21, 2025 | Capitalism, Fascism, Politics and Culture, Race, Technologies
Today I’m delighted to talk with Quinn Slobodian about his new book, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. We take a deep dive into the genesis of a weird and powerful merging of two seemingly different groups the Far Right and...
