Our World Openly with Antoni Kalkowski

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   1. How Science, Culture, and Power is Not, and Never Was, Separate

   Academically, Professor Fortun understands himself as a historian and anthropologist of the life sciences, genetics and genomics in particular. Fortun studied physics as an undergraduate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (one of oldest polytechnic institutes in the U.S.), until he transferred to Hampshire College and switched to philosophy of science. He worked in Washington DC at the Institute for Policy Studies for a good chunk of the Eighties, before completing a PhD in the History of Scien

   Jul 16,2023 01:32:33
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   2. Anthro of Labor: Witches, Robots, Gardeners, Domestic and Farm Workers

   Professor Zárate is a cultural anthropologist who studies Latinx migrant labor and ecology in Southern California. In this podcast conversation, we talk about the dimensions of labor within our society including students as workers, reproductive and productive labor, racialized and gendered labor within capitalism, the labor of mothers and fathers, the nuclear household, neocolonialism, Latinx farm workers, domestic workers, and witches, robots and capitalism. Professor Zárate received his Ph.D.

   Mar 06,2023 01:41:35
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   3. Digital Worlds: Identity, Relationships, Race, Politics, Sexual Policing, Masculinity, Economics

   This is a conversation/podcast with Akil Fletcher, a digital anthropologist at the University of California Irvine who does research on digital worlds like video games, specifically the massive multiplayer online role-playing video game, Final Fantasy. We cover topics such as how video games relate to: identity/selfhood, community, relationships, economics, race, masculinity, sexism, labor in esports, Japanese Europeanness in digital media, sexual policing and homophobia, politics, hierarchy vs

   Jan 22,2023 01:50:06