Category: Season 5
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Alison Winch and Ben Little: New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism
Ben Little and Alison Winch, the authors of The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism: Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power (Taylor & Francis, 2021) offer a critique of the billionaires behind major tech companies in the U.S., as well as their power, influence, and role in digital capitalism. Little and Winch argue that the tech…
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Drew Pham: Fragmentary Memory
Fragmentary Memory: A Narrative Exploration of American Wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam Drew Pham is a queer, transgender writer of Vietnamese heritage. A child of war refugees, her work centers on legacies of violence in times of conflict. She is an adjunct English lecturer at CUNY Brooklyn College and serves as an editor-at-large at The Wrath-Bearing…
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Benedetta Brevini: Is AI Good for the Planet?
We often think of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a thing of the immediate future. We are constantly bombarded by slogans of AI coming to change our life, whether we like it or not. We are reassured it will be a better life. A better capitalism. A better environment. From smart devices to home voice assistants,…