An Interview with Alina Utrata

On this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, your usual host is in the hot seat! Guest host Benjamin Tan, PhD Candidate at Cambridge, asks Alina Utrata about her recent publication in the American Political Science Review about Silicon Valley's outer space colonization projects. They discuss what Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are up to in space, why terrestrial and celestial colonization are not as different as they may seem, what the history of the British East India Company can tell us about SpaceX and Blue Origin, and why indigenous conceptions of property can problematize sovereignty and territoriality and the way we think about political power and rule today. For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. You can follow Alina Utrata on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alinautrata</a>&nbsp;and the Anti-Dystopians podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AntiDystopians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AntiDystopians</a>. All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production of the show, subscribe to the newsletter at <a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

Engineering Territory: Silicon Valley in Space

A Conversation with Glitch UK

In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata speaks with Julia Slupska, Olivia Andrews and Hilary Watson about a recent report by Glitch UK entitled "Digital Misogynoir: Ending the dehumanising of Black women on social media." They discuss why Black women are uniquely targeted and harmed online, the importance of centering intersectionality in discussing digital harms, the difficulties of conducting (and finding funding) for this kind of research and why Glitch is calling on tech companies, governments and civil societies to address these issues. For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. You can follow Alina Utrata on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alinautrata</a>&nbsp;and the Anti-Dystopians podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AntiDystopians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AntiDystopians</a>. All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production of the show, subscribe to the newsletter at <a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

Digital Misogynoir

A Conversation with Catriona Gray

For this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata spoke with Catriona Gray, a PhD at the University of Bath working at the intersection of sociology, politics, and law on the adoption of AI technologies. They discussed the political economy of data and whether frameworks like ‘data is the new oil’ are helpful to understanding these relationships; what is new about the technological structures or dynamics that have been created today; thinking about the inequities between the Global North and the Global South, and how these relates to existing and historical relationships; and the implementation and conceptualization of AI regulation in governments and beyond. For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. You can follow Alina Utrata on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alinautrata</a>&nbsp;and the Anti-Dystopians podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AntiDystopians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AntiDystopians</a>. All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production of the show, subscribe to the newsletter at <a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

Political Economy, AI and the Politics of Knowledge

A Conversation with Dr Matt Mahmoudi

For this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Matt Mahmoudi, the lead researcher on the Amnesty International report "Automating Apartheid" examining the deployment of facial recognition technology in Palestine. They discuss the report's findings, including how this facial recognition technology is being deployed against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and consolidates existing practices of discriminatory policing; why these systems have been 'gamified' and how they connect to other infrastructures and databases; how this is affecting Palestinians’ lives; and whether existing CCTV systems in other settings — including London — could be repurposed for similar kinds of militarized policing.&nbsp; For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. You can follow Alina Utrata on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alinautrata</a>&nbsp;and the Anti-Dystopians podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AntiDystopians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AntiDystopians</a>. All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production of the show, subscribe to the newsletter at <a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>.Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

"Automating Apartheid": Facial Recognition Tech in Palestine

A conversation with  Paola Ricurate and Sebastián Leheude

On this week’s episode of The Anti-Dystopians, Alina Utrata spoke to Paola Ricurate, an associate professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society at Harvard University and the co-founder of the Tierra Comun Network, and Sebastián Leheude, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the <a href="https://www.cghr.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/cghr-hosts-bilingual-talks-grassroots-resistance-against-data-infrastructure" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Centre of Governance and Human Rights</a> and a Technology &amp; Human Rights Fellow at the <a href="https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carr Center for Human Rights</a> at Harvard University. They discussed Paola and Sebastian’s work on data colonialism, decoloniality and feminism and Latin America. What is the connection between historic forms of colonialism and what technology infrastructures are being built now? Why are tech companies building data centers (and swimming pools) in the desert? How are local communities resisting these infrastructures and what are alternative ways of imagining our future? For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. You can follow Alina Utrata on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alinautrata</a>&nbsp;and the Anti-Dystopians podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AntiDystopians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AntiDystopians</a>. All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production of the show, subscribe to the newsletter at <a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

Data colonialism and its discontents

Conversation with Maha Atal

On this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Maha Atal is back to discuss feminism, reproductive rights and technology. Host Alina Utrata asks her: how has the legal landscape of abortion and reproductive rights changed since the overturning of Roe v Wade, and what are technology companies doing about it? Does your GP know who their cloud computing provider is (and do they have access to your sensitive health data)? How do the US and UK feminist movements differ? And why is feminism, gender and the right to bodily autonomy on the frontline against fighting fascism today? For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. You can follow Alina Utrata on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alinautrata</a>&nbsp;and the Anti-Dystopians podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AntiDystopians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AntiDystopians</a>. All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production of the show, subscribe to the newsletter at <a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

Feminism, Reproductive Rights and Tech

A conversation with Mary Jane Rubenstein 

In this episode, Alina Utrata talks Mary-Jane Rubenstein, a professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University and the author of the new book Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race. They discuss whether Elon Musk acts like a religious leader, how imperial Christianity set the stage for capitalism, the ways science fiction has acted as a mythology for space expansionists, and the history of a Nazi rocket scientist turned Christian evangelical partnered with Disney to promote the new Manifest Destiny of the stars. For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. You can follow Alina Utrata on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alinautrata</a>&nbsp;and the Anti-Dystopians podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AntiDystopians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AntiDystopians</a>. All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production of the show, subscribe to the newsletter at <a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race

A Conversation with Raymond Craib

In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Raymond Craib, professor of American History and a Latin Americanist at Cornell University, about his most recent book&nbsp;Adventure Capitalism, A History of Libertarian Exit from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age.They discuss the history of libertarian exit and the case of Michael Oliver's Republic of Minerva, why these exit projects seem to have found a new life among tech elites and if Silicon Valley will really be able to cede from the nation-state, whether libertarian exit resembles classic colonialism and the impacts these projects have on the places they attempt to build their new nations. For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. You can follow Raymond Craib on Twitter @raycraib<a href="https://twitter.com/xriskology" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">,</a> Alina Utrata&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alinautrata</a>&nbsp;and the Anti-Dystopians podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AntiDystopians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AntiDystopians</a>. All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production of the show, subscribe to the newsletter at <a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

A History of Libertarian Exit

A Conversation with Emile Torres 

On this episode of the podcast, Alina Utrata speaks with Emile Torres, a PhD candidate at Leibniz University Hannover and the author of the forthcoming book Human Extinction: A history of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation. They discuss their research into Elon Musk’s favorite philosophy, longtermism, and answer all your questions about the philosophy like: do longtermists really want to colonize space and create trillions of digital people? How does effective altruism, transhumanism and utilitarianism relate? Why do longtermists obsession with future people resemble the anti-abortion campaign? And are they related to the eugenicists? For all the reasons why you should be skeptical of What We Owe the Future, listen to this week’s episode of the Anti-Dystopians! For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. You can follow Emile Torres on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/xriskology" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@xriskology,</a> Alina Utrata&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AlinaUtrata" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alinautrata</a>&nbsp;and the Anti-Dystopians podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AntiDystopians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AntiDystopians</a>. All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production of the show, subscribe to the newsletter at <a href="http://bit.ly/3kuGM5X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>. Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

Elon Musk’s favorite philosophy: the perils of longtermism

The Politics Podcast About Tech

Is social media really destroying democracy? Should Facebook be considered a public utility? How does cryptocurrency affect state sovereignty? And what exactly is surveillance capitalism? For all your political questions about tech, this is The Anti-Dystopians. The Anti-Dystopians is hosted and produced by <a href="www.alinautrata.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alina Utrata</a>. All episodes are freely available, wherever you get your podcasts. Follow the show on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/AntiDystopians" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AntiDystopians</a>. To support the show, visit: <a href="https://t.co/9kbO8sJXiB?amp=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3AApPN4</a> To subscribe to the email newsletter, visit: <a href="https://t.co/Kfng71BtHz?amp=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/3kuGM5X</a>

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