Dustin Edwards and I discuss the damage caused by digital infrastructure and its extractive requirements. We talk about data centers and copper mines, but more than this, we delve into the what a decolonial, feminist, anti-racist approach can look like for white settler scholars grappling with their inheritances and obligations to the landscapes and to the stories they tell themselves, as we make (new) worlds. Recorded Apr 8, 2025. Released April 28, 2025. Enduring Digital Damage: Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival<a href="https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817322472/enduring-digital-damage/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817322472/enduring-digital-damage/</a>&nbsp; The making of critical data center studiesDustin&nbsp;Edwards,&nbsp;Zane Griffin Talley&nbsp;Cooper&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mél&nbsp;Hogan<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231224157" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565231224157</a>&nbsp;<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Hype, with Dani Shanley and Gemma Milne

Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers, and feelers. Together we explore the significance of living in a world of data, and especially the growing trend of “digital humans” in the form of chatbots, holograms, deepfakes, ai images and videos, and even tech that revives the dead. The conversations are minimally edited, and serve as an archive of the collective thinking and feeling that is going into the Data Fix project. Please see thedatafix.net for more details and show notes. Thank you so much for listening.&nbsp;Cover art by Oona Ode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.