This bonus episodes features the live Q&A from the keynote lecture of the Drone Cultures Symposium by Caren Kaplan, Professor Emirata of American Studies at the UC Davis. Caren is in conversation with Michael Richardson, with questions asked via live chat on YouTube. If you haven't already, check out Caren's talk, along with an opening interview, in our previous episode.

On this episode, Michael is joined by Caren Kaplan, Professor Emirata of American Studies at UC Davis. She is the author of numerous books, most recently Aerial Aftermath: Wartime from Above. You can follow her at https://twitter.com/cajakap Drone Futures is hosted by Michael Richardson, Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, whose research examines the intersection of war, culture and technology. https://twitter.com/richardson_m_a Media Futures Hub works at the...

On this episode, Michael is joined by Mahwish Chishty, a multimedia artist who initially trained as a miniature painter in Pakistan. Her work combines traditional artistic practice with her interest in contemporary politics, particularly the relationship between the US and Pakistan and the impact of drones on life and culture. Drone Futures is hosted by Michael Richardson, Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, whose research examines the intersection of war, culture...

On this episode, Michael is joined by Thomas Stubblefield, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Media Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Thomas is the author of the new book Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium (2020). More info on the book can be found at https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520339620/drone-art Drone Futures is hosted by Michael Richardson, Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, whose research examines the nexus of...

This bonus episodes features the live Q&A from a talk given at the Media Futures Hub by Dr J.D. Schnepf, Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Jen is in conversation with Michael Richardson, with questions asked via live chat on YouTube. If you haven't already, check out Jen's talk, along with an opening interview, in our previous episode.

On this episode, Michael is joined by Dr J.D. Schnepf, Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the US security state, surveillance technologies, extractive infrastructures, and the War on Terror. You can follow her at https://twitter.com/jd_schnepf. Drone Futures is hosted by Michael Richardson, Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, whose research examines the...

This bonus episodes features the live Q&A from a talk given by Dr Katherine Chandler, a media studies scholar and author of Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare, at the Media Futures Hub. Kate is in conversation with Michael Richardson, with questions asked via live chat on YouTube. If you haven't already, check out Kate's talk, along with an opening interview, in our previous episode. This is the third in a six-part series called Drone Futures, based on a ...

On this episode, Michael Richardson is joined by Dr Katherine Chandler, a media studies scholar and author of Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare. First Michael interviews Kate about her work, then you’ll hear Kate deliver a talk based on her book. This is the third in a six-part series called Drone Futures, based on a virtual public seminar series at the Media Futures Hub. Drone Futures brings together leading artists, humanities and social science scholars...

This bonus episodes features the live Q&A from a talk given by Dr Ronak K. Kapadia, a cultural theorist and author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War, at the Media Futures Hub. Ronak is in conversation with Michael Richardson, with questions asked via live chat on YouTube. If you haven't already, check out Ronak's talk, along with an opening interview, in our previous episode. Drone Futures brings together leading artists, humanities and social...

On this episode, Michael Richardson is joined by Antoine Bousquet and Jairus Grove, two of the most fascinating thinkers in international relations and critical security studies today. First, Michael interviews Antoine and Jairus about their work, then you'll hear our two guests in dialogue on "Martial Autonomies: Rise of the War Machines". This is the second in a six-part series called Drone Futures, based on a virtual public seminar series at the Media Futures Hub. Drone Futures brings...

This bonus episodes features the live Q&A from a talk given by Dr Ronak K. Kapadia, a cultural theorist and author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War, at the Media Futures Hub. Ronak is in conversation with Michael Richardson, with questions asked via live chat on YouTube. If you haven't already, check out Ronak's talk, along with an opening interview, in our previous episode. Drone Futures brings together leading artists, humanities and social...

On this episode, Michael Richardson is joined by Dr Ronak K. Kapadia, a cultural theorist and author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War, to talk about art and the human terrain of drone warfare. First Michael interviews Ronak about his work, then you’ll hear Ronak deliver a talk based on his book. This is the first in a six-part series called Drone Futures, based on a virtual public seminar series at the Media Futures Hub. Drone Futures brings together...

This episode features Justine Lloyd (Macquarie), Cate Thill (Notre Dame) and Tanja Dreher (UNSW) on the key achievements and future directions for research on the ethics, practices and politics of listening, and marks 10 years since The Listening Project (2008 – 2010), funded by the Australian Research Council’s Cultural Research Network and co-convened by Tanja Dreher, Justine Lloyd, Penny O’Donnell and Cate Thill. Speakers reflect on the turn to listening as making important contributions...

In this episode, Leah Bassel considers fleeting moments of political equality that become possible when listening is practiced as a form of solidarity. Such moments can coalesce around the ‘refugee crisis’, anti-austerity activism by and with women of colour across Europe, and in migrant justice movements which centre Indigenous sovereignties. Leah Bassel is Professor of Sociology at Roehampton University: https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/leah-bassel The Politics of Listening...

Episode 2 of the Politics of Listening miniseries - ‘First Nations media and the politics of listening’ features First Nations media producers Lorena Allam and Summer May Finlay . Allam and Finlay reflect on the politics of listening in their work, including at The Guardian, the ABC, #IHMayDay Indigenous Health MayDay and #JustJustice. Lorena speaks about her award-winning work for Guardian Australia’s Deaths Inside interactive database which tracks Indigenous deaths in custody. Summer May...

The Politics of Listening is a series of four podcasts from the Media Futures Hub inspired by the recent ‘turn to listening’ in media studies, cultural studies and political theory. The series was recorded at The Politics of Listening 2018 conference at the University of New South Wales. This interdisciplinary conference brought together scholars, artist-researchers and cultural practitioners from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, South Africa and beyond whose work engages with...

Data Futures is a series of four podcasts from Media Futures about the future of data. The series was recorded at the Data Futures Symposium at the University of New South Wales, hosted by the Media Futures Hub at the School of the Arts and Media and our friends at the Socio-Tech Futures Lab at the University of Sydney. This episode on Data Justice foregrounds questions of social justice in the context of ubiquitous datafication, and finishes with closing reflections from Professor Mark...

Data Futures is a series of four podcasts from Media Futures about the future of data. The series was recorded at the Data Futures Symposium at the University of New South Wales, hosted by the Media Futures Hub at the School of the Arts and Media and our friends at the Socio-Tech Futures Lab at the University of Sydney. Data Experiences Panel: Professor Paul Dourish https://www.informatics.uci.edu/explore/faculty-profiles/paul-dourish/ https://twitter.com/dourish Dr. Edgar Gómez Cruz...

Data Futures is a series of four podcasts from Media Futures about the future of data. The series was recorded at the Data Futures Symposium at the University of New South Wales, hosted by the Media Futures Hub at the School of the Arts and Media and our friends at the Socio-Tech Futures Lab at the University of Sydney. Infrastructure panelists: Professor Holly Kruse: https://www.rsu.edu/directory/holly-kruse/ Dr Jonathon Hutchinson:...

Just changed it to: Data Futures is a series of four podcasts from Media Futures about the future of data. The series was recorded at the Data Futures Symposium at the University of New South Wales, hosted by the Media Futures Hub at the School of the Arts and Media and our friends at the Socio-Tech Futures Lab at the University of Sydney. In this first episode, Professor Mark Andrejevic (Monash University)talks about automated media. More on Mark:...