Platypod, The CASTAC Podcast

Listening with Whales: Song, Grief, and Obligation Across Ways of Knowing

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Marie Comuzzo can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/10/listening-with-whales-song-g

My Unemployment in the Time of AI

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Anna Huntington can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/10/my-unemployment-in-the-tim

Softmaxxing Skepticism: How Looksmaxxing Culture Recruits the Mainstream

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tiffany Prendergast can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/10/softmaxxing-skepticism

Imagined Geographies: From Urban Expertise to Rural Health Intervention

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Luisa Madrigal Marroquín can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/imagined-geograph

Beyond Deficit: Toward a Strengths-Based Approach to Male Infertility

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Juan Camilo Ospina Deaza can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/beyond-deficit-to

Transnational Solidarity: Exploring Alternate Global Imaginaries of Work

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lucy Pei can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/transnational-solidarity-explorin

Smart Methods? WhatsApp, Ethics, and Inclusive Knowledge Production

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Catherina Wilson can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/smart-methods-whatsapp-et

Time, Virtuality, and the Digital Sacred

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Fatima Tariq can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/time-virtuality-and-the-digit

Beyond Delivering Food: Networks, Risk, and the Hidden Infrastructure of Gig Work

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ambar Reyes can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/beyond-delivering-food-network

Strategies and Tools for Knowledge Generation in Art-Science

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Emmanuel Anguiano-Hernández can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/strategies-and

Kilitl: Living with a Green Part of the World. Edible Greens, Language, Knowledge, and Territory

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aldo Federico Palafox Hernández can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/kilitl-liv

Reclaiming the Future of Work: Series Introduction

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lucy Pei, Joy Ming, Kim Fernandes and Rosemary Steup can be read at https://blog.castac.o

Venture Capital’s Due Diligence, or Ethnography’s Adversarial Twin?

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Al Lim can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/venture-capitals-due-diligence-or-e

Silt, Sea and Coastal Engineering

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sridhar Raghavan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/silt-sea-and-coastal-engi

A Horse in the Archive: Notes on Incompleteness in Biometric Infrastructures

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by kayah can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/a-horse-in-the-archive-notes-on-inco

“Can You Hear Me Now?”: Listening in China’s Romance Simulation Games

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Naijia Liu can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/can-you-hear-me-now-listening-i

The Kids Are AI-right

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Manar Naser can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/the-kids-are-ai-right/. About

Dispatch from Seoul: Reflections on the Science, Technology & Human Values Science and Technology Studies School, June 2026

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lachlan Hensey can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/dispatch-from-seoul-reflect

In the Pensive Pause of Supervision: A Footnote on Citing Santos

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tanu Biswas can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/in-the-pensive-pause-of-superv

From Candle to Dilator: Treating Vaginismus in Turkey

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Neslihan Sen can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/08/from-candle-to-dilator-treati