Countersign

Countersign is a podcast

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Countersign is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials from across disciplines to consider new perspectives on law, difference, and being in common.

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Feat. Alofipo So'oalo Fleur Ramsay & Watna Mori 11th February 2025 1h 4m More Information

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‘When the trees have gone’ – Veraibari and the Pacific at the International Court of Justice

Feat. Alofipo So'oalo Fleur Ramsay & Watna Mori 11 Feb 25 1h 4m Information

‘The Wall’: Human/Animal Ethics for Catastrophic Times

Feat. Anna Richards 05 Dec 24 45m Information

Animals as Food: Violence, Labour, Capital

Feat. Dinesh Wadiwel 05 Aug 24 1h 6m Information

Frances Power Cobbe: Animals, Vivisection, and a Row with Darwin

Feat. Alison Stone 26 Jan 24 1h 5m Information

What we talk about when we talk about genocide

Feat. Vasuki Nesiah 11 Dec 23 48m Information

What is the Matter with New Materialism?

Feat. Richard A. Lee Jr. 23 May 23 1h 11m Information

Climate Wreckage, Pagan Vitalities, and Truth

Feat. William E. Connolly 29 Mar 23 1h 4m Information

Provincializing the Anthropocene

Feat. Dipesh Chakrabarty 23 Dec 22 1h 4m Information

Corporations are Psychopaths

Feat. Joel Bakan 20 Oct 22 1h 8m Information

EcoLaw

Feat. Margaret Davies 14 Aug 22 1h 10m Information
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Cultural Politics of ‘World’ Archives

Feat. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup 22nd July 2020 1h 2m

Discussing Thylstrup’s ‘The Politics of Mass Digitization’ which displaces the fantasy of ‘total archives’ revealing the corporate and cultural domination of Google Books, Europeana, and the ‘shadow’ libraries that subvert these.

BIO Nanna Bonde Thylstrup is Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). She examines the cultural politics of digitization and datafication with a focus on gender, race and the environment.

She is author of ‘The Politics of Mass Digitization’ (MIT Press, 2019) and co-editor of ‘Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for the Age of Big Data’ (MIT Press, 2020).
CAPTION Nanna Bonde Thylstrup – The Politics of Mass Digitization (MIT Press, 2020)
CAPTION Nanna Bonde Thylstrup