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

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

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Feat. Vasuki Nesiah 11 Dec 23 48m Information

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

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

Provincializing the Anthropocene

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

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

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Feat. Margaret Davies 14 Aug 22 1h 10m Information

Earthbound in the Anthropocene

Feat. Daniel Matthews 28 Jun 22 1h 8m Information

The History of a Lie: The Mabo case after 30 years

Feat. Irene Watson 31 May 22 1h 1m Information

Border Mentality

Feat. Behrouz Boochani 29 May 21 36m 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