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Platypod is the official podcast of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. We talk about anthropology, STS, and all things tech. Tune in for conversations with researchers and experts on how technology is shaping our world. (Jingle by chimerical. CC BY-NC 4.0)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Maggie Mang can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/09/blooming-biomes-mean-blooming-profits-nature-based-industrial-farming-and-the-politics-of-the-industrial-animal-microbiome/. About the post: This blog post details how hype, imaginations, and promises over the industrial animal microbiome circulate in industrial agritech circles. Such images, claims, and examples drive home the point that industrial animal metabolism – and the probiotic, ‘natural,’ patented tools designed to optimize it – is considered to be a profitable next frontier.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Anna Zhang can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/08/female-truck-drivers-in-china-navigate-gender-norms-on-douyin/. About the post: Over the course of a month, I examined the content of four popular female truck drivers on the platform. I explored how their efforts to change the narrative of truck driving and empower themselves and their peers are both informed by and confronted with gendered norms. Their experiences reveal the entanglement of gender inequalities in the seemingly distant worlds of shipping and online entertainment.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Nick Surawy Stepney and Nishanth Kunnukattil Shaji can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/08/between-pain-and-relief-morphines-ambiguities-in-india/. About the post: Morphine, the gold standard of medically prescribed painkillers, offers a troubling medical story, evoking in equal measure the contingent histories of pleasure and war, relief and addiction, commerce, and regulation.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cydney Seigerman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/08/madam-cistern/. About the post: It’s been a long time since someone has fetched water from me. I’m old now, dried up… it rained a lot this winter, but I am no longer able to hold on to the rain that falls. My time has come to an end… (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Colin Garon can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/08/fake-real-real-fake-salvarsan-on-the-us-medical-market/. About the post: Who could claim medical expertise? Should healers be allowed to advertise? What cures should laypeople be able to purchase for themselves? In the case of Salvarsan, the complex interplay of fakery and reality, which Cramp sought to discipline into clearly bounded regimes of (il)legitimacy, was in fact dictated by complex pattens of production and distribution, advertising and demand, and epistemic and therapeutic authority.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rosana Castro can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/hippocrates-against-protocols-experiments-experience-and-evidence-based-medicine-in-brazil/. About the post: This episode addresses the processes in which science is being claimed, shaken, disputed, and unpredictably rearticulated in Brazil's medical field. Specifically, It considers denialist practices and movements during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on an ethnographic approach to a variety of actions by medical groups and institutions that are critical of vaccination against Covid-19 and instead defend the use of drugs (considered ineffective by others) for the “early treatment” of the disease, this episode seeks to highlight how their practices rearticulate, transform, and dispute new meanings, values, and practices of science, rather than simply reject it. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Angelina Chamuah, Hema Vaishnavi Ale and Vikrom Mathur can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/ai-climate-adaptation-and-epistemic-injustice/. About the post: Acknowledging the cultural, relational, and contextual dimensions of climate change is crucial in the realms of science, policy, and practice. While the deployment of AI has the potential to aid decision-making processes, it must be approached with caution to prevent exacerbating underlying injustices.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Spencer Kaplan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/tokens-voids-and-archives-locating-berlins-nft-projects/. About the post: Berlin joins cities like Los Angeles, New York, Lisbon, and London as a hub of blockchain ventures. Yet Berlin’s NFT projects, Immersion included, stand out in an important way. Projects elsewhere are typically detached from their physical places of origin, taking on a generic, if not sanitized, aesthetic. In sharp contrast, projects launched in Berlin tend to incorporate their local origins, taking on the city’s famously gritty and countercultural ethos. Some projects even seek to build entire virtual environments in a Berlin style, creating opportunities for virtual avatars to explore, experience, and sometimes even purchase pieces of a virtual Berlin, present or past.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rebecca Carlson, Emil Rieger and Sarah Thanner can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/a-vocabulary-for-junk-in-four-movements/. About the post: Trash and uselessness are related but not the same. Trash is problematic and needs to leave our ideological boundaries, useless things we still view in terms of former or potential use. They are not quite trash precisely because they are defined through their lack of use, which requires continuous evaluation not discarding from our thoughts (revisit from time to time > Confirm: Yep, still useless. Trash: Too late, it’s already gone).

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rebecca Carlson can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/07/junk-anthropology-a-manifesto-for-trashing-and-untrashing/. About the post: But what does something like “junk” have to do with mice ear punches, chemical transmutation and mundane laboratory failures? Garbage experiments are routine in scientific practice after all. But as any scientist might tell you, failure can be its own kind of productive.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Clarissa Reche and Érico Sant Anna Perrella can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/06/earth-air-fire-water-and-entropy-internet-and-synthetic-biology-pioneer-randy-rettbergs-story-on-how-information-was-forged/. About the post: When questioned by us about the origins of the concept of information, Randy alternates between great historical facts, such as the second world war, memories of his work in laboratories, and intimate family memories. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Zoe Boudart and Catherine Borra can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/06/making-bioethnographic-teams-work-disciplinary-destabilization-generative-friction-and-the-role-of-mediators/. About the post: The making of truly interdisciplinary knowledge often requires overcoming epistemological paradigms through disciplinary destabilization. Mediators both manage interdisciplinary tensions and foster the generative friction that emerges, allowing for new kinds of knowledge to be produced together.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Janelle Curry and Alexandra Widmer can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/06/how-microbes-became-friendly-visualizations-of-the-microbiome-in-public-media/. About the post: We take up these insights and examine one way that these ontologies of body and environment circulate in public ways by analyzing how the human body is depicted in relation to microbes and environments through public visualizations of the human microbiome. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

In this podcast, Ana Carolina talks to Dr. Tanja Ahlin about her work in the anthropology of health, data, and AI - as well as about the implications of new AI technologies on the work developed by anthropologists. This is a necessary conversation for all those concerned about human-machine interaction in anthropology. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2023/06/platypod-ep-seven-an-anthropology-of-data-ai-and-much-more/

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tanya Matthan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/11/you-are-what-you-grow-crops-cultivation-and-caste-in-india/. About the post: Dr. Tanya Matthan reflects on her ethnographic work in Malwa, Central India and the remarkable importance of cultivated onions as embodiments of caste relationalities.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/11/toxicity-violence-and-the-legacies-of-mercury-and-gold-mining-in-colombia/. About the post: In this post, Sebastián Rubiano-Galvis explores the toxic legacies of mercury and gold mining in Colombia and asks how to repair this accumulated violence that intersects with other forms of inequality.

This episode presents a recording of CASPR 2022, or the CASTAC in the Spring 2022 mentoring event, organized to encourage dialogue on breaking down binaries that have separated academe and industry. Angela VandenBroek (TXTS), Melissa Cefkin (Waymo), and Dawn Nafus (Intel) discuss their work in leading socially-informed research in industry contexts. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/11/playpod-episode-five-caspr-castac-in-the-spring-2022/

In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Baird Campbell (Rice University) and Ilana Gershon (Indiana University Bloomington). They discuss the politics of connection and disconnection via social media in Chile and the US. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/10/platypod-episode-four-connections-and-disconnections-on-social-media/

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Princess Banda can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/10/embracing-black-positionalities-recentring-slowness-a-challenge-to-anthropologys-anti-racism-efforts/. About the post: Anthropologist Princess Banda discusses the importance of centring slowness within anti-racist research and praxis while drawing on insights of her work on Black women’s maternal health disparities and obstetric racism.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ramsha Usman can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/10/injury-and-fitness-responsibility-through-biomedicine/. About the post: This is a reading of Ramsha Usman's post Injury and Fitness: Responsibility through Biomedicine.

In this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Elizabeth Roberts (the University of Michigan) and Sophia Jaworski (the University of Toronto). They discuss the complexities of corporeal life in toxic environments. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/09/platypod-episode-three-disability-toxicity-and-the-environment/

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Savannah Mandel can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/09/all-these-worlds-are-yours-except-europa-building-colonies-without-colonization/. About the post: In her post, Savannah Mandel explores whether space colonies can be built without extending imperialist legacies.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lakshita Malik can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/09/photoshopping-desire-gender-caste-and-the-authentic-self/. About the post: Lakshita Malik looks at the serious stakes of using “silly” filters on social media.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by alejandra ruiz-leon can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/interactive-science-museums-replicating-science-without-a-context/. About the post: Alejandra Ruiz-Leon explores the popularization of interactive science museums, the version of science they claim to present, and the lessons of studying Latin America's first interactive science museum that opened in Peru in 1979.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Benjamin Hegarty can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/prep-on-trial-the-future-of-hiv-in-indonesian-policy-worlds/. About the post: Benjamin Hegarty reflects on an unfolding PrEP trial in Indonesia, asking what queer theories might emerge from engagement within such postcolonial contexts, where dynamic relations exist between social subjects and scientific objects framed through ongoing inequalities.

In this episode, Laura Heath-Stout (Brandeis University) and Rebecca-Eli Long (Purdue University) discuss ableism in anthropology, academia, and higher ed. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/platypod-episode-two-ableism-in-academia-and-higher-ed/

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ángela Castillo-Ardila can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/08/counting-on-montane-birds-biologists-verticality-and-territorial-defense-in-colombia/. About the post: Ángela Castillo-Ardilla's piece is about the unforeseen and sometimes overlooked connection between (i) birds living in the forests of Colombia’s high tropical Andes, (ii) local biologists supporting an anti-mining coalition by conducting an alternative baseline study, and (iii) the undertheorized production of upward. vertical territories.

In this episode, Cassandra Hartblay and Zihao Lin are discussing the politics, research methodologies, and technologies around accessibility.

This episode was created with the participation of Cassandra Hartblay (University of Toronto, speaker) and Zihao Lin (University of Chicago, speaker), Kim Fernandes (University of Pennsylvania, host), Svetlana Borodina (Columbia University, host), Gebby Keny (Rice University, sound editor), and Angela VandenBroek (Texas State University, CASTAC web producer). Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/07/platypod-ep-1-technologies-and-politics-of-accessibility/ (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aishani Khurana can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/07/mismanaging-algorithms-of-hate-the-nexus-of-big-tech-and-the-state-in-india/. About the post: The authoritarian regimes, in compliance with big tech, set discursive boundaries for the minorities who not only suffer the brunt of online hate speech as victims in real life but also run the risk of being punished for dissent. The big tech social media platforms can be easily controlled by right-wing ideologies, thereby rendering minorities and civil society policed, trolled, disciplined, and terrorized on the digital platforms.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Gabrielle Hanley-Mott can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/06/the-allowable-limit-of-disability/. About the post: My argument here is that it is important to decouple physical pain from the idea of suffering; These dogs are in pain, and the process of commoditization, at the hands of humans, has led to their pain and suffering. But a rights-based campaign, which a legal case is, is often based in upholding hegemonic systems.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Benjamin Schaefer can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/06/detangling-molecular-hauntings-hair-as-a-site-of-preserving-lived-experience/. About the post: Using ancient molecules, such as hormones, embedded in hair renders it possible to reconstruct the socially embodied lived experiences, by inferring their psychosocial stress responses, in the months leading up to their last haircut (or death).

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cara Ryan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/06/inclusion-and-opportunities-for-equal-participation-for-autistic-university-students-in-france/. About the post: When a previously excluded group (like those identified as “aspies”) becomes “included” in something (like the French public university system) that something comes to be called “inclusive.” But inclusion, as Foucault and many others have pointed out always rests on a binary of inclusion/exclusion (Peters and Besley 2014). So while we might encounter the word “inclusion” and think “everyone,” that is never the case. In a sense then, “exclusion” is baked into every project of “inclusion” from the start.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Nathan Klembara can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei-in-epistemologies-the-line-between-bodies-and-ideas/. About the post: If we are going to make archaeology, and other sciences, truly inclusive, DEI initiatives require reconceptualizing what science is, not just changing hiring and recruiting practices. To truly create inclusive research spaces, we must be accepting of both diverse bodies and diverse ideas.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Svetlana Borodina can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/technologies-of-equal-participation-formats-designs-practices-introduction/. About the post: If Kelty looks back in time and offers a historical ethnography of participation in the Western world, the posts of this series look synchronically and laterally. From the broad range of calls for participation, a specific kind interests the authors whose work is featured in this series: those contexts where “equal participation” has been intentionally attempted or at least aspired for. The authors provide ethnographic insights from across the globe into how various practico-material assemblages become labeled as signs of or conduits to equal participation (hence, the discussion of political forms of subjectivity) and what kind of presence and actions they activate and conceal.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Kymberley Chu can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/viral-entanglements-in-malaysian-porcine-worlds/. About the post: A More-than-Human One Health approach encourages cooperation among humans and nonhumans in facilitating interspecies solidarity. Perhaps, we can start by imagining post-extractivist imaginaries beyond using a negative conceptual registry of post-apocalyptic worlds. Academic spaces have the intellectual and creative capacity to trace the life and death cycles of nonhuman animals beyond extractive narratives. As our worlds become more susceptible to pandemics, the porous demarcation between domesticated/wild and human/nonhuman reveals the fragility of life under capitalism. Content warning: This post contains photos of factory farming that viewers may find distressing.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Valentina Moraima Acuña Bravo can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/thinking-in-constellations-problematizing-indigeneity-in-the-atacama-desert-chile/. About the post: Thinking in constellations allows us to delve into the unique experience and the history of different conceptions of indigeneity instead of focusing only on identifying specific characteristics of indigeneity. If we consider the constellation of concepts that indigeneity evokes, we can reconsider the possibilities of “indigenous” rights and policies. This implies avoiding totalizing definitions of indigeneity and moving toward recognizing the unique experience, history, and culture of places and people.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Doyeon Shin can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/05/revisiting-human-machine-relationships-and-efforts-of-feminist-sts/. About the post: Feminist STS perspectives and critiques are fundamental in this reimagining of human-machine relationships because they open new prospects for pondering related mainstream ideas while raising questions on what people perceive as natural and take for granted. Based on these feminist STS perspectives, I believe that we can propose different views and explanations of human-machine relationships. By focusing on relationality and not on novel functional developments, we may be able to view smartphones as active actants[1], that relate with us, just like biotic actants such as humans.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Catarina Morawska, Ana Cecília Oliveira Campos, Bruno Campos Cardoso, Felipe Vander Velden, Gabriel Sanchez, Luisa Fanaro and Luisa Tui Sampaio can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/alliances-and-institutional-partnerships-for-an-engaged-anthropology-of-science-and-technology/. About the post: Conceptual transformations and emerging thematic agendas in the anthropology of science and technology become clearly visible in STS conferences. Paying particular attention to conferences that take place in the global South has the potential to open up an understanding of post-colonial scientific endeavors within our own field of expertise. A case in point was the 8th edition of the biannual meeting of the Brazilian Network of Anthropology of Science and Technology, known as ReACT (Reunião de Antropologia da Ciência e da Tecnologia), which took place on November 22-26, 2021. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Liz Jackson, Alex Haagaard and Rua Williams can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/disability-dongle/. About the post: Disability Dongles are contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination by presenting a heroic designer-protagonist whose prototype provides a techno-utopian (re)solution to the design problem. Disability Dongle rhetoric instills in students the value of a quick fix over structural change, thus preventing them from seeking out, participating in, and contributing to existing inquiry. By labeling these material-discursive phenomena—the designed artifacts and the discourse through which their meaning is constituted—we work to shift the focus from their misguided concern about our bodies to their under-analyzed intentions and ambitions. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Zhou Zhou can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/powerpoint-karaoke-a-ph-d-version/. About the post: The only way to “lose” the game, we decided, would be to remain trapped in grad school forever — on every campus, there are stories of ghosts of former students or professors haunting certain buildings.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ritwik Banerji can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/people-are-not-fixed-media/. About the post: Fixed media are the dominant media form social scientists and humanists use to depict human practice. If the goal is to portray human beings as they are, the dominant media form used to do this in the humanities and social sciences is incommensurate with the basic indeterminacy and reactivity of the subject they attempt to represent: the human being.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tayeba Batool can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/04/climatic-futures-and-tree-response-ability-can-urban-forests-restore-human-tree-relations/. About the post: The consequences of afforestation projects such as the Miyawaki urban forests are larger than just a failure of scaling up or over-emphasizing effectiveness. The consequences lie at the heart of what we take for granted in environmental projects to encounter climate.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by P V can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/03/traveling-but-not-arriving-hieroglyphics-of-caste-in-computing/. About the post: If arrival is a trope to be appropriated in ethnographic writing, I want to underscore the value of traveling over arriving – more so for studying intangible things that “don’t exist” than those that do. In my fieldwork I am traveling the terrains of computing collecting traces across sites, spaces, places, corners, platforms, never entirely sure if what I am observing is about caste but trying to read for it against the grain of castelessness. While my interlocutors who are Dalit continue to travel through computing cultures seldom arriving at a resolution of the question of caste.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam and Antonio Oraldi can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/03/netlicks-and-chill-digitalization-and-food-politics-in-taste-the-tv-tttv-technology/. About the post: TTTV allows the user to taste the flavors of a particular food depicted on it, thus giving a whole new level of possibilities to those interested in elevated multi-sensory experiences. Using preset chemical recipe mixtures distributed by ten flavor canisters onto a hygienic film, users simply lick the screen to taste the food of their choice — from chocolate to more elaborate local dishes. Like other technological innovations, this invention presents both potential as well as problems: How does one define and construct a standardized taste? Who decides which recipes (and thus tastes) are included or featured on TTTV and how do different forms of power manifest in these choices?

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Maxime Polleri can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/03/ethnographies-of-nuclear-life-from-victimhood-to-post-victimization/. About the post: Many ethnographies of nuclear life are increasingly producing scholarships that precisely move beyond tropes of victimization and damaged biologies. This “post-victimization” approach is gaining a lot of momentum in anthropology. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Annie Arulraj can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/02/from-amusement-to-conscientization-the-purpose-of-media-literacy-in-the-age-of-misinformation/. About the post: Annie Sadhana writes about media literacy as a tool to promote critical action as well as communication technology and points out that learning this difference can bring about a change in the way people receive, consume and share information.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tomoki Birkett can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/02/queered-ruptures-the-politics-of-anti-irradiation-maternalism-in-the-tepco-nuclear-disaster-kokutai-and-hentai/. About the post: This essay reflects on the significance of Chiharu’s description of herself and other women active in anti-irradiation efforts as hentai. It reflects on the sense that Japanese mothers who take issue with nuclear reconstruction in late capitalist Japan are perverse and aberrant. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Timothy Neale and Catherine Trundle can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/02/reactions-and-ruptures-ethnographies-of-nuclear-life/. About the post: This upcoming series brings together three scholars—Tomoki Birkett, Maxime Polleri, and Kirsty Howey—whose ethnographic research focuses on life as it is entangled with the ruptures and reactions of nuclear materials, events, and places. In the series, they discuss how their work brings into question common understandings of nuclear events. Against common representations of such events as breaks or ruptures, these scholars show they are instead continuous within longer-term histories of race, science, gender, and labor. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Svetlana Borodina can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/01/platypus-in-2022/. About the post: As the new year and the new semester have been off to (hopefully) a good start, Platypus is coming back to work too. Building on a decade of work (this year Platypus turns 10!), in 2022, we will continue our commitment to providing a platform for diverse voices and critical scholarship at the intersection of anthropology and STS.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Angela VandenBroek can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2021/08/a-very-lengthy-swedish-introduction-hype-storytelling-and-the-question-of-entrepreneurial-allies/. About the post: Hype storytelling permeates entrepreneurial spaces, from startup mission statements and investor pitches to marketing campaigns and exciting conversations over coffee. Unfortunately, the foregrounding of VC-friendly hype stories in entrepreneurial education has erased other forms of hype storytelling from discourse on what hype is and what it is for.