The Contrafabulists Podcast

Episode 12: Snake Oil Welcome to the twelfth episode of the Tech Gypsies podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology (and political) news. In this episode, we talk about the history of technology (and the history of marketing technology), technology and an obsession with "real...

Episode 11: Into the Woods Welcome to the eleventh episode of the Tech Gypsies podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology (and political) news. In this episode, we talk about Drone Recovery's epic 40-mile hike, APIs, and the Brexit. We didn't reference specific articles this...

Episode 10: Code Fantasies Welcome to the tenth episode of the Tech Gypsies podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology news. In this episode, we talk about platforms, social media data, blockchains, code, and silly techno-utopian fantasies about "smart" things. Here are links to the...

Episode 9: Violations Welcome to the ninth episode of the Tech Gypsies podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology news. In this episode, we talk about violence and toxic masculinity, the ethics of drones, and the joys of being out of range of the Internet...

Episode 8: Attention Welcome to the eighth episode of the Tech Gypsies podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology news. In this episode, we talk about attention and technology. Here are links to the articles we reference: "Attending to Technology: Theses for Disputation" in The...