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Hi everyone, my name is Mél Hogan and I’m a critical media studies scholar based in Canada. I’m working on a project called The Data Fix through a series of conversations with scholars, thinkers, and feelers. Together we explore the significance of living in a world of data, and especially the growing trend of “digital humans” in the form of chatbots, holograms, deepfakes, ai images and videos, and even tech that revives the dead. The conversations are minimally edited, and serve as an archive of the collective thinking and feeling that is going into the Data Fix project. Please see ...

The Data Center Industrial Complex (2019-2021)This is a 3-part podcast about data centers, recorded before the onslaught of generative AI of 2022. In it we discuss and anticipate big tech's growing grip on our data, and its toll on the environment and society as we know it.The series is hosted by Mél Hogan and Sean Willett. Interviews were recorded and edited between 2017 and 2018 and the podcast was first released on YouTube in 2019, 2020, and 2021. The title of the podcast series comes from an article by Mél Hogan (by the same title), published in Saturation: An Elemental Politics (2021) "...