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Listening with Whales: Song, Grief, and Obligation Across Ways of Knowing
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Marie Comuzzo can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/10/listening-with-whales-song-grief-and-obligation-across-ways-of-knowing/. About the post: Who do we listen with and who do we recognize as meaningful producers of culture? Listening with Whales is a digital commons that brings scientific, artistic, musical, ancestral, poetic, trans, queer, decolonial, Black, Indigenous, and embodied forms of listening into conversation to reshape the ways we relate with one another within the worlds we share.
6 Oct 2026
My Unemployment in the Time of AI
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Anna Huntington can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/10/my-unemployment-in-the-time-of-ai/. About the post: AI has widened the liminal space of unemployment, and the “limitless” capability of AI job-seeking tools has also exploded. This all felt like putting out a fire with a bucket of fire—and finding my way out required a very different kind of network.
2 Oct 2026
Softmaxxing Skepticism: How Looksmaxxing Culture Recruits the Mainstream
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tiffany Prendergast can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/10/softmaxxing-skepticism-how-looksmaxxing-culture-recruits-the-mainstream/. About the post: Because institutional medicine offers no real answer to aesthetic anxiety, the underground is able to fill the gap using rhetoric anti-vaccine influencers have already normalized. Peptide vendors and biohacking gurus borrow directly from that playbook: "Big pharma doesn't want you to know," "your doctor is behind the times," and "take health into your own hands." Anti-establishment framing isn't an accident here; it's baked into the pitch because the premise is that official channels already failed you.
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Eric Orlowski
Juan Forero-Duarte
Vivette García-Deister
Julián Medina-Zárate
AARON GREGORY
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