
Christmas Special Holiday Extravaganza Show
17/12/2025 | 1 h 9 min
Look what just dropped down the chimney: Why, it's the first Off Center Christmas Special Holiday Extravaganza Show! Featuring music, human and otherwise, lessons in Norwegian folklore, Christmas beers reviewed, holiday traditions from various cultures, and merriment of all sorts. Featuring Jill Walker Rettberg, Anne Sigrid Refsum, Nick Montfort, Gabriele de Seta, Drew Keller, Hanne-Rikka Roine, Yagmur Vik, Tegan Pyke, Nadja Heiber, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Søren Pold and the New Originals, Andreas Opsvik, and Ola Roth Johnsen.

ALGOpod #4: Nick Seaver
15/12/2025 | 57 min
In episode four of ALGOpod, Gabriele de Seta welcomes Nick Seaver, Associate Professor in Anthropology and Director of the Science, Technology & Society program at Tufts University, to catch up on his recent ethnographic research on algorithms, computing and automation.

The AI Update XVII - Incest Economy
08/12/2025 | 20 min
Scott and Jhave are back talking billions of dollars and discussing whether the new AI economy truly is "too big to fail".

Episode 41 - Digital Art and Meaning with Roberto Simanowski
01/12/2025 | 48 min
On this episode Scott talks to author and media theorist Roberto Simanowski about digital media, AI, art and hypertext.

The AI Update XVI: Anthropic Copyright Settlement
17/11/2025 | 20 min
Scott and Jhave are here to talk about a major class-action lawsuit that will reward authors for the fact that their books were used for AI training data... and this is not just any class-action lawsuit: the largest publicly reported settlement in human history.References: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/My Book Was Stolen by an AI Company. Why Does Suing Them Feel Wrong? Thea Lim https://thewalrus.ca/suing-ai-company/



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