This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2023/03/dining-with-the-diaspora-khmerican-digital-gastrodiplomacy/. About the post: What people are eating, how they are eating it, and why they are eating it have been debated throughout time and space. With increased engagements with food with different types and layers of technologies, online food discourse has expanded rapidly. Yet people have been forming and joining online communities to share their ideas, experiences, and perspectives around food in multi-modal ways for decades. In this post, the author develops the idea of digital food spaces (DFS) to refer to these communities, defining digital food spaces as online communities and platforms dedicated to the sharing of food-centered ideas and media.

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/2023/02/grafting-with-care-encountering-human-plant-relations-through-experiments-with-roses/. About the post: Writing against the dominance of an object-oriented ontology in mainstream science and technology narratives, this post follows scholarship that emphasizes an “anthropology beyond the human” to center the connections between plants and humans as not only metaphorical but literal.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by areeya tivasuradej and AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/12/little-experiments-in-worldmaking-with-amor-mundi-lab/. About the post: In this episode, Areeya Tivasuradej and Amor Mundi Lab share their journey in creating an innovative collaborative space in Chiang Mai to learn and do multispecies ethnography together.

This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Oliver Bown can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/12/uncovering-ethnography-in-creative-practice-research-with-machines/. About the post: This blog post comes out of a discussion with Ritwik Banerji about the ‘hidden’ role of ethnography in the work involved in creating new experimental systems for music improvisation.

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.