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’Imperfect world’ is a series of conversations exploring exploring where politics, society, and technology meet. Hosted by Japan-based scholar, Dr Christopher Hobson.
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With malice aforethought UK - a true crime podcast, murder, mystery & more
With malice aforethought UK - a true crime podcast, murder, mystery & more
Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/maliceaforethoughtuk/subscribe Welcome to Malice Aforethought UK a true crime podcast where I hope to bring you some famous, infamous and lesser known true crime stories from here in the UK and across the globe. as with all true crime blogs, listener discretion is advised join our forum on my armchair detective blog https://maliceaforethoughtuk.wixsite.com/home https://anchor.fm/maliceaforethoughtuk/subscribe and please, always be nice to each other
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In this episode, Chris and Pete welcome Joseph Vogl, who is a Regular Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and until last year, he was Professor of Modern German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Our conversation focuses on Vogl's most recent book: Capital and Ressentiment: A Brief Theory of the Presen…
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In Conversation with Guillaume Pitron
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In this episode, Chris and Pete welcome Guillaume Pitron, an investigative journalist who has been uncovering and examining the material realities of the unceasing advance of digital technologies, most notably through a pair of books: The Rare Metals War (La Guerre des métaux rares) and The Dark Cloud (L’Enfer numérique). For more information, visi…
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In conversation with Pete Chambers, Q1 2024
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Continuing the conversation with Pete Chambers, this time recorded in-person during a trip to Australia in February 2024. Central to our conversation is the issue of scale, together we think through logics of consumption, transport, travel as they get scaled up and expanded, conditions in which ‘quantity has a quality all its own’. For more informa…
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In Conversation with Pete Chambers, late 2023
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In this episode, Christopher Hobson continues his dialogue with Pete Chambers. The starting point for this conversation is Naomi Klein’s thought-provoking new book, Doppelganger. Using frames of mirrors, shadows and others, Klein manages to capture something about the deeply weird and warped relations that now prevail between online and the real / …
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In this episode, Chris and Pete welcome Laleh Khalili, the Al-Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, for a conversation about her work on the considering the forgotten space of the sea. She has explored these themes most fully in her 2021 book, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. The str…
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In conversation with Pete Chambers, August 2023
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In this episode, Christopher Hobson continues his dialogue with Pete Chambers. The starting point for this conversation is the extreme summer the Northern Hemisphere has been experiencing. From there, the discussion moves from how we are individually and collectively (mis)understanding climate change, some of the consequences that come from the res…
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In conversation with Pete Chambers, July 2023
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In this episode, Christopher Hobson continues his dialogue with Pete Chambers, an Australian scholar based at RMIT University. Building on previous conversations, this exchange circles around some big themes related to the forgotten materiality of our world, the difficulties of late capitalism, the fragility and resilience of our supply chains, the…
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In this episode, Christopher Hobson continues his dialogue with Australian scholar and writer, PC. The conversation explores how to understand the current moment in reference to institutional entropy, questioning whether polycrisis and other conceptual frames might help us comprehend the changes we are experiencing, and considering parallels and th…
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In this final episode of the first season of 'Imperfect World', Christopher Hobson speaks again with PC, a scholar and writer based in Melbourne. Building on their discussion in episode 2, Hobson and PC think about the problem of the world no longer being made to fit humans, and specifically the consequences of our world effectively becoming too fa…
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Depp -v- Heard - part 2 A run down of the allegations
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In our last instalment of the Depp -v- Heard story (part 1) we looked at the beginning of the relationship between the couple followed by her now infamous application for a restraining order which led to the publicity of the alleged domestic violence in their marriage and ended in their attending a libel trial in the UK where Judge Nichol rule, on …
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I am a huge fan of Johnny Depp, what is not to like about him? He is handsome, kooky, stars in amazing films and his posters covered my walls when I was a teenager, by the same token I know little to nothing about Amber Heard except what I have read or seen in news and online in recent months and years following her much publicised marriage and spl…
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In February 2000 Police were called to an address in Australia and found a victim mutilated beyond belief The killer, a middle aged woman with 4 children who became known as Australia's most notorious female murderer Today we tell the story of John "Pricey" Price and his on and off relationship with Katherine Knight who was the first woman in Austr…
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In Conversation with Andrew Pickering
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Christopher Hobson speaks with Andrew Pickering, a leading historian of science, known for his sociological studies of scientific practices and knowledge production in books such as Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics, The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency and Science, and The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future.…
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Christopher Hobson speaks with Elke Schwarz, a scholar working on the political and ethical implications of digital technologies and autonomous systems. Recently, she has been returning to the insights of Günther Anders, a 20th century thinker who foreshadowed the dangers that come with untethered technological development. Applying Anders' thinkin…
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Update on Star Hobson's Mother & The tragic tale of Hero Richard Woodcock
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The mother of murdered toddler Star Hobson has had her sentence for causing or allowing her daughter's death increased to 12 years. The jail sentence handed to the mother of murdered toddler Star Hobson was "too low", the attorney general said at the end of 2021 Attorney General Suella Braverman said this was "unduly lenient" and referred the sente…
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Christopher Hobson speaks with Sun-ha Hong, a scholar critically analysing the claims of big data. Hong’s work fits within the framing of this series, given his emphasis on the considerable imperfections present in data and the way it is used, along with the dangers that come from taking it as objective truth about how the world really ‘is’. Rather…
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Christopher Hobson speaks with Gabriele de Seta, a scholar working on machine vision, digital media and related technologies in China. The conversation develops around his piece on the Chinese term ‘black technology’ (heikeji 黑科技) which has become a buzzword in China for describing the most advanced kind of technologies. We talk about the emergence…
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Death in police custody the Christopher Alder tragedy
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Christopher Hobson speaks with L.M. Sacasas, who has become a leading voice in examining the ethical, social and cultural consequences of technologies. His prior blog, The Frailest Thing, and current Substack newsletter, The Convivial Society, offer a wealth of insight, encouraging a greater awareness of the ways that technologies shape the conditi…
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Christopher Hobson speaks with Claire Benn, a philosopher who explores how our growing reliance on digital technologies are impacting our moral landscape, and the ethical challenges that come from a world shaped by machines. In this conversation, Claire points to the importance of thinking about how humans think, feel and act, and considering wheth…
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A Family torn apart, was the motive revenge, or something more sinister?
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On 19th December of 1983 Kathleen had a busy day at work ahead of her and had arranged to go shopping after work for Christmas presents for the girls. However, that morning Terri was not feeling well and decided to remain home from school and Kathleen promised to check in on her by telephone during the day. The she left the house for work. At aroun…
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Christopher Hobson speaks with PC, a scholar and writer based in Melbourne, who has recently started a substack called, Living together, somehow. The conversation commences with PC's reflections on the experience of tailgating, which are used as a way of thinking about how certain technologies shape our engagement with each other and the world. Fro…
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In this episode, Christopher Hobson speaks with David Cayley, who spent much of his career producing long-form radio programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. As part of this work, Cayley recorded a series of interviews with Ivan Illich, whose thinking on the way that technologies are reshaping people, as well as his acute critiques of ma…
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This is a brief introduction to ‘Imperfect World’, hosted by Christopher Hobson, a scholar and writer based in Japan. It builds on the writings found on his substack newsletter, 'Imperfect Notes on an Imperfect World'. To begin with, this conversation series will focus broadly on thinking about the relationship between society and technology. We ne…
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Bouncer and security guard Savannah Brockhill, 28, was jailed for life at Bradford Crown Court in December 2021 for murdering Star Hobson the daughter of her partner Frankie Smith at her home in Keighley, West Yorkshire in September 2020. Star's mother Frankie Smith, 20, was sentenced to eight years for causing or allowing the youngster's death. Th…
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The strange Life and death of the I-70 Strangler
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Herb Baumesiter - (un)successful businessman - family man - serial killer Herb was an odd character - strange goings on in the workplace and mannequins partying in the pool house, but no one could have anticipated that this man was responsible for up to 22 murders in and around Indianapolis Reports suggest his school friends talked of his having a …
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The Chillenden Murders of Lin & Megan Russell & the Miraculous survival of Josie PART 2
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on 9th July 1997, on the first anniversary of the attack, using evidence gleaned from several eyewitnesses in the area and brave Josie's testimony, BBC TV decided to run a Crimewatch reconstruction of the day in a hope of jogging people's memories or getting another lead to point Police in the right direction. Following that reconstruction a Psychi…
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The Chillenden Murders of Lin & Megan Russell & the Miraculous survival of Josie PART 1
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July 9th 1996 probably like an ordinary day, or any other morning in the Russell house but just over 2 years later Dr Shaun Russell, an academic, who woke up that morning as a married father of two, would have to recount the day from the witness box as a widower and father of one. This is the tragic story of the Russell Family PART ONE OF A 2 PART …
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Dressed in typical 1990’s teenage style of a leopard print blouse, black hipster trousers and a short leather jacket, Nicola an A-Level student who studied at Fairfax School in Sutton Coldfield looked forward to a night out with friends. The poor young woman with her whole life ahead of her never saw in the New Year of 1997 as her life was tragical…
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On 4th March 1998, Kirsty Carver a pretty young civilian working with Humberside police spent the evening visiting friends. later that evening Kirsty was brutally murdered and her body was not found for a month...... Circumstances meant the Police knew something sinister had happened and during the search for her body her former colleagues had many…
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