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An audiocast deeply curious about the everyday

COTTON ROBOT is a passion project.
The current arc “The Metal to Cotton Pipeline” used cultural studies to show how our digital lives are connected to our tactile t-shirts.

Episode 1: PLASTIC

Y2K journals, Britney, & privacy tech

This episode looks at the Password Journal 2 from 2001, notions of girlhood, and how digital privacy technology has changed.

Here’s some readings I drew upon and mentioned in episode 1.

Girls : feminine adolescence in popular culture & cultural theory

By Catherine Driscoll

The Second Sex

By Simone de Beauvoir

Culture is Ordinary

By Raymond Williams

Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare

New Yorker

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