Dani Ploeger's guest appearances

Dani Ploeger

Virtual Futures Podcast

FUTURES Podcast

David Eagleman

Bret Weinstein

Rachel Botsman

Taryn Southern

Tom Gruber

Amy Webb

Sean Carroll

Philip Goff

John Danaher

Yancey Strickler

Rutger Bregman

David Chalmers

James Hughes

Patricia MacCormack

Steve Fuller

OwlTail

Performance artist Dani Ploeger discusses electronic waste (e-waste), planned obsolescence of technology and the posthuman in performance. Dani's work investigates and subverts the spectacles of sex, violence and waste in techno-consumer culture. He has undergone an operation in which electronic waste was installed in his abdomen by a body piercer, has worked with traditional metal workers in the old city of Cairo to encase tablet computers in plate steel, attended firearms training in Poland to shoot an iPad with an AK47, and travelled to dump sites in Nigeria to collect electronic waste originating from Europe. Find out more: futurespodcast.net ON THIS EPISODE  (re)Performing the Posthuman Transhumanism Consumerism Guy Debord Zygmunt Bauman James Bond Kinect  Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Electronic Waste Planned obsolescence Mary Douglas Transmediale Juju  CREDITS Produced by FUTURES Podcast Recorded, Mixed &amp; Edited by Luke Robert Mason FOLLOW FUTURES PODCAST Twitter: @FUTURESPodcast Instagram: @futurespodcast Facebook: @FUTURESPodcast

Performance artist Dani Ploeger discusses electronic waste (e-waste), planned obsolescence of technology and the posthuman in performance. Dani's work investigates and subverts the spectacles of sex, violence and waste in techno-consumer culture. He has undergone an operation in which electronic waste was installed in his abdomen by a body piercer, has worked with traditional metal workers in the old city of Cairo to encase tablet computers in plate steel, attended firearms training in Poland to shoot an iPad with an AK47, and travelled to dump sites in Nigeria to collect electronic waste originating from Europe. Find out more: <a href="http://futurespodcast.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">futurespodcast.net</a> ON THIS EPISODE <ul> <li><a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cromt/archive/2010/posthuman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(re)Performing the Posthuman</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Transhumanism</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Consumerism</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Debord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guy Debord</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Bauman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zygmunt Bauman</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James Bond</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kinect</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Electronic Waste</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Planned obsolescence</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Douglas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mary Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="https://transmediale.de/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Transmediale</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juju" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Juju</a></li> </ul> CREDITS Produced by FUTURES Podcast Recorded, Mixed &amp; Edited by <a href="http://lukerobertmason.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Luke Robert Mason</a> FOLLOW FUTURES PODCAST Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/futurespodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@FUTURESPodcast</a> Instagram: <a href="http://instagram.com/futurespodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@futurespodcast</a> Facebook: <a href="http://facebook.com/futurespodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@FUTURESPodcast</a>

Electronic Waste w/ Dani Ploeger