<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Richard Rottenburg <font color="#ff2600" class="">W I S E R</font> - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Web: <a href="http://wiser.wits.ac.za" class="">wiser.wits.ac.za</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><div class=""><p class=""><img alt="" src="https://wiser.wits.ac.za/system/files/image002_12.jpg" class=""></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom: 16px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><span class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">Today we release Part One of our next mini-series of <b class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">The WISER Podcast</span>.</b> This two-part series takes as its theme Travelling Technology. It draws on research spanning 15 African countries and focusing on various technical assemblages to reflect on the </span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">amalgamation of techno-science with social, political, juridical and cultural elements in concrete African contexts beyond the modernist binary of nature and culture.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">In <a href="https://wiser.wits.ac.za/civicrm/mailing/url?u=3142&qid=2195103" rel="nofollow" class="" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">today's podcast,</a> we hear from </span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151);">Richard Rottenburg</span></span></b> (<b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(255, 192, 0);">WISER</span></span></b>) <span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">on the key intellectual dimensions of this ongoing project, followed by </span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151);">Faeeza Ballim</span></span></b> <span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">(<b class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(255, 192, 0);">UJ</span></b>) </span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">on Eskom and Medupi power stations in South Africa, and </span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(47, 85, 151);">Iginio Gagliardone</span></span></b> <span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">(<b class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(255, 192, 0);">Wits</span></b>)</span> <span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">on the politics of the Internet in Ethiopia.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">The members of the WISER Podcast team are Sarah Nuttall, Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Mpho Matsipa, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Achille Mbembe, Bronwyn Kotzen and Isabel Hofmeyr.</span></span></span></p><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br class="">- - - - <br class=""><div class="vcard location"><span class="adr"><span class="street-address">WISER, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building</span><br class=""><span class="extended-address">University of the Witwatersrand</span><br class=""><span class="locality">Johannesburg</span>, <span class="region">GT</span> <span class="postal-code">2050</span><br class=""><span class="country-name">South Africa</span></span></div><br class="">- - - - <br class="">Control the notices you receive from WISER at <a href="http://wiser.wits.ac.za/mail" class="">http://wiser.wits.ac.za/mail</a> or unsubscribe from all our email <a href="https://wiser.wits.ac.za/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=5169&qid=2195103&h=b106bcb45c43585d" class="">here</a>. <img src="https://wiser.wits.ac.za/civicrm/mailing/open?qid=2195103" width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0" class=""></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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