Episode 095 - Cathrine Hasse

Cliff Anderson is Vanderbilt’s associate university librarian for research and digital strategy, and he’s back on the podcast interviewing another author of a fascinating book Cliff read recently. This time, he speaks with Cathrine Hasse, professor of Learning at Aarhus University in Denmark, author of the 2020 book Posthumanist Learning: What Robots and Cyborgs Teach Us about Being Ultra-Social from Routledge Press. Cliff and Cathrine have a wide-ranging conversation, covering such topics as posthumanism, Lev Vygotsky’s learning theories, why teaching humans is harder than teaching gorillas, and cyborgs. Links • Cathrine Hasse’s faculty page, https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/cathrine-hasse(5ba5eb68-a94f-4626-b074-1958780ab33a).html • Posthumanist Learning: What Robots and Cyborgs Teach Us about Being Ultra-Social, https://www.routledge.com/Posthumanist-Learning-What-Robots-and-Cyborgs-Teach-us-About-Being-Ultra-social/Hasse/p/book/9781138125186 • “In 2016, Microsoft’s Racist Chatbot Revealed the Dangers of Online Conversation,” https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/in-2016-microsofts-racist-chatbot-revealed-the-dangers-of-online-conversation