The Politics of Perception: Unbroken Chain Podcast x Robert Rosenberger is a conversation recorded in October 2019 with Robert Rosenberger for the Unbroken Chain Podcast. Rosenberger is a philosopher of technology, author of “Callous Objects” (2017), and associate professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His book tackles the politics of technology and perception and a major line of his research and career has been trying to expose an anti-homeless, anti-poverty agenda built into public spaces. In this conversation recorded at his home in Macon, GA, he reveals how our environments subtly encode and support the criminalization of poverty, whether we are conditioned to recognize it or not. From dominator culture to bike lanes, feminist epistemology to “trickle down Silicon Valley attitude,” we explore how we perceive the deceptively communicative world around us. Connect with Robert and read “Callous Objects” at https://rosenberger.spp.gatech.edu/

Maura James McNamara is an interdisciplinary artist working in documentary film and the host and producer of the Unbroken Chain Podcast. In addition to extensive commercial and television work as a producer over the last decade, she is the director and editor of the forthcoming feature “The Charnel Ground” (2021), about life after incarceration. Her previous films include short profiles of self-taught visionary artists: “Disco” (2020) and “More Is More” (2016). You can find her at www.MauraJames.com