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M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)
52 mins; March 10, 2025
Lessons on Living with AI from the Home Computer Revolution: Revisiting Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self”
58 mins; March 10, 2025
Eleni Kalantidou on Design, Repairability, and Cultures of Repair
60 hours 19 mins; March 10, 2025
On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)
42 mins; March 10, 2025
Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
46 mins; March 08, 2025
Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)
52 mins; March 08, 2025
Eric Dienstfrey, "Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology" (U California Press, 2024)
78 hours 56 mins; March 07, 2025
Jorge Goldstein, "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
67 hours 29 mins; March 07, 2025
Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
39 mins; March 07, 2025
Simona Valeriani, "The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences" (Brepols, 2024)
60 hours 19 mins; March 05, 2025
Kyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)
20 mins; March 04, 2025
Robert Houghton, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
36 mins; March 03, 2025
Sonic AI
37 mins; March 03, 2025
Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)
58 mins; March 03, 2025
Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022)
77 hours 33 mins; March 02, 2025
Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
55 mins; March 01, 2025
Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; February 28, 2025
Jeff Yoshimi, "Gaming Cancer: How Building and Playing Video Games Can Accelerate Scientific Discovery" (MIT Press, 2025)
22 mins; February 27, 2025
Sybil Derrible, "The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives" (Prometheus Books, 2025)
38 mins; February 27, 2025
The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today
46 mins; February 26, 2025
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
96 hours 9 mins; February 24, 2025
In “The Beast,” AI Puts Limits on Human Emotion
76 hours 31 mins; February 22, 2025
Peter D. Hershock, "Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
72 hours 16 mins; February 21, 2025
Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
50 mins; February 20, 2025
Nicole Lobdell, "X-Ray" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
49 mins; February 19, 2025
Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds (3)
40 mins; February 19, 2025
The Anxious Generation: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
57 mins; February 19, 2025
Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)
56 mins; February 19, 2025
Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)
58 mins; February 17, 2025
Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
66 hours 58 mins; February 16, 2025
Xiangli Ding, "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
41 mins; February 15, 2025
Luiz ValĂŠrio P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)
49 mins; February 15, 2025
Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
45 mins; February 14, 2025
Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (2)
47 mins; February 13, 2025
Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)
86 hours 48 mins; February 10, 2025
Astrid J. Smith, "Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
42 mins; February 10, 2025
Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025)
59 mins; February 10, 2025
Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)
65 hours 53 mins; February 08, 2025
Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
59 mins; February 04, 2025
Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
55 mins; February 03, 2025
Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)
65 hours 47 mins; February 01, 2025
Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
55 mins; January 31, 2025
Understanding Disinformation
56 mins; January 30, 2025
Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
10 mins; January 28, 2025
A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy
84 hours 22 mins; January 28, 2025
Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication
79 hours 35 mins; January 27, 2025
James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)
74 hours 47 mins; January 27, 2025
Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
53 mins; January 26, 2025
Dario Fazzi, "Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement" (Columbia UP, 2023)
50 mins; January 26, 2025
Alan Bollard, "Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas" (Oxford UP, 2023)
68 hours 6 mins; January 25, 2025
Michael Tondre, "Oil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
45 mins; January 23, 2025
Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (1)
46 mins; January 22, 2025
Pierre Sokolsky, "The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)
54 mins; January 21, 2025
Ashish Avikunthak, "Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
70 hours 36 mins; January 21, 2025
Listening in the Afterlife of Data
81 hours 33 mins; January 20, 2025
Special Episode: Mike Secasas on the Question of the Human, and the Question of Technology, Live at the Bradley Study Center
83 hours 51 mins; January 20, 2025
Elizabeth King and W. David Todd, "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend" (Getty, 2023)
50 mins; January 19, 2025
Disability and the History of Science (Osiris, Vol 36)
88 hours 29 mins; January 18, 2025
Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
69 hours 53 mins; January 17, 2025
Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)
65 hours 34 mins; January 15, 2025
Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)
36 mins; January 14, 2025
Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
66 hours 31 mins; January 13, 2025
James Malazita, "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" (MIT Press, 2024)
40 mins; January 12, 2025
What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology
71 hours 8 mins; January 11, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
75 hours 44 mins; January 11, 2025
Marina Hassapopoulou, "Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
71 hours 11 mins; January 10, 2025
Fionna S. Cunningham, "Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International Security" (Princeton UP, 2024)
57 mins; January 09, 2025
David Lyon, "Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; January 08, 2025
Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)
55 mins; January 08, 2025
Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
47 mins; January 07, 2025
Why Teachers Turn to AI
33 mins; January 07, 2025
Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology
90 hours 40 mins; January 06, 2025
Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
43 mins; January 04, 2025
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
69 hours 2 mins; January 04, 2025
Patrick T. Reardon, "The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)
45 mins; January 03, 2025
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
62 hours 8 mins; December 31, 2024
Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
62 hours 18 mins; December 29, 2024
Michael Bresalier, "Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
67 hours 43 mins; December 27, 2024
AI: How We Got Here in Three Powerful Tales
67 hours 3 mins; December 26, 2024
Matt Beane, "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines" (HarperCollins, 2024)
90 hours 1 min; December 23, 2024
Josh Spodek, "Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Solving All (Yes, All) Our Environmental Problems" (Amplify, 2025)
66 hours 0 mins; December 23, 2024
Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
38 mins; December 23, 2024
Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
48 mins; December 21, 2024
Julien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
40 mins; December 21, 2024
Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
62 hours 57 mins; December 21, 2024
Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
43 mins; December 20, 2024
Nina Edwards, "Weeds" (Reaktion, 2024)
28 mins; December 19, 2024
Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)
40 mins; December 19, 2024
Voices Part 3: Dork-O-Phonics
43 mins; December 16, 2024
Margaret Ziolkowski, "Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building" (U of Wyoming Press, 2024)
36 mins; December 15, 2024
Matthew S. Smith, "EverQuest" (Boss Fight Books, 2024)
38 mins; December 15, 2024
Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted BarbieÂŽ" (MIT Press, 2024)
35 mins; December 14, 2024
Donald R. Prothero, "The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)
41 mins; December 14, 2024
Jeremy Brecher, "The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
31 mins; December 10, 2024
Reem Hilu, "Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
29 mins; December 10, 2024
Meredith McKittrick, "Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
63 hours 7 mins; December 10, 2024
Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
72 hours 53 mins; December 09, 2024
Tristan A. Volpe, "Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
72 hours 4 mins; December 08, 2024
Bug
17 mins; December 07, 2024
Kerry Smith, "Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
71 hours 20 mins; December 07, 2024
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