Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 97
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton UP, 2022), Jeff Deutsch--the…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Episode 135
We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video g…
2 years, 9 months ago
Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information
Episode 132
The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, lar…
2 years, 9 months ago
Olga Fedorenko, "Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Episode 3
An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads (U Hawaii Press, 2022) de…
2 years, 9 months ago
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
Episode 130
Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie an…
2 years, 9 months ago
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
Episode 130
Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie an…
2 years, 9 months ago
Why Photography Matters
Episode 127
Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works--not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. With this provocati…
2 years, 9 months ago
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program
Episode 124
In July 1969, ninety-four percent of American televisions were tuned to coverage of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. How did space exploration, once …
2 years, 9 months ago
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, "24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 68
As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominate…
2 years, 9 months ago
Shaul Shenhav, "Analyzing Social Narratives" (Routledge, 2015)
Episode 16
Analyzing Social Narratives (Routledge, 2015) is one of the concise and informative volumes in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods, whose ti…
2 years, 9 months ago