Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBenjamin Schultz-Figueroa, "The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 53
In The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life (U of California Press, 2023), Benjamín Schultz‑Figueroa examines rarely seen behav…
2 years, 10 months ago
Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 7
Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to the historic racial inequality that defines the …
2 years, 10 months ago
Anna Piela, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 306
In recent years the niqab has emerged as one of the most ubiquitous symbols of everything that is perceived to be wrong with Islam: barbarity, backwa…
2 years, 10 months ago
Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 124
A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current conflicts, and future possibilities. Open access (OA) could one day put t…
2 years, 10 months ago
Francis Cody, "The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 235
Not merely the act of representing events with words or images, a "news event" is the reciprocal relationship between the events being reported in th…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Future of Politicized Narratives: A Discussion with Andreas Krieg
Episode 65
The word "narrative" is now so frequently heard that some think it over used. Perhaps its ubiquity results from it being so relevant – what used to b…
2 years, 10 months ago
Payal Arora et al., "Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Episode 294
The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusion, equity, and dignity of tho…
2 years, 10 months ago
Zhouxiang Lu, "A History of Competitive Gaming" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 250
Competitive gaming, or esports - referring to competitive tournaments of video games among both casual gamers and professional players - began in the…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 94
Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse com…
2 years, 11 months ago
Brendan Keogh, "The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 343
The videogame industry, we're invariably told, is a multibillion-dollar, high-tech business conducted by large corporations in certain North American…
2 years, 11 months ago