Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJeffrey G. Snodgrass, "The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 219
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games (University of California Press, 2023) creatively examines the parallels bet…
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Woodrow Hartzog, "Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" (Harvard UP, 2018)
Episode 336
Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Inter…
3 years, 3 months ago
Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 3
Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity -- along with questions around the…
3 years, 3 months ago
Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)
Episode 32
This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture.
From the s…
3 years, 3 months ago
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right but... US Lies and Media Reporting in the 2003 Iraq War
Episode 116
In this episode of International Horizons, journalist and UN director of Human Rights Watch Louis Charbonneau describes the US's government misinform…
3 years, 3 months ago
Felix Zimmermann, "Virtual Realities: Atmospheric Experience of the Past in Digital Games (Büchner-Verlag, 2023)
Episode 67
Today I talked to Felix Zimmermann about his book Virtual Realities: Atmospheric Experience of the Past in Digital Games (Virtuelle Wirklichkeiten: A…
3 years, 3 months ago
Reinhold Martin, "Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 85
What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League a…
3 years, 3 months ago
David Houston Jones, "Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 134
The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the Kantian settlement on aesthetic judgment as detach…
3 years, 3 months ago
Chrisanthi Giotis, "Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 67
Every two seconds a person is displaced, caught in one of the more than 40 active conflicts around the world that show no sign of ending. Since 1994,…
3 years, 3 months ago
Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)
Episode 133
In Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2019), Nicholas Brown offers a fresh perspective on aesthetic autono…
3 years, 3 months ago