Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 103
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan traces the shared intellectual and political history of computer scientists, cyberneticists, anthropologists, linguists, …
3 years, 2 months ago
Joshua Kurlantzick, "Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 169
How is China trying to influence media across Asia and indeed globally? Why has this ambitious project achieved rather mixed results so far? And how …
3 years, 2 months ago
Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 45
In a world awash in “fake news,” where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across the …
3 years, 2 months ago
David H. Price, "The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Episode 11
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations …
3 years, 2 months ago
Social Media Influencers and Digital Media Regulation in Vietnam
Episode 74
In 2021, a famous Vietnamese businesswoman hosted a three-hour long Facebook livestream, in which she named and shamed celebrities for their controve…
3 years, 2 months ago
Making Open Access Work for Both Readers and Authors
Episode 103
Ben Denne (Director of Publishing, Academic Books, Cambridge UP) joins Avi to discuss how Open Access quickly became a predominant form of academic p…
3 years, 2 months ago
Nicholas Mirzoeff, "White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 358
From the author of How to See the World comes a new history of white supremacist ways of seeing—and a strategy for dismantling them. White supremacy …
3 years, 2 months ago
Jacob Birken, "Video Games: Digital Image Cultures" (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022)
Episode 96
Let's plays are among the most popular genres on YouTube. The visual worlds of video games shape the worldviews of millions. Gaming is a hobby and a …
3 years, 2 months ago
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, "Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy" (Henry Holt, 2023)
Episode 65
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Henry Holt, 2023) is the inside story of a worldwide investig…
3 years, 2 months ago
Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Episode 95
At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized as “the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of her time . . …
3 years, 2 months ago