Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJennifer Ott, "Where the City Meets the Sound: The Story of Seattle's Waterfront" (HistoryLink, 2025) This
From canoes on the beach at Dzidzilalich to steamships and piers, Seattle's waterfront was the center of the city's economy and culture for generatio…
6 months, 1 week ago
Erik Lin-Greenberg, "The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
In The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft (Cornell UP, 2025), Erik Lin-Greenberg shows that drones are rewriting the rules of internati…
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Luis Felipe Murillo, "Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures" (Stanford UP, 2025)
A digital world in relentless movement—from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing—has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Sili…
6 months, 1 week ago
Matthew A. Tattar, "Innovation and Adaptation in War" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 313
An analysis of advances in military technology that illustrates the importance of organizational flexibility in both an attacker’s innovations and an…
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Chaim Gingold, "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 56
Building SimCity explores the history of computer simulation by chronicling one of the most influential simulation games ever made: SimCity. As autho…
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Graham Harman, "Waves and Stones: The Continuous and the Discontinuous in Human Thought" (Allen Lane, 2025)
Episode 390
A new exploration of our conception of reality, by one of the world’s most influential philosophers.
How do we understand the world and our place in i…
6 months, 1 week ago
Edward McPherson, "Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View" (Astra House, 2025)
Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View (Astra House, 2025) by Edward McPherson is an exploration of long-distance mapping, aerial p…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen, "Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley" (Harvard UP, 2025)
To think through soil is to engage with some of the most critical issues of our time. In addition to its agricultural role in feeding eight billion p…
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Thomas Haigh on the History of “AI” as a Brand
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Thomas Haigh, Professor and Chair of History and affiliate of the Department of Computer Science at Uni…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 234
The City and the Hospital (Chicago 2023) focuses on an urban paradox: American hospitals are imagined as sites of healing and care, and yet the peopl…
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