Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElizabeth King and W. David Todd, "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend" (Getty, 2023)
Episode 2
Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend (Getty Publications, 2023) tells the singular story of an uncanny, rare object at…
1 year, 3 months ago
Disability and the History of Science (Osiris, Vol 36)
Episode 53
This volume of Osiris places disability history and the history of science in conversation to foreground disability epistemologies, disabled scientis…
1 year, 3 months ago
Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 1533
What do you do when you feel an itchy throat coming on? You probably head online, first to search for your symptoms and then to evaluate the informat…
1 year, 3 months ago
Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 9
Do dogs belong with humans? Scientific accounts of dogs' 'species story,' in which contemporary dog-human relations are naturalised with reference to…
1 year, 3 months ago
Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 31
The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s—the machine that taught the world that computing should be fu…
1 year, 3 months ago
Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
For McDonald’s, the Chicken McNugget, the flagship product of further processed chicken, represented a once-in-a-generation innovation, a snack item …
1 year, 3 months ago
James Malazita, "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 20
An analysis of the game engine Unreal through feminist, race, and queer theories of technology and media, as well as a critique of the platform studi…
1 year, 3 months ago
What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology
Episode 22
It’s the UConn Popcast, and Ex Machina, Alex Garland’s 2014 sci fi movie, is a provocative examination of what an updated Turing test for a super-cap…
1 year, 3 months ago
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
Episode 248
Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in human development. According to this overly familiar story…
1 year, 3 months ago
Marina Hassapopoulou, "Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 226
Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) engages with a multitude of unconventional appr…
1 year, 3 months ago