Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFiona Smyth, "Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 10
On a winter's night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul's Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of violence but a scien…
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Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 319
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a hi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?
Episode 20
It’s the UConn Popcast, and in this episode of our series on artificial intelligence, we discuss Joanna Bryson’s essay “Robots Should be Slaves.”
We d…
1 year, 11 months ago
Victor P. Petrov, "Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 215
Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernisation, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain (MIT Press, 2023) examines the history o…
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Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
Episode 85
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Kwame Harrison, Alumni Distinguished Professor and Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. Harrison re…
1 year, 11 months ago
Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 163
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule …
1 year, 11 months ago
Meta-Practice (on Chinese Medicine)
Episode 105
Today I sit down with Volker Scheid, an interdisciplinary scholar and longtime practitioner of Chinese medicine. Together, we take an intellectual de…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018)
Episode 250
Introduction to Global Military History:: 1775 to the Present Day (Routledge, 2018) provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developmen…
1 year, 11 months ago
Libuse Hannah Veprek, "At the Edge of AI: Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations" (Transcript, 2024)
Episode 81
How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone?
In At the Edge…
1 year, 11 months ago
David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)
Episode 256
A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, wi…
1 year, 11 months ago