Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBuilding A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Episode 2924
Host Licia Cianetti talks to Venezuelan democracy activist and co-founder of the World Liberty Congress Leopoldo López. As part of PPP’s ongoing coll…
3 months, 1 week ago
David I. Waddington, "The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)
Episode 2923
Despite decades of inflammatory rhetoric, the real risk of video games lies not in their violent imagery but in the ethical and political sensibiliti…
3 months, 1 week ago
Mark Crinson, "Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2026)
Episode 2922
Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape (Paul Mellon Centre, 2026) by Professor Mark Crinson is the first critical study to exa…
3 months, 1 week ago
Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 2921
Contemporary digital gameplay is only accessible by navigating an ecosystem of interfaces that support its computational nature. Account logins, c…
3 months, 1 week ago
Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home Computer" (Projekt Verlag, 2026)
Episode 2920
The Commodore 64 is the most significant computer of its era. From 1982 to 1994, a total of 27 million units were sold—more than any other computer fr…
3 months, 1 week ago
Gretchen Heefner, "Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 2918
Deserts, the Arctic, outer space—these extreme environments are often seen as inhospitable places at the edges of our maps. But from the 1940s thro…
3 months, 1 week ago
Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026)
Episode 2919
We use avatars to play video games. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities. In the digital realm, ano…
3 months, 1 week ago
Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers" (MIT Press, 2026)
Episode 2917
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For more than six decades, the public has been promised that computers will revolutionize politics, both natio…
3 months, 1 week ago
Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan
Episode 2916
Who is Shennong, the Divine Farmer? And how can he help us understand the intricate relationships between spirituality, science and environmentalism …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Adam Geczy, "Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Episode 2915
Glasses are among the oldest and most commonplace prosthetics we have invented. But what does it mean to wear glasses? There is more to the answer …
3 months, 2 weeks ago