Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRobert R. Janes, "Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 1
Who do you turn to at the brink of the apocalypse? What might help us to mitigate the financial, commercial, political, social, and cultural collapse…
2 years, 3 months ago
Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019)
Episode 108
What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth? Does science simply represent a successful methodology, or is it …
2 years, 3 months ago
Benjamin R. Siegel, “Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 85
In his first book Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Cambridge University Press 2018), historian Benjamin Robert Siegel exp…
2 years, 4 months ago
Carolyn Birdsall, "Radiophilia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 6
A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmis…
2 years, 4 months ago
Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)
Episode 177
Glitter (Bloomsbury, 2022) by Dr. Nicole Seymour reveals the complexity of an object often dismissed as frivolous. Dr. Seymour describes how glitter'…
2 years, 4 months ago
Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 1399
Jeffrey Whyte's book The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War (Oxford UP, 2023) expl…
2 years, 4 months ago
Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, "Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past" (Bristol UP, 2023)
Episode 118
Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They repackage our past content as ‘memories’ and deliver them back to…
2 years, 4 months ago
Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 216
Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt tells a new …
2 years, 4 months ago
André Jansson, "Rethinking Communication Geographies: Geomedia, Digital Logistics and the Human Condition" (Edward Elgar, 2022)
Episode 117
How are geographies of communication changing with contemporary digital media and data infrastructure? What is ‘geomedia’ and ‘transmedia’? Where are…
2 years, 4 months ago
Joanna Zylinska, "The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 74
A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI.
We are constantly photographing and being photographed…
2 years, 4 months ago