Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThis is the Best Statement of the Simulation Hypothesis We've Seen
Episode 6
It’s the UConn PopCast, and in this episode we discuss Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 movie World on a Wire, shown on West German television over tw…
2 years, 4 months ago
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 3: What Is Genealogy
Episode 3
Genealogy, in Charles Darwin’s terms, is the study of “descent with modification.” Taken as an analogy for the study of history, genealogy can guard …
2 years, 4 months ago
The Use of History in Tech: A Discussion with Larry McGrath
Episode 4
In Episode 4 of "Practical History" I talk to Larry McGrath, a user researcher at Amazon (and author of Making Spirit Matter Neurology, Psychology, a…
2 years, 4 months ago
Linda Eckert, "Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 12
Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What's more horrifying, is that millions have died of this disease that's nearly 100% preventab…
2 years, 4 months ago
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 358
The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrializ…
2 years, 4 months ago
Andrew C. McKevitt, "Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 691
The United States has more guns than people – a condition that is “unprecedented in world history.” Scholars often focus on gun culture, the Second A…
2 years, 4 months ago
Too Much Communication?
Episode 144
Listen to Episode No.2 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. Th…
2 years, 4 months ago
Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 358
Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect transparency from, for instance, politica…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jeff Jarvis, "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 116
The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completenes…
2 years, 5 months ago
Andrea L. Guzman et al., "The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication" (SAGE, 2023)
Episode 357
The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication (Sage, 2023) has been designed to serve as the touchstone text for researchers and scholars engaging…
2 years, 5 months ago