Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoe Lane, "Networks, Innovation, and Knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851" (U of London, 2023)
Episode 88
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the industrial district of the North Staffordshire Potteries dominated the British earthenware indust…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 356
From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency.
The Sw…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jenny Odell, "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" (Random House, 2023)
Episode 115
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, artist Jenny Odell examined the power of quiet contemplation in a world where our attention is bought and sold.…
2 years, 5 months ago
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 138
Florentine Koppenborg’s Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Cornell UP, 2023) begins with the understated observation tha…
2 years, 5 months ago
Matthew F. Jordan, "Danger Sound Klaxon!: The Horn That Changed History" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Episode 72
Danger Sound Klaxon!:The Horn That Changed History (University of Virginia Press, 2023) reveals the untold story of the Klaxon automobile horn, one o…
2 years, 5 months ago
Stefan Tanaka, "History without Chronology" (Lever Press, 2019)
Episode 21
In this interview, we talk with Stefan Tanaka, professor emeritus of UCSD and a specialist in modern Japanese history. He is author of two books on m…
2 years, 5 months ago
Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development
Episode 18
Simon Johnson (MIT Sloan Economics Professor and Former IMF Chief Economist) joins the podcast to discuss his new book "Power and Progress", co-autho…
2 years, 5 months ago
Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 77
Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technology in Qing China (University of Washington Press; 2023) looks at the history of court-sponsored po…
2 years, 5 months ago
Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 266
China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 135
Xaq Frohlich’s From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age (U California Press, 2023) is a biography of the Nutrition Fact…
2 years, 5 months ago