Podcast Episodes
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Episode 360
Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice. The research and development of these technolog…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason
Episode 90
Predictive algorithms are changing the world – that is the claim of Christopher E. Mason who has co-authored (with Igor Tulchinsky) the book The Age …
2 years, 6 months ago
This 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 months ago