Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEmily 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…
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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, 7 months ago
A.I. and Practice with Stuart Baldwin
Episode 113
The technological revolution we are facing today is artificial intelligence. At least this is what we are told. Those doing the telling include tech …
2 years, 7 months ago
Can You Fall in Love with ChatGPT?
Episode 4
The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute recently sponsored a panel discussion on the topic, “Can you fall in love with ChatGPT?” and we re…
2 years, 7 months ago
Aarathi Prasad, "Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses" (William Collins, 2023)
Episode 160
Silk—a luxury fabric, a valuable trade good, and a scientific marvel. This material, created by the bombyx mori silkworm, has captivated artisans for…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Future of Crucial Materials: A Discussion with Ed Conway
Episode 85
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed fo…
2 years, 7 months ago
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 71
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we trave…
2 years, 7 months ago
Colin McFarlane, "Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 322
In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Colin McFarlane, through Wa…
2 years, 7 months ago
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 683
Over the past 40 years, lawmakers in America's two major political parties have taken increasingly extreme positions on ideological issues. Voters fr…
2 years, 7 months ago
Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 1
Peter Nelson's book Computer Games As Landscape Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contemporary…
2 years, 7 months ago