Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchScott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 352
Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In P…
2 years, 8 months ago
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 56
Benjamin Y. Fong is author of the new book Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, which was just released in July,…
2 years, 8 months ago
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
Episode 56
Katie Wells, a Postdoctoral Fritz Fellow with Georgetown University's Tech and Society Initiative, and Kafui Attoh, Associate Professor of Urban Stud…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
Episode 73
How much of US power is underground? We hear a lot about the US military assets used on land, on the sea, and in the air - but not much about what’s …
2 years, 8 months ago
Satsuki Takahashi, "Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 129
Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, ant…
2 years, 8 months ago
Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Episode 351
The Darwinian Revolution--the change in thinking sparked by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which argued that all organisms including huma…
2 years, 8 months ago
Renny Thomas, "Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 279
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment (Routledge, 2022) provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context…
2 years, 8 months ago
Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 349
From facial recognition―capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents―to automated decision systems that inform who g…
2 years, 8 months ago
Idolatry and Idle Hands (with Jacob Howland)
Episode 66
Philosophy professor Jacob Howland applies the lessons of Greek classics and Jewish scripture to this our curious moment at the inception of Artifici…
2 years, 8 months ago
Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 350
Big Tech locked us into their systems by making their platforms hard to leave by design. The impossibility of staying connected to people on their pl…
2 years, 8 months ago