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Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Oct 7, 202643 min
Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely
Oct 4, 20261h 16m
The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders
Oct 1, 202625 min
Assassins and Secret Listeners: Britain's Invisible Armies, 1939-45 with Alistair Moffat (Birlinn, 2026)
Oct 1, 202635 min
Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
Oct 1, 202645 min
How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with James Poulos
Sep 30, 20261h 4m
“Ten Percent” – Will Humanity Survive AI?
Sep 27, 202637 min
The Story of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park with Mack Paul
Sep 25, 20261h 11m
Mehran Gul, "The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
Sep 24, 202639 min
Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces" (Routledge, 2025)
Sep 22, 202647 min
Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino, "Library Technical Services: Future Forward" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Sep 21, 202647 min
Building Better Scientific Teams through Team Science and TeamMAPPS
Sep 18, 20261h 23m
R. Joshua Scannell, "The Carceral Surround" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Sep 12, 202636 min
Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City" (MIT Press, 2026)
Sep 8, 202648 min
Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of Fire" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Sep 4, 202655 min
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)
Sep 3, 20261h 2m
Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Sep 2, 202640 min
Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use
Aug 31, 202624 min
Eran Shalev, "The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation" (U Virginia Press, 2025)
Aug 24, 202634 min
Steve Feldstein, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
Aug 23, 202645 min
Sandeep Vaheesan, "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 22, 202654 min
Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck" (Penguin, 2026)
Aug 21, 20261h 10m
Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Aug 20, 202655 min
A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now
Aug 20, 202628 min
Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
Aug 17, 202654 min
Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys eds., "Media Matters in Landscape Architecture" (Applied Research & Design, 2025)
Aug 16, 202653 min
Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature (Columbia UP, 2026)
Aug 15, 202632 min
Ellery E. Foutch, "A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in the Nineteenth Century (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
Aug 14, 20261h 0m
The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine with Jonathan Fuller
Aug 13, 202645 min
Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
Aug 9, 202658 min
Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
Aug 8, 202633 min
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
Aug 7, 2026
Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–32" (Lund Humphries, 2026)
Aug 3, 202657 min
Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Aug 1, 202656 min
Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Jul 31, 202656 min
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
Jul 31, 202634 min
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism in Asia and Beyond
Jul 30, 2026
Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jul 28, 202651 min
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
Jul 27, 20261h 24m
Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Jul 25, 202657 min
Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Jul 23, 2026
David I. Waddington, "The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)
Jul 22, 202642 min
Mark Crinson, "Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2026)
Jul 22, 20261h 16m
Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025)
Jul 21, 20261h 2m
Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home Computer" (Projekt Verlag, 2026)
Jul 20, 202627 min
Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026)
Jul 18, 202656 min
Gretchen Heefner, "Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Jul 18, 202650 min
Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers" (MIT Press, 2026)
Jul 17, 202651 min
Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan
Jul 16, 2026
Adam Geczy, "Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jul 15, 202634 min