New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Cleo Nisse, "Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 26, 202647 min
Jonathon W. Penney, "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jun 23, 202650 min
Gareth Doherty, "Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design" (U Virginia Press, 2025)
Jun 21, 20261h 3m
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Jun 20, 2026
Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)
Jun 16, 20261h 8m
John Longhurst, "Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith" (CMU Press, 2024)
Jun 14, 202643 min
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota
Jun 12, 2026
Aditya Deshbandhu, "The 21st Century in 100 Games" (Routledge, 2024)
Jun 9, 20261h 1m
Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
Jun 9, 202645 min
Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan
Jun 8, 2026
Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
Jun 8, 20261h 11m
Ann Carlson, "Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air" (U California Press, 2026)
Jun 6, 202633 min
Ashok Malhotra, "Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri La, 1900-1969" (UCL Press, 2026)
Jun 6, 202635 min
Ralph Jones, "Microphone" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jun 5, 202651 min
Rahul Mukherjee, "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" (MIT Press, 2026)
Jun 2, 20261h 1m
Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
May 30, 202649 min
Pedro Domingos, "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" (Basic Books, 2018)
May 30, 20261h 11m
Amy Thomas, "Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play" (Hart Publishing, 2026)
May 29, 202626 min
What AI Means for Fiction: A Discussion with Literary Critic Mark McGurl
May 26, 202655 min
Learning Languages on Social Media
May 26, 202637 min
Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
May 25, 20263 min
Yosef Grodzinsky, "How Deeply Human Is Language?: Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy" (MIT Press, 2026)
May 24, 202648 min
Kate Brown, "Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
May 19, 202656 min
Robert Rouphail, "Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster, and Identity in Modern Mauritius" (Ohio UP, 2026)
May 18, 202655 min
Silvia Danielak, "Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2026)
May 16, 202634 min
Paul Stob, "Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind" (Counterpoint Publishing, 2026)
May 16, 202645 min
Angela I. Fritz, "AI and Digital Leadership: Transforming Libraries, Archives, and Museums for the Future" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
May 15, 202653 min
Aymar Jèan Escoffery, "Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 15, 20263 min
Rina Bliss, "What's Real About Race: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
May 13, 202653 min
Angus Burgin on the Rise of the Internet
May 11, 20263 min
Peter S. Soppelsa, "Paris After Haussmann: Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026)
May 10, 202651 min
Olivier Sylvain, "Recovering the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control-And How We Can Take It Back" (Columbia Global Reports, 2026)
May 9, 202631 min
Are We Entering An Arms Race in Outer Space?
May 8, 202652 min
Max Morris, "Not Sex Work: Queer Intimacy, Post-identity, and Incidental Encounters in the Digital Era" (Routledge, 2025)
May 6, 202652 min
Angela Dimitrakaki, "Feminism. Art. Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2026)
May 6, 202641 min
Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)
May 3, 20261h 17m
Deirdre Loughridge & Thomas Patteson, "The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments" (Reaktion, 2026)
Apr 30, 202647 min
Scott Solomon, "Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds" (MIT Press, 2026)
Apr 30, 20261h 1m
Vindhya Buthpitiya, "A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka" (U Washington Press, 2026)
Apr 29, 202643 min
Raffaele Danna, "The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200–1600" (Harvard UP, 2026)
Apr 28, 20261h 4m
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: A Conversation with Stephen Sims
Apr 27, 202640 min
Karen Hao, "Empire of AI: Inside the Race for Total Domination" (Allan Lane, 2025)
Apr 27, 202639 min
Roland Betancourt, "Disneyland and the Rise of Automation: How Technology Created the Happiest Place on Earth" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Apr 23, 202655 min
The Information State: How is the State Surveilling and Manipulating us These Days?
Apr 22, 202654 min
Sarah Murray, "Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI" (NYU Press, 2026)
Apr 22, 202655 min
David Blumenthal and James A. Morone, "Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science" (Yale UP, 2026)
Apr 21, 20261h 7m
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Apr 20, 202619 min
Adrian Woolfson, "On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2026)
Apr 20, 202654 min
Kristan Stoddart, "Russia's Hybrid Warfare Offensive Against the West" (de Gruyter, 2025)
Apr 19, 20261h 20m
Ibrahim J. Gedeon and Kyle Murray, "Automata: The Power of AI Integrated with Advanced Robotics" (U Toronto Press, 2026)
Apr 16, 20261h 12m