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Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU

A show from WFMU about our shift to a digital future. Mark Hurst interviews creators and thinkers about technology, community, videogames, and whatever else is next.

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Amateur radio is a superpower: Thomas Witherspoon...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/12/02

Amateur radio is a superpower: Thomas WitherspoonKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Thomas Witherspoon" [0:02:56] - "Mark's comments" [0:47:45] Todd Mazierski - "Amateur radio during Hurricane Melissa" [0:53:31] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158764

Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/11/25

Citizens are being forced to pay for Big Tech data centers, feat. Pat Garofalo Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Pat Garofalo" [0:06:25] - "Mark's comments" [0:37:13] Momus - "The Enshittification of Everything" - Ballyhoo [0:55:48] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158415

How low can the tech oligarchs go? from Nov 17, 2025

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/11/18

How low can the tech oligarchs go?Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a - "Mark's comments" Stereolab - "Space Moment" - Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center [0:53:24] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158295

Paul Mozur on the spread of data centers from Nov 10,...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/11/12

Paul Mozur on Big Tech data centers outside the USKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a - "Mark's comments" Kirk Pearson - "Modem of Home" - n/a [0:04:35] - "Interview with Paul Mozur" [0:04:46] Kirk Pearson - "Haptic Workshop" - n/a [0:26:35] - "Interview with Paul Mozur" [0:27:00] Kirk Pearson - "Bio Magnification" - n/a [0:51:57] - "Mark's comments" [0:52:04] Acidulant - "Taking Orders from Machines" - Acidulant - Planet Jack EP [0:55:26] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157889

Aram Sinnreich, co-author, "The Secret Life of Data"...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/11/04

Aram Sinnreich, co-author, "The Secret Life of Data" Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Aram Sinnreich" [0:03:41] - "Mark's comments" [0:45:35] Les Bibliothécaires (Various) - "High Score" [0:56:00] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157671

Widening inequality and Big Tech surveillance, feat....

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/10/27

Widening inequality and Big Tech surveillance, feat. Dan CurrellKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Dan Currell" [0:04:54] - "Mark's comments" [0:32:15] Joel Chapman - "From the Bedroom to the Bathroom" [via The Dannys] [0:55:48] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157597

Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the Luddite...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/10/20

Filmmaker Amanda Hanna-McLeer on the Luddite renaissanceKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Interview with Amanda Hanna-McLeer" The Microbes - "Computer" [0:54:22] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157354

The protest against smartphones, with Logan Lane from...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/10/14

The protest against smartphones, with Logan LaneKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "The protest" [0:07:15] - "Mark's comments" [0:37:04] Rude Mechanical Orchestra - "We Shall Overcome" [Image from CatandGirl] [0:55:34] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157126

AI and surveillance keep spreading from Oct 6, 2025

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/10/06

AI and surveillance keep spreadingKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's comments" The Layoffs - "We're All In Formation" [0:55:06] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156829

Megan Greenwell, author, "Bad Company: Private Equity...

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2025/09/30

Megan Greenwell, author, "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream"Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a - "Mark's intro" Kirk Pearson - "Modem of Home" - n/a [0:03:32] - "Interview with Megan Greenwell" [0:03:40] Kirk Pearson - "Haptic Workshop" - n/a [0:27:41] - "Interview with Megan Greenwell" [0:29:21] Kirk Pearson - "Bio Magnification" - n/a [0:47:00] - "Mark's comments" [0:47:08] KILN - "Ptarmigan" - Lemon Borealis

Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows" from...

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2025/09/23

Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present"Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Glenn Adamson" [0:05:23] - "Mark's comments" [0:46:04] Hot 8 Brass Band - "Remember the Time" [0:55:03] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156259

Joseph Weizenbaum warned us about AI 50 years ago...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/09/15

Joseph Weizenbaum warned us about AI 50 years ago (feat. Faine Greenwood)Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Faine Greenwood" [0:05:42] - "Mark's comments" [0:41:13] Posthuman - "The Screens Of Our Lives" [0:54:49] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155999

Milestones for Big Tech... and Techtonic from Sep 8,...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/09/08

Milestones for Big Tech... and TechtonicKirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's comments" Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - "Thank You" [0:53:38] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155884

Cory Doctorow, author and journalist from Sep 1, 2025

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/09/01

Cory Doctorow, author and journalist Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Cory Doctorow" [0:02:28] - "Mark's comments" [0:45:51] Michael Hearst with Claudia Gonson - "Eyes Without A Face" [0:56:24] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155658

Webb Keane, author, "Animals, Robots, Gods" from Aug...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/08/27

Webb Keane, author, “Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination”Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Webb Keane" [0:03:17] - "Mark's comments" [0:43:18] Timothy Clover - "Trolley Car Line" [0:55:30] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155425

If/Then/Else - Sara Clemens and Stu Horvath fill in,...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/08/18

Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" [0:00:00]Brendan Keogh - "Interview with Sara and Stu Pt. 1" - Techtonic [0:02:17] GLaDOS from Portal (Ellen McLain) - "Still Alive" - Portal 2: Songs to Test By [0:29:40] Brendan Keogh - "Interview with Sara and Stu Pt. 2" - Techtonic [0:32:22] The Sound - "New Dark Age" - From the Lions Mouth [0:56:41] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155264

Adam Becker, author, "More Everything Forever" from...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/08/11

Adam Becker, author, "More Everything Forever"Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Adam Becker" [0:03:49] - "Mark's comments" [0:45:18] The Flaming Embers - "Robot in a Robot's World" [0:53:47] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154965

Three emerging dystopias: money, water, and truth...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/08/10

Three emerging dystopias: money, water, and truth Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a - "Mark's comments" Kirk Pearson - "Bio Magnification" - n/a [0:21:33] - "Mark's comments" [0:22:30] Kirk Pearson - "Bio Magnification" - n/a [0:33:46] - "Mark's comments" [0:35:33] Casey & Strick - "Read A Book" - n/a [0:53:02] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154555

Ed Park, author, "An Oral History of Atlantis" from...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/08/09

Ed Park, author, "An Oral History of Atlantis" Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a - "Interview with Ed Park" Donovan - "Atlantis" - single [0:53:44] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154814

Daniel Solove, author, "On Privacy and Technology"...

Techtonic with Mark Hurst | WFMU ·

2025/07/21

Daniel Solove, author, "On Privacy and Technology"Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" [0:00:04] - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Daniel Solove" [0:03:11] - "Mark's comments" [0:44:53] The Metronomes - "A Circuit Like Me" [0:54:31] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154339

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