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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox:

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28:39

A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and...

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2026/08/20

Does it seem like the business world is in its own version of an arms race to figure out AI?It’s a moment when even a little wisdom, grounded in experience and expertise, provides relief. But how do you get that wisdom? If you’re KPMG, you turn to your own secret weapon, Stephanie Kim, who leads Signals & Strategy, to combine the firm’s intelligence AND the steady stream of data from the outside INTO a cogent worldview. Tracking, distilling, and interpreting signals has been Kim’s focus for

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55:58

Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that...

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2026/08/20

Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad(Bloomsbury, 2026) is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg's movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting type one laborious letter at a time, and thus ignited an explosion of newspaper, book, and magazine empires.This is a tale populated with wondrous characters: tragic

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54:19

Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture

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2026/08/17

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with writer and researcher, Jehnie I. Burns about her book,Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation(Lexington, 2023). This conversation builds on earlier ones on music and technology, especially our earlier episode with Anthony Kwame Harrison about the ethnography of hiphop. Vinsel and Burns chat about the rise of mixtape culture, how it played out in different subcultures, and how it was wrapped up in and transformed by technological change

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53:36

Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys eds., "Media...

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2026/08/16

Media Matters in Landscape Architecture(Applied Research & Design, 2025)goesbehind the scenes to consider how media technologies that have emerged in recent decades are shaping the practices of artists, designers, engineers, and scientists. The media infrastructure of climate science and Earth remote sensing, coupled with the increased availability of spatial information and modeling software, provides the context for many of the chapters in that the media and methods employed are designed to

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32:22

Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet...

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2026/08/15

We the Platform:How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature(Columbia University Press 2026) by Aarthi Vadde is a groundbreaking account of mass writing in the twenty-first century, identifying rarely recognized forms of literary possibility amid the profound upheavals in traditional publishing. Aarthi Vadde examines the explosion of textuality across digital platforms: countless writers, diverse publishing formats, and vast communities of readers responding to stories publicly and

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60:09

Ellery E. Foutch, "A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art...

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2026/08/14

Cultural studies of the nineteenth century often categorize their subjects as being motivated by one of two opposing notions: a wholehearted embrace of progress or an antimodernist nostalgia.A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in the Nineteenth Century(UMinnesota Press, 2026) centers a different kind of response to the period’s newly intensified awareness of temporality and history: an obsession with preserving perfection. Engaging a diverse set of case studies, Dr. Ellery E. Foutch

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45:14

The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and...

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2026/08/13

Jonathan Fuller’sThe New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine(Oxford UP, 2025) takes the reader on a philosophical tour through scientific medicine, visiting its distinctive problems, particularly problems brought about by the twentieth century fusion of medicine with epidemiology. Drawing on the author’s training in philosophy of medicine, history and philosophy of science, and clinical medicine, the book examines the contours of the ‘epidemiological medicine’ that

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58:04

Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom...

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2026/08/09

Are we driving our technology, or is it starting to drive us? In this thought-provoking conversation, Eli Karetny sits down with researcher and author Eduardo Albrecht to explore the invisible, rapidly encroaching frontier of AI governance and data surveillance.Moving far beyond traditional debates about data privacy, Albrecht warns of a near future where the state and corporate partners bypass human speech entirely, relying instead on "sentiment detection" to ascribe thoughts and make decisions

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33:46

Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future

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2026/08/08

M. G. Sheftall has lived in Japan since 1987. He has a PhD in international relations and modern Japanese history from Waseda University in Tokyo. Since 2001, he has been a professor of modern Japanese cultural history and communication at the Faculty of Informatics of Shizuoka University. He lives in Hamamatsu, Japan.Amy Chavez talks about Sheftall's books on the Asia Pacific War, in particularHiroshima: The Last WitnessesandNagasaki: The Last Witnessesboth oral histories featuring interviews

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The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods

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2026/08/07

What role do microbes play in aquaponic farming and cultivated meat production, and how might such novel food technologies impact microbiomes? In this episode, Ishita Dey ofGastronomicahosts Lukáš Senft, Tereza Stöckelová, and Varvara Borisova in a conversation about their new article, “The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods: The Pro- and Antibiotic Implications of Cultivated Meat and Aquaponic Farming.” In a discussion that connects food futures with environment, sustainability, health, and

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57:51

Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting...

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2026/08/03

Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–1932(Lund Humphries, 2026) by Dr. Elizabeth Darling is about the architecture and design of broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s, examining the buildings which the BBC occupied in its founding decades, with a particular focus on Broadcasting House in London. It argues that these environments were as constitutive of the Corporation’s identity as the programmes and people that they housed. Borrowing from the

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56:03

Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective:...

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2026/08/01

In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, Kazakhstan inherited the remnants of one of the world's most contaminated landscapes: the Semipalatinsk Test Site, known locally as the Polygon. Resigned to dispossession, residents have chosen to remain on the abandoned nuclear test site, despite the isolation and the radioactive environment, rather than face marginalization or the rigors of a neoliberal world. Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan (University of Toronto Press,

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56:51

Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the...

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2026/07/31

Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how people worked, how markets operated,and how businesses became big. After World War II, military officials and their partners in industry looked to the newly invented electronic computer as they sought to cut costs, speed up labor, manage supply chains, and—they hoped—bring stability to the postwar economy. Their efforts would shape early computer science and the first applications of computer technology in manufacturing

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34:10

The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control

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2026/07/31

How the nuclear guardrails were dismantled. What arms control actually did (risk management, predictability, geography), how it unravelled from the 2000s onward, and why its collapse matters more now as we see a resurgence of strategic instability and armed conflict.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

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The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of...

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2026/07/30

How do authoritarian regimes silence critics across borders? And what are the repressive tools and strategies that authoritarian regimes use transnationally? In this episode we are joined by Arild Engelsen Ruud, Mubashar Hasan and Karin Zackari to discuss the role of digital surveillance, emotional blackmail, enforced family isolation, psychological harassment, and the imprisonment of relatives on fabricated charges by Asian authoritarian regimes seeking to control populations and narratives across

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51:31

Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital:...

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2026/07/28

How is finance changing in the contemporary world? In FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance(Princeton University Press, 2026),Paul Langley, a Professor of Economic Geography at Durham Universityand Andrew Leyshon, a Senior Fellow in the Centre for Economy, Policy and Place, Nottingham Trent University and Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham,chart the rise of a new form of capitalism in the digital age. Drawing on detailed

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84:03

Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of...

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2026/07/27

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lana Swartz, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Shannon Mid-Career at the University of Virginia, where she runs the Digital Cultures and Economies Lab. Swartz is a creative and wide-ranging thinker and researcher. The pair focuses on Swartz's book, New Money: How Payment Became social media, and talks about her recent work on youth money cultures and on the rich business and media dimensions of contemporary nail artists and salons.Learn more

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57:42

Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science...

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2026/07/25

Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia (Cornell University Press, 2026) uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific detection of crime. Driven by anxieties about "native mendacity," newly minted forensic analysts focused on uncovering faked evidence planted by South Asians. These experts, joining toxicologists known as

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Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of...

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2026/07/23

Host Licia Cianetti talks to Venezuelan democracy activist and co-founder of the World Liberty Congress Leopoldo López. As part of PPP’s ongoing collaboration with theJournal of Democracythey discuss Leopoldo’s recent article onDemocracy in an Age of Networked Control. They discuss the technological challenges that democracy activists worldwide face today, and how some activists are rethinking their use of technology to elude the infrastructure of control and create new infrastructures for

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42:13

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2026/07/22

Despite decades of inflammatory rhetoric, the real risk of video games lies not in their violent imagery but in the ethical and political sensibilities they normalize. Video games reward speed, efficiency, control, and meritocratic mastery, training players to align with a technolibertarian worldview - one that celebrates individual will, technological power, and skepticism toward collective forms of governance. Rather than asking whether games produce violent individuals, we might more productively

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