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- Reconceiving AI: The World as an Apple or a Blue Orange with M. R. Hasan (CRC Press, 2026) · 1 h 3 min · Episode 2007Reconceiving AI: The World as an Apple or a Blue Orange (CRC Press, 2026) is Muhammed Hasan’s interdisciplinary exploration of Artificial Intelligence from philosophical…
- Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation with Robin James (Duke UP, 2026) · 1 h 7 min · Episode 2006In Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation, Robin James argues that “vibes” have become a way for how we see ourselves and understand our…
- Embryo: The Science of Becoming Human with Alfonso Martinez Arias (Prometheus, 2026) · 1 h 4 min · Episode 2005Groundbreaking discoveries in reproductive biology and regenerative medicine are reshaping our ideas of conception, fertility, and the origins of disease. In Embryo: The Science…
- Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science with Lauren F. Klein (MIT Press, 2026) · 41 min · Episode 2004From maps of colonial empires to charts of national trade, data visualization has long been used to consolidate knowledge and power. But just as often, it has been used to…
- The Tablet Computer: The Idea of a Machine with Elizabeth R. Petrick (JHU Press, 2026) · 52 min · Episode 2003Tablet computers appear commonplace today, yet for decades they represented an ambitious—and often unrealized—vision of personal computing. The Tablet Computer: The Idea of a…
- The Last Human Job · 49 min · Episode 2002Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton UP, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, which explores the human connections that underlie…
- Social Media Tribes: Jordan's Bedouin and the Margins of the State with Geoffrey F Hughes · 55 min · Episode 2000It has become something of a cliché to say that social media is making us tribal. But what do self-styled tribespeople themselves think about social media, and how might they…
- Communicating Cyber Risk: Build Cyber Resilience Through Compelling Communication with Nina Paine and Ashley Sweetman (Kogan Page, 2026) · 52 min · Episode 1999Cybersecurity is often presented as a technological challenge: protecting computer networks, preventing attacks and investing in increasingly sophisticated security systems. Yet…
- Super Mario Galaxy with Jordan Minor (Boss Fight Books, 2026) · 18 min · Episode 1998When Mario’s adventures escalated from Bros. to Land to World, the only direction left for an ambitious plumber was up into the stars. In Super Mario Galaxy, defeating Bowser…
- Our AI Moment · 1 h 8 min · Episode 2001Introduction to the new show, and a discussion of our AI moment with host, Lee Vinsel, co-host Paula Bialski, correspondents, Gretchen Von Koenig, and Javaid Sofi, as well as…
- Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media with Niall Docherty (U California Press, 2025) · 22 min · Episode 1997We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices. All it takes is a little self-discipline. In Healthy…
- AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony King (Princeton UP, 2025) · 53 min · Episode 1996Will artificial intelligence soon be fighting our wars for us? Could a machine ever command an army? Anthony King is skeptical. In AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a…
- Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026) · 41 min · Episode 1995How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future. The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has…
- Governance by Emulation: The Oversight Board, the Digital Services Act, and the Struggle for Platform Accountability with Moritz A. Schramm (Cambridge UP, 2026) · 44 min · Episode 1994Social media giants like Meta and transnational regulators such as the European Union are transforming private governance by creatively emulating public law frameworks. Drawing…
- Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely · 1 h 16 min · Episode 1993Today I’m speaking with Garrison Lovely, technology journalist and author of the new book, Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace Us — and How to Stop It (OR…
- Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP) · 45 min · Episode 1991It is fair to say Aarthi Vadde's wonderful new book, We The Platform, demostrates "how literature changes our perspective on the internet." But you also need to add that it…
- The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders · 25 min · Episode 1992How Do AI & Innovation Cohabitate? Bryan Cassady is an author, professor, and all-around innovator, whether in book form or in classrooms, real and virtual, stretching from…
- How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with James Poulos · 1 h 4 min · Episode 1990Many Americans have a constant dread of impending doom. Glued to the screens of our computers and smartphones, we sense that some total catastrophe is just around the corner. But…
- “Ten Percent” – Will Humanity Survive AI? · 38 min · Episode 1989Could humanity’s most powerful invention become a threat to its survival? In this episode of The Survival Curve, we examine the disturbing prospect behind the “ten percent”…
- Projecting Knowledge: The Optical Lantern and Science Communication, 1880s-1940s with Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves, Nico de Klerk and Frank Kessler (Brepols, 2026) · 59 min · Episode 1988Projecting Knowledge: The Optical Lantern and Science Communication, 1880s-1940s (Brepols, 2026) takes one of those fundamental questions - how does knowledge circulate? - and…
- Mehran Gul, "The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies" (Simon and Schuster, 2026) · 39 min · Episode 1987Increasingly, it seems like the corporate names that dominate headlines are much more diverse than they used to be. Samsung, TSMC, and SK Hynix. Alibaba and Tencent; BYD and…
- Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces" (Routledge, 2025) · 48 min · Episode 1464We are in a state of crisis. Democracy is under threat, authoritarian politics are on the rise, and digital media—once heralded as emancipatory technologies—are increasingly…
- 179* What does the Pope have to teach us about AI? (JP, from Public Books) · 29 min · Episode 34When I heard that Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” was about “Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,” my first reaction was…
- Billionaire Backlash · 30 min · Episode 33In this episode of International Horizons, host John Torpey sits with Pepper Culpepper, Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy at the University of Oxford, to…
- Writing Against the Machine: On Artistic Culture in the AI Age with Matthew Gasda · 52 min · Episode 32Debates about AI typically deal with its immediate material consequences, from cybersecurity and infrastructure to plagiarism and copyright. Yet most people deal with AI as a…
- Violaine Roussel, "Data-Driven Hollywood: The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming" (Princeton UP, 2026) · 1 h 15 min · Episode 1128In Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing but also in decisions about content…
- Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025) · 59 min · Episode 1127I spoke with Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington about her 2026 book Artificial Historians, co-authored with Anne Martin and Lewis Yarlupurka O’Brien. A distinguished historian…
- Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2026) · 40 min · Episode 1126Since the advent of computers, society has fantasized about conversing with machines. In Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making…
- Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use · 23 min · Episode 1125This special episode features a short talk Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, gave at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. The event featured a great…
- Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Tomás Dodds, "Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination" (Polity, 2027) · 1 h 13 min · Episode 1124What if AI’s biggest impact on journalism isn’t replacing journalists, but forcing us to rethink what journalism is for? In this episode, Joanne Kuai speaks with Seth C. Lewis…
- Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad" (Bloomsbury, 2026) · 57 min · Episode 1123Hot 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…
- Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture · 53 min · Episode 1122Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with writer and researcher, Jehnie I. Burns about her book, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation (Lexington, 2023)…
- Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature (Columbia UP, 2026) · 34 min · Episode 1121We 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…
- Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought · 56 min · Episode 1120Are 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…
- Leopoldina Fortunati, "The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital" (Verso, 2025) · 1 h 17 min · Episode 1119The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive and ‘caring’ labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970s. Emerging from the great social upheavals that contested the…
- James W. Cortada, "Beyond the Facts: Tacit Knowledge and the Hidden Infrastructure of Our Informed Times" (Bloomsbury, 2025) · 50 min · Episode 1118Beyond the Facts: Tacit Knowledge and the Hidden Infrastructure of Our Informed Times (Bloomsbury, 2025) describes tacit knowledge, what it is, how it used and its role in our…
- Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy" (Columbia UP, 2026) · 58 min · Episode 1117Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how people worked, how markets operated, and how businesses became big. After World War II, military…
- Re-Evaluating CX in the AI Era · 41 min · Episode 1116Michael Brand is a CX strategist and trainer, based in Switzerland, who has been named a Thinkers 360 Top 50 Global Thought Leader on Customer Loyalty. Dr. Vincent Covello…
- The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism in Asia and Beyond · 31 min · Episode 1115How do authoritarian regimes silence critics across borders? And what are the repressive tools and strategies that authoritarian regimes use transnationally? In this episode we…
- Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026) · 52 min · Episode 1114How is finance changing in the contemporary world? In FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance (Princeton University Press, 2026), Paul Langley…
- Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control · 34 min · Episode 1113Host 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 the Journal of…
- David I. Waddington, "The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026) · 40 min · Episode 1112Despite 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…
- Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025) · 58 min · Episode 1111Contemporary digital gameplay is only accessible by navigating an ecosystem of interfaces that support its computational nature. Account logins, controllers, and an assortment of…
- Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home Computer" (Projekt Verlag, 2026) · 26 min · Episode 1110The Commodore 64 is the most significant computer of its era. From 1982 to 1994, a total of 27 million units were sold—more than any other computer from a single manufacturer…
- Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers" (MIT Press, 2026) · 50 min · Episode 1109This book is available open access. For more than six decades, the public has been promised that computers will revolutionize politics, both nationally and internationally. In…
- Soraya Murray, "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" (MIT Press, 2026) · 1 h 1 min · Episode 1108Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT Press, 2026) is the first dedicated examination of popular movies classified as “thrillers” that channel societal anxiety…
- The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy with Alexis Cruz · 57 min · Episode 1107In this episode of International Horizons, RBI Acting Director Eli Karetny sits down with Alexis Cruz, founder of Enough Consulting and former strategic advisor for governance at…
- Ali Fard, "Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data" (U Minnesota Press, 2026) · 44 min · Episode 1106Since the 1990s, technologists have promoted a vision of the “cloud” as a shapeless and intangible entity. Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data (University of…
- Campaigning, Parties and the Digital in Contemporary Politics · 52 min · Episode 1105Politics, parties and campaigning are all changing. AI, digital tools and the rapid spread of messages all mean that the conduct and content of politics are changing. In many…
- Chinese EVs: From Nordic Streets to Central Asian Hubs · 24 min · Episode 1104Can Europe afford to stand back as China rewrites the global electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem? In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen at the University of Helsinki talks to United…
