Yup, this one just came out this morning. In this episode, I speak with Rosalind Williams about the new edition of her 1990 book, Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society and the Imagination and Nicolás Wey-Goméz about his new book, The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies.
Episode 11 runs 33:57 and can be heard by clicking here.
This month's episode of the MIT Press Podcast is now live, and in it, I speak with David Mindell about his new book, Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight and Bruno Frey about his new book, Happiness: A Revolution in Economics.
Episode 10 runs 31:31 and can be heard by clicking here.
MIT definitely likes to shake me up with different projects. First, there was the privacy discussion back in January, and now my first show on music, with Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, the editor of the new book Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture.
Episode 9 runs 22:51 and can be heard by clicking here.
A double dip of podcasts on this second day of April. First up, the M.I.T. Press Podcast, in which I speak to Paul Ceruzzi of the Smithsonian about the development of Tyson's Corner, Virginia from 1945-2005 [Eph Alert: Tyson's Corner is represented in the Virginia Senate by Chap Petersen, my classmate in the class of'90] and Josh Greenberg of the New York Public Library about how the movie video business was created. You'll never guess, but porn had quite a bit to do with it;)
Episode 8 runs 33:28 and can be heard by clicking here.
Ah, a first! A show put out on Leap Day. In this episode, I speak with Elizabeth Farrelly about the consumption culture in the developed world and Rich Ling about the changes in social cohesion that have been brought about through mobile technology.
The episode runs 31:18 and can be heard by clicking here.
OK, so this episode is a little different. MITP asked me if I would be interested in hosting a discussion instead of doing a straightforward interview. Is it way too obvious that I am trying to crib Melvynn Bragg's mojo from BBC4's In Our Time? I was even able to use my newly hired research assistant to help me out with some of the show prep, though when she hears this show, she may wonder if I read her report (I did). Hopefully, we might stitch an actual debate up in the future, with guests who don't see eye to eye on an issue. I will hold back any desire to do my version of Crossfire ;)
Episode 6 runs 25:40 and can be heard by clicking here.
It's been up since New Year's Day, but I have been a little behind in getting the blog up to date. In this episode, I speak with Matthew Kirschenbaum about the intersection of forensic investigation and textual criticism and Catherine Brady about the life of Elizabeth Blackburn, one of the world's greatest genetic researchers and scientists.
Episode 5 runs 30:04 and can be heard by clicking here.
Episode 4 of the MIT Press Podcast just went up. In this episode, I speak with Cretien van Campen about his new book, Synesthesia in Art and Science and George Baker about his new book, The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris. This is the first time I had to learn how to pronounce a word for each title, in this case Synesthesia (written as Syn-ess-THEE-zya in my script) and Picabia (written as Pee-KA-bee-ah in my script). I also received several suggestions from friends and family on how to conduct a Dada art interview, but I am afraid they all sounded funnier in the planning than it would have been in the recording.
Episode 4 runs 34:19 and can be heard by clicking here.
It's the beginning of the month, and that always means a new show from M.I.T. Press. In this episode, I speak with Owen Flanagan of Duke University about his new book, The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World and Christine Borgman of UCLA about her new book, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure and the Internet.Both books should be on sale now at your better bookstores everywhere.
Episode 3 runs 25:43 and can be heard by clicking here.
Episode 2 is now live and out on the net. In this episode, I speak with Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace about their book, The Second Life Herald: The Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse and Paul Abramson on his new book, Romance in the Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberties of Conscience.
The episode runs 33:45 and can be heard by clicking here.
