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January 1, 2023
Introducing Ministry of Ideas
Zachary Davis
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Nomads, Past and Present
December 27, 2022
An Introduction to Digital Nomads
Maggie Freeman
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Welcome to Digital Nomads! This episode introduces your host, Maggie, and gives a brief overview of the aims, future of, and inspiration behind this podcast. Music in this episode: Desert …
High Theory
April 1, 2022
Welcome to High Theory!
Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu
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Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
June 24, 2020
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
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Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
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What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse …
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September 21, 2018
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Anthropology
May 31, 2023
Friendship
Michael Jackson
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Latoya Johnson
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In Friendship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant …
Critical Theory
May 31, 2023
Anarchism
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Alex Prichard
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Morteza Hajizadeh
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If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this true? What …
Technology
May 31, 2023
The Equality Machine
Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
Orly Lobel
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Gregory LaBlanc
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The fear of algorithmic decision-making and surveillance capitalism dominate today's tech policy discussions. But instead of simply criticizing big data and automation, we can harness technology to correct discrimination, historical …
Economic and Business History
May 31, 2023
International Business in Australia before World War One
Shaping a Multinational Economy
Simon Ville and David Merrett
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Paula De La Cruz-Fernández
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This episode features Professor Simon Ville talking about his latest book with David Merrett International Business in Australia Before World War One: Shaping a Multinational Economy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022). This …
Madison's Notes
May 31, 2023
Defining Man and Woman
A Conversation with Abigail Favale
Abigail Favale
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Annika Nordquist
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Amidst fraught debates about what gender is, and how it fits into feminism, Annika sits down with Dr. Abigail Favale, an English professor specializing in gender studies and feminist literary …
MIT Press Podcast
May 31, 2023
Neighbor George
Victoria Nelson
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Tariq Goddard (author, publisher and co-founder of Repeater Books) speaks with Victoria Nelson about her book Neighbor George. Do you know the language of the birds? Summer, 1979: A lonely …
South Asian Studies
May 31, 2023
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics
J. Daniel Elam
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Gargi Binju
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World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham UP, 2020) recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial …
Political Science
May 31, 2023
The "Third" United Nations
How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think
Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss
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Sally Sharif
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Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss' book The "Third" United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think (Oxford UP, 2021) is about the Third UN: the ecology of supportive …
Scholarly Communication
May 31, 2023
Efficient Academic Writing
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Mushtaq Bilal
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Avi Staiman
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May 31, 2023
The Miracle Seed
Martin Lemelman
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Mel Rosenberg
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In our animated discussion, Martin Lemelman and I discuss his latest graphic novel, The Miracle Seed (Eerdmans Young Readers, 2023), which was published only two months ago. It is the …
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May 30, 2023
Night Vision
Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods
Mariana Alessandri
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Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can even look …
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Hanoch Piven and Shira Hecht-Koller
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Hanoch Piven is an Israeli collage artist whose colorful and witty portraits have appeared over the last 30 years on both sides of the Atlantic: in most major American magazines …
MIT Press Podcast
May 30, 2023
X-Risk
How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction
Thomas Moynihan
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Matt Colquhoun (author/editor of Egress and Postcapitalist Desire) speaks to to Thomas Moynihan about his most recent book X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction. From forecasts of disastrous climate …
Literature
May 30, 2023
Our Lying Kin
Claudia Hagadus Long
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G. P. Gottlieb
The story of middle-aged sisters Zara and Lilly begins in Long’s fast-paced, first novel in this witty series, Nine Tenths of the Law, when Zara recognizes a family menorah in …
Scholarly Communication
May 30, 2023
What Is a Human?
Language, Mind, and Culture
James Paul Gee
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Listen to this interview of James Gee, Regents' Professor and Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. We talk about too much communication, about too …
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