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Recall This Book August 4, 2022

Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)

Dana Stevens

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Dana Stevens joins Elizabeth and John to discuss Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema and the Invention of the Twentieth Century. Her fantastic new book serves as occasion …

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Darts & Letters August 3, 2022

The Revolution Will Not Be Streamed

The Intellectual Culture of Twitch Streamers

Hosted by Gordon Katic
It was billed as “the biggest event in the history of the terminally online.” A debate: socialism vs. capitalism. On your left side, the esteemed Marxist economist Richard Wolff. On …
Music August 3, 2022

DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media

Ellis Jones

Hosted by Gummo Clare
Since the 1970s, there has been a rich, global lineage of broadly guitar-based music scenes which have enacted a political critique of the commercial music industries under the banner of …
Scholarly Communication August 2, 2022

Writing STEAM

Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities

Vivian Kao and Julia Kiernan

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Vivian Kao, Associate Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program, and Julia Kiernan, Assistant Professor of Communication and Coordinator of Technical and …
Darts & Letters August 2, 2022

Socialise the Series of Tubes

Toward a Democratic Internet

Ben Tarnoff

Hosted by Gordon Katic
Recently a major outage took nearly a third of Canada offline. No phone, no internet… even access to 911 got shut down in some places. So why does one company …
Politics July 25, 2022

It's Not Free Speech

Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth

Hosted by Catriona Gold
The protests of summer 2020 led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more generally. But while universities have …
Media July 25, 2022

The Podcast Handbook

Create It, Market It, Make It Great

Jacqueline N. Parke

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Jacqueline N. Parke's book The Podcast Handbook: Create It, Market It, Make It Great (McFarland, 2022) is a comprehensive overview of the burgeoning podcast industry. It covers the history of podcasting …
East Asian Studies July 19, 2022

Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond

Relational Citizenship

Hsin-I Cheng

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Citizenship is traditionally viewed as a legal status to be possessed. Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship (Lexington, 2021) proposes the concept of relational citizenship to articulate the value-laden …
Food July 18, 2022

Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network

Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick's book Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) explores a fascinating, yet virtually unexplored research area: the language of food used on …
High Theory July 13, 2022

Disintermediation

A Discussion with Mark McGurl

Mark McGurl

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Mark McGurl talks about disintermediation, a key term for internet commerce, and his new book about fiction in the age of digital self-publication. The fantasy of disintermediation lies at the …
Science, Technology, and Society July 11, 2022

The Digital Republic

On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century

Jamie Susskind

Hosted by Austin Clyde
From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Pegasus Books, 2022) is the definitive guide to the great …
Sociology July 11, 2022

TikTok Cultures in the United States

Trevor Boffone

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
Trevor Boffone's book TikTok Cultures in the United States (Routledge, 2022) examines the role of TikTok in US popular culture, paying close attention to the app’s growing body of subcultures. Featuring …
Israel Studies July 11, 2022

Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons

Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis

Matt Reingold

Hosted by Akin Ajayi
Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis (Lexington Books, 2022) by Matt Reingold, published by Lexington Books as part of its Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature …
Technology July 8, 2022

Ethics of Computer Gaming

A Groundwork

Samuel Ulbricht

Hosted by Rudolf Thomas Inderst
Today I talked to Samuel Ulbricht about his book Ethics of Computer Gaming: A Groundwork (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022). Despite the increasing number of gamers worldwide, the moral classification of computer gaming marks …
Women's History July 1, 2022

Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era

Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
In Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era (Southern Illinois UP, 2021), editors Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen bring together the work of contributors in the fields of …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight June 30, 2022

Emotion By Design

Creative Leadership Lessons from a Life at Nike

Greg Hoffman

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Greg Hoffman about his new book Emotion By Design: Creative Leadership Lessons from a Life at Nike (Twelve, 2022). For this week’s guest Greg Hoffman, the characteristics …
High Theory June 30, 2022

Teletherapy

A Discussion with Hannah Zeavin

Hannah Zeavin

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Hannah Zeavin talks about teletherapy, from Freud’s letters to suicide hotlines to therapy apps. If therapy is always mediated, teletherapy is any form of therapy in which that mediation is …
Literary Studies June 27, 2022

Cut/Copy/Paste

Fragments from the History of Bookwork

Whitney Trettien

Hosted by John Yargo
Today’s guest is Whitney Trettien whose book Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork was published through the University of Minnesota Press in 2022. Trettien is a Professor of English …
Critical Theory June 24, 2022

Automated Media

Mark Andrejevic

Hosted by Reuben Niewenhuis
In this era of pervasive automation, Mark Andrejevic provides an original framework for tracing the logical trajectory of automated media and their social, political, and cultural consequences. Automated Media (Routledge …
Italian Studies June 23, 2022

Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda

A Political History of Italian Food TV

Francesco Buscemi

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
The three protagonists of Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV (Intellect, 2022) are food, television and politics. These are the three main characters that interrelate …