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Science, Technology, and Society
Interviews with scholars of science, technology and society about their new books.
November 25, 2024
Technology, Intellectual Property Law, and Culture
How can we protect diverse cultural expressions in an era of huge technological change? In Technology, Intellectual Property Law and Culture: The Tang…
November 24, 2024
Analog Superpowers
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: …
November 24, 2024
Reproductive Labor and Innovation
In Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype (Duke UP, 2024), Jennifer Denbow examines how the push toward technoscien…
November 23, 2024
Flat-World Fiction
Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America (University of Georgia Press, 2021) Dr. Liliana Naydan analyses representat…
November 22, 2024
Speculative Whiteness
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a hig…
November 22, 2024
Are We All Cyborgs Now?
All We All Cyborgs Now? (Basilian Media, 2024) is a series of 32 short essay-length reflections on "Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine." Now is …
November 22, 2024
Pistols in St Paul's
On a winter's night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul's Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of violence but a scient…
November 21, 2024
The Walls Have Eyes
In 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced it was training “robot dogs” to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border against migrants. Four-…
November 20, 2024
Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?
It’s the UConn Popcast, and in this episode of our series on artificial intelligence, we discuss Joanna Bryson’s essay “Robots Should be Slaves.” We…
November 18, 2024
Balkan Cyberia
Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernisation, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain (MIT Press, 2023) examines the history of…
November 18, 2024
Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Kwame Harrison, Alumni Distinguished Professor and Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech. Harrison rec…
November 16, 2024
From Click to Boom
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o…
November 11, 2024
Meta-Practice (on Chinese Medicine)
Today I sit down with Volker Scheid, an interdisciplinary scholar and longtime practitioner of Chinese medicine. Together, we take an intellectual dee…
November 11, 2024
In Pursuit of Unicorns
Modern biotechnology--genetic engineering and cell manipulation--originated with the 1973 demonstration that genes from different organisms could be r…
November 9, 2024
Introduction to Global Military History
Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day (Routledge, 2024) provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments…
November 8, 2024
At the Edge of AI
How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? In At the Edg…
November 6, 2024
Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires
The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standard…
November 6, 2024
Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare
This handbook provides a comprehensive, problem-driven and dynamic overview of the future of warfare. The volatilities and uncertainties of the global…
November 6, 2024
The Endless Refrain
A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, wit…
November 5, 2024
Four Points of the Compass
North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting w…