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Science, Technology, and Society
Interviews with scholars of science, technology and society about their new books.
May 13, 2026
What's Real about Race?
Professor Rina Bliss teaches in the sociology department at Rutgers University, and has written on the social significance of genetic studies on intel…
May 11, 2026
The Rise of the Internet
We were joined by Angus Burgin, Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and talked about how the arrival of the Internet remade li…
May 10, 2026
Paris After Haussmann
Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in 1853–1870, branded “Haussma…
May 9, 2026
Recovering the Internet
Recovering the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control-And How We Can Take It Back (Columbia Global Reports, 2026)is an indictment of how Big Tech cloaks …
May 8, 2026
Are We Entering An Arms Race in Outer Space?
This week on International Horizons, RBI interim director Eli Karetny interviewed Mallory Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Strategic…
May 6, 2026
Feminism. Art. Capitalism.
Can art change the contemporary world? In Feminism, Art, Capitalism Angela Dimitrakaki, a Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the univ…
May 6, 2026
Not Sex Work
Max Morris's Not Sex Work: Queer Intimacy, Post-identity, and Incidental Encounters in the Digital Era (Routledge, 2025) brings together feminist theo…
May 3, 2026
Media Rurality
Media Rurality (Duke UP, 2026), edited by Darin Barney and Patrick Brodie, investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media sys…
April 30, 2026
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments
The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Deirdre Loughridge & Dr. Thomas Patteson is a guided tour through centuries of ins…
April 30, 2026
Becoming Martian
How living in space will affect future generations—and what the potential unintended consequences of space settlements are.We are on the cusp of a gol…
April 29, 2026
A Volatile Picture
A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka (U Washington Press, 2026) by Dr. Vindhya Buthpitiya is a groundbreaking et…
April 28, 2026
The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals
In the thirteenth-century Mediterranean, commerce transformed as merchants shifted from Roman to Indo-Arabic numerals—an alternative that better facil…
April 27, 2026
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State
Stephen Sims’ New Atlantis essay examines how emerging technologies are reshaping the structure and authority of the modern nation-state. He argues th…
April 27, 2026
Empire of AI
In this episode, host Joe Williams talks to tech journalist Karen Hao, whose recent book Empire of AI sheds light on the inner workings of AI giants t…
April 23, 2026
Disneyland and the Rise of Automation
When Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, it demystified the hidden world of factory automation through its extraordinary new attractions. In Disn…
April 22, 2026
Powered by Smart
Powered by Smart traces the techno-cultural evolutions that made artificial intelligence feel more familiar than futuristic. From wearables and stream…
April 21, 2026
Whiplash
For nearly a century, every Democratic president—and many Republicans—entered office promising to restructure America’s health care system. Barack Oba…
April 20, 2026
On the Future of Species
Imagine a future where we grow houses rather than build them. Where smartphones are alive, clothing has opinions and all human knowledge fits into a s…
April 20, 2026
Generic
In this episode of High Theory, Kim talks to Ben Mangrum about Generic. A curious term that denotes both the conventions and rules of genre, and the i…
April 19, 2026
Russia's Hybrid Warfare Offensive Against the West
Kristan Stoddart's Russia's Hybrid Warfare Offensive Against the West (de Gruyter, 2025) is a timely and systematic analysis of Russian hybrid warfare…