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The MIT Press Podcast features exclusive interviews and content that draw on the topics, themes, and trends explored in our books and journals.

NBN Episodes hosted by MIT Press:

MIT Press Podcast May 30, 2023

X-Risk

How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction

Thomas Moynihan

Hosted by MIT Press
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 …
MIT Press Podcast May 29, 2023

A Slow Burning Fire

The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia

Marko Ilić

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Writer and academic Anthony Gardner (NSK from Kapital to Capital, Politically Unbecoming) interviews Marko Ilić about his new book A Slow Burning Fire, which documents Yugoslavia's cultural output throughout the …
MIT Press Podcast May 28, 2023

Appendix N

The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons

Peter Bebergal

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Dungeons and Dragons expert Jon Peterson (The Elusive Shift, Game Wizards) speaks with Peter Bebergal (Season of the Witch, Too Much to Dream) about his new book Appendix N, an anthology …
MIT Press Podcast May 27, 2023

The Gentrification of Queer Desire

Huw Lemmey and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

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Writer Huw Lemmey (Chubz, Red Tory, Unknown Language) speaks with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her most recent book The Freezer Door and searching for connection in a world that enforces …
MIT Press Podcast May 26, 2023

Publishing in Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

A Discussion with Thomas Weaver and Victoria Hindley

Thomas Weaver and Victoria Hindley

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This episode features discussions with Thomas Weaver (Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture) and Victoria Hindley (Acquisitions Editor in Visual Culture and Design) about publishing in the fields of …
MIT Press Podcast May 25, 2023

Black Film, British Cinema II

Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha

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Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha discuss their forthcoming book Black Film, British Cinema II (publishing in March with Goldsmiths Press), a book which brings together scholars, thinkers and practitioners to …
MIT Press Podcast May 24, 2023

The Place Is Here

The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain

Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles

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Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles discuss The Place Is Here (Sternberg Press, 2019) and the range of perspectives on black art in Thatcherite Britain offered by the collection of artworks …
MIT Press Podcast May 23, 2023

Girls Against God

Jenny Hval

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Cathi Unsworth, journalist and author of Bad Penny Blues, as well as numerous other novels, speaks with artists and author Jenny Hval about her recent book Girls Against God. At …
MIT Press Podcast May 22, 2023

Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden

A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band

Rose Simpson

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Damon Kruskowski, author of Ways of Hearing and The New Analog, previously member of Galaxie 500 and currently a member of Damon & Naomi interviews Rose Simpson about her book …
MIT Press Podcast May 21, 2023

The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth

A Discussion with Eugene Richardson and Bruno Latour

Eugene Richardson and Bruno Latour

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The philosopher Bruno Latour (We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, Science in Action) and Eugene Richardson, physician, anthropologist, and author of Epidemic Illusions discuss COVID, colonialism and Critical Zones …
MIT Press Podcast May 20, 2023

Infrastructural Brutalism

Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

Michael Truscello

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Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, discusses the ways in which infrastructure determines who may live and who must die under contemporary capitalism. In …
MIT Press Podcast May 19, 2023

Ithell Colquhoun

Genius of The Fern Loved Gully

Amy Hale

Hosted by MIT Press
Tai Shani (Turner Prize winning artist, educator and author of Our Fatal Magic) and Amy Hale (anthropologist, folklorist, and writer) discuss the work of artist, occultist and writer Ithell Colquhoun …
MIT Press Podcast May 18, 2023

Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory

Complete Interview

Lauren Fournier

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An extended conversation between Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism and writer, educator and philosopher McKenzie Wark (A …
MIT Press Podcast May 17, 2023

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

Lauren Fournier

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Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism discusses her forthcoming book with writer, educator and philosopher McKenzie Wark (A …
MIT Press Podcast May 16, 2023

Brandon Terry on MLK

America & Democracy Ep. 5

Brandon Terry

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In the final episode of this series, Brandon Terry, political theorist and African American Studies scholar at Harvard discusses the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. Terry is …
MIT Press Podcast May 15, 2023

George Zarkadakis on Digital Liberalism

America & Democracy Ep. 4

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Around the world, liberal democracies are in crisis. Citizens have lost faith in their government; right-wing nationalist movements frame the political debate. At the same time, economic inequality is increasing …
MIT Press Podcast May 14, 2023

Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare

America & Democracy Ep. 3

Carol A. Stabile

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In this series of interviews from The MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping the American political …
MIT Press Podcast May 13, 2023

Jonathan M. Berman on Anti-Vaxxers

America & Democracy Ep. 2

Jonathan M. Berman

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In this series of interviews from The MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping the American political …
MIT Press Podcast May 12, 2023

Robert I. Rotberg on Corruption

America & Democracy Ep. 1

Robert I. Rotberg

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In this series of interviews from the MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping the American political …
MIT Press Podcast May 11, 2023

Andy Roberts on LSD's Cosmic Courier

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 4

Andy Roberts

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Michael Hollingshead, the man who turned Timothy Leary onto LSD, managed to fundamentally influenced modern drug culture whilst remaining virtually anonymous in popular culture at large. In this episode, biographer …
MIT Press Podcast May 10, 2023

Bita Moghaddam on Ketamine

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 3

Bita Moghaddam

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In this episode, Bita Moghaddam discusses the emergence of ketamine as a combat anesthetic in the Vietnam war, its transformation into a recreation drug central to club culture, and its …
MIT Press Podcast May 9, 2023

Mikkael A. Sekeres on the Drugs Fighting Leukemia

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 2

Mikkael A. Sekeres

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This episode offers an insight into the work of leading cancer specialist and author of When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael A. Sekeres. 1 in 2 people will develop cancer in …
MIT Press Podcast May 8, 2023

Nancy D. Campbell on Naloxone

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 1

Nancy D. Campbell

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Drawing on interviews with approximately sixty advocates, drug users, former users, friends, families, witnesses, clinicians, and scientists; Nancy D. Campbell has drawn together a history of a defining tragedy of …
MIT Press Podcast May 7, 2023

Saturation

Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value

C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp

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C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp read from Saturation, a book that offers an analysis of racial representation and controversy in the art world. Controversies involving race and the art …