About Patrick Sheehan

Patrick Sheehan is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Texas, Austin.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Patrick:

Daniel Greene, "The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope" (MIT Press, 2021)

May 3, 2021

The Promise of Access

Daniel Greene
Hosted by Patrick Sheehan

Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn to code--or else? In The Promise of Access: Technolog…

Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, "Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It" (FSG Originals, 2020)

December 7, 2020

Voices from the Valley

Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel
Hosted by Patrick Sheehan

In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders …

Megan T. Neely and Ken-Hou Lin, "Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance" (Oxford UP, 2020)

March 11, 2020

Divested

Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely
Hosted by Patrick Sheehan

Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely's new book Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance (Oxford University Press, 2020) explores the rise of finance …

Gil Eyal, "The Crisis of Expertise" (Polity, 2019)

February 10, 2020

The Crisis of Expertise

Gil Eyal
Hosted by Patrick Sheehan

In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word “experts” from a superlative to a near pejorative, typicall…

John Pat Leary, "Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism" (Haymarket Books, 2019)

May 28, 2019

Keywords

John Pat Leary
Hosted by Patrick Sheehan

John Pat Leary's Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2019) chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century.…

Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America" (Rutgers UP, 2018)

April 10, 2019

Making History/Making Blintzes

Mickey and Dick Flacks
Hosted by Patrick Sheehan

Mickey and Dick Flacks' new book Making History/Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America (Rutgers University…

Daniel Fridman, "Freedom From Work: Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina" (Stanford UP, 2017)

February 15, 2018

Freedom From Work

Daniel Fridman
Hosted by Patrick Sheehan

In Freedom From Work: Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina (Stanford University Press, 2017), Daniel Fridman explores what…