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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 88 days 20 hours 33 minutes
episode 165: Asim Sajjad Akhter, "The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons" (Pluto Press, 2022)
An interview with Asim Sajjad Akhter
episode 329: Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
An interview with Robert P. Crease
episode 328: Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou, "The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power" (NYU Press, 2022)
An interview with Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou
episode 122: Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)
An interview with Leslie A. Geddes
episode 90: Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)
An interview with Geert Lovink
episode 104: Scott Moore, "China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future" (Oxford UP, 2022)
An interview with Scott Moore
episode 169: Suzana Sawyer, "The Small Matter of Suing Chevron" (Duke UP, 2022)
An interview with Suzana Sawyer
episode 91: Christopher Lukman, "Control Machines: Toward a Dispositive Theory of Computer Games" (Lit Verlag, 2022)
An interview with Christopher Lukman
episode 42: Technocracy Now! Part 2: Exploring Technocracy through Cybernetics
On part #2 of Technocracy Now, we tell stories of cybernetic technocracies. First, we hear the story of Charles A. McClelland, a liberal political scientists who proposed a cybernetic computer system that claimed to predict conflicts before they happened. With this information, US policy makers could usher in a new age of peace and stability (and forever ensure a US-dominated global order)...
episode 90: Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
Paul Roquet is an MIT associate professor in media studies and Japan studies; his earlier work includes Ambient Media. It was his recent mind-bending The Immersive Enclosure that prompted John and Elizabeth to invite him to discuss the history of "head-mounted media" and the perceptual implications of virtual reality. Paul Elizabeth and John discuss the appeal of leaving actuality aside and how the desire to shut off immediate surroundings shapes VR's rollout in Japan...