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AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony King (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Oct 26, 2026 |
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Disaster Nationalism: Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka with Vivian Y Choi (Duke UP, 2025)
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Oct 26, 2026 |
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Emotions in Digital Heritage Language Use
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Oct 21, 2026 |
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In Defence of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology with Thomas Fuchs (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Oct 18, 2026 |
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Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)
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Oct 16, 2026 |
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Governance by Emulation: The Oversight Board, the Digital Services Act, and the Struggle for Platform Accountability with Moritz A. Schramm (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Oct 14, 2026 |
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"The humanities should really matter to STEM disciplines" with Yasmín Hernández and Baruch Vergara
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Oct 12, 2026 |
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Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions with Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Oct 07, 2026 |
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Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely
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Oct 04, 2026 |
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The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Assassins and Secret Listeners: Britain's Invisible Armies, 1939-45 with Alistair Moffat (Birlinn, 2026)
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with James Poulos
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Sep 30, 2026 |
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“Ten Percent” – Will Humanity Survive AI?
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Sep 27, 2026 |
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The Story of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park with Mack Paul
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Sep 25, 2026 |
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Mehran Gul, "The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
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Sep 24, 2026 |
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Ehsan Dehghan, "The Discursive-Digital Link: Antagonism and Polarisation in Digital Spaces" (Routledge, 2025)
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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Mary Beth Weber and Melissa De Fino, "Library Technical Services: Future Forward" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Sep 21, 2026 |
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Building Better Scientific Teams through Team Science and TeamMAPPS
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Sep 18, 2026 |
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R. Joshua Scannell, "The Carceral Surround" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Sep 12, 2026 |
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Lee Alan Dugatkin, "Nary a Horse Left Standing: How a Nineteenth-Century Epidemic Transformed Medicine, Animal Welfare, and the Modern City" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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Chika Watanabe, "Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness Along the Ring of Fire" (Stanford UP, 2026)
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Sep 04, 2026 |
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Marnie Hughes-Warrington, "Artificial Historians" (Routledge, 2025)
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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Xiaochang Li, "Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use
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Aug 31, 2026 |
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Eran Shalev, "The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy and the Rise of the American Constellation" (U Virginia Press, 2025)
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Steve Feldstein, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2026)
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Aug 23, 2026 |
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Sandeep Vaheesan, "Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Aug 22, 2026 |
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Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck" (Penguin, 2026)
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Aug 21, 2026 |
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Jeff Jarvis, "Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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Karen M'Closkey and Keith VanDerSys eds., "Media Matters in Landscape Architecture" (Applied Research & Design, 2025)
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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Aarthi Vadde, "We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Aug 15, 2026 |
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Ellery E. Foutch, "A Perfectionist Impulse: The Art of Stopping Time in the Nineteenth Century (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Aug 14, 2026 |
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The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine with Jonathan Fuller
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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Beyond Free Speech: Why AI Governance Demands Freedom of Thought
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Aug 09, 2026 |
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Hiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
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Aug 08, 2026 |
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The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–32" (Lund Humphries, 2026)
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Aug 01, 2026 |
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Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
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Jul 31, 2026 |
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The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism in Asia and Beyond
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" (Cornell UP, 2026)
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Jul 25, 2026 |
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Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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Mark Crinson, "Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landscape" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2026)
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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David I. Waddington, "The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2026)
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home Computer" (Projekt Verlag, 2026)
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Jul 20, 2026 |
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Gretchen Heefner, "Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification" (Stanford UP 2026)
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Jul 18, 2026 |
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Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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Adam Geczy, "Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Soraya Murray, "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy with Alexis Cruz
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Jul 12, 2026 |
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Ali Fard, "Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry" (Profile Books, 2026)
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Meena Khandelwal, "Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women's Technology in India" (U Arizona Press, 2026)
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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Roberta J. Magnusson, "Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England: Sustainability and Resilience" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw and Jonathan Gray eds., "Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader" (NYU Press, 2026)
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Hayagreeva Rao and Henrich R Greve, "Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language of Online Conspiracy Talk" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Jul 05, 2026 |
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Bjørn Berge, "Smell: The Tale of a Fading Sense" (Reaktion Books, 2026)
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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Joseph Turow, "The Problem with Personalization: How Advertisers Learned to Make and Break Us from Ancient Times to the AI Age" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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Christian Martinez, "NYC Open Data Student Gallery" (Brooklyn College CUNY, 2026)
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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Chinese EVs: From Nordic Streets to Central Asian Hubs
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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John Wills, "Doom Town, USA: The Nevada Test Site As Ground Zero of 1950s American Culture" (UP of Kansas, 2026)
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Shawn William Miller, "Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway" (U California Press, 2026)
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Dallas Liddle, "News Machines: The Systems of Daily Journalism in Britain, 1785–1885" (Oxford UP, 2026)
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Jun 29, 2026 |
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Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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Ijeoma Uchegbu, "Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our World" (HarperCollins, 2026)
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Jun 28, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Cotton, "UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health" (Policy Press, 2025)
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Jun 27, 2026 |
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Cleo Nisse, "Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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Jonathon W. Penney, "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Gareth Doherty, "Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design" (U Virginia Press, 2025)
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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John Longhurst, "Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith" (CMU Press, 2024)
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Technology" (Wayne State UP, 2025)
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Aditya Deshbandhu, "The 21st Century in 100 Games" (Routledge, 2024)
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Ashok Malhotra, "Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri La, 1900-1969" (UCL Press, 2026)
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Ann Carlson, "Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air" (U California Press, 2026)
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Ralph Jones, "Microphone" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Rahul Mukherjee, "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Christos Lynteris, "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)
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May 30, 2026 |
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Pedro Domingos, "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" (Basic Books, 2018)
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May 30, 2026 |
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Amy Thomas, "Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play" (Hart Publishing, 2026)
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May 29, 2026 |
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What AI Means for Fiction: A Discussion with Literary Critic Mark McGurl
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May 26, 2026 |
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Learning Languages on Social Media
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May 26, 2026 |
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Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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May 25, 2026 |
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Yosef Grodzinsky, "How Deeply Human Is Language?: Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy" (MIT Press, 2026)
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May 24, 2026 |
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Kate Brown, "Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the Self-Provisioning City" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
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May 19, 2026 |
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Robert Rouphail, "Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster, and Identity in Modern Mauritius" (Ohio UP, 2026)
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May 18, 2026 |
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Silvia Danielak, "Peace Infrastructures: How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability" (MIT Press, 2026)
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May 16, 2026 |
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Paul Stob, "Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind" (Counterpoint Publishing, 2026)
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May 16, 2026 |
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Angela I. Fritz, "AI and Digital Leadership: Transforming Libraries, Archives, and Museums for the Future" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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May 15, 2026 |
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Aymar Jèan Escoffery, "Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture" (MIT Press, 2025)
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May 15, 2026 |
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Rina Bliss, "What's Real About Race: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
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May 13, 2026 |
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Angus Burgin on the Rise of the Internet
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May 11, 2026 |
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Peter S. Soppelsa, "Paris After Haussmann: Living with Infrastructure in the City of Light, 1870–1914" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2026)
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May 10, 2026 |
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Olivier Sylvain, "Recovering the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control-And How We Can Take It Back" (Columbia Global Reports, 2026)
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May 09, 2026 |
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Are We Entering An Arms Race in Outer Space?
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May 08, 2026 |
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Angela Dimitrakaki, "Feminism. Art. Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2026)
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May 06, 2026 |
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Max Morris, "Not Sex Work: Queer Intimacy, Post-identity, and Incidental Encounters in the Digital Era" (Routledge, 2025)
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May 06, 2026 |
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Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)
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May 03, 2026 |
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Deirdre Loughridge & Thomas Patteson, "The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments" (Reaktion, 2026)
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Scott Solomon, "Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Vindhya Buthpitiya, "A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka" (U Washington Press, 2026)
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Raffaele Danna, "The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200–1600" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: A Conversation with Stephen Sims
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Karen Hao, "Empire of AI: Inside the Race for Total Domination" (Allan Lane, 2025)
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Roland Betancourt, "Disneyland and the Rise of Automation: How Technology Created the Happiest Place on Earth" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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The Information State: How is the State Surveilling and Manipulating us These Days?
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Sarah Murray, "Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI" (NYU Press, 2026)
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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David Blumenthal and James A. Morone, "Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science" (Yale UP, 2026)
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Adrian Woolfson, "On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Kristan Stoddart, "Russia's Hybrid Warfare Offensive Against the West" (de Gruyter, 2025)
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Ibrahim J. Gedeon and Kyle Murray, "Automata: The Power of AI Integrated with Advanced Robotics" (U Toronto Press, 2026)
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Keith Cooper, "Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Nabil Ali, "Gold from Newton's Apple Tree: Historical Recipes for Natural Inks, Paints, and Dyes" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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David Kirsch on the Dot Com Bubble and Bust
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Flower Darby, "The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous Classes" (U Oklahoma Press, 2026)
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Alberto Galasso, "The Management of Innovation: Managing and Creating Technology Capital" (Rotman-UTP Publishing, 2024)
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Peter D. McDonald, "The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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The Green Transition and the Politics of Lithium Extraction
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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David Arditi, "Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok" (Anthem Press, 2026)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Tim Altenhof, "Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings" (Zone Books, 2026)
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Wout Saelens, "Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in the Early Modern Low Countries" (Leuven UP, 2026)
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Eivind Røssaak, "The Cory Arcangel Hack: Digital Culture and Aesthetic Practice" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Isabelle Held, "Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Caste and Tech with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Vojta Hybl, "Rocks: A Guide to the Stones Around Us and the Stories They Tell" (Frances Lincoln, 2026)
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Steffan Blayney, "Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Making of the Working-Class Body" (Activist Studies of Science, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese: From Ancient Rome to Modern America" (Columbia UP, 2026)
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Charles G. Curtin, "Place-Based Solutions: The Power of Regenerative Thinking in the Face of Crisis" (JHU Press, 2026)
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Lisa Nakamura, "The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Sam Illingworth and Rachel Forsyth, "GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds., "Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Courtney Humphries, "Climate Change and the Future of Boston" (Anthem Press, 2026)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 2026)
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Marianna Dudley" (Manchester UP, 2025)
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Michael Bycroft, "Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Britt Paris, "Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up" (U California Press, 2025)
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Christiane Tristl, "Turning Water into Commodity: Digital Innovation and the Private Sector as Development Agent" (Bristol UP, 2025)
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Rebecca Sharpless, "People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas" (U Texas Press, 2026)
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Patrick Chung, "Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Amelia Acker, "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Honghong Tinn, "Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Subodhana Wijeyeratne, "The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan's Space Programs" (Stanford UP, 2026)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Joe Williams, "Inequality in the Digital Economy: The Case for a Universal Basic Income" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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David King Dunaway, "A Four-Eyed World: How Glasses Changed the Way We See" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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W. Patrick McCray, "README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Ted Striphas, "Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Vanessa Rampton, "Making Medical Progress: History of a Contested Idea" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Howard Alan Israel, "Nazi Anatomy Lessons: A Dissection of Evil" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2026)
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Javiera Barandiaran, "Living Minerals: Nature, Trade, and Power in the Race for Lithium" (MIT Press, 2026)
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Yi-Ling Liu, "The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet" (Knopf, 2026)
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo, "Governing Digital China" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Tom Bolton, "Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations" (Strange Attractor, 2025)
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Rob Gallagher, "Artgames after GamerGate" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Polina Dimova, "At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Tom Griffiths, "The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind" (Henry Holt and Co., 2026)
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Jennifer Vail, "Friction: A Biography" (Harvard UP, 2026)
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Andreas Killen, "Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War" (Harper, 2023)
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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LiLi Johnson, "Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Gershom Gorenberg, "War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East" (Public Affairs, 2021)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Michelle Henning, "A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2026)
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Giuseppe Longo and Adam Nocek, "The Organism Is a Theory: Giuseppe Longo on Biology, Mathematics, and AI" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Alex Wellerstein, "The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age" (Harper, 2025)
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Robert Dorschel, "The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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The Friends of Attention, "Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement" (Crown, 2026)
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Emily Hund, "The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Steve Ramirez, "How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Ines Prodöhl, "Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Caroline Peyton, "Radioactive Dixie: A Nuclear History of the American South" (U Georgia Press, 2025)
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Bruno J. Strasser and Thomas Schlich, "The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air" (Yale UP, 2025)
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Alison Bashford, "Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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Heino Falcke and Jörg Römer, "Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us" (HarperCollins, 2021)
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Marc Berman, "Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Rachel Midura, "Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023)
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Aaron Bateman. "Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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David Morris, "Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia" (Watkins Media, 2025)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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James Welsh et al., "Weathering Space" (American Scientist 114:1 2026)
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Emanuel Deutschmann, "Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Jennifer Ott, "Where the City Meets the Sound: The Story of Seattle's Waterfront" (HistoryLink, 2025) This
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Erik Lin-Greenberg, "The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Luis Felipe Murillo, "Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Graham Harman, "Waves and Stones: The Continuous and the Discontinuous in Human Thought" (Allen Lane, 2025)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Chaim Gingold, "Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Matthew A. Tattar, "Innovation and Adaptation in War" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Edward McPherson, "Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View" (Astra House, 2025)
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich and Seth Denizen, "Thinking Through Soil: Wastewater Agriculture in the Mezquital Valley" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Thomas Haigh on the History of “AI” as a Brand
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Daniel Skinner et al., "The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Paulette F. C. Steeves, "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Elisabetta Ferrari, "Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies" (U California Press, 2024)
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Heather Davis, "Plastic Matter" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Tom White, "Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster" (Repeater, 2025)
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Videotape" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Ivan Franceschini et al., "Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds" (Verso Books, 2025)
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Hilary Allen, "Fintech Dystopia: A Summer Beach Read about Silicon Valley Ruining Things" (2025)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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The Technological Soul: Alex Priou on Modernity, Ideology, and the Limits of Reason
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Liam Graham, "Physics Fixes All the Facts" (Springer Nature, 2025)
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025)
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Jessica Doyle and Jordan Ferguson, "Dance Dance Revolution" (Boss Fight Books, 2025)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age: A conversation with Dr. Joanne Kuai
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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James Elwick, "Making a Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Muhammad Atique, "Algorithmic Saga: Understanding Media, Culture, and Transformation in the AI Age" (Atique Mindscape Publishing, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Tamar Mitts, "Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Stephen C. Mercado, "Japanese Spy Gear and Special Weapons: How Noborito's Scientists and Technicians Served in the Second World War and the Cold War" (Pen & Sword Military, 2025)
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Xiao Huang et. al, "GeoAI and Human Geography: The Dawn of a New Spatial Intelligence Era" (Springer, 2025)
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland, "The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines" (Basic Books, 2025)
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Rick A López, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025)
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Brian Potter, "The Origins of Efficiency" (Stripe Press, 2025)
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Daniel B. Rood, "The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Roger Moorhouse, "Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-Boat War 1939-45" (HarperCollins, 2025)
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Hector Vera, "Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America" (Vanderbilt UP, 2025)
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Scott D. Anthony, "Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations That Shaped Our Modern World" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025)
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Harry Cliff, "Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe" (Doubleday, 2024)
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Jesse Rodenbiker, "Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier, "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025)
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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José Marichal, "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem: Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract" (Policy Press, 2025)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Delia Casadei, "Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Caleb Scharf, "The Giant Leap: Why Space Is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life" (Hachette UK, 2025)
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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David Eliot, "Artificially Intelligent: The Very Human Story of AI" (Aevo UTP, 2025)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Whitney Laemmli on Making Movement Modern
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Madeleine Chalmers, "French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Darren Mueller, "At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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S. Orestis Palermos, "Cyborg Rights: Extending Cognition, Ethics, and the Law" (Routledge, 2025)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Allen B. Downey, "Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Anthony J. Knowles, "Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany" (Brill, 2025)
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Susannah Fisher, "Sink Or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Carlotta Daro, "The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Daniel K. Sodickson, "The Future of Seeing: How Imaging is Changing the World" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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157 Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP)
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Cass R. Sunstein, "Imperfect Oracle: What AI Can and Cannot Do" (APS Press, 2025)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Ashleigh Wade on How Black Girls Use Social Media
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Vanessa Warne, "By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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J. Doyne Farmer, "Making Sense of Chaos" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Jonas Enander, "Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth" (The Experiment Press, 2025)
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, "More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy" (Harper, 2025)
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Stephen A. Harris, "50 Plants That Changed the World" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Mark Seligman, "AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature" (First Hill Books, 2025)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Lucy Sante, "Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City (The Experiment, 2022)
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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The High Frontier: Gerard O’Neill’s Space Utopia
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Samuel Arbesman, "The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World—and Shapes Our Future" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Simon James Copland, "The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online" (Polity, 2025)
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Human Leadership for Humane Technology
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Jessica Urwin, "Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia" (U of Washington Press, 2025)
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Dan Roche, "Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Bénédicte Meillon, "Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Santiago Zabala, "Signs from the Future: Philosophy of Warnings" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Anthony Bonato, "Dots and Lines: Hidden Networks in Social Media, AI, and Nature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen, "The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds Across Landscapes and Imagination" (Reaktion, 2025)
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Tia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Anne Lawrence-Mathers, "Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Dan Davies, "The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Ian Scoones, "Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World" (Polity, 2024)
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Agnes Arnold-Forster, "The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Nick Spencer, "The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About?" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Jack Buffington, "Environmental Innovation: An Action Plan for Saving the Economy and the Planet by 2050" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Ben Connable, "Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Tim Lenton, "Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic, "The Future of Memory: Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic" (U of Illinois Press, 2025)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Noah Giansiracusa, "Robin Hood Math: Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life" (Penguin, 2025)
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Gary Rivlin, "AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence" (Harper Collins, 2025)
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Thomas Christian Bächle and Jascha Bareis eds., "The Realities of Autonomous Weapons (Bristol UP, 2025)
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Raphael Cormack, "Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult" (Norton, 2025)
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Joshua Nall, "News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark, "Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Hannah Star Rogers, "Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge (MIT Press, 2022)
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Vijay Selvam, "Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy" (Columbia UP, 2025)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Tatiana Bur, "Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Kenneth Jones, "African American Males and Video Games: How Gaming Technology Can Motivate and Enhance Learning" (Myers Education, 2025)
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Lewis A. Grossman, "Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Emilio Elizalde, "The True Story of Modern Cosmology: Origins, Main Actors and Breakthroughs" (Springer, 2021)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Maxim Samson, "Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World" (Profile Books, 2025)
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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David J. Helfand, "The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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154 Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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The Social Impact of Automating Translation
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Gavin Williams, "Format Friction: Perspectives on the Shellac Disc" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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On Bullshit in AI
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Anil Ananthaswamy, "Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI" (Dutton, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Christa Kuljian, "Our Science, Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Aline Nardo, "Evolutionary Theory and Education" (Brill, 2025)
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Kurt D. Fausch, "A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters" (OSU Press, 2025)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Paul A. Thomas, "Inside Wikipedia: How It Works and How You Can Be an Editor" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" (Harper, 2025)
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Rene Almeling, Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Brian T. Nguyen eds., "Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Ben Westhoff, "Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic" (Grove Press, 2019)
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Meegan Kennedy, "Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Cara Wallis, "Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Haley Cohen Gilliland, "A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Chris Bernhardt, "Beautiful Math: The Surprisingly Simple Ideas behind the Digital Revolution in How We Live, Work, and Communicate" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Savannah Mandel on an Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Andréa Becker, "Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Emma Marris, "Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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David S. Wall, "Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age" (Polity, 2024)
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Phil Tiemeyer, "Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants" (Cornell UP, 2025)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Tom Waidzunas et al., "Out Doing Science: LGBTQ STEM Professionals and Inclusion in Neoliberal Times" (UMass Press, 2025)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Rebecca Lemov, "The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion" (Norton, 2025)
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Edward Tenner, "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences" (APS Press, 2025)
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Myles Lennon, "Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2025)
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, "The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira, "Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper, "Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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David Zweig, "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Elliot Lichtman, "The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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John Barr, "1960s University Buildings: The Golden Age of British Modern Architecture" (Lund Humphries, 2025)
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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David Crystal, "Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Jeremy Stolow, "Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Trans Technologies
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Anna Gjika, "When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age" (Univ of California Press, 2023)
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Violet Moller, "Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe" (OneWorld, 2024)
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Ben Snyder on Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Kean Birch, "Data Enclaves" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Sarah Bilston, "The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Jean J. Ryoo and Jane Margolis, "Power On!" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Beth Linker on Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Lina Pinto-García, "Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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May 31, 2025 |
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Erica D. Lonergan and Shawn W. Lonergan, "Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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May 30, 2025 |
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Mitchell Thomashow, "To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning" (MIT Press, 2020)
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May 28, 2025 |
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Alex Davies, "Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
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May 27, 2025 |
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Tim Minshall, "How Things Are Made: A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing" (Ecco, 2025)
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May 25, 2025 |
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Empire of Gain: Inside Trump’s Billion-Dollar Crypto Hustle
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May 23, 2025 |
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William F. Owen, "Euclid's Army: Preparing Land Forces for Warfare Today" (Howgate Publishing, 2024)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Who Owns These Tools? Vauhini Vara and Aarthi Vadde (SW)
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May 22, 2025 |
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From Hal to Siri: How Computers Learned to Speak
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May 19, 2025 |
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Myka Tucker-Abramson, "Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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May 18, 2025 |
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Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia MacDonald, "The Rise of Unmanned Warfare: Origins of the Us Autonomous Military Arsenal" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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May 17, 2025 |
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Nicole C. Nelson, "Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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May 16, 2025 |
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Brain Rot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (8)
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May 14, 2025 |
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Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024)
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May 13, 2025 |
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Beaty Rubens, "Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
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May 12, 2025 |
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Darryl Campbell, "Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software" (W. W. Norton, 2025)
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May 09, 2025 |
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Sandra Matz, "Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior" (HBRP, 2025)
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May 08, 2025 |
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Brain Rot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (7)
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May 07, 2025 |
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Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024)
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May 06, 2025 |
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Jessica Smith on Engineering and Public Accountability in Energy Industries
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May 05, 2025 |
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Amanda D. Lotz, "After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century" (NYU Press, 2025)
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May 02, 2025 |
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Institutional Corruption in News Media: A Conversation with William English
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May 01, 2025 |
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Matthew Daniel Eddy, "Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Radiophilia
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Melissa Villa-Nicholas, "Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants" (U California Press, 2023)
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (6)
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Will AI Transform What it Means to be Human in the Next Ten Years?
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Jonathan D. Cohen, "Losing Big: America's Dangerous Sports Gambling Boom" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Jennifer Clapp, "Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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María de Los Ángeles Picone, "Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Ysabel Gerrard, "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" (U California Press, 2025)
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Milena Droumeva, "Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Middle-Age and Older Adults
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Rebecca Heisman, "Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration" (Harper, 2025)
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Paddy Walker, "War Without Oversight: Why We Need Humans on the Battlefield" (Howgate, 2025)
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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John Alekna, "Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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James Boyle Draws the Line Between Humans and AI
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Anna Farro Henderson, "Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Rhys Machold, "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel" (Stanford UP, 2024)
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Making Radio History
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Peder Anker, "For The Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" (Anthem Press, 2025)
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Jeremy Black, "A History of Britain's Transport" (Pen and Sword, 2025)
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Matt Mahmoudi, "Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control" (U California Press, 2025)
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Chris Skinner, "Intelligent Money: When Money Thinks for You" (Marshall Cavendish, 2024)
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Anita Say Chan, "Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future" (U California Press, 2025)
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Surekha Davies, "Humans: A Monstrous History" (U California Press, 2025)
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Richard Buttny, "Unfracked: The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Young Adults (4)
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Matthew Fuhrmann, "Influence without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Leigh Ann Henion, "Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark" (Algonquin, 2024)
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Eleni Kalantidou on Design, Repairability, and Cultures of Repair
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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On Barak, "Heat, a History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet" (U California Press, 2024)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Lessons on Living with AI from the Home Computer Revolution: Revisiting Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self”
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Jeremy Black, "A History of the Railroad in 100 Maps" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Luis F. Alvarez Leon, "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" (U California Press, 2024)
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Jorge Goldstein, "Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology" (Georgetown UP, 2025)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Daniel J. Solove, "On Privacy and Technology" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Eric Dienstfrey, "Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology" (U California Press, 2024)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Simona Valeriani, "The Royal Albert Hall: Building the Arts and Sciences" (Brepols, 2024)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Kyle Orland, "Minesweeper" (Boss Fight Books, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Sonic AI
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Robert Houghton, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Webb Keane, "Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Christos Lynteris, "Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Sam Srauy, "Race, Culture and the Video Game Industry: A Vicious Circuit" (Routledge, 2024)
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Daniel Silverman, "Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Jeff Yoshimi, "Gaming Cancer: How Building and Playing Video Games Can Accelerate Scientific Discovery" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Sybil Derrible, "The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives" (Prometheus Books, 2025)
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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The Internet, Power, and the Deep State: Zeynep Tufekci on Technology and Democracy Today
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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In “The Beast,” AI Puts Limits on Human Emotion
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Peter D. Hershock, "Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Nicole Lobdell, "X-Ray" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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The Anxious Generation: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds (3)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Ray Brescia, "The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2025)
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Xiangli Ding, "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Luiz Valério P. Trindade, "Hate Speech and Abusive Behaviour on Social Media: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" (Vernon Press, 2024)
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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Peter Burke, "Ignorance: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (2)
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Astrid J. Smith, "Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Our History with AI is (much) Longer than You Think (with Kevin LaGrandeur)
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Daniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Marijam Did, "Everything to Play For: An Insider's Guide to How Videogames are Changing Our World" (Verso, 2024)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Mirca Madianou, "Technocolonialism: When Technology for Good is Harmful" (Polity, 2024)
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Antonio A. Casilli, "Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Understanding Disinformation
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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A.I. is Spielberg & Kubrick’s Dark Twisted Fantasy
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Karenleigh A. Overmann, "The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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James Boyle, "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Dario Fazzi, "Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Taylor N. Carlson, "Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Alan Bollard, "Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Michael Tondre, "Oil" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (1)
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Ashish Avikunthak, "Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Pierre Sokolsky, "The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Listening in the Afterlife of Data
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Special Episode: Mike Secasas on the Question of the Human, and the Question of Technology, Live at the Bradley Study Center
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Elizabeth King and W. David Todd, "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend" (Getty, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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Disability and the History of Science (Osiris, Vol 36)
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Melissa B. Reynolds, "Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Jesper Juul, "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Patrick Dixon, "Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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James Malazita, "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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What Ex Machina Tell Us About Human-AI Psychology
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Marina Hassapopoulou, "Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Fionna S. Cunningham, "Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International Security" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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David Lyon, "Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Rebecca Charbonneau, "Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain" (Polity, 2024)
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Why Teachers Turn to AI
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym, "Twitter: A Biography" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Patrick T. Reardon, "The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Michael Bresalier, "Modern Flu: British Medical Science and the Viralisation of Influenza, 1890-1950" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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AI: How We Got Here in Three Powerful Tales
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Matt Beane, "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines" (HarperCollins, 2024)
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Josh Spodek, "Sustainability Simplified: The Definitive Guide to Solving All (Yes, All) Our Environmental Problems" (Amplify, 2025)
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Julien Mailland, "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Lindsay Weinberg, "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Nina Edwards, "Weeds" (Reaktion, 2024)
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Luci Pangrazio and Neil Selwyn, "Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data and Everyday Life" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Voices Part 3: Dork-O-Phonics
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Margaret Ziolkowski, "Mega-Dams in World Literature: Literary Responses to Twentieth-Century Dam Building" (U of Wyoming Press, 2024)
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Matthew S. Smith, "EverQuest" (Boss Fight Books, 2024)
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Donald R. Prothero, "The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman, "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Meredith McKittrick, "Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Jeremy Brecher, "The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Reem Hilu, "Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Tristan A. Volpe, "Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Kerry Smith, "Predicting Disasters: Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Helena Hansen et al., "Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America" (U California Press, 2023)
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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J. Mijin Cha, "A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Yochai Ataria, "Not in Our Brain: Consciousness, Body, World" (Magnes Press, 2019)
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Brian Donahue, "Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Megan Rae Blakely, "Technology, Intellectual Property Law, and Culture: The Tangification of Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2024)
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Jennifer Denbow, "Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Liliana M. Naydan, "Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Jordan S. Carroll, "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Fiona Smyth, "Pistols in St Paul's: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Robin Phillips and Joshua Pauling, "Are We All Cyborgs Now?: Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine" (Basilian Media, 2024)
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Victor P. Petrov, "Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Lizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Meta-Practice (on Chinese Medicine)
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018)
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Libuse Hannah Veprek, "At the Edge of AI: Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations" (Transcript, 2024)
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Artur Gruszczak and Sebastian Kaempf, "Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare" (Routledge, 2023)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Jerry Brotton, "Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" (Penguin, 2024)
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Brian Groom, "Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World" (Harpernorth, 2024)
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Richard Moss, "Tale of Two Halves: The History Of Football Video Games" (Bitmap Books, 2024)
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Jamie Hakim, "Digital Intimacies: Queer Men and Smartphones in Times of Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Greg Epstein, "Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Jia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Kostas Kampourakis, "Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Ian Milligan, "Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Dolores Albarracin et al., "Creating Conspiracy Beliefs: How Our Thoughts Are Shaped" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Bob Frishman, "Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803" (APS Press, 2024)
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Anto Mohsin, "Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Wilko Graf von Hardenberg, "Sea Level: A History" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Emotional Rescue
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Alastair Bonnett, "40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World" (Ivy Press, 2024)
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Marco Bastos, "Brexit, Tweeted: Polarization and Social Media Manipulation" (Bristol UP, 2024)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Jeffrey Ding, "Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Gerald Sim, "Screening Big Data: Films That Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy" (Routledge, 2024)
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Christian Wolmar, "The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II" (Hachette, 2024)
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Amos C. Fox, "Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare" (Howgate, 2024)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Annette Kehnel, "The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Jordan Minor, "Video Game of the Year: A Year-By-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977" (Abrams, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
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Sep 26, 2024 |