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Recent Guests

Mona Sloane
Sociologist and Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
Episode: Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)
Moritz A. Schramm
Author, Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU School of Law
New Books in Technology interview subject
Episode: Governance by Emulation: The Oversight Board, the Digital Services Act, and the Struggle for Platform Accountability with Moritz A. Schramm (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Garrison Lovely
Technology journalist and author of Obsolete
Episode: Will AI Make Human Labor Obsolete? with Garrison Lovely
Bryan Cassady
Author, professor, consultant and serial entrepreneur
Episode: The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders
Aarthi Vadde
E. Blake Byrne Professor of English at Duke University and author of We The Platform
Duke University
Episode: Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
James Poulos
Political theorist, editorial director at Frontier, and author of Human, Forever
Frontier
Episode: How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with James Poulos
Matthew Gasda
Writer and cultural critic; author of The Sleepers and Stranger Beauty
Author; Upcoming book Futurepast (Encounter Books)
Episode: Writing Against the Machine: On Artistic Culture in the AI Age with Matthew Gasda
Pepper Culpepper
Blavatnik Professor of Government and Public Policy, University of Oxford
University of Oxford
Episode: Billionaire Backlash
Violaine Roussel
Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris 8; author of Data-Driven Hollywood
University of Paris 8
Episode: Violaine Roussel, "Data-Driven Hollywood: The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming" (Princeton UP, 2026)

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Miranda Melcher
Host of The New Books Network
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Host of New Books in Game Studies / The New Books Network episode featured in this transcript

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How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with James Poulos
Q: How can Americans preserve their political tradition in a digital age?
Poulos says constitutional rights must remain meaningful under digital conditions, including protections against unreasonable searches and the ability of citizens to access and use computational technologies.
How to Stay Human Forever: On America's Digital Technology Crisis with James Poulos
Q: What is the digital catastrophe?
Poulos describes a shift from a world led by human imagination to one increasingly shaped by machine memory and digital systems, bringing social, economic, and political disruption.
Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
Q: Why are we locked into a mistaken model of the precedence of the desire to read before the desire to write?
Vadde describes that hierarchy as inherited and argues that students' desire to write can be the beginning of literary education, through which they can learn about influence and reading.
Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)
Q: Could you maybe say more about your intervention in that way?
Vadde says she challenges pessimistic accounts of literature and literary study by recognizing online reading and writing as meaningful forms of literacy, and by resisting nostalgia for earlier literary culture.
The Generative Organization: AI Playbook for Exponential Leaders
Q: Can you talk about how using AI to create a customer avatar helps assess the likelihood that a target market will buy?
Cassady describes creating synthetic-user personas to evaluate ideas and presentations. He says they can provide fast, useful early feedback, but people still need to interpret that feedback intelligently.

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This series centers on technology, policy, and culture, often through scholarly conversations that connect historical and contemporary work to current AI, governance, digital infrastructure, and platform power. Episodes frequently examine how computation reshapes economies, democratic processes, information flows, and everyday life, with emphasis on data governance, risk communication, and the social implications of automated systems. Guests range from political anthropologists and historians to media and game studies scholars, policy experts, and technologists, creating a rich interdisciplinary thread that situates technology within politics, labor, and culture. A standout pattern is the sustained attention to governance, ethics, and the h... more

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