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We are glad to talk to Britt Paris about her book Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up (U California Press, 2025).

This book asks: What if we could start over and build the Internet from scratch? For more than eight yea... more

In this episode, I am in conversation with Dr Christiane Tristl, an economic geographer interested in heterodox economic geography. Their scholarship focuses on big tech companies, digital technologies, marketisation of water and critical agri-food s... more

We're so pleased to welcome Dr. Amelia Acker, author of Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms (MIT Press, 2025) to the New Books Network!

This book describes the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data and the cultu... more

The play element at the heart of our interactions with computers—and how it drives the best and the worst manifestations of the information age.

Whether we interact with video games or spreadsheets or social media, playing with software shapes every... more

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Amelia Acker
Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers
Rutgers University
Episode: Amelia Acker, "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" (MIT Press, 2025)
Miguel Sicart
Author of Playing Software, Homo Ludens in Computational Culture (MIT Press, 2023)
IT University of Copenhagen
Episode: Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
Alan McComas
Author and professor of medicine at McMaster University
McMaster University
Episode: Alan J. McComas, "Consciousness: The Road to Reductionism" (American Scientist, 2025)
Honghong Tinn
Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota and author of "Island Tinkerers"
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Episode: Honghong Tinn, "Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry" (MIT Press, 2024)
Fred Turner
Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University
Stanford University
Episode: Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
Dr. Subodhana Wijeyeratne
Assistant professor of history at Purdue University, author of The Islands and the Stars.
Purdue University
Episode: Subodhana Wijeyeratne, "The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan's Space Programs" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Marc Masters
Music journalist and author of 'High Bias, The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape'
University of North Carolina Press
Episode: Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
Andrew White
Senior Lecturer at King's College London, author of 'Inequality in the Digital Economy'
King's College London
Episode: Joe Williams, "Inequality in the Digital Economy: The Case for a Universal Basic Income" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Raiford Guins
Professor and chair of Cinema Media Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
Indiana University Bloomington
Episode: Raiford Guins, "King PONG: How Atari Bounced Across Markets to Make Millions" (MIT Press, 2026)

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Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)
Q: How does mimicry change how we study digital play compared to agonistic frameworks?
Mimicry foregrounds how we imitate and negotiate with digital systems, suggesting that understanding software as an actor and our interactions with it matters more than trying to strictly conquer or win within a system.
Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
Q: Fred, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this great book, what would you say the book's about?
The book tries to understand how utopian ideas got associated with machines that were originally seen as anything but utopian.
Alan J. McComas, "Consciousness: The Road to Reductionism" (American Scientist, 2025)
Q: What was the most difficult assumption for the field to abandon?
To accept that we really are machines, that we don't really have free will, that it's only an illusion.
Alan J. McComas, "Consciousness: The Road to Reductionism" (American Scientist, 2025)
Q: Alan, why did you write the article and who is the target audience?
The article was written for lay people interested in science and philosophy and those dabbling in the field of consciousness.
David King Dunaway, "A Four-Eyed World: How Glasses Changed the Way We See" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Q: Are there any other arguments about glasses, either historically or now, that we want to add to the list?
He mentions the historical resistances and societal biases against eyewear, particularly gender-specific criticisms.

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