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Authors join peers, scholars, and friends in conversation. Topics include environment, humanities, race, social justice, cultural studies, art, literature and literary criticism, media studies, sociology, anthropology, grief and loss, mental health, and more.

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Between 1927 and 1933, philosopher Walter Benjamin produced dozens of radio broadcasts that became a testing ground for his developing ideas and experimental pedagogy. Initially cast off as inconsequential, they are, as Dominic Smith reveals in Bridg... more

In his study of how a new and messy set of codes about playfulness took shape in the postwar US, Peter D. McDonald illuminates how playfulness became essential for understanding cultural, technical, and economic production. From Fluxus to the Easy-Ba... more

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How does smell attune us to possibility? Hsuan L. Hsu studies smell’s capacity to shape our worlds, our futures, and our modes of being and relating—noting that olfactory worldmaking is going on around us all the time. Hsu is joined here in conversat... more

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Lisa Nakamura offers a powerful counterhistory of Silicon Valley in The Inattention Economy, which argues for both recognition and material compensation for the labor of the women of color who built the internet. Nakamura exposes how these women—incl... more

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Esther Leslie
Professor of Political Aesthetics; interviewer/guest on the episode
Birkbeck, University of London
Episode: Walter Benjamin, reimagined through the forgotten power of radio
Ally Louks
Literary scholar focusing on smell, literature, and culture
University of Cambridge
Episode: Scent and scentsibility: How smell shapes present and possible worlds.
André Brock
Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Communications
Georgia Tech
Episode: Material labor and the digital economy.
Cassius Adair
Assistant Professor of Media Studies
New School, Parsons School of Design
Episode: Material labor and the digital economy.
Wendy Sung
Assistant Professor, UCLA
World Arts and Cultures and Dance
Episode: Material labor and the digital economy.
Rachel Nelson
Director and Chief Curator, Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz
Episode: Art, science, and the whale.
Hil Malatino
Professor; Gender Studies and Philosophy
Penn State University
Episode: Absence and asexuality.
Ianna Hawkins Owen
Assistant Professor in Gender and Women's Studies
UC Berkeley
Episode: Absence and asexuality.
Barbara Sjoholm
Translator and writer discussing her translation of Sámi Folktales
Author, translating Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds
Episode: Translating the near and far worlds

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Kirstine Taylor
Host of the discussion
Kent Whitworth
Director and CEO of the Minnesota Historical Society
Jessica Lopez Lyman
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Walter Benjamin, reimagined through the forgotten power of radio
Q: How does Benjamin's use of radio challenge traditional philosophy of technology?
By treating radio as a material practice that mediates place and history, Benjamin's broadcasts become a site where philosophy engages with actual communities and educational settings, not just abstract theory.
Material labor and the digital economy.
Q: How did personal history shape the book's approach to labor and visibility online?
The host and guest discuss how personal histories, including family experiences with interment and labor in tech, reveal that intimate lives illuminate broader systemic patterns of exploitation and erasure in digital labor.
Translating the near and far worlds
Q: How did you approach translation when working with a condensed Norwegian edition rather than the original Sámi texts?
The translator mainly worked from a Norwegian-condensed edition, using Sámi knowledge to inform certain terms, and made careful drafting through multiple rounds to maintain tone and humor.
Translating the near and far worlds
Q: Did you feel you could insert cultural explanations into the translations to help non-Sámi readers understand the references?
No, the translator preferred staying true to the translation, explaining only what was necessary and relying on shared literary and cultural context to bridge gaps for readers.
Navigating and challenging deep-seated racial injustices in the Midwest.
Q: Why is the Midwest a crucial focus for Latinx studies and intermovement organizing?
The Midwest presents a unique convergence of small-to-mid-sized cities where interracial and cross-ethnic organizing can flourish, revealing patterns of coalition-building that challenge assumptions about regional dynamics and highlighting the region's role in national conversations about race and justice.

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This series centers on in-depth conversations with scholars, authors, and editors across humanities and cultural studies. Episodes frequently tackle topics like abolition and mass incarceration, biography and archival research, gender and sexuality in sport, racial justice and place-keeping, mafia studies and anti-criminal activism, scholarly publishing and library ecosystems, disability and medical technology, and surrealism and visual culture. Guests range from university presses leaders and editors to independent authors and researchers, often bridging literary criticism, anthropology, art history, and social theory. Listeners can expect rigorous, idea-rich discussions that connect academic work to practical, on-the-ground movements, pub... more

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