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After we finished recording the material in Episode 9, we stayed on and talked some more. These a…
Patrick and Dan host a panel discussion with Jarrod Hayes, Nawal Mustafa, and Robbie Shilliam.
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Dan and Patrick finish out their discussion of Yaqing Qin’s 2018 book. They focus on aspects of Q…
This post would be much more interesting if it concerned the nexus of its three subjects. Sadly, it does not. I'm working on a forum piece with Vincent Pouliot on Actor-Network Theory (ANT) -- one written from the explicit perspective of outsiders. We've been puzzled by the apparent lack of theorization of "the body" in Latour. For example, if social relations must be 'fixed' by physical objects, why isn't the human body one such object? If any of our readers are able to weigh in, I'd appreciate it. I've been considering discontinuing the m4a versions of the Duck of Minerva podcast. They...
The sixteenth Duck of Minerva podcast features Robert Farley of the University of Kentucky and Lawyers, Guns and Money.
I already mentioned that this podcast was coming, but now it is out. From my summary at New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy: When I agreed to host New Books and Science Fiction and Fantasy there were a number of authors I hoped to interview, including Michael Gordin. This might come as a surprise to listeners, because Michael is neither a science-fiction nor a fantasy author. He is, rather, a prominent historian of science at Princeton University. But his work intersects with the subject-matter of this podcast in a number of ways. Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear...
I recorded an interview with Rob Farley yesterday on academic blogging and the academic blogsphere. I had planned to put it up this evening but, like, I suspect, a lot of Americans, I've been a bit distracted for the last few hours. The upshot is that I haven't completed post-production and the podcast will likely not be available until tomorrow. I know it won't be long before we get into some kind of discussion about the Atlantic community's relative indifference to deaths outside of its borders. For now, let's just leave it at this: certain facts of media coverage, the cognitive basis of...