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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖

2024 Wrap-Up: Podcasts

Thanks to all of the #podcasts that invited me on this year!

My "Looking Back on Genre History" #ScienceFiction segment ran each month on #StarShipSofa.

I talked to #Potterversity about my book chapter "Dark Arts & Secret Histories: Investigating #DarkAcademia"; to #TrashCompactor & #NewBooksNetwork about my book #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away; & to #NewBooksNetwork about my book #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier.

I also talked #Tocqueville with the #VitalRemnants podcast & #MaryShelley twice with #TheMcConnellCenter podcast.

Links to all of these: amyhsturgis.com/?page_id=9

The logo for "Looking Back on Genre History" with Amy H. Sturgis on StarShipSofa, with retrofuturist artwork of a rocket in space.
The chapter title "Dark Arts and Secret Histories: Investigating Dark Academia" by Amy H. Sturgis, from the 2023 academic anthology Potterversity.
Pictured is the cover of Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away, with artwork (painted by Emily Austin) of a planet.
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Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖

Congratulations to the New Books Network for reaching a new milestone: 25,000 interviews! It’s been my pleasure to be interviewed twice, each time to talk about a different book of mine.

FYI, the #NewBooksNetwork is one of the world’s largest public education projects, a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to #PublicEducation. NBN works directly with over twenty university presses including Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, the University of Chicago Press, and the MIT Press. #Books #Bookstodon #Educators #Education #Academics

youtube.com/@newbooksnetworkbo

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

@ColinTheMathmo Re: (in)numeracy and leaders:

Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists

N. J. Enfield, Mar 23, 2022, MIT PRESS 2022

Nick Enfield’s book, Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists (MIT Press, 2022), argues that language is primarily for social coordination, not precisely transferring thoughts from one person to another. Drawing on empirical research, Enfield shows that human lexicons the world over are far more coarse-grained than our perceptual faculties. Yet, at the same time, languages vary in the structure and sophistication of their representations. This means that, for instance, how different languages carve up the world influences not only how their speakers talk about the world, but also how they think about it. The book explores a range of linguistic phenomena, from lexical diversity to linguistic framing to the effects of narrative. As a result of understanding how language shapes our understanding of reality, Enfield argues that we can make more informed—and more ethical—decisions about our own language use, as individuals and communities.*

On the New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/language-v

Audio: traffic.megaphone.fm/NBN279856 (MP3)

Enfield's key point is that language is useful for social coordination. Numbers ... for quantification.

Also: A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

(In numerous variations, more likely Beilby Porteus circa 1759 than Joseph Stalin. See: quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/.)

Referring to your sadly languishing HN submission here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

New Books NetworkN. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022) - New Books Network
#Numeracy#Innumeracy#HackerNews
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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

Crossing the Pod Streams is always entertaining.

This time I'm listening to #YanisVaroufakis heaping high prais on @pluralistic for his books, blogs, and podcasts, on the #NewBooksNetwork:

newbooksnetwork.com/technofeud

(Doctorow of course has been turning up all over the place as he book tours, as well as on his own #Craphound podcast, of which I too am a fan.)

New Books NetworkPodcast | Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism"…Yanis Varoufakis, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" (Melville House, 2023)
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