finding way a little further into Asian modern, literary & political — thanks to Yale’s Sam Hodgkin doing podcasts
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/31-dec-24-persianate-twentieth-century-samuel-hodgkin/

finding way a little further into Asian modern, literary & political — thanks to Yale’s Sam Hodgkin doing podcasts
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/31-dec-24-persianate-twentieth-century-samuel-hodgkin/
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: https://www.amyhsturgis.com/?page_id=9
this is really good, if every people would work on themselves with agency, I'd have hope more for us humans #newbooksnetwork #books #vietnam
https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/new-books-in-intellectual-history/id615393843?i=1000681218027
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
https://youtube.com/@newbooksnetworkbookoftheday?si=HGhoUvVZP2y4bELH
I'm utterly pleased to announce that my interview on the #NewBooksNetwork about 'Sea Level: A History' is now available! #envhist #histsci
#Labor historian #JeffSchuhrke talks with the #NewBooksNetwork about his book "#BlueCollarEmpire: The Untold Story of #USLabor's Global Anticommunist Crusade "
https://youtu.be/pFRhxwSklxs
#USlabour #AFLCIO #AFL #CIO #labour #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #UShistory #USLaborHistory #USpol #USpolitics #CIA #AIFLD #USimperialism #LaborMovement #LabourMovement #USLaborMovement #ColdWar #anticommunism #books
It was a joy to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our anthology #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier with the #NewBooksNetwork! (Link below.)
https://newbooksnetwork.com/star-trek
#StarTrekBooks #podcast #books #bookstodon #VernonPress #ScienceFiction
@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: https://newbooksnetwork.com/language-vs-reality
Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBN2798566261.mp3 (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: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/21/death-statistic/.)
Referring to your sadly languishing HN submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41228696
#CurrentlyListening to fab interview with #HeatherAugustyn, author of "#Ska: An Oral History", via #NewBooksNetwork, from 2010. The author has since written three more books on the subject. Got me some catching up to do!
#Books #Music #Jamaica #History #Reggae #Rocksteady cc: @bookstodon https://newbooksnetwork.com/heather-augustyn-ska-an-oral-history-mcfarland-2010/
John Bellamy Foster, "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology" (Monthly Review Press, 2021) New Books in Environmental Studies
#podcast #newbooksnetwork
#ecology #marx
https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/new-books-in-environmental-studies/id425223410?i=1000554954089
I had a great conversation with Morteza Hajizadeh about #Profit: An #Environmental #History! You'll find it on the latest #NewBooksNetwork #podcast :
Tomorrow is #WorldGeekDay, and on that note it was a joy to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our anthology #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away with the #NewBooksNetwork! (Link below.)
#StarWarsBooks #podcast #books #bookstodon #film
Excellent overview of modern #Thai democracy (and it's enemies) with #SaowaneeAlexander from #UbonRatchathani University. Recorded in 2020, before the most recent elections, but still very relevant. #NewBooksNetwork #Thailand #ThaiPol #Asia #AsiaPol #Politics #GlobalPolitics #SEAsia #SouthEastAsia #MoveForward #PheuThai #Thaksin https://newbooksnetwork.com/thailands-politically-less-privileged-people-with-saowanee-alexander
It was a joy to join my co-editor Emily Strand to talk about our anthology Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away with the #NewBooksNetwork!
#StarWars #StarWarsBooks #podcast #books #bookstodon #film
https://megaphone.link/NBNK9008235503
Woohoo it's #SocialistSaturday! Why not start your weekend with six hours of conversation (so far) covering 1800 pages (so far) of research about the emergence of #Trotskyism in the #USA? Tons of fun for committed revolutionaries everywhere! Except Stalinists. I mean, y'might wanna hide those icepicks, eh? ;-) #NewBooksNetwork #History #AmericanHistory #Histodon #Socialism #Communism #Politics #USPol
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:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/technofeudalism
(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.)
Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo and I discussed our book Mussolini's Nature (MIT Press) with the excellent Ari Barbalat on the #NewBooksNetwork history podcast: https://newbooksnetwork.com/mussolinis-nature #histodons #envhist