Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books
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Matthew L. Jones, “Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
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2017-01-23
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Projit Bihari Mukharji, “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Science: (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
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2017-01-16
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Joshua Howe, “Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
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2017-01-10
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Dave Karpf, “Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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2017-01-09
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Nicholas A. John, “The Age of Sharing” (Polity Press, 2016)
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2017-01-06
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Scott Selisker, “Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)
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2016-12-18
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Robert Aronowitz, “Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty” (U. Chicago Press, 2015)
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2016-12-09
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Ruth Rogaski, “Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China” (U. California Press, 2014 reprint)
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2016-12-07
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Carol Upadhya, “Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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2016-11-23
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Robert Brain, “The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (U. of Washington Press, 2015)
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2016-11-12
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Sally Engle Merry, “The Seduction of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking” (U. of Chicago Press, 2016)
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2016-11-07
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Robert Peckham, “Epidemics in Modern Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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2016-11-06
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J.D. Trout, “Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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2016-10-15
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McKenzie Wark, “Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene” (Verso, 2015)
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2016-10-10
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Asif A. Siddiqi, “The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
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2016-09-30
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Marc Raboy, “Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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2016-09-21
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E.R. Truitt, “Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
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2016-09-21
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Mary Chayko, “Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life” (SAGE, 2016)
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2016-09-13
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George Couros, “The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity” (Dave Burgess Consulting, 2015)
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2016-09-13
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Caroline Ford, “Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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2016-09-12
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