The MIT Press Podcast
The MIT Press Podcast features exclusive interviews and content that draw on the topics, themes, and trends explored in our books and journals. Subject areas that are covered include art and design, technology, science, information and data science, linguistics, neuroscience, business and management, architecture and urban design, ecology and sustainability, science fiction, and more. The podcast also regularly features high level discussions about open access publishing and knowledge.
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Episodes
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Writer Huw Lemmey (Chubz, Red Tory, Unknown Language) speaks with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her most recent book The Freezer Door and searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexuality, and friendship.
Produced by Sam Kelly
Mixed by Samantha Doyle
Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
This episode features discussions with Thomas Weaver (Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture) and Victoria Hindley (Acquisitions Editor in Visual Culture and Design) about publishing in the fields of art, architecture, and visual culture, as part of our virtual attendance of the 2021 College Art Association Conference.
Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly
Mixed by Samantha Doyle
Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha discuss their forthcoming book Black Film, British Cinema II (publishing in March with Goldsmiths Press), a book which brings together scholars, thinkers and practitioners to consider the politics of blackness in contemporary British cinema and visual practice.
Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly
Mixed by Samantha Doyle
Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles discuss The Place Is Here (Sternberg Press, 2019) and the range of perspectives on black art in Thatcherite Britain offered by the collection of artworks, essays, and conversations found in the book.
Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly
Mixed by Samantha Doyle
Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Cathi Unsworth, journalist and author of Bad Penny Blues, as well as numerous other novels, speaks with artists and author Jenny Hval about her recent book Girls Against God.
Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly
Mixed by Samantha Doyle
Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Damon Kruskowski, author of Ways of Hearing and The New Analog, previously member of Galaxie 500 and currently a member of Damon & Naomi interviews Rose Simpson, about her book Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden.
Rose is an English former musician. Between 1968 and 1971, she was a member of the Incredible String Band, with whom she sang and played bass guitar, violin, and percussion.
Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly
Mixed by Samantha Doyle
Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
The philosopher Bruno Latour (We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, Science in Action) and Eugene Richardson, physician, anthropologist, and author of Epidemic Illusions discuss COVID, colonialism and Critical Zones.
Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly
Mixed by Samantha Doyle
Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, discusses the ways in which infrastructure determines who may live and who must die under contemporary capitalism.
Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly
Mixed by Samantha Doyle
Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Tai Shani (Turner Prize winning artist, educator and author of Our Fatal Magic) and Amy Hale (anthropologist, folklorist, and writer) discuss the work of artist, occultist and writer Ithell Colquhoun to celebrate the publication of Amy’s book Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully
Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly
Mixed by Samantha Doyle
Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
An extended conversation between Lauren Fournier, writer, independent curator, artist, and author of Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism and writer, educator and philosopher McKenzie Wark (A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, Capital Is Dead, Reverse Cowgirl.)
Hosted and produced by Sam Kelly
Mixed by Samantha Doyle
Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux