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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

Huw Lemmey and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: The Gentrification of Queer Desire

Monday Feb 15, 2021

Huw Lemmey and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: The Gentrification of Queer Desire

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

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Thomas Weaver and Victoria Hindley: Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

Friday Feb 05, 2021

Thomas Weaver and Victoria Hindley: Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

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

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Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha: Black Film, British Cinema

Monday Feb 01, 2021

Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha: Black Film, British Cinema

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

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Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles: Black Artists in 1980s Britain

Monday Jan 25, 2021

Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles: Black Artists in 1980s Britain

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

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Cathi Unsworth and Jenny Hval: Horror, Murder, and Music

Monday Jan 18, 2021

Cathi Unsworth and Jenny Hval: Horror, Murder, and Music

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

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Rose Simpson and Damon Krukowski: On Life in the Incredible String Band

Monday Jan 11, 2021

Rose Simpson and Damon Krukowski: On Life in the Incredible String Band

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

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Eugene Richardson and Bruno Latour: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth

Monday Dec 21, 2020

Eugene Richardson and Bruno Latour: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth

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

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Michael Truscello: On the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

Friday Dec 18, 2020

Michael Truscello: On the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

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

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Tai Shani and Amy Hale: On the Occult Feminism of Ithell Colquhoun

Monday Dec 14, 2020

Tai Shani and Amy Hale: On the Occult Feminism of Ithell Colquhoun

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

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Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory

Monday Dec 07, 2020

Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory

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  

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