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Winning Slowly
By Chris Krycho and Stephen CarradiniNewsReligion & SpiritualityChristianityTechnologyArtsPerforming ArtsTech News
Winning Slowly episodes
- 8.14: The Real World of Technology—ExplainedThe Real World of Technology, Ursula FranklinShow Notes
- Cold War peace movement
- Peace movements in Canada
- Second-wave feminism (to which Dr. Franklin’s feminism approximately belongs to)
- Third-wave feminism (to which Dr. Franklin’s feminism approximately does not belong to):
- Oklahoma historically dumping stuff in rivers
- Arkansas historically dumping stuff in Oklahoma’s rivers
- Oklahoma contemporarily dumping stuff in rivers
Here’s the great cover of the book from the ’80s–note that at no time are floppy disks mentioned in the book.
Purple cover of a book with a floppy disk superimposed over a person’s faceUpcoming Books- September (8.16 and 8.17): Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears, Mary Midgley
- October (8.18 and 8.19): Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman
CreditsMusic- “Mission Plan” by Matthew Shaw. Used by permission, please don’t use without permission. We usually announce that on the show, but a temporary glitch corrupted that section of the podcast. Whoops. Also, learn more about Matthew Shaw, this song, and Stephen’s long and storied enthusiasm for Shaw’s work here.
- “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, meaning you can do whatever you want with this music… as long as you share it for others to likewise do what they want.
SponsorsMany thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors:
- Daniel Ellcey
- Douglas Campos
- Jake Grant
- Marnix Klooster
- Spencer Smith
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42 min - 8.13: Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness—ExaminedDiscussing Simone Browne’s epistemology, ideas, and arguments: what persuaded us, and what didn’t?38 min
- 8.12: Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness—ExplainedDigging into Simone Browne’s application of critical race theory to surveillance studies.35 min
- 8.11: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change—Analogs to the InternetThe printing press and the internet are often compared. How similar in impact are they really?36 min
- 8.10: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change—ExplainedDigging into Elizabeth Eisenstein’s magisterial and seminal work on how print changed culture.35 min
- 37 min
- 8.08: Jurassic Park—ExplainedWhat the well-known novel and movie have to say about science, ethics, epistemology, and hubris.28 min
- 8.07: The Age of Spiritual Machines—ExaminedDigging into Kurzweil’s deficient view of culture and human nature—from sex and family to epistemology and human dignity.42 min
- 8.06: The Age of Spiritual Machines—ExplainedReading Ray Kurzweil’s prognostications about the future—and coming to terms with his ruthless optimism.35 min
- 8.05: The Postmodern Condition—ExaminedLyotard’s postmodernism, the politics of power, and aesthetics: what do we keep and what do we reject?40 min
About Winning Slowly
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There are plenty of podcasts that will tell you how the latest tech gadget or “innovation” will affect the tech landscape tomorrow, but there aren’t that many concerned with the potential impact of…
that tech in a decade—much less a century. In a culture obsessed with now, how can we make choices with a view for tomorrow, next year, and beyond? 25–35-minute episodes released the first and third Wednesdays of the month.