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The MIT Press Podcast series is a monthly audio program spotlighting the authors of The MIT Press.

Hosted by Chris Gondek of Heron & Crane Productions.

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The Interviews
Episode 12: Mel Bochner & Andrea Moro
Episode 11: Rosalind Williams & Nicolás Wey Gómez
Episode 10: David A. Mindell & Bruno S. Frey
Episode 9: Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid
Episode 8: Paul E. Ceruzzi & Joshua M. Greenberg
Episode 7: Elizabeth Farrelly & Rich Ling
Episode 6: Marc Rotenberg & Susan Landau
Episode 5: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum & Catherine Brady
Episode 4: Cretien van Campen & George Baker
Episode 3: Owen J. Flanagan & Christine L. Borgman
Episode 2: Peter Ludlow, Mark Wallace, & Paul R. Abramson
Episode 1: Sherry Turkle & Tarleton Gillespie
EPISODE TWELVE (AUG. '08): MEL BOCHNER & ANDREA MORO
Mel Bochner is the author of Solar Systems & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965–2007. Mr. Bochner has lived and worked in New York City since 1964. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in major museum collections throughout the world.
Andrea Moro is the author of The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages. Mr. Moro is Professor of General Linguistics at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.
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33:01 minutes | 30.2 MB
EPISODE ELEVEN (JULY '08): ROSALIND WILLIAMS & NICOLÁS WEY GÓMEZ
Rosalind Williams is the author of Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination, now in a new edition. Ms. Williams is Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology in MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society. She is also the author of Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change (MIT Press, 2002).
Nicolás Wey Gómez is the author of The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies. Mr. Wey Gómez studies the early modern Hispanic world at Brown University.
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33:58 minutes | 31.9 MB
EPISODE TEN (JUN. '08): DAVID A. MINDELL & BRUNO S. FREY
David A. Mindell is the author of Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight. Mr. Mindell is Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, Professor of Engineering Systems, and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He is also the author of Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics and War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor.
Bruno S. Frey is the author of Happiness: A Revolution in Economics. Mr. Frey is Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich, Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Research Director of CREMA (Center for Research in Economics, Management, and the Arts). He is co-editor of Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field (MIT Press, 2007).
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31:31 minutes | 29.6 MB
EPISODE NINE (MAY '08): PAUL D. MILLER AKA DJ SPOOKY THAT SUBLIMINAL KID
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid is the editor of Sound Unbound and author of Rhythm Science (MIT Press, 2004). Mr. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician living and working in New York City. His artwork has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale for Architecture, the Andy Warhol Museum, and many other venues. His written work has appeared in such publications as the Village Voice and Artforum. He is an editor of the magazine 21c (www.21cmagazine.com).
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22:34 minutes | 20.6 MB
EPISODE EIGHT (APR. '08): PAUL E. CERUZZI & JOSHUA M. GREENBERG
Paul E. Ceruzzi is the author of Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005. Mr. Ceruzzi is Curator of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He is the author of A History of Modern Computing (second edition, MIT Press, 2003) and other books, and coeditor of The Internet and American Business (MIT Press, 2008).
Joshua M. Greenberg is the author of From Betamax to Blockbuster. Mr. Greenberg is Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship at the New York Public Library.
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32:28 minutes | 30.6 MB
EPISODE SEVEN (MAR. '08): ELIZABETH FARRELLY & RICH LING
Elizabeth Farrelly is the author of Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness. Ms. Farrelly is one of Australia's liveliest and most provocative writers on architecture and the environment. The winner of the CICA International Critics' Award, the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing, and the Marion Mahony Griffin Award, she is a columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, a commentator on Australian television and radio, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney.
Rich Ling is the author of New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion. Mr. Ling is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor and Adjunct Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. He is also the author of The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society.
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31:18 minutes | 28.6 MB
EPISODE SIX (FEB. '08): MARC ROTENBERG & SUSAN LANDAU
Marc Rotenberg is co-editor of Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape. Mr. Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC, and teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Susan Landau is co-author of Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption.
Ms. Landau is Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
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25:40 minutes | 23.5 MB
EPISODE FIVE (JAN. '08): MATTHEW G. KIRSCHENBAUM & CATHERINE BRADY
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum is the author of Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. Mr. Kirschenbaum is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland.
Catherine Brady is the author of Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA.
Ms. Brady is Assistant Professor in the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of two collections of short stories, The End of the Class War and Curled in the Bed of Love (a winner of the 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction).
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30:03 minutes | 27.5 MB
EPISODE FOUR (DEC. '07): CRETIEN VAN CAMPEN & GEORGE BAKER
Cretien van Campen is the author of The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science.
Mr. van Campen is a social scientist at the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands. He is the author of two books on perception and visual art.
George Baker is the author of The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris.
Mr. Baker is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an editor at October magazine and October Books. He is the editor of James Coleman (MIT Press) and a frequent contributor to Artforum.
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34:19 minutes | 31.4 MB
EPISODE THREE (NOV. '07): OWEN J. FLANAGAN & CHRISTINE L. BORGMAN
Owen J. Flanagan is the author of The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World.
Mr. Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.
Christine L. Borgman is the author of Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet.
Ms. Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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25:43 minutes | 23.5 MB
EPISODE TWO (OCT. '07): PETER LUDLOW, MARK WALLACE, & PAUL R. ABRAMSON

Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace are the authors of The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse.

Mr. Ludlow is Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Semantics, Tense, and Time: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Natural Language (MIT Press, 1999), among other books, and the editor of Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (MIT Press, 2001) and High Noon on the Electronic Frontier (MIT Press, 1996).

Mr. Wallace is a freelance journalist who has written widely on virtual worlds and online games for a variety of publications, including Wired and the New York Times. He is the editor of leading metaverse blog 3pointD.com, and an author of Second Life: The Official Guide.
Paul R. Abramson is the author of Romance in the Ivory Tower: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience.
Mr. Abramson is Professor of Psychology at UCLA and the author or coauthor of many books, including Sarah: A Sexual Biography, With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality (with Steve Pinkerton), and Sexual Rights in America: The Ninth Amendment and the Pursuit of Happiness (with Steve Pinkerton and Mark Huppin).
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33:45 minutes | 30.9 MB
EPISODE ONE (SEPT. '07): SHERRY TURKLE & TARLETON GILLESPIE
Sherry Turkle is the editor of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With.
Ms. Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder and Director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self.
Tarleton Gillespie is the author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture.
Mr. Gillespie is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, with affiliations in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Information Science program. He is also a Fellow with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
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28:48 minutes | 26.4 MB

Audio Companion to Walking Tours of Boston's Made Land

This audio tour is meant to be used in conjunction with the book Walking Tours of Boston's Made Land, which explores Boston's past and present through 12 walks that trace the creation of the city's man-made land in the central waterfront, Back Bay, South End, Charlestown, and elsewhere. The podcast corresponds to the first walk: Central Waterfront.

Read by author Nancy Seasholes.

TOUR: CENTRAL WATERFRONT

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Download the full tour 88:30 minutes | 50.6 MB

Download individual stops:
Introduction
Stop 1: Town Dock in the 1630s and 1640s
Stop 2: North Street
Stop 3: Mill Creek
Stop 4: Scottow's Dock and Creek Square
Stop 5: Another archaeological site
Stop 6: Scott [sic] Alley
Stop 7: Town Dock in the 1670s
Stop 8: Merchants Row
Stop 9: Barricado and Long Wharf
Stop 10: Kilby Street
Stop 11: Oliver's Dock and Liberty Square
Stop 12: Fort Hill
Stop 13: Batterymarch
Stop 14: India Wharf development
Stop 15: Custom House Street
Stop 16: Central Wharf
Stop 17: Views of the India Wharf development
Stop 18: Custom House
Stop 19: State Street Block
Stop 20: 150 State Street
Stop 21: Central Street
Stop 22: Corner of State and Broad Streets
Stop 23: Town Dock in the 1700s and Faneuil Hall
Stop 24: Faneuil Hall (Quincy) Market project
Stop 25: Commercial Street at end of market buildings
Stop 26: Corner of Commercial and Cross Streets
Stop 27: Commercial and Fulton Streets
Stop 28: Commercial Street
Stop 29: Fulton Street, McLauthlin Building, falling groundwater/rotting foundation piles
Stop 30: Commercial Street and Commercial Wharf
Stop 31: Atlantic Avenue
Stop 32: Atlantic Avenue seawall
Stop 33: Boston fishing fleet
Stop 34: View up Long Wharf to Old State House

 


 
 
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