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Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)

6/16/2026 • 68 min

Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts (Duke UP, 2026), Doucet analyzes the historical and material production of the nineteenth-century Parisian photographer’s famous and numerous photographic firsts. Focusing on these oft-labeled … Play episode

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Amy Thomas, "Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play" (Hart Pu…
Learning Languages on Social Media
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Yosef Grodzinsky, "How Deeply Human Is Language?: Chomsky, the Brain, and …
Kate Brown, "Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present and Future of the …
Robert Rouphail, "Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Di…
Paul Stob, "Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nat…
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Angela I. Fritz, "AI and Digital Leadership: Transforming Libraries, Archi…
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Angus Burgin on the Rise of the Internet
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Angela Dimitrakaki, "Feminism. Art. Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2026)
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Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney eds., "Media Rurality" (Duke UP, 2026)
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Raffaele Danna, "The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmet…
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: A Conversation with Stephen Sims
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