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Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of …

8/3/2026 • 57 min

Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–1932 (Lund Humphries, 2026) by Dr. Elizabeth Darling is about the architecture and design of broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s, examining the buildings which the BBC occupied in its founding decades, with a particular focus on Broadcasting House in London. It argues that these e… Play episode

Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhsta…
Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postw…
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authorit…
Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformat…
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime i…
Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Mark Crinson, "Aviationland: Heathrow and the Making of an Airport Landsca…
Daniel L. Gardner, "Thresholds of Digital Gameplay" (MIT Press, 2025)
Stefan Höltgen et al., "Commodore 64: Past, Present, and Future of a Home …
Gretchen Heefner, "Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Con…
Hector Amaya, "The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identificatio…
Fenwick McKelvey, "SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Com…
Spirituality, Science and Environmentalism in Taiwan
Adam Geczy, "Glasses" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Soraya Murray, "Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination" (MIT Pr…
The Emerging Anocracy: AI, Tech Oligarchs, and the Future of Democracy wit…
Ali Fard, "Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data" (U Minneso…
Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemi…
Meena Khandelwal, "Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women's Technolo…
Roberta J. Magnusson, "Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England: Sustainab…
Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw and Jonathan Gray eds., "Planet Digital…
Hayagreeva Rao and Henrich R Greve, "Ctrl+Alt+Doubt: Decoding the Language…
Bjørn Berge, "Smell: The Tale of a Fading Sense" (Reaktion Books, 2026)
Joseph Turow, "The Problem with Personalization: How Advertisers Learned t…
Chinese EVs: From Nordic Streets to Central Asian Hubs
Christian Martinez, "NYC Open Data Student Gallery" (Brooklyn College CUNY…
John Wills, "Doom Town, USA: The Nevada Test Site As Ground Zero of 1950s …
Dallas Liddle, "News Machines: The Systems of Daily Journalism in Britain,…
Shawn William Miller, "Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of …
Ijeoma Uchegbu, "Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our World" (H…
Thomas S. Mullaney, "How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information" …
Elizabeth Cotton, "UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health" (Policy…
Cleo Nisse, "Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting" (Princeto…
Jonathon W. Penney, "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power i…
Gareth Doherty, "Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change De…
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP…
John Longhurst, "Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on…
AI, Algocracy, and Democracy's Challenging Road Ahead with Andrew Sorota
Aditya Deshbandhu, "The 21st Century in 100 Games" (Routledge, 2024)
Shikha Jhingan, "The Female Playback in Bombay Cinema: Voice, Body, Techno…
Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan
Margaret O’Mara on the Clintons, Tech, and Memory
Ann Carlson, "Smog and Sunshine: The Surprising Story of How Los Angeles C…
Ashok Malhotra, "Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Sh…
Ralph Jones, "Microphone" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

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