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Deirdre Loughridge & Thomas Patteson, "The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments" …

4/30/2026 • 47 min

The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (Reaktion, 2026) by Dr. Deirdre Loughridge & Dr. Thomas Patteson is a guided tour through centuries of instruments that never existed. From ancient myths to futuristic media, these imagined devices appear in literature, theory, video games and art, at times echoing real instruments, other times pushing far beyond the b… Play episode

Scott Solomon, "Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodi…
Vindhya Buthpitiya, "A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Pho…
Raffaele Danna, "The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmet…
A Shakeup Is Coming for the Nation-State: A Conversation with Stephen Sims
Karen Hao, "Empire of AI: Inside the Race for Total Domination" (Allan Lan…
Roland Betancourt, "Disneyland and the Rise of Automation: How Technology …
The Information State: How is the State Surveilling and Manipulating us Th…
Sarah Murray, "Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI" (NYU Press, …
David Blumenthal and James A. Morone, "Whiplash: From the Battle for Obama…
Adrian Woolfson, "On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Art…
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Kristan Stoddart, "Russia's Hybrid Warfare Offensive Against the West" (de…
Ibrahim J. Gedeon and Kyle Murray, "Automata: The Power of AI Integrated w…
Keith Cooper, "Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact" (Reakti…
Nabil Ali, "Gold from Newton's Apple Tree: Historical Recipes for Natural …
David Kirsch on the Dot Com Bubble and Bust
Alberto Galasso, "The Management of Innovation: Managing and Creating Tech…
Flower Darby, "The Joyful Online Teacher: Finding Our Fizz in Asynchronous…
Peter D. McDonald, "The Impossible Reversal: A History of How We Play" (U …
The Green Transition and the Politics of Lithium Extraction
David Arditi, "Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Tapin…
Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the H…
Tim Altenhof, "Breathing Space: The Architecture of Pneumatic Beings" (Zon…
Eivind Røssaak, "The Cory Arcangel Hack: Digital Culture and Aesthetic Pra…
Wout Saelens, "Fossil Consumerism: Energy, Ecology and Everyday Life in th…
Isabelle Held, "Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies" (Du…
Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
Caste and Tech with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute
Vojta Hybl, "Rocks: A Guide to the Stones Around Us and the Stories They T…
Steffan Blayney, "Health and Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and…
Sidra Hamidi, "After Fission: Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic A…
Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese: From Ancien…
Charles G. Curtin, "Place-Based Solutions: The Power of Regenerative Think…
Lisa Nakamura, "The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Inte…
P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds., "Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: …
Sam Illingworth and Rachel Forsyth, "GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining…
Courtney Humphries, "Climate Change and the Future of Boston" (Anthem Pres…
César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Alle…
Susannah B. Mintz, "Hypochondria: In Sickness and in Story" (Reaktion, 202…
Marianna Dudley, "Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain by Ma…
Michael Bycroft, "Gems and the New Science: Matter and Value in the Scient…
Britt Paris, "Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Grou…
Christiane Tristl, "Turning Water into Commodity: Digital Innovation and t…
Rebecca Sharpless, "People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North …
Patrick Chung, "Standardizing Empire: The US Military, Korea, and the Orig…
Amelia Acker, "Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms" (MIT Pre…
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (…
Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (M…
Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (M…

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