Technology's Storytellers
Technology's Storytellers
Nathaniel Stanton
Technology's Storytellers is a podcast developed by the Society for the History of Technology to explore present issues through the lens of the history of technology.
Black Software, Technology, and Consciousness
On the tenth episode of Technology's Storyteller's, host Bucky Stanton speaks with Dr. Charlton McIlwain, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University about his most recent book Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter. He is also author of Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns and Death in Black and White: Death, Ritual and Family Ecology.   Technology's Storytellers is a podcast developed by the Society for the History of Technology to explore present issues through the lens of the history of technology- find us on youtube, spotify, apple and google podcasts, and more.    Thanks for watching!  Connect with us on twitter @SocHistTech  Visit our website: www.historyoftechnology.org  Read Technology & Culture online: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/194 Music by Darla, check out more here: https://darlaphilly.bandcamp.com/ and on all other music streaming platforms.
Aug 24, 2020
49 min
The Shaping of South Africa and the Legacy of so-called "Great Men" with Dr. William Storey
On the ninth episode of Technology's Storyteller's, host Bucky Stanton speaks with Dr. William Storey, professor, and chair of history at Millsaps College. William is author of Guns, Race and Power in Colonial South Africa and Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius.  Technology's Storytellers is a podcast developed by the Society for the History of Technology to explore present issues through the lens of the history of technology.    Thanks for watching!   Connect with us on twitter @SocHistTech   Visit our website: www.historyoftechnology.org   Read Technology & Culture online: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/194  Music by Darla, check out more here: https://darlaphilly.bandcamp.com/ and on all other music streaming platforms.
Jul 21, 2020
52 min
Blackness and the History of Technology in America with Dr. Rayvon Fouché
On the seventh episode of Technology's Storyteller's, host Bucky Stanton speaks with Dr. Rayvon Fouche, Director of American Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Purdue University. He is the author of Game Changer: The Techno-Scientific Revolution in Sports and Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation.    Technology's Storytellers is a podcast developed by the Society for the History of Technology to explore present issues through the lens of the history of technology - find us on youtube, spotify, apple and google podcasts, and more.    Thanks for watching!   Connect with us on twitter @SocHistTech   Visit our website: www.historyoftechnology.org   Read Technology & Culture online: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/194  Music by Darla, check out more here: https://darlaphilly.bandcamp.com/ and on all other music streaming platforms.
Jul 21, 2020
38 min
Racism, Lung Capacity and the Spirometer with Dr. Lundy Braun
On the eighth episode of Technology's Storyteller's, host Bucky Stanton speaks with Dr. Lundy Braun, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Africana Studies at Brown University. She’s also author of Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics.   Technology's Storytellers is a podcast developed by the Society for the History of Technology to explore present issues through the lens of the history of technology- find us on youtube, spotify, apple and google podcasts, and more.    Thanks for watching!  Connect with us on twitter @SocHistTech   Visit our website: www.historyoftechnology.org   Read Technology & Culture online: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/194  Music by Darla, check out more here: https://darlaphilly.bandcamp.com/ and on all other music streaming platforms.
Jul 21, 2020
28 min
Slavery, Sugarcane and American Modernity with Ashley Rogers
On the sixth episode of Technology's Storyteller's, host Bucky Stanton speaks with Ashley Rogers, Executive Director for the Whitney plantation. Besides her work as director, she has an M.A in History from Colorado State University and is currently a PhD Student at Louisiana State University in the Department of History.  Ashley discusses the relationship between her historical and museum work, the connections between slavery, sugarcane, and industrial labor and the continued legacies of racial injustice in the area surrounding the plantation today.    Technology's Storytellers is a podcast developed by the Society for the History of Technology to explore present issues through the lens of the history of technology.    Thanks for listening!    Connect with us on twitter @SocHistTech   Visit our website: www.historyoftechnology.org   Read Technology & Culture online: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/194  Music by Darla, check out more here: https://darlaphilly.bandcamp.com/ and on all other music streaming platforms.
Jul 10, 2020
35 min
Black Self-Armament and the Civil Rights Movement with Dr. Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton
On the fifth episode of Technology's Storyteller's, host Bucky Stanton speaks with Dr. Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. In this episode she outlines a captivating and important history of black self-defense in America. Selika further discusses the technology of the gun and debates about black self-armament today. You can find her historical work in the edited volume, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century America: Closing Ranks and in her new forthcoming book, Honorable Men: The Deacons for Defense and Justice and Armed Self Defense in Louisiana.  Technology's Storytellers is a podcast developed by the Society for the History of Technology to explore present issues through the lens of the history of technology.    Thanks for listening!  Connect with us on twitter @SocHistTech   Visit our website: www.historyoftechnology.org   Read Technology & Culture online: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/194  Music by Darla, check out more here: https://darlaphilly.bandcamp.com/ and on all other music streaming platforms.
Jul 10, 2020
43 min
On COVID's Clear Skies with Dr. Sara B. Pritchard
On the fourth episode of Technology's Storyteller's, host Bucky Stanton talks with Dr. Sara Pritchard about clearer skies resulting from COVID-19's slowing down of industrial society. Dr. Pritchard further discusses the historical processes which led to a atmosphere full of pollutants and a night sky with reduced visibility from light pollution. Dr. Pritchard also discusses her conceptual lens of "envirotechnical" and its uses. She then closes the interview with a plea for avoiding the pitfalls of environmentalism and seeing the COVID pandemic's effect on the environment through discourses of environmental justice instead. Technology's Storytellers is a podcast developed by the Society for the History of Technology to explore present issues through the lens of the history of technology. Thanks for watching! Connect with us on twitter @SocHistTech Visit our website: www.historyoftechnology.org Read Technology & Culture online: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/194
May 15, 2020
17 min
Drugs, Technology and Harm Reduction with Dr. Nancy D. Campbell
On the third episode of Technology's Storyteller's, host Bucky Stanton talks with Dr. Nancy D. Campbell about the intersection of the global pandemic with the preexisting conditions of the opioid crisis. Dr. Campbell further discusses the historical processes and social movements which led the way towards using naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug, as a harm reduction technology. Dr. Campbell further details the conceptual tools she uses, then closes the interview with a plea for harm reduction infrastructures - technical, legal and social.    Technology's Storytellers is a podcast developed by the Society for the History of Technology to explore present issues through the lens of the history of technology.    Thanks for watching!  Connect with us on twitter @SocHistTech   Visit our website: www.historyoftechnology.org   Read Technology & Culture online: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/194   Music by Darla, check out more here: https://darlaphilly.bandcamp.com/ and on all other music streaming platforms.
May 15, 2020
21 min
Innovation & Everyday Technology with Dr. Andrew Russell
On the second episode of Technology's Storyteller's, host Bucky Stanton talks with Dr. Andrew Russell, about changes in innovation and everyday technology resulting from the global pandemic. Dr. Russell further discusses the historical processes which led to our present obsession with innovation and discusses concepts that help him make sense of it all. Lastly, Dr. Russell leaves viewers with some final thoughts about technological society and maintenance in the COVID-19 moment.    Technology's Storytellers is a podcast developed by the Society for the History of Technology to explore present issues through the lens of the history of technology.    Thanks for watching!   Connect with us on twitter @SocHistTech   Visit our website: www.historyoftechnology.org   Read Technology & Culture online: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/194  Music by Darla, check out more here: https://darlaphilly.bandcamp.com/ and on all other music streaming platforms.
May 15, 2020
17 min
On "Flatten the Curve" with Arwen P. Mohun
On the first episode of Technology's Storyteller's, host Bucky Stanton talks with President-Elect of the society, Dr. Arwen P. Mohun, about "Flatten the Curve" and the history of representations of risk. Dr. Mohun further discusses the historical significance of "Flatten the Curve" and leaves viewers with some final thoughts about historical information in the COVID-19 moment.    Technology's Storytellers is a podcast developed by the Society for the History of Technology to explore present issues through the lens of the history of technology.    Thanks for watching!   Connect with us on twitter @SocHistTech  Visit our website: www.historyoftechnology.org  Read Technology & Culture online: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/194   Music by Darla, check out more here: https://darlaphilly.bandcamp.com/ and on all other music streaming platforms.
May 15, 2020
13 min