The 7 Best Into the Zone Podcast Episodes
1) The Ghost in the Codec
At the dawn of the digital era, a group of engineers tasked with audio compression had to decide what information to keep, and what to leave behind. What was signal, and what was noise? Fast forward t...Show More
2) It’s Always Sunny in the Dialectic
Look on the bright side! In a country obsessed with positivity, Hari traces the path of exiled German intellectual Theodor Adorno to sunny California, where he gets stuck in traffic with the British w...Show More
3) The Guru of Ojai
In the 1920s, a messianic visitor to Hari's family home unveils the connection between Indian Independence movement and the astral plane. Nearly a century later, Hari travels to the orange groves of S...Show More
4) The Last Archive: The Word For Man Is Ishi
In 1911, a Native American man, the only member of his community to survive a genocide, encountered the new Anthropology department at Berkeley University. What happened next helped to define the ethi...Show More
5) When We Were Cyber
Cyborgs, cyberspace, mind-melting techno. In the mid-’90s, the future had arrived. To find out what happened to it, Hari pays a visit to philosopher Manuel DeLanda, and to the legendary artist ORLAN, ...Show More
6) That Ain't Country
Country? Rap? Lil Nas X’s chart-topping “Old Town Road” revived a long debate about borders and boundaries in American popular music. To sort out this strange history, Hari heads down to the foothills...Show More
7) Druid Like Me
Hari’s visit to Stonehenge on the solstice prompts an investigation into the gray zone between being a native and a migrant, and his memories of growing up in Essex during the Thatcher years. He also ...Show More
8) Malcolm Gladwell is Experimenting on Revisionist History
Sharing a preview of the new season of Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked. This season, Malcolm is obsessed with experiments – natural experiment...Show More
9) Finding Yourself with Not Lost
Here’s a special preview of Pushkin's newest show, Not Lost, a podcast about finding yourself in places you've never been. Host Brendan Francis Newnam takes us around the world, learning about n...Show More
10) A Literary Kickback with Well-Read Black Girl
Sharing a new show from Pushkin, the team behind Into the Zone. On Well-Read Black Girl, host Glory Edim has deep, honest conversations with authors of color about the art, craft and power of the writ...Show More
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