Coming Soon: Season 4
The Last Archive
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
This upcoming season on The Last Archive: early artificial intelligence, the forgotten origins of social network theory, invasive species panics, freelance wiretappers, time travelers, and science fiction family histories. How do we know what we know? Why does it feel like sometimes it’s impossible to know anything at all? Host emeritus Jill Lepore passes the torch to producer Ben Naddaff-Hafrey for six gripping stories about the history of truth.
The Last Archive Season 4 launches on June 22nd with new episodes out weekly. Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the whole season at once, ad-free. Find Pushkin+ on the Last Archive showpage in Apple Podcasts, or at pushkin.fm/plus.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season 4 of The Last Archive, the show about how we know what we know, how |
| 0:22.0 | we used to know things, and why it seems sometimes lately, like we don't know anything at |
| 0:26.6 | all anymore. |
| 0:27.6 | I went looking for stories about the production of knowledge, moments when new ways of knowing |
| 0:54.8 | things were getting created, which led me to some pretty strange places. |
| 1:04.8 | Let's Dr. Frankenstein's Monster, isn't it? |
| 1:07.1 | They were shanning all together, bringing back the nest. |
| 1:13.3 | This season on The Last Archive, you'll hear stories about the dawn of social network |
| 1:17.1 | theory. |
| 1:18.1 | Of course I go, oh my god. |
| 1:20.3 | In terms of the history of ideas, that was really a breakthrough. |
| 1:25.5 | Mid-century songwriting machines, an appartee for time travelers in the 1980s. |
| 1:35.0 | I do remember thinking serving alcohol to poets wasn't a great idea. |
| 1:42.5 | All this and more on the new season of The Last Archive, the full season will drop on |
| 1:47.0 | Apple Podcasts on June 22nd. |
| 1:49.4 | To binge it early and add free, sign up for Pushkin Plus on the Apple Show page or at Pushkin.fm. |
| 1:55.7 | Otherwise, you can listen weekly, starting June 22nd, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
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