Best Mark Hurst Podcasts (2025)

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Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows" from Sep 22, 2025

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Glenn Adamson, author, "A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present" Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Glenn Adamson" [0:05:23] - "Mark's comments" [0:46:04] Hot 8 Brass Band - "Remember the Time" [0:55:03]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156259…

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Mark Archuleta, "The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again" (U North Texas Press, 2025) 39:56

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In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Starr were not surprised. Before becoming a matinee idol, Starr had been the greatest bank robber of the horseback bandit era. Born in 1873, Cherokee out…

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Tea Gerbeza, "How I Bend Into More" (Anstruther Books, 2025) 38:36

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Based on Tea Gerbeza's experience with scoliosis, How I Bend Into More (Anstruther Books, 2025) re-articulates selfhood in the face of ableism and trauma. Meditating on pain, consent, and disability, this long poem builds a body both visually and linguistically, creating a multimodal space that forges Gerbeza's grammar of embodiment as an act of re…

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Special episode: How to future proof your business with Charlotte Stalin and Sarah James of Simmons & Simmons 38:01

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Today’s episode is a special one produced in association with Simmons & Simmons, an international law firm supporting financial institutions across the global regulatory landscape. It also forms part of a new Following the Rules series providing practical, actionable guidance to help listeners and the financial services firms they work for navigate…

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Karen Robert, "Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina" (U New Mexico Press, 2025) 1:04:55

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Driving Terror: Labor, Violence, and Justice in Cold War Argentina (U New Mexico Press, 2025) by Dr. Karen Robert tells the story of twenty-four Ford autoworkers in Argentina who were tortured and “disappeared” for their union activism in 1976, miraculously survived, and pursued a decades-long quest for truth and justice. In December 2018, more tha…

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Aurora Levins Morales, "Silt: Prose Poems" (Palabrera Press, 2019) 52:49

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In the late 1890s a US congressman argued that the United States had the right to seize Cuba because he believed it was made of silt that had washed out of the mouth of the Mississippi River which made it literally US soil. That story inspired Puerto Rican Jewish poet Aurora Levins Morales to apply for a writing residency in New Orleans, and to tra…

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Joseph Weizenbaum warned us about AI 50 years ago (feat. Faine Greenwood) from Sep 15, 2025

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Joseph Weizenbaum warned us about AI 50 years ago (feat. Faine Greenwood) Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Faine Greenwood" [0:05:42] - "Mark's comments" [0:41:13] Posthuman - "The Screens Of Our Lives" [0:54:49]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155999By Mark Hurst and WFMU

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Mike Reinis – Sculpturesque Drawings 28:30

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Mike Reinis is an inventive artist whose drawings are simply mesmerizing. He credits his high school and college art & sculpture classes with inspiring his unique approach to drawing to this day. Hear how he refound his love for art after many years, why drawing is wonderful from a time & meditation standpoint, and why there are no rules in art. Ch…

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Milestones for Big Tech... and Techtonic from Sep 8, 2025

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Milestones for Big Tech... and Techtonic Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's comments" Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - "Thank You" [0:53:38]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155884By Mark Hurst and WFMU

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FCA’s Charlotte Clark on the firms ‘over-interpreting’ Consumer Duty, how the watchdog plans to help City firms navigate compliance, and its role in supporting firms through rapid AI adoption 30:05

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Today’s guest discusses how some wholesale financial institutions may be unnecessarily “gold-plating” their efforts to comply with the Financial Conduct Authority’s Consumer Duty regime. She details how the regulator plans to both clarify and simplify its expectations of all firms subject to the far-reaching ruleset. She also discusses the FCA’s pl…

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Breanne Pleggenkuhle and Joseph A. Schafer, "Crime, Corrections, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses and Adaptations in the US Criminal Justice System" (Southern Illinois UP, 2025) 24:20

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While COVID-19 lockdowns affected nearly everyone worldwide, feelings of anxiety and fear were exacerbated for those already entangled in the criminal justice system. Scholars recognized the unique opportunity to study crime and the justice system’s response during this period, though they soon realized that determining the pandemic’s effects would…

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Michel-Yves Bollore and Olivier Bonnassies, "God, the Science, the Evidence" (Palomar, 2025) 43:54

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For more than four centuries, the scientific discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, and Freud created the impression that we could explain the workings of the Universe without the idea of a creator--God. By the beginning of the twentieth century, materialism had become the dominant theory of the time. And yet, with unexpected and astonishing f…

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Christopher Willard et al., "College Mental Health 101: A Guide for Students, Parents, and Professionals" (Oxford UP, 2025) 43:26

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With a growing number of students entering college with an existing mental health diagnosis, College Mental Health 101: A Guide for Students, Parents, and Professionals (Oxford UP, 2025) offers hope and clear direction to those struggling with mental illness. There is an undeniable mental health crisis on campuses these days. More students are anxi…

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Madness & Acute Religious Experiences, with Richard Saville-Smith 51:15

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Host Pierce Salguero sits down with Richard Saville-Smith, an independent scholar of madness, religion, and psychiatry. We discuss Richard’s book Acute Religious Experiences (2023), which argues that frameworks from Mad Studies can get us out from under the academy’s current habit of either pathologizing or sanitizing religious experiences. Along t…

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189 | Jonathan Stout Rockets Swing-Era Guitar Into the New Millennium 1:50:24

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It’s one of the most high-energy, foot-tapping, rump-shaking guitar styles you can name, and JONATHAN STOUT is the perfect player to funnel its magic straight into your ears and down to your fingertips — we’re talking swing guitar. It’s got an infectious groove nobody can ignore, and Jonathan is about to show you tons of licks and tricks, two sterl…

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Cory Doctorow, author and journalist from Sep 1, 2025

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Cory Doctorow, author and journalist Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Cory Doctorow" [0:02:28] - "Mark's comments" [0:45:51] Michael Hearst with Claudia Gonson - "Eyes Without A Face" [0:56:24]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155658By Mark Hurst and WFMU

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Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney, "Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration" (U California Press, 2025) 1:20:39

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Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration (open access) examines spaces, practices, and ideologies of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean basin from 300 BCE to 600 CE. Analyzing a wide range of sources—including legal texts, archaeological findings, documentary evidence, and visual materials—Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney argue that prison…

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Webb Keane, author, "Animals, Robots, Gods" from Aug 25, 2025

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Webb Keane, author, “Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination” Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Webb Keane" [0:03:17] - "Mark's comments" [0:43:18] Timothy Clover - "Trolley Car Line" [0:55:30]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155425By Mark Hurst and WFMU

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LaShawn Harris, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" (Beacon, 2025) 1:08:03

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On October 29, 1984, 66-year-old beloved Black disabled grandmother Eleanor Bumpurs was murdered in her own home. A public housing tenant 4 months behind on rent, Ms. Bumpurs was facing eviction when white NYPD officer Stephen Sullivan shot her twice with a 12-gauge shotgun. LaShawn Harris, 10 years old at the time, felt the aftershocks of the trag…

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Robyn Koslowitz, "Post-Traumatic Parenting: Break the Cycle and Become the Parent You Always Wanted to Be" (Broadleaf Books, 2025) 42:10

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Every good parent wants to create relationships with their children that are filled with joy, connection, and healthy attachment. Yet well-meaning but traumatized parents--those who suffered as children or who are dealing with traumatic events as adults--tend to see the world from a survival point of view. If that's you, you might suspect that your…

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Ashley M. Jones, "Lullaby for the Grieving" (Hub City Press, 2025) 35:43

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With previous work hailed by the New York Times as “unflinching” and “piercing,” Ashley M. Jones’s Lullaby for the Grieving (Hub City Press, 2025) is her most personal collection to date. In it, Jones studies the multifaceted nature of grief: the personal grief of losing her father, and the political grief tied to Black Southern identity. How does …

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Robert Cribb et al., "Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History" (Brill, 2022) 1:08:04

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Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees experienced the long months and years of captivity? And what does the creation of camps and the segregation of people in them mean for society as a whole? Detention Camps in Asia: The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asi…

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If/Then/Else - Sara Clemens and Stu Horvath fill in, with guest Brendan Keogh from Aug 18, 2025

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Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" [0:00:00] Brendan Keogh - "Interview with Sara and Stu Pt. 1" - Techtonic [0:02:17] GLaDOS from Portal (Ellen McLain) - "Still Alive" - Portal 2: Songs to Test By [0:29:40] Brendan Keogh - "Interview with Sara and Stu Pt. 2" - Techtonic [0:32:22] The Sound - "New Dark Age" - From the Lions Mouth [0:56:41]https:…

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Kate Herrity, "Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown" (Bristol UP, 2024) 1:07:54

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The soundscape of prison life is that of constant clangs, bangs and jangles. What is the significance of this cacophonous din to those who live and work with it? Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown (Bristol UP, 2024) tells the story of a year spent with a UK prison community, bringing its social world vividl…

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Sandra Hempel, "Controlling Women: The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Police Force" (Hurst, 2025) 39:52

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Violence against women is out of control. Conviction rates for rape are so low that most survivors think it pointless to report, or later regret doing so. Ruthless trafficking gangs run the sex trade. Women have no confidence in the Metropolitan Police. The year is 1914. As the First World War began, a group of British campaigners founded the Women…

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James Kimmel, Jr., "The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction—and How to Overcome It" (Random House, 2025) 52:29

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There is a hidden addiction plaguing humanity right now: revenge. Researchers have identified retaliation in response to real and imagined grievances as the root cause of most forms of human aggression and violence. From vicious tweets to road rage, murder-suicide, and armed insurrection, perpetrators almost always see themselves as victims seeking…

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REWIND to 2015 | Brad Gillis's Ozzy Adventures and More 1:09:22

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It’s one of the most exciting hired gun guitar stories in rock history: An up-and-coming guitarist from Alameda, CA, wakes up to a call from a person claiming to be Sharon Osbourne — a call that will launch him on the musical adventure of a lifetime. That guitarist, of course is BRAD GILLIS, and as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of No Guitar Is…

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Annie Rob – Painting in the Rude 20:31

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Welcome back to Art Dimensions: Beyond the Palette! Annie Rob aka Painting in the Rude creates work known for its joyful celebration of reinvention, self-empowerment, and an unabashed freedom of expression. She describes her approach to gleaning ideas from life as “beachcombing” - developing visual poetry from unexpected combinations & wordplay to …

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Adam Becker, author, "More Everything Forever" from Aug 11, 2025

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Adam Becker, author, "More Everything Forever" Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Adam Becker" [0:03:49] - "Mark's comments" [0:45:18] The Flaming Ember - "Robot in a Robot's World" [0:53:47]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154965By Mark Hurst and WFMU

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Three emerging dystopias: money, water, and truth from Jul 28, 2025

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Three emerging dystopias: money, water, and truth Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a - "Mark's comments" Kirk Pearson - "Bio Magnification" - n/a [0:21:33] - "Mark's comments" [0:22:30] Kirk Pearson - "Bio Magnification" - n/a [0:33:46] - "Mark's comments" [0:35:33] Casey & Strick - "Read A Book" - n/a [0:53:02]https://www.wfmu.org/playlis…

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Duncan Moench on "soylent screens" and producerism from Jul 14, 2025

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Duncan Moench on "soylent screens" and producerism Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Duncan Moench" [0:04:36] - "Mark's comments" [0:46:15] Posthuman - "The Screens Of Our Lives" [0:55:10]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153977By Mark Hurst and WFMU

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Ed Park, author, "An Oral History of Atlantis" from Aug 4, 2025

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Ed Park, author, "An Oral History of Atlantis" Kirk Pearson - "Theme from Techtonic" - n/a - "Interview with Ed Park" Donovan - "Atlantis" - single [0:53:44]https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154814By Mark Hurst and WFMU

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“Truth is a Pathless Land”: Krishnamurti and Revolutionary Spirituality with Connie Jones 1:41:12

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In this episode, “Truth is a Pathless Land,” we speak with Transformative Inquiry Program faculty member Connie Jones to explore the micropolitical stakes of revolutionary spirituality through Krishnamurti’s challenge to religious prescription, psychological conditioning, and egoic identification. We discuss techniqueless meditation, the primacy of…

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Special episode: How to track non-financial misconduct within your business with Smarsh's Shaun Hurst and former Standard Chartered surveillance chief Emily Wright 29:52

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Today’s episode is a special one produced in association with Smarsh, a technology firm providing global financial institutions with the tools to capture, store, and monitor their communications. It also marks the launch of a new Following the Rules series providing practical, actionable guidance to help listeners and the financial services firms t…

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When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Britton & Jared Lindahl 1:11:54

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Today I sit down with Willoughby Britton and Jared Lindahl, the interdisciplinary team from Brown University that is responsible for the “Varieties of Contemplative Experience” study on the challenges and adverse effects of meditation. We talk about the design, findings, and outcomes of the study, and how it opened up a new field of interdisciplina…

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Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst & Co., 2025) 46:04

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In the 200 years since Blake's death, the visionary artist, poet and writer has become a household name, often beloved. Yet many struggle to comprehend his kaleidoscopic ideas; how they speak to human longings and the challenges of living in anxious times. Philosopher and psychotherapist Mark Vernon provides a fresh route into Blake, taking him at …

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Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst & Co., 2025) 46:04

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In the 200 years since Blake's death, the visionary artist, poet and writer has become a household name, often beloved. Yet many struggle to comprehend his kaleidoscopic ideas; how they speak to human longings and the challenges of living in anxious times. Philosopher and psychotherapist Mark Vernon provides a fresh route into Blake, taking him at …

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Therí Alyce Pickens, "What Had Happened Was" (Duke UP, 2025) 1:19:32

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In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Therí Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topics ranging from Black life, popular culture, and history to individual encounters with emotion, love, and chronic disability, Pickens crafts and questions the stories we tell ourselves about who we are…

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Alexander Douglas, "Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self" (Random House, 2025) 1:08:43

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In Against Identity, philosopher Alexander Douglas seeks an alternative wisdom. Searching the work of three thinkers – ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, Dutch Enlightenment thinker Benedict de Spinoza, and 20th Century French theorist René Girard – he explores how identity can be a spiritual violence that leads us away from truth. Through their…

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Michael Stauch, "Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) 1:05:09

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The criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise of Black political control in the 1970s. Wildcat of the Streets documents how the “community policing” approach of Mayor Coleman Young (1974–1993)—including neighborhood police stations, affirmative ac…