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Coming Soon: Season 4

Jun 08, 20232 min
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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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Transcript

Speaker 1

Pushkin. Welcome to season four of The Last Archive, the show about how we know what we know, how we used to know things, and why it seems sometimes lately like we don't know anything at all anymore yet. But we're going to pick up speed. I'm Ben Matta Haffrey. I used to produce this show, but this season Jill Lapour has given me the keys to the archive, and I've dug up six stories about truth, doubt and some of the wildest creations of the twentieth century.

Speaker 2

What the heck what that is?

Speaker 1

Where did you find this? I went looking for stories about the production of knowledge, moments when new ways of knowing things were getting created, which led me to some pretty strange places.

Speaker 3

There was a nude couple who claimed that they were Adam and Eve.

Speaker 1

Well, it's doctor Frankenstein's monster, isn't it.

Speaker 2

They were standing all together, Bring Back the Nest, Bring Back the Nest.

Speaker 1

This season on The Last Archive, you'll hear stories about the dawn of social network theory. Of course, I go, oh.

Speaker 3

My god, in terms of the history of ideas, that was really a.

Speaker 1

Breakthrough mid century songwriting machines. I'm not an industrial spy. I'm a graduate student and a party for time travelers in the nineteen eighties. I do remember thinking serving alcohol to poets wasn't a great idea. All this and more on the new season of The Last Archive. The full season will drop on Apple Podcasts on June twenty second. To bing it early in ad free, sign up for Pushkin Plus on the Apple show page or at pushkin

dot Fm. Otherwise, you can listen weekly starting June twenty second, wherever you listen to podcast o

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