The Broken Machine (Jones-Imhotep 2026)

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English Podcast starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:16:42 Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:41:549 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:04:33 Reference Edward Jones-Imhotep (2026). The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self. The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14893.001.0001 ‌Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit Academy of Management PDW on Space Economy Registration Flyer https://cto.aom.org/discussion/flagship-aom-2026-pdw-space-economy-consolidating-a-research-agenda-8 AOM SIM Curriculum Committee https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/curriculum-committee AOM SIM-Bytes Episode 1 - Dr Ed Freeman https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EBSA7WvQNSI Linkedin Post By Professor Erica Steckler https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erica-steckler-ph-d-427272_simbyte-episode-1-ed-freeman-activity-7469092002098225152-PbHM 🎙️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, and to this episode of Weekend Book Review. I’m very glad you’re here. Some books do not arrive with noise. They arrive quietly, almost like a thought one has been postponing for years. The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self, published on 19 May 2026 by The MIT Press, feels to me like one of those books. 📚🛠️ In this episode, I’m sitting with Edward Jones-Imhotep’s remarkable and unsettling study of breakdown, not merely as a mechanical event, but as a deeply human drama. What happens when a machine fails? What sort of society reveals itself in that moment? And perhaps more intimately, what kind of self is called into being when order falters? 🌫️⚙️ Jones-Imhotep, a distinguished historian of science and technology at the University of Toronto, has long been attentive to the fragile boundary between systems and selves. Readers who know his earlier work, especially The Unreliable Nation, will recognize that rare quality in his scholarship: the ability to make machines feel historical, political, and strangely personal. Here, he turns to the modern Atlantic world and traces how broken technologies, from the guillotine and railway systems to slave societies, Gantt charts, and Cold War electronics, became instruments for deciding who belonged, who was disciplined, and who stood outside the imagined order of democracy and civility. 🕰️🔍 There is something haunting in that idea. That a breakdown is never only a breakdown. That a faulty machine may also become a mirror. And that, for more than two centuries, societies have used such moments not only to repair devices, but to judge character, emotion, responsibility, even worth. This book seems to suggest that the modern self was shaped not in the smooth functioning of technology, but in those uneasy instants when things stopped working. 💭 So today, on Weekend Book Review, I want to linger with this book carefully, and ask what it means to read malfunction as culture, as politics, and as a way of understanding the moral architecture of modern life. 🧠✨ My thanks to Edward Jones-Imhotep and The MIT Press for this thought-provoking work. If you enjoy these conversations, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, and also follow the Weekend Researcher channel on YouTube 🎧📺. You can also find the podcast on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcasts 🍎🎙️ And as we begin, I want to leave you with a small, restless question: when a machine breaks, are we really watching technology fail, or are we glimpsing the hidden rules by which a society imagines itself? 🌌

The unintended (negative) consequence of training (Gyensare et al., 2025) | ABDC-A* JOOP

English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:49:49 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:10:05 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:27:44 Reference Gyensare, M. A., Soetan, G., Ogbonnaya, C., Agyapong, J.-A., & Roodbari, H. (2025). Sustaining employees thriving at work through polychronicity and work engagement: The unintended (negative) consequence of training. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 98, e70017. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70017 ‌Youtube Channel ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠ Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit AOM SIM Curriculum Committee https://sim.aom.org/curriculum/curriculum-committee AOM SIM-Bytes Episode 1 - Dr Ed Freeman https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EBSA7WvQNSI Linkedin Post By Professor Erica Steckler https://www.linkedin.com/posts/erica-steckler-ph-d-427272_simbyte-episode-1-ed-freeman-activity-7469092002098225152-PbHM Welcome to 🎙️✨ Revise and Resubmit ✨🎙️, the podcast where academic research meets human stories, where journal articles become conversations, and where every paper invites us to see familiar workplaces in a slightly different light. 📚 Today, we turn our attention to an intriguing article published in the prestigious Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, an ABDC-A* ranked journal that has long served as a home for rigorous scholarship on work, people, and organizations. The paper, "Sustaining Employees Thriving at Work Through Polychronicity and Work Engagement: The Unintended (Negative) Consequence of Training", by Michael Asiedu Gyensare, Gbemisola Soetan, Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Joan-Ark Agyapong, and Hamid Roodbari, asks a deceptively simple question. 🌱 Why do some employees continue to learn, grow, and flourish even when their workdays seem crowded with competing demands? Imagine a hotel lobby on a busy afternoon. A frontline employee welcomes guests, answers calls, resolves complaints, coordinates with colleagues, and somehow still finds room to learn something new. We often celebrate this ability as efficiency. Yet beneath that surface lies a deeper story about attention, energy, and the quiet ways people sustain themselves at work. 🧩 The authors explore the idea of polychronicity, a person's preference for handling multiple activities at once. Their findings suggest that people comfortable with juggling tasks often become more engaged in their work, and that engagement fuels learning, one of the key dimensions of thriving at work. But here the story takes an unexpected turn. 🎭 Training, something organizations usually view as unquestionably beneficial, can sometimes become a burden. When training demands too much time, effort, or emotional energy, it begins to erode the very engagement it seeks to create. What appears to be nourishment can, under certain circumstances, become exhaustion. There is something quietly profound about that insight. The path to growth is not always blocked by a lack of opportunities. Sometimes it is crowded by too many of them. 🌟 As we explore this study, conducted with 261 frontline hotel employees and their colleagues across ten four-star hotels in Ghana, we will reflect on a timeless organizational dilemma. How do we help people become better without overwhelming them in the process? 🤔 And perhaps the deeper question is this: when organizations offer us more opportunities to learn, how do we know whether those opportunities are helping us thrive, or merely teaching us new ways to become tired? 🙏 Our sincere thanks to the authors for their thoughtful contribution and to John Wiley & Sons Ltd and the British Psychological Society for publishing this important work. 📖 If you enjoy conversations about cutting-edge academic research, please subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, YouTube channel Weekend Researcher, Amazon Prime, and Apple Podcasts. 🔔🎧 Until next time, keep reading, keep questioning, and keep revising. 📚✨

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