I’ve got the first UNLV Gaming Podcast in about 6 months posted. It’s Kah-Wee Lee’s excellent Colloquium talk. Here are the details:
31-September 15, 2011
Kah-Wee Lee
"Taming Vice: How Machines and Architecture Changed the Culture of Gambling"
Lee is a doctoral candidate in the department of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation looks at the taming of vice in the context of postcolonial urbanism. Taking as his sites the recent casino developments in Singapore and Macau, he looks at how architectural design, urban planning and other environmental technologies help to draw the line between what is tolerated and what is not. His work at the Lied Library focuses on the historical evolution of gaming machines as part of this larger trajectory.
Listen to the audio file (mp3)
It’s a very interesting talk–it’s fascinating to get another perspective on how gambling is contained (Lee is from Singapore and speaks about that city-state’s casinos). Hopefully’ I’ll be lining up some good interviews between now and the next Colloquium talk in December.