Mit Press imprint: 940 books
by Daren C. Brabham
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
A concise introduction to crowdsourcing that goes beyond social media buzzwords to explain what crowdsourcing really is and how it works.
Ever since the term “crowdsourcing” was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe, group activities ranging from the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary...
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
The Life and Inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world.
The Economist called Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922–2012) “the Edison of our age,” but this apt comparison doesn't capture the full range...
Disconnected
Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
How young people think about the moral and ethical dilemmas they encounter when they share and use online content and participate in online communities.
Fresh from a party, a teen posts a photo on Facebook of a friend drinking a beer. A college student repurposes an article from Wikipedia for...
Histories of the Immediate Present
Inventing Architectural Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism—Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri—advanced specific versions of modernism.
Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor...
Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
Fascist Pigs
Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion.
In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage...
Entanglements
Conversations on the Human Traces of Science, Technology, and Sound
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Conversations with a founder of the influential Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approach in science and technology studies offer an introduction to the field.
Science and technology studies (STS) is a relatively young but influential field. Scholars from disciplines as diverse as urban...
Incontinence of the Void
Economico-Philosophical Spandrels
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.
If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman...
by Jerry L. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
A lucid and wide-ranging meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts.
Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works—not only as an artistic medium but also as a way of knowing. With this provocative observation, Thompson begins a wide-ranging...
Frankenstein
Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially...
Sound as Popular Culture
A Research Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound.
The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an...
Robotics Through Science Fiction
Artificial Intelligence Explained Through Six Classic Robot Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Six classic science fiction stories and commentary that illustrate and explain key algorithms or principles of artificial intelligence.
This book presents six classic science fiction stories and commentary that illustrate and explain key algorithms or principles of artificial intelligence....
Philosophical Provocations
55 Short Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.
In Philosophical Provocations, Colin McGinn offers a series of short, sharp essays that take on philosophical problems ranging from the concept of mind to paradox, altruism,...
Prehension
The Hand and the Emergence of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
In praise of the hand: A philosopher considers the crucial role of the hand in human evolution, particularly with respect to language.
“McGinn is an ingenious philosopher who thinks like a laser and writes like a dream.”
—Steven Pinker
This book is a hymn to the hand. In Prehension,...