Mit Press imprint: 940 books
Fracking the Neighborhood
Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
What happens when natural gas drilling moves into an urban area: how communities in North Texas responded to the environmental and health threats of fracking.
When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of...
by Jill Lindsey Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists.
The widespread but virtually invisible problem of pesticide drift—the airborne movement of agricultural pesticides into residential areas—has...
Instituting Nature
Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
A study of how encounters between forestry bureaucrats and indigenous forest managers in Mexico produced official knowledge about forests and the state.
Greater knowledge and transparency are often promoted as the keys to solving a wide array of governance problems. In Instituting Nature, Andrew...
New Earth Politics
Essays from the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Prominent scholars and practitioners consider the role of global environmental politics in the face of increasing environmental stress.
Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political and social...
Taking [A]part
The Politics and Aesthetics of Participation in Experience-Centered Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
A critical inquiry into the value and experience of participation in design research.
In Taking [A]part, John McCarthy and Peter Wright consider a series of boundary-pushing research projects in human-computer interaction (HCI) in which the design of digital technology is used to inquire into...
Fun, Taste, & Games
An Aesthetics of the Idle, Unproductive, and Otherwise Playful
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Reclaiming fun as a meaningful concept for understanding games and play.
“Fun” is somewhat ambiguous. If something is fun, is it pleasant? Entertaining? Silly? A way to trick students into learning? Fun also has baggage—it seems inconsequential, embarrassing, child's play. In Fun, Taste,...
The Commons in History
Culture, Conflict, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.
The history of the commons—jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use—provides a useful context for current debates...
by Frank H. Guenther
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
A comprehensive and unified account of the neural computations underlying speech production, offering a theoretical framework bridging the behavioral and the neurological literatures.
In this book, Frank Guenther offers a comprehensive, unified account of the neural computations underlying...
New Tendencies
Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961 - 1978)
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
An account of a major international art movement originating in the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s, which anticipated key aspects of information aesthetics.
New Tendencies, a nonaligned modernist art movement, emerged in the early 1960s in the former Yugoslavia, a nonaligned country. It represented...
Here/There
Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current “drone vision” works.
"Telepresence” allows us to feel present—through vision, hearing, and even touch—at a remote location by means of real-time...
Screen Ecologies
Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
How new media and visual artists provide alternative ways for understanding and visualizing the entanglements of media and the environment in the Asia-Pacific.
Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental...
Voicetracks
Attuning to Voice in Media and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The affects, aesthetics, and ethics of voice in the new materialist turn, explored through encounters with creative works in media and the arts.
Moved by the Aboriginal understandings of songlines or dreaming tracks, Norie Neumark's Voicetracks seeks to deepen an understanding of voice through...
Laboratory Lifestyles
The Construction of Scientific Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work.
The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities....
Ecstatic Worlds
Media, Utopias, Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's “Family of Man,” Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.
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