Mit Press imprint: 940 books
The Second Digital Turn
Design Beyond Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.
Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the...
Low Power to the People
Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
An examination of how activists combine political advocacy and technical practice in their promotion of the emancipatory potential of local low-power FM radio.
The United States ushered in a new era of small-scale broadcasting in 2000 when it began issuing low-power FM (LPFM) licenses for noncommercial...
The Greenest Nation?
A New History of German Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
An account of German environmentalism that shows the influence of the past on today's environmental decisions.
Germany enjoys an enviably green reputation. Environmentalists in other countries applaud its strict environmental laws, its world-class green technology firms, its phase-out of nuclear...
Adjusted Margin
Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public.
This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or “Xerox machine,” became a creative medium for artists and activists during...
Beyond Bibliometrics
Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing ways we measure scholarly performance and research impact.
Bibliometrics has moved well beyond the mere tracking of bibliographic citations. The web enables new ways to measure scholarly productivity and impact, making available...
Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence
Theories, Methods, and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
A comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that are inspired by self-organizing biological processes and structures.
by Benjamin H. Bratton, Søren Bro Pold, Christian Ulrik Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.
Mobile apps promise to deliver (h)appiness to our devices at the touch of a finger or two. Apps offer gratifyingly immediate access to connection and entertainment. The array of...
by Hans Blix
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2008
From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.
In 2002 Dr. Hans Blix, then chief United Nations weapons inspector, led his team on a search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Before the United States went to war with Iraq the next...
by Akbar Ganji
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.
Akbar Ganji, called by some “Iran's most famous dissident,” was a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. But, troubled by the regime's repressive nature, he became an investigative...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media.
Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of the United States came as something of a surprise—to many analysts, journalists, and voters. The *New York Times'*s The Upshot gave Hillary Clinton an 85 percent...
Democracy Despite Itself
Why a System That Shouldn't Work at All Works So Well
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Why democracy is the most effective form of government despite irrational (and sometime oblivious) voters and flawed (and sometimes inept) politicians.
Voters often make irrational decisions based on inaccurate and irrelevant information. Politicians are often inept, corrupt, or out of touch...
Hate Spin
The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
How right-wing political entrepreneurs around the world use religious offense—both given and taken—to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents.
In the United States, elements of the religious right fuel fears of an existential Islamic threat, spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric into mainstream...
Stuck in the Shallow End
Education, Race, and Computing
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
An investigation into why so few African American and Latino high school students are studying computer science reveals the dynamics of inequality in American schools.
The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately...
by Peter Birch Sørensen, Pedro Gomes, George Economides
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Theoretically and empirically informed studies on the role and efficiency of the public sector, public wage and employment policy, privatization, tax policy, and fiscal sustainability.
The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, total government...