The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
Biopolitical Screens
Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
An investigation of the aesthetics and politics of new visual media under twenty-first-century capitalism, from console games to virtual reality to video installation art.
In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi Väliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual...
When the Lights Went Out
A History of Blackouts in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Blackouts—whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism—offer snapshots of electricity's increasingly central role in American society.
Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout...
Control
Digitality as Cultural Logic
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
An examination of digitality not simply as a technical substrate but also as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity.
Is there a cultural logic of what we have come to call the information age? Have the technologies and techniques centered on the computer...
For Fun and Profit
A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The free and open source software movement, from its origins in hacker culture, through the development of GNU and Linux, to its commercial use today.
In the 1980s, there was a revolution with far-reaching consequences—a revolution to restore software freedom. In the early 1980s, after decades...
The Regulation of International Trade
The WTO Agreements on Trade in Goods
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
A detailed examination of WTO agreements regulating trade in goods, discussing legal context, policy background, economic rationale, and case law.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has extended its institutional arsenal since the Kennedy round in the early 1960s. The current...
by Petros C. Mavroidis
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
A detailed examination of the GATT regime for international trade, discussing the negotiating record, policy background, economic rationale, and case law.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created alongside other towering achievements of the post-World War II era, including...
Recoding Gender
Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek”...
Global Cities
Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial,...
The Civic Web
Young People, the Internet, and Civic Participation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
An investigation of how governments, organizations, and groups use the Internet to promote civic and political engagement among young people.
There has been widespread concern in contemporary Western societies about declining engagement in civic life; people are less inclined to vote, to join...
by Itzhak Gilboa
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
A nontechnical, concise, and rigorous introduction to the rational choice paradigm, focusing on basic insights applicable in fields ranging from economics to philosophy.
This book offers a rigorous, concise, and nontechnical introduction to some of the fundamental insights of rational choice...
by Cass R. Sunstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades.
"Sunstein's book is illuminating because it puts norms at the center of how we think about change."—David Brooks, The New York Times
How does social change happen? When do social movements...
by Cass R. Sunstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes.
Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately about the child obesity epidemic and support government regulation...
Dynamics among Nations
The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
An innovative view of the changing geopolitical landscape that draws on the science of complex adaptive systems to understand changes in global interaction.
Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of...
Engaging the Everyday
Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
An argument that environmental challenges will only resonate with citizens of affluent postindustrial countries if sustainability concerns emerge from everyday practices.
Far-reaching efforts to address environmental issues rarely seem to resonate with citizens of the United States or other...