The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
German Philosophy
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy—including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger—from a French perspective.
In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important living philosophers in France, discuss German philosophy...
by Félix Nadar
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The first complete English translation of Nadar's intelligent and witty memoir, a series of vignettes that capture his experiences in the early days of photography.
Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer—and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonist—Félix Nadar published...
Open Development
Networked Innovations in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...
Architectural Robotics
Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
How a built environment that is robotic and interactive becomes an apt home to our restless, dynamic, and increasingly digital society.
The relationship of humans to computers can no longer be represented as one person in a chair and one computer on a desk. Today computing finds its way into...
Authors, Users, and Pirates
Copyright Law and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
An examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational framework.
In current debates over copyright law, the author, the user, and the pirate are almost always invoked. Some in the creative industries call for more legal protection for authors;...
Processing Inaccurate Information
Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
Vulnerability in Technological Cultures
New Directions in Research and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Analysis and case studies explore the concept of vulnerability, offering a novel and broader approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology.
Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable...
Site Planning
International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Ebook Volume 2 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries.
Ebook Volume 2 of 3.
Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the...
Rationing Is Not a Four-Letter Word
Setting Limits on Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A provocative argument that the best way to deliver high-quality healthcare to Americans is to institute a comprehensive and fair system of rationing.
Most people would agree that the healthcare system in the United States is a mess. Healthcare accounts for a larger percentage of gross domestic...
Of Remixology
Ethics and Aesthetics after Remix
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
A new theory of moral and aesthetic value for the age of remix, going beyond the usual debates over originality and appropriation.
Remix—or the practice of recombining preexisting content—has proliferated across media both digital and analog. Fans celebrate it as a revolutionary new creative...
by Byung-Chul Han
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.
Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony...
Thai Art
Currencies of the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Thai art, as artists strive for international recognition and a new meaning of the national.
Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way of biennials, museums, and commercial...
Power Lines
Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882–1952
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.
At the turn of the twentieth century, electricity emerged as a metaphor for modernity. Writers from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison grappled with the idea of electricity as...
The Human Advantage
A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Why our human brains are awesome, and how we left our cousins, the great apes, behind: a tale of neurons and calories, and cooking.
Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the...