The Mit Press: 939 books
Codename Revolution
The Nintendo Wii Platform
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Nintendo's hugely popular and influential video game console system considered as technological device and social phenomenon.
The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed Revolution during...
Archive Everything
Mapping the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
How the archive evolved to include new technologies, practices, and media, and how it became the apparatus through which we map the everyday.
In Archive Everything, Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive into the apparatus through which we map the everyday. The archive, traditionally...
by Michael Batty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand networks -- the relations between...
The Largest Art
A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners
Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture—large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed;...
The Fabric of Space
Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
A study of water at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure in Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, Los Angeles, and London.
Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global...
The Hidden Sense
Synesthesia in Art and Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
The uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through accounts of synesthetes' experiences, the latest scientific research, and suggestions of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature.
What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the...
Attunement
Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities.
Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability....
by Lane Relyea
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
A critic takes issue with the art world's romanticizing of networks and participatory projects, linking them to the values of a globalized, neoliberal economy.
Over the past twenty years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals...
Living Through the End of Nature
The Future of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance.
Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated...
by Herbert A. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1996
Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools—chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms—for analyzing complexity and...
Peripheral Vision
Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
How the S-C 4020—a mainframe peripheral intended to produce scientific visualizations—shaped a series of early computer art projects that emerged from Bell Labs.
In 1959, the electronics manufacturer Stromberg-Carlson produced the S-C 4020, a device that allowed mainframe computers to present...
From X-rays to DNA
How Engineering Drives Biology
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
An argument that technology accelerates biological discovery, with case studies ranging from chromosome discovery with early microscopes to how DNA replicates using radioisotope labels.
Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often...
FireSigns
A Semiotic Theory for Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Semiotics concepts from a design perspective, offering the foundation for a coherent theory of graphic design as well as conceptual tools for practicing designers.
Graphic design has been an academic discipline since the post-World War II era, but it has yet to develop a coherent theoretical...
by Joanna Zylinska
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
A new philosophy of photography that goes beyond humanist concepts to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent, as both subject and agent.
Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and...