The Mit Press: 939 books
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...
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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...
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....
The Making of Grand Paris
Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today's networked global city.
In 2007 the French government announced the “Grand Paris” initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced,...
Music and the Myth of Wholeness
Toward a New Aesthetic Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
A new theory of aesthetics and music, grounded in the collision between language and the body.
In this book, Tim Hodgkinson proposes a theory of aesthetics and music grounded in the boundary between nature and culture within the human being. His analysis discards the conventional idea of the...
Rogue Archives
Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the Internet and how “digital cultural memory” differs radically from print-era archiving.
The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Essays and interviews discuss the art of John Knight, a pioneering figure in site-specific art and institutional critique.
For more than four decades, the elusive but influential Los Angeles-based artist John Knight has developed a practice of site specificity that tests both architectural...
Rodney Graham
Phonokinetoscope
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
An examination of the complex and subtle world on display in Rodney Graham's film of an LSD-inflected bicycle ride.
Rodney Graham's Phonokinetoscope (2001) is a five-minute 16mm film loop in which the artist is seen riding his Fischer Original bicycle through Berlin's Tiergarten while taking...