The Mit Press: 939 books
Noah's Ark
Essays on Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
From Noah's Ark to Diller + Scofidio's “Blur” Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture's origin and development.
Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a “displaced philosopher,” Hubert Damisch in these essays...
by Fred R. Dallmayr, Steven Crowell, Gregory Fried
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Heidegger scholars consider the philosopher's recently published notebooks, including the issues of Heidegger's Nazism and anti-Semitism.
For more than forty years, the philosopher Martin Heidegger logged ideas and opinions in a series of notebooks, known as the “Black Notebooks” after...
by Virginia Jackson, Daniel Rosenberg, Travis D. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture.
We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta-...
Shanzhai
Deconstruction in Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Tracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.
Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names...
by Richard G Delisle, Fabrizzio McManus, John de Vos
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.
The study of human evolution often seems to rely on scenarios and received wisdom rather than theory and methodology, with each new fossil or molecular analysis...
Flash
Building the Interactive Web
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
How Flash rose and fell as the world's most ubiquitous yet divisive software platform, enabling the development and distribution of a world of creative content.
Adobe Flash began as a simple animation tool and grew into a multimedia platform that offered a generation of creators and innovators...
by Miguel Sicart
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Why play is a productive, expressive way of being, a form of understanding, and a fundamental part of our well-being.
What do we think about when we think about play? A pastime? Games? Childish activities? The opposite of work? Think again: If we are happy and well rested, we may approach even...
Environmental Governance Reconsidered
Challenges, Choices, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Key topics in the ongoing evolution of environmental governance, with new and updated material.
This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates, and in-depth analysis. The contributing authors,...
The Spatial Economy
Cities, Regions, and International Trade
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2001
The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics.
Since 1990 there has been a renaissance...
The Ringtone Dialectic
Economy and Cultural Form
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music, television, film, and politics.
A decade ago, the customizable ringtone was ubiquitous. Almost any crowd of cell phone owners could produce a carillon of tinkly, beeping, synthy, musicalized ringer signals....
The Unreliable Nation
Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.
Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technology over the forces of climate, geography,...
Traversals
The Use of Preservation for Early Electronic Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
An exercise in reclaiming electronic literary works on inaccessible platforms, examining four works as both artifacts and operations.
Many pioneering works of electronic literature are now largely inaccessible because of changes in hardware, software, and platforms. The virtual disappearance...
Is the Universe a Hologram?
Scientists Answer the Most Provocative Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas.
Science today is more a process of collaboration than moments of individual “eurekas.” This book recreates that kind of synergy by offering a series of interconnected...
American Environmental Policy
Beyond Gridlock
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
An updated investigation of alternate pathways for American environmental policymaking made necessary by legislative gridlock.
The “golden era” of American environmental lawmaking in the 1960s and 1970s saw twenty-two pieces of major environmental legislation (including the Clean Air Act,...