The Mit Press: 939 books
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...
by Bini Adamczak
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Communism, capitalism, work, crisis, and the market, described in simple storybook terms and illustrated by drawings of adorable little revolutionaries.
Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.
Cosmism emerged in Russia before the October Revolution and developed through the 1920s and 1930s; like Marxism and the...
On Accident
Episodes in Architecture and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territory, in search of sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, plagiarized tabernacles, and other phenomena missing from architectural history.
This collection by “architectural history's most beguiling essayist” (as Reinhold...
Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation
Uses and Abuses
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Why bibliometrics is useful for understanding the global dynamics of science but generate perverse effects when applied inappropriately in research evaluation and university rankings.
The research evaluation market is booming. “Ranking,” “metrics,” “h-index,” and “impact factors”...