Mit Press imprint: 940 books
by Timothy Morton
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
A book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir.
Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you.
Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the...
Feeding the Other
Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity.
The United States has one of the highest rates of hunger and food insecurity in the industrialized world, with poor households,...
Energy at the Crossroads
Global Perspectives and Uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
An objective, comprehensive, and accessible examination of today's most crucial problem: preserving the environment in the face of society's insatiable demand for energy.
In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern...
Robot Sex
Social and Ethical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.
Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of technological advances, it is inevitable that realistic robots specifically designed for people's sexual gratification...
Fred Forest's Utopia
Media Art and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
“France's most famous unknown artist,” the innovative media provocateur Fred Forest, precursor of Eduardo Kac, Jodi, the Yes Men, RT Mark, and the Guerilla Girls.
The innovative French media artist and prankster-provocateur Fred Forest first gained notoriety in 1972 when he inserted a small...
Digital Storytelling
The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
How digital visual effects in film can be used to support storytelling: a guide for scriptwriters and students.
Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies. Yet when a critic complains that "technology swamps storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "an...
by Kit White
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Lessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist.
What is the first thing to learn in art school? “Art can be anything.” The second thing? “Learn to draw.” With 101 Things to Learn in Art School,...
by Andreas Broeckmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
An investigation of artists' engagement with technical systems, tracing art historical lineages that connect works of different periods.
“Machine art” is neither a movement nor a genre, but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann...
Making IT Work
A History of the Computer Services Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies.
The computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of nearly a trillion dollars and employs millions...
by Paul E. Ceruzzi, Howard Rheingold, Lee Felsenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
First person accounts by pioneers in the field, classic essays, and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media.
Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists, artists, and scholars...
Streaming, Sharing, Stealing
Big Data and the Future of Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
How big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back.
“[The authors explain] gently yet firmly exactly how the internet threatens established ways and what can and cannot be done about it. Their book should...
Artificial Unintelligence
How Computers Misunderstand the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right.
In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted...
by John M. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of the field, the fantasies of popular culture, and implications for life and work.
Robots are entering the mainstream. Technologies have advanced to the point of mass commercialization—Roomba, for example—and adoption...
Blowout in the Gulf
The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and bad decisions led to America's biggest environmental disaster.
On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of oil from BP's Macondo...