MIT Press

From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015?and where the international climate effort...

Economic concepts and techniques presented through a series of "big questions," models that show how to pose a questions rigorously and work toward an answer. This book helps readers master economic...

Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies. We have been warned...

Autobiographical accounts by Nobel laureates reflect the richness and diversity of contemporary economic thought and offer insights into the creative process; with six new laureates. Lives of the...

Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy. Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive...

In a eugenics-driven future society, will one young woman?s defiance make a difference? In the not-too-distant future, England?s population quality and quantity are under scientific control: Only...

Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as imagining the past. In this book, Kourken Michaelian builds on research in the psychology of memory to develop...

How integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can yield valuable insights into the effectiveness of climate negotiations. Mindmade Politics takes a novel,...

The theory and practice of modeling cities and regions as complex, self-organizing systems, presenting widely used cellular automata-based models, theoretical discussions, and applications. Cities...

What graffiti says about contemporary society, and why it demands our urgent attention as a form of civic expression. What is graffiti?andalism, ornament, art? What if, rather than any of those...

An argument that as we engage with social media on our digital devices we receive, modify, intensify, and transmit moods. We are active with our mobile devices; we play games, watch films, listen to...

When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch?it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word ?glitch? implies an incidental error, as...

A powerful examination of the unsettling history of photography and its fraught relationship to global antiblackness. Since photography?s invention, black life has been presented as fraught, short,...

A radically empirical exploration of movement and technology and the transformations of choreography in a digital realm. Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and...

The influential Italian thinker offers three essays in the political philosophy of language.Multitude between Innovation and Negation by Paolo Virno translated by James Cascaito. The publication of...

An exploration of the diverse experiments in digital futures as they advance far from the celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. In Networking Peripheries, Anita Chan...

An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation. Life extension?slowing or halting...

Classic human follies of desire and ambition foreground a revelatory awakening the planet needs. UFOs in formation in the sky. Vegetation?from cranky houseplants to wise old conifers?telepathically...

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...

The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses. In 1982, the British Broadcasting Corporation...

An exploration of how and why social media content is tagged as ?not safe for work? and an argument against conflating sexual content with risk. The hashtag #NSFW (not safe for work) acts as both a...

Exploring Penda's Fen, a 1974 BBC film that achieved mythic status.In 1974, the BBC broadcast the film Penda's Fen, leaving audiences mystified and spellbound. "Make no mistake. We had a major work...

How American bicyclists shaped the landscape and left traces of their journeys for us in writing, illustrations, and photographs. In the later part of the nineteenth century, American bicyclists were...

An examination of environmental satellite data sharing policies, offering a model of data-sharing policy development, case and practical recommendations for increasing global data sharing. Key to...

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Urban planning is a craft learned...

Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman. This collection contains studies written by art historian James Ackerman over the past decade. Whereas Ackerman's earlier work assumed a...

The first volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games. This new edition of Playing at the World is...

Mixing documents, interviews, fiction, theory, poetry, psychiatry and anthropology, "Polysexuality" became the encyclopedia sexualis of a continent that is still emerging.Originally conceived as a...

How we arrived in a post-truth era, when ?alternative facts? replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence. Are we living in a post-truth world, where ?alternative facts? replace...

Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and ?like? something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user...