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Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
$36.95 Add to cartHow to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.
Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative- Author: Dunne, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548682
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
$29.95 Add to cartHow data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities–and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.
In- Series: Information Society
- Author: Sinnreich, Aram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048817
- Language: English
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Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
$32.95 Add to cartLearning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of “common” people and less immodest in their erec… [more below]
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Venturi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 1977
- ISBN10: 026272006X
- Language: English
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Fake Photos
$15.95 Add to cartA concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media.
Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, and other dictators routinely doctored photographs
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Farid, Hany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537494
- Language: English
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Machine Translation
$40.00 Read moreA concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry.
The dream of a universal translatio
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Poibeau, Thierry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0262534215
- Language: English
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Nightwork, Updated Edition: A History of Hacks and Pranks at Mit
$29.95 Add to cartA lively introduction to MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the Caltech cannon.
An MIT “hack” is an ingenious, benign, and anonymous prank or practical joke, often req
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Peterson, Institute Historian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0262515849
- Language: English
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Contraception: A Concise History
$15.95 Read moreThe development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the late nineteenth century to the present, viewed from the perspective of reproductive justice.
The beginning of the modern contra
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Drucker, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538423
- Language: English
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Topology of Violence
$19.95 Add to cartOne of today’s most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.
Some things never disappear–violence, for example. Viol
- Series: Untimely Meditations #9
- Author: Han, Byung-Chul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0262534959
- Language: English
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The Future
$15.95 Read moreHow the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.
The future is like an unwritten book. It is not something we see in a crystal ball, or can onl
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Montfort, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: December 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0262534819
- Language: English
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Hate Speech
$15.95 Add to cartAn investigation of hate speech: legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread.
Hate speech can happen anywhere–in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in kha- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Carlson, Caitlin Ring
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 026253990X
- Language: English
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Cyborg
$16.95 Add to cartA concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied.
This introduction to cyborg theory provides a critical vantage point for analyzi- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Forlano, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262547554
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Feminism
$16.95 Read moreAn engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism, featuring Sappho, Mary Magdalene, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Simone de Beauvoir, and many others.
The- Author: Patu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548674
- Language: English
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Universal Basic Income
$18.95 Add to cartAn accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income, sufficient for basic needs, ought to be provided regularly and unconditionally to every citizen.
The growing mo- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Widerquist, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0262546892
- Language: English
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Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
$52.95 Read moreEssays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture.
The increasing representation of tr- Series: Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture
- Author: Gossett, Reina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 026254489X
- Language: English
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Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality
$31.00 Read moreHearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense — less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. Reason and Resonance is the first full-length study to
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Erlmann, Veit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1935408054
- Language: English
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Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
$31.00 Read moreToward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing attention to what they called “women’s secrets,” by which they meant female sexuality and generation. At
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Park, Katharine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1890951684
- Language: English
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A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions
$22.95 Read moreFollowing the trails of Hawai’i’s snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction.
In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet- Author: Van Dooren, Thom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547341
- Language: English
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Play Matters
$41.67 Add to cartWhy play is a productive, expressive way of being human, 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- Series: Playful Thinking
- Author: Sicart, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0262534517
- Language: English
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Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators
$39.95 Read moreAnne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city of- Author: Weintraub, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046806
- Language: English
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Death and the Idea of Mexico
$31.00 Add to cartDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lomnitz, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951544
- Language: English
