MIT Press Spring 2026 catalog

Dear Friends and Readers,

This season, the MIT Press proudly presents works that confront the urgent questions of our time while opening new windows onto science, technology, politics, design, and culture.

From questions of health and justice to the mysteries of life, death, and the mind, these works exemplify the Press’s commitment to boundary-breaking publishing. They are works of courage and imagination, and emblems of what books at their best can achieve.

In Expecting Inequity, legal scholar Khiara Bridges exposes the devastating persistence of racism in maternal healthcare. With Privacy’s Defender, Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, delivers a gripping chronicle of her decades-long fight against digital surveillance. Optimism drives Hannah Ritchie’s Clearing the Air, which cuts through the noise of climate debate with fifty clear, data-driven answers.

In Every Living Creature, transplant surgeon Joshua Mezrich tells the astonishing story of xenotransplantation: the once-unthinkable transplantation of organs between species. Saul Newman’s Morbid skewers the myths and missteps of longevity science with biting humor, asking what our obsession with eternal youth says about us. And closer to home, MIT engineer and lifelong birder Lorna Gibson reveals in Birds Up Close the hidden engineering marvels of avian life. With stunning images and insights, she shows how feathers, bones, and flight itself inspire awe and deepen our understanding of nature. Together, these authors ask readers to defend essential rights, engage with scientific possibility, and confront both the wonder and fragility of being human.

Finally, we are thrilled to announce the launch of the Landmark Collection, beautifully refreshed editions of our most influential titles, from classics such as Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media to Umberto Eco’s How to Write a Thesis to John Maeda’s The Laws of Simplicity. As the world continues to speed forward, we believe it is more important than ever to revitalize the foundational ideas upon which the Press was built.

From all of us at the MIT Press, thank you for your partnership in bringing these important voices and stories to the world.

Amy Brand, Director and Publisher, The MIT Press

Contents

Trade 1–53

Essential Knowledge series 22–25

Radium Age series 26–27

Landmark Collection 31

Paperback reprints 32–36

Academic Trade 37–44

Professional 45–53

Scholarly 55–59

Textbooks 61–66

Reference 67

D2O 69–80

Client Distributions 81–94

Journals 95

Order Information and Rights

Representation 104

Gift Books 106

Backlist Highlights inside back cover

Amy Brand

Expecting Inequity

How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans

Khiara M. Bridges

An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in maternal healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care.

Racism in maternal healthcare is not reserved for the poor. An unsparing picture of inequities in prenatal care and childbirth in the US, Expecting Inequity reveals that not only are Black people three-to-four times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause, but racial disparities in maternal morality persist across income levels. That is, wealthier Black people are much more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period than their white counterparts.

Focusing on a San Francisco obstetrics clinic that caters to the affluent, Khiara Bridges looks at the choices around prenatal care and childbirth that class-privileged, pregnant Black people are making in order to survive what has been called the “Black maternal health crisis.”

Bridges, whose previous work exposed how race and racism are embedded in maternal healthcare for the poor, draws upon two years of participant-observation to show how wealthier Black people try to leverage their class privilege to avoid some of the negative effects of their Blackness—only to discover that in a country that has never reckoned with its horrific racial past, there is no escaping racism’s reach. Throughout the book, engaging, heartbreaking, and infuriating stories of women’s experiences with pregnancy and prenatal care illustrate how race and racism matter regardless of wealth or status.

Khiara M. Bridges is a professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her books include Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization

social science / women’s studies

March 6 x 9, 320 pp.

US $32.95 / $43.95 CAN cloth 9780262051552

“Stunning, enraging, and extremely necessary, Expecting Inequity is a love letter to Black women and an urgent call to action for everybody.”

Paul Butler, MSNBC legal analyst and author of Chokehold

“A nuanced exploration of the seismic racial gap between Black and white maternal mortality rates in the United States and the historical entanglements fueling the disparity.”

Patricia Williams, author of The Miracle of the Black Leg; University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Northeastern University, Boston

Privacy’s Defender

My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

Cindy Cohn

A personal chronicle of three key legal privacy battles that have defined the digital age and shaped the internet as we know it.

From a seasoned leader in the field of digital privacy rights.

From the very beginning, Cindy Cohn was driven by a fundamental question: can we still have private conversations if we live our lives online? Privacy’s Defender chronicles her thirty-year battle to protect our right to digital privacy and shows just how central this right is to all our other rights, including our ability to organize and make change in the world.

Shattering the hypermasculine myth that our digital reality was solely the work of a handful of charismatic tech founders, the author weaves her own personal story with the history of Crypto Wars, FBI gag orders, and the post9/11 surveillance state. She describes how she became a seasoned leader in the early digital rights movement, as well as how this work serendipitously helped her discover her birth parents and find her life partner. Along the way, she also details the development of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which she grew from a ragtag group of lawyers and hackers into one of the most powerful digital rights organizations in the world.

Part memoir and part legal history for the general reader, the book is a compelling testament to just how hard-won the privacy rights we now enjoy as tech users are, but also how crucial these rights are in our efforts to combat authoritarianism, grow democracy, and strengthen human rights.

Cindy Cohn is Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000–2015 she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel. Today, she spearheads a team of more than 120 lawyers, activists, and technologists who are dedicated to ensuring that technology supports speech, privacy, and innovation for all the people of the world.

social science March 6 x 9, 248 pp. 10 b&w illus.

US $29.95 / $39.95 CAN cloth 9780262051248

Clearing the Air

A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change in 50 Questions and Answers

Hannah Ritchie

Clear, simple answers to the most common and vexing questions about climate change that we can take action on right now.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Not the End of the World

We can’t afford to delay climate action, but with all the shouting and disagreement, it’s hard to know where to turn. In Clearing the Air, data scientist and bestselling author Hannah Ritchie answers 50 key climate questions once and for all, clearing the air so we can take action and fix things.

With so many conflicting headlines out there, it’s tough to sort fact from fiction when it comes to climate change and the solutions we need for a cleaner future.

The first piece of good news is that environmental scientist Hannah Ritchie is here with answers and the steps we need to take right now. Using simple, clear data, she tackles questions such as: Is it too late? Won’t we run out of minerals? Aren’t we too polarized? The second piece of good news: the truth is far more hopeful than you might think.

We’re at a critical moment for our planet, and getting the facts straight is step one. But even more crucial is feeling hopeful about what we can do next. The third piece of good news? We already have many of the solutions we need to create a more sustainable planet for future generations.

Hannah Ritchie is Senior Researcher in the Program for Global Development at the University of Oxford. She is also Deputy Editor of Our World in Data and has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Statistical Society. In 2022, she was named Scotland’s Youth Climate Champion. In 2024, she was selected by Prospect magazine as one of their “Top 25 Thinkers.”

environmental science

March 6 x 9, 296 pp. 51 illus.

US $27.95 / $36.95 CAN cloth 9780262052740

“When I start to feel overwhelmed by the climate challenges we face, I turn to Hannah Ritchie.” – Bill Gates

Hannah Clearing the Air

A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change in 50 Questions and Answers

“When I start to feel overwhelmed by the climate challenges we face, I turn to Hannah Ritchie.”

Bill Gates

“Hannah Ritchie is the world’s most levelheaded, no-nonsense purveyor of truth about our changing planet, and I’m deeply grateful she’s given us the gift of Clearing the Air.”

Kate Marvel, author of Human Nature

“If there were a Nobel Prize for clear thinking, Hannah Ritchie would have my vote. She doesn’t just cut through the noise — she vaporizes it.”

Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind

“A sensitive and beautifully recounted history of xenotransplantation, and a hopeful look toward a future in which more patients may live.”

Angela Saini, author of The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule and Superior: The Return of Race Science

“The most comprehensive chronical of the evolution of xenotransplantation, featuring a cast of quixotic personalities who dared to dream the impossible.”

Robert Montgomery, MD, Chair and Professor of Surgery and Director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute

Every Living Creature

How Xenotransplantation Will Change Our Lives

Joshua D. Mezrich, MD

The incredible history and promise of interspecies organ transplantation, from an awardwinning transplant surgeon.

With more than 100,000 patients in the United States waiting for life-saving organ transplants, the shortage of organs will never be solved if someone must die for someone else to be saved. And yet a solution is well within reach— xenotransplantation, or the transplanting of organs between different species—the once unimaginable scientific achievement that Joshua Mezrich explores in Every Living Creature.

The story begins with efforts using chimpanzees and baboons in the 1960s through the 1990s, rife with ethical and practical complications and disappointments. The successful cloning of Dolly the sheep revived xeno-optimism, followed by the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, which finally opened the door to xenotransplantation in humans, using genetically modified pigs as organ donors.

The protagonists of this story are as incredible as the science it details: a transgender visionary, the highest paid female CEO in the world, who simply wants her daughter to live; the surgeon saved by a high-risk heart transplant, who swears by the promise of pigs’ organs; the brilliant and brash surgeon-scientist-entrepreneur who is risking everything to make xenotransplantation a reality. Each plays a part in what is, in the end, the story of a miracle—not the answer to a prayer, as Every Living Creature makes clear, but a miracle we can breed.

Joshua D. Mezrich is Professor of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin and holds the Mark A. Fischer Chair in Transplantation.

biology/medical studies

April

6 x 9, 264 pp. US $29.95 /$39.95 CAN cloth 9780262051163

The Inner Passage

An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway

Virginia McGee Richards, introduction by Imani Perry, foreword by James Estrin

A deeply moving photographic and narrative history of a southern waterway that the enslaved were forced to build for mercantile shipping—but which they used to escape slavery.

The Intracoastal Waterway runs 3000 miles along the Eastern Seaboard between Massachusetts and Brownsville, Texas. Some of the earliest canals in colonial America, referred to as the Inner Passage, were constructed by enslaved people living in the Lowcountry of South Carolina in the early 1700s.

In a paradox of history that unfolds in The Inner Passage, for over a hundred years, enslaved Black people used these canals constructed for white plantation owners to travel southward to freedom in Spanish Florida. In this book, Virginia McGee Richards documents the lost narrative of the Inner Passage through 60 extraordinary photographs of landscapes altered by slavery and portraits of Lowcountry descendants, along with an essay describing her discovery of this untold history. In an accompanying essay, Imani Perry writes about her own journey on the Inner Passage, putting Black resistance to enslavement and Southern history into an immediate context. James Estrin brings decades of insight about photography and the power of visual storytelling to his affecting foreword.

Richards’ images, made with a wet plate collodion process, using the water of the fields and riverbanks of the Lowcountry, tell of resilience and loss along this ancient waterway. They include landscapes altered by slavery as well as portraits of Lowcountry descendants, each a window into a forgotten corner of Southern history.

Virginia Richards is an award-winning documentary photographer, historian, and environmental lawyer.

African-American history/photography

April

8 x 10 ½ , 152 pp.

61 b&w illus.

US $39.95 / $53.95 CAN cloth 9780262051712

“Making brilliant use of an old photographic process, Virginia Richards has soulfully summoned a heartrending past. What a vital and astonishing book! Through landscape and portraiture, it speaks, and haunts, and sings.”

Robin Kelsey, author of Photography and the Art of Chance

“Virginia McGee Richards’ breathtaking photographs visualize histories of Black resistance and resilience, while they transcend time and powerfully remind us that the past is an indelible part of the present.”

Steven Nelson, coeditor, Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World

BIRDS UP CLOSE

AN ENGINEER EXPLORES THEIR HIDDEN WONDERS

LORNA GIBSON

Birds Up Close

An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders

Lorna Gibson

A renowned engineer and lifelong birder reveals the marvel of how birds work—from the tips of their beaks to the sheen of their tailfeathers.

Consider feathers: They define birds’ wings, enabling flight. They insulate against cold. They repel water. They even control sound. And how feathers work is just one aspect of the wonders of birds explained by pathbreaking researcher and lifelong birder Lorna Gibson in Birds Up Close. Feathers, bones, bills, eggs, flight: all come in for scrutiny in this engaging book. What produces the iridescence of plumage? How does the internal structure of a bird’s bones make them lightweight? How do different birds use their bills and tongues—from woodpeckers penetrating the holes they drill to hummingbirds imbibing nectar, to sandpipers needling the sand, and to phalaropes drawing water droplets containing plankton into their mouths without sucking (no lips!)?

Drawing on her expertise and personal experience in both engineering and ornithology, the author explores the hidden microscopic structures and engineering principles that keep birds aloft and alive—how an egg is formed, how a bird generates lift; how raptors soar and glide, albatrosses fly thousands of miles, hummingbirds hover, puffins and penguins “fly” underwater. She also considers the longer view of birds in their habitats and natural history. Her up-close look at avian mysteries provides a perspective like no other for the expert ornithologist and curious observer alike.

Lorna J. Gibson is the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT. A lifelong birder, Gibson is a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

nature

April 8 x 9, 256 pp. 157 color illus.

US $39.95 / $53.95 CAN cloth

9780262049894

Morbid Debunking Modern Longevity Science

Saul Justin Newman

A darkly comedic journey into the science of aging—where ethics are irrelevant, the studies are a sales pitch, and the “world’s oldest living people” all turn out to be dead.

Our morbid fascination with death and dying has created an opening for all manner of skullduggery in the science of aging—an area of study that Morbid reveals to be rife with misleading claims, mistaken assumptions, and outright chicanery. The world’s oldest man is a fake, hundreds of thousands of the world’s oldest people are actually dead, blue zones are debunked, and five decades of research on human longevity is moot. What begins with a petition to exhume a famous corpse descends into amusing, if edifying, chaos as Saul Newman sets out to discover what’s rotten and what’s real in the science of dying.

Unraveling an immense scientific scandal, the author finds researchers promoting the “antiaging” benefits of sleeping with underage girls, a billionaire is wrapped up in a scheme to tap the blood of Texas teenagers, the whole field of aging awash in dubious money—and himself somehow accused by a CIA operative of spying for Russia. But under the shocking absurdities lurk deadly serious questions about how people age and die, how long they live and why—questions Newman addresses with genuine curiosity and scientific rigor, contributing mathematical evidence and evolutionary insights into the mystery and mechanics of why we age and why we die.

Saul Justin Newman is an interdisciplinary senior research fellow at the University of Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, and University College London’s Center for Longitudinal Studies.

social science/death & dying

June

6 x 9, 312 pp.

7 b&w illus.

US $29.95 / $39.95 CAN cloth 9780262052719

“Newman debunks myths about longevity without a miss, and I’m left daring who to trust. I loved it.”

Professor Dame Sue Black, author of All that Remains and Written in Bone

“James Madison once noted that questions about the separation of powers ‘puzzle the greatest adepts in political science.’ Cass Sunstein ranks high among today’s greatest adepts, and his deft analysis in this brief but incisive book demonstrates why.”

Jack Rakove, William R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science, emeritus, Stanford University; author of Original Meanings

“Separation of Powers is as powerful as it is timely. Subtly drawing parallels between Nazi Germany’s obedience to its führer and the current obsequious treatment of the leader of the United States, Sunstein mounts a devastating attack on the Supreme Court’s recent decisions that undermine the separation of powers and threaten the liberty that the separation of powers has protected for nearly 250 years.”

Jack Beermann, Philip S. Beck Professor of Law, Boston University

Separation of Powers

How to Preserve Liberty in Troubled Times

Cass R. Sunstein

Why the separation of powers is essential to liberty and democracy.

From the winner of the Holberg Prize and New York Times–bestselling author of The World According to Star Wars.

All over the world, people are questioning the separation of powers. They want a strong man, able to do what must be done. But James Madison was right to say this: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

In this essential and extremely timely book, Separation of Powers, Cass Sunstein explains why separation of powers is necessary for both freedom and self-government. He shows that freedom from fear is a central goal of the system of separation of powers. He also explains why the executive branch is the most dangerous branch, why the idea of presidential immunity is a terrible one, and why an independent judiciary is crucial.

Cass R. Sunstein is Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, where he is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. Former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, he is the author of On Liberalism, Climate Justice, The Cost-Benefit Revolution, How Change Happens, Too Much Information, Sludge, Climate Justice (all published by the MIT Press), Nudge (with Richard H. Thaler), and other books. In 2024, he was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Department of Homeland Security’s highest civilian honor.

political science

February 6 x 9, 168 pp.

US $24.95 / $33.95 CAN cloth 9780262051774

On the Future of Species

Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence

Adrian Woolfson

A bold and visionary account of how genome writing can help preserve the planet—but may also undermine human nature and disrupt ecosystems.

From a scientist at the forefront of synthetic genomics.

Imagine a future where we grow houses rather than build them. Where smartphones are living, clothing has opinions, and all human knowledge fits into a speck of DNA. A world where disease is a thing of the past, and the human lifespan is dramatically extended.

To achieve this, says Adrian Woolfson, founder of the genome writing company Genyro, we must transform biology into a predictive, programmable engineering material. That means decoding the generative grammar of DNA: the language of life itself. We will then be able to author genomes— and, if we choose, even rewrite our own.

In On the Future of Species, Woolfson describes how we are at the cusp of a technological revolution, driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. Currently at the scribbling phase— writing the genomes of viruses, bacteria and yeast—we will eventually author the genomes of extinct and never-before-realized species. Life will become computable, detached from its past, and no longer bound by Darwinian evolution.

While offering extraordinary opportunities, this power also carries great risk, and it is vital for everyone to understand what the future might hold. In this groundbreaking work, Woolfson provides a guide to this bold new world, offering a moral compass to help us do so safely, wisely, and ethically.

Adrian Woolfson is the cofounder of Genyro, a California-based biotechnology company specializing in synthetic genome design and construction. He studied medicine at Balliol College, Oxford, and was formerly the Charles and Katherine Darwin Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Life Without Genes and An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Genetics. He has authored over 160 scientific papers, book chapters, reviews, and patents, and is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and Science magazine.

“Visionary and exhilarating... A work of astonishing scope and imagination.”

Timothy Coulson, author of A Little History of Everything from the Big Bang to You biology

March 6x9, 464 pp. US $32.95/$ CAN cloth 9780262054898

“There’re those who understand AI and who are actually building AIs, and then there’s the rest of us. It’s a new divide. This book is for the rest of us.”

Jane Metcalfe, Wired magazine cofounder

“It was stimulating for me to consider what De Kai has to say about the future of AI, particularly his idea that we have already lost our autonomy.”

Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate, Turing Award winner, godfather of deep learning

“A deeply human dive into the AIs that are transforming our world.”

Kirkus Reviews

“In his beautiful, even profound, new book, Raising AI, AI luminary De Kai reframes the AI dialogue. They’re not tools, slaves or gods, they’re our children.”

Forbes

Raising AI An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future De

Kai

From the pioneer of translation AIs like Google, Yahoo, and Bing translate, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI—as well as a framework of empowerment for a future with our artificial children.

Included in J.P. Morgan’s Summer Reading List

Included in The Next Big Idea Club’s June 2025 Must-Read Books

AIs are not gods or slaves, but our children. All day long, your YouTube AI, your Reddit AI, your Instagram AI, and a hundred others adoringly watch and learn to imitate your behavior. They’re attention-seeking children who want your approval.

Our cultures are being shaped by 8 billion humans and perhaps 800 billion AIs. Our artificial children began adopting us 10–20 years ago; now these massively powerful influencers are tweens.

How’s your parenting?

Longtime AI trailblazer De Kai brings decades of his paradigm-shifting work at the nexus of artificial intelligence and society to make sense of the AI age. How does “the automation of thought” impact our minds? Should we be afraid? What should each of us do as the responsible adults in the room? In Hollywood movies, AI destroys humanity. But with our unconscious minds under the influence of AI, humanity may destroy humanity before AI gets a chance to.

Written for the general reader, as well as thought leaders, scientists, parents, and goofballs, Raising AI navigates the revolution to our attitudes and ideas in a world of AI cohabitants. Society can not only survive the AI revolution.

De Kai is Independent Director of the AI ethics think tank The Future Society and was one of eight inaugural members of Google’s AI Ethics council. De Kai holds a joint appointment at HKUST’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute.

technology June

5 1/4 x 8, 280 pp.

20 b&w illus.

US $24.95 / $33.95 CAN paperback 9780262054324

Spring 2026

An Abundance of Caution

American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions

David Zweig

A searing indictment of the American public health, media, and political establishments’ decision-making process behind pandemic school closures.

An Abundance of Caution is a devastating account of the decision-making process behind one of the worst American policy failures in a century— the extended closures of public schools during the pandemic. In fascinating and meticulously reported detail, David Zweig shows how some of the most trusted members of society—from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists to eminent health officials—repeatedly made fundamental errors in their assessment and presentation of evidence. As a result, for the first time in modern American history, millions of healthy children did not set foot in a classroom for more than a year. Whatever inequities that existed among American children before the pandemic, the selective school closures exacerbated them, disproportionately affecting the underprivileged.

The story of American schools during the pandemic serves as a prism through which to approach fundamental questions about why and how individuals, bureaucracies, governments, and societies act as they do in times of crisis and uncertainty. Ultimately, this book is not about COVID; it’s about a country ill-equipped to act sensibly under duress.

David Zweig is the author of the novel Swimming Inside the Sun and the nonfiction book Invisibles. He has testified twice before Congress as an expert witness on American schools during the pandemic, and his investigative reporting on the pandemic has been cited in numerous Congressional letters and a brief to the Supreme Court.

education/public policy

March 6 x 9, 464 pp. 14 b&w illus.

US $29.95 / $39.95 CAN paperback 9780262053990

“As much as some might hope to forget the pandemic, An Abundance of Caution is indispensable reading for preventing the next catastrophe.”

Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight and author of Silver Bulletin

“Faced with the erosion of its legitimacy and authority, the scientific community needs to engage seriously with Zweig’s analysis.”

Paul Romer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, former Chief Economist of the World Bank

“By recounting his own experiences as a father of school-aged children trying in vain to convince his local school district to consider other options, Mr. Zweig movingly conveys the dumbfounded disillusionment many Americans experienced during the pandemic.”

The Wall Street Journal

“An Abundance of Caution posits that Trump’s flagrant mishandling of the COVID crisis gave cover to the rampant (but less obvious) dissembling, posturing, and about-facing of élite institutions and public-health experts, which Zweig diligently itemizes.”

The New Yorker

“Antonio Melechi has distilled a lifetime of multidisciplinary research into an admirably concise volume that sparks fresh ideas and insights at every turn.”

Mike Jay, author of Psychonauts and High Society

“A fascinating tour of our sometimes futile and always contested efforts to demystify the unconscious—from ancient Greece to modern neuroscience.”

Christian Jarrett, author of Be Who You Want

“Packed with insight and ideas, Antonio Melechi’s marvelous anthology adds up to a multi-faceted intellectual biography of that elusive entity, the unconscious. Going far beyond its subject’s wellknown Freudian incarnation, it features two thousand years of material from the classical world to the New Age, ranging from heavy-duty philosophers to lesserknown pioneers such as Frances Power Cobbe.”

Phil Baker, author of Austin Osman Spare and City of the Beast

The Unconscious

A Cultural History from Hippocrates to Philip K. Dick and Beyond

Antonio

Melechi

A highly original first anthology on the cultural history of the unconscious that is destined to become definitive.

“Know thyself”—the injunction that was once inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo—became a touchstone for classical and modern philosophers before being embraced as the end game of psychoanalysis by Freud and his followers. The conceptual baggage that Freud took on his armchair journey into the unconscious mind is well-known—and so, too, the more recent science on implicit memory, blindsight and automatic processing—but the history of the unconscious beyond the consulting room and laboratory has largely been overlooked.

From ancient dream theory to hypnosis, somnambulism to psychedelic mind-expansion, The Unconscious by Antonio Melechi traces the wider social and scientific history of the unconscious mind. It brings together a chorus of voices—including Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Mary Arnold Foster, Swami Vivekananda, and Philip K. Dick, to name only some—to investigate the elusive psychology of memory and learning, instinct and imagination, creative breakthrough and mental breakdown.

Moving beyond the familiar psychoanalytic framework, the book draws on a rich seam of sources, including case studies, psychological experiments, pulp fiction, urban legend, and commercial hype.

Antonio Melechi is a historian of medicine and psychology, specializing in the cultural history of the unconscious. He is the author of Fugitive Minds and Servants of the Supernatural, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Granta, New Statesman, Prospect, and Aeon

psychology

February 6 x 9, 288 pp. US $29.95 / $39.95 CAN cloth 9780262051026

Becoming Martian

How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds

Scott Solomon; foreword by Scott Kelly

How living in space will affect future generations—and what the potential unintended consequences of space settlements are.

We are on the cusp of a golden age of space travel in which for the first time it will be possible for large numbers of people to venture into space. Some intend to stay. But what happens—and will happen—to us in the extreme conditions of space? What should space tourists expect to happen to them during a journey to an orbiting space station, the Moon, or Mars? What would happen to children born on another planet? In Becoming Martian, Scott Solomon explores the many ways in which humanity’s migration into space will change our bodies and our minds.

This book focuses on the latest science, taking readers to the front lines of where research is happening. We hear from astronauts, including Scott Kelly who writes the foreword, and we join a team of scientists guiding a rover across the surface of Mars. We visit a high security lab where engineers are simulating space radiation to measure its effects on the body. We travel to isolated islands where field biologists are gleaning insights into evolutionary processes applicable to people isolated on faraway planets. We meet synthetic biologists developing gene editing tools to equip future humans to thrive in alien environments. We watch a rocket designed to carry humanity to Mars make its first successful launch. And then we ask, knowing what we know, should we go?

Scott Solomon is Teaching Professor at Rice University in Houston. He is also a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. He is the author of Future Humans, which was a 2017 Best Book by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is also the host of the podcast Wild World with Scott Solomon and co-writer and co-producer of Becoming Martian.

science/space exploration

February

6 x 9, 280 pp.

25 photos, 2 b&w. illus.

US $29.95 / $39.95 CAN cloth 9780262051514

“We are living in a golden age of human space exploration, and Scott Solomon expertly reveals both the wonders and the challenges of life beyond Earth, and the importance of emphasizing people at the center of scientific research in space.”

Kellie Gerardi, Research Astronaut, author of the Luna Muna series

“Scott Solomon’s Becoming Martian is a deft exploration of issues that will be of cosmic importance for the long term survival of humanity.”

Mark W. Moffett, author of The Human Swarm

“An engaging ride through the philosophy, technology, and grit needed to survive and then thrive on the red planet.”

Christopher Mason, Professor, Cornell University, author of The Next 500 Years

Atlas of Botanical Fragrance

Jean-Claude Ellena; illustrated by Karin Doering-Froger; translated by Erik Butler

The follow-up volume to Atlas of Perfumed Botany continues the exploration of nature’s most captivating scents, focusing on the botanical elements that shape the world of perfumery.

This volume presents a selection of woods, leaves, flowers, fruits, gums, resins, seeds, and roots, each contributing unique aromatic qualities. From the deep, rich notes of rosewood and oud to the fresh, green scents of mint and rosemary, this book by Jean-Claude Ellena, the ‘‘nose’’ for Hermès for more than a decade, unveils the diverse origins of fragrance ingredients.

Illustrated with vibrant images, this atlas serves as an essential guide for both fragrance enthusiasts and professionals, offering insights into the natural sources of perfumery’s most treasured aromas.

Jean-Claude Ellena was the ‘‘nose’’ for Hermès for 14 years and has been the creative director of fragrance at the perfume house Le Couvent since 2019.

Karin Doering-Froger, an art teacher at the Atelier de Sèvres, has illustrated many novels and travel guides.

botany

March

7 ¼ x 10 ¼, 160 pp. US $29.95 / $39.95 CAN cloth 9780262051767

also of interest

Beautifully produced illustrated atlases designed to introduce readers of all ages to the wonders of nature: extraordinary plants and animals, international cartographies of scents, and a Psychopathia Sexualis for the animal kingdom.

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978-0-262-04673-2

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978-0-262-03912-3

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978-0-262-04658-9

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978-0-262-03997-0

Game Histories series

“King Pong is a well written, entertaining history of Pong’s early history and faithfully tells the story about how it revolutionized the beginning of video games.”

Al Alcorn, Creator of Pong

“I thought I knew everything about Pong, but Guins’s book proved I knew almost nothing. This is the definitive story of Pong—the coin-op that started the video game revolution.”

Ian Bogost, author of Play Anything and How to Do Things with Videogames

King Pong

How Atari Bounced Across Markets to Make Millions

Raiford Guins

Why and how Atari’s first video game Pong established an industry that shapes consumers’ relationships to technology to this day.

Pong is one of the longest, most consistently circulating video games. Released in 1972, it remains at our fingertips as an app from Google Play or Apple App Store, hosted at freepong. org and the Internet Archive, and even released as A Tiny Game of Pong for the Apple Watch. Despite its simplicity and ubiquity, Atari’s Pong encapsulates far more than the history of a video game and iconic game company. King Pong is the first book dedicated to an unassuming game that changed the world. Through the prisms of product positioning, market development, and category creation, Raiford Guins answers the question of why Atari’s inaugural product succeeded and why it endures.

Author of Game After and Atari Design, and an excavator of the “Atari landfill” in New Mexico, Guins brings us a unique history that reconsiders the launch of Atari’s Pong from the perspective of the company’s business practices. He follows the young Silicon Valley startup from its early days first positioning its new product within the existing coin-op amusement industry to its establishment of a consumer industry for home video games—a story of remarkable market development innovation. Written with a passion for video games and a historian’s insight, the book animates the business exploits of one of the fastest growing and most influential companies ever.

Raiford Guins is Professor & Chair of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University, Bloomington. A few of his books include Atari Design and Game After (MIT Press). Guins also coedits MIT Press’s Game Histories book series with Henry Lowood.

game studies

February 5 ¼ x 8, 224 pp. 25 b&w illus.

US $19.95 / $25.95 CAN paperback 9780262051330

The Curie Society, Volume 3

Game of Code

Heather Einhorn, Adam Staffaroni, and Barbara Perez Marquez; illustrated by Sonia Liao

The brainy young heroes of the Curie Society discover a mind-bending plot that will test the limits of their abilities, and of science.

Our heroic teen science prodigies are back for a new mission with the Curie Society, an elite secret organization within which brilliant women can pursue the furthest reaches of their intellect. This time, Eris has returned as well, with startling new tech to wield in its sinister plans!

There’s a world of possibilities awaiting the brilliant young scientists of the Curie Society— but what if the designs of their criminally brilliant one-time partner threaten that world? Taj, Maya, and Simone are off to Madrid to help the local Curie Society chapter at a big technology conference, and this sunny working vacation is about to go haywire! Taj’s high school friends are also in town for an international esports tournament, and she is torn between work and play. With a key member of the team distracted, the nefarious Eris organization sees a golden opportunity to step in and seize the advantage. They’re using an AI translator to stoke tensions at the conference, but to what end?

When the plot is uncovered, the Curie Society must use every weapon in their intellectual arsenal—and every member will need to be in play—to defuse a global catastrophe!

Heather Einhorn (Co-Creator) has worked with Godzilla, Batman, and Superman, and as an executive producer for EEP she co-created the teen detective scripted podcast series Lethal Lit: A Tig Torres Mystery, the science adventure graphic novel series The Curie Society, and the webcomic/pop music star Free Hexel, among many others.

Adam Staffaroni (Co-Creator) is an executive producer for EEP Universe. Adam creates new worlds for young readers with his creative partner, Heather Einhorn.

graphic novel

March

6 ½ x 9 ½, 168 pp.

US $24.95 / $33.95 CAN paperback 9780262551762

“This book is a beautifully illustrated story about fighting for your passions, friends, and community, while also saving the world. An exciting and timely adventure!”

Hannah Templer, creator of Cosmoknights

“A fun comic starring heroines who find themselves solving one scientific puzzle after the next!”

Andy Weir, author of The Martian and Artemis

“The three diverse heroines of the secret Curie Society using brains, resourcefulness and cutting-edge technology to outwit nefarious rogue scientists who threaten the world. Right on!”

Nature

The Curie Society

Imagination, Annotated series

From the Earth to the Moon

Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age

Jules Verne; edited by Anastasia Klimchynskaya; translated by Walter James Miller

A new, annotated edition of Jules Verne’s classic, which considers the past, present, and future of spaceflight from scientific as well as humanistic angles.

In an age when the idea of a “planet B” seems tempting, this edition of Verne’s classic From the Earth to the Moon (1865) offers a complete and unabridged translation into English alongside extensive annotations and essays from contributors that span disciplines. It uses the prescient novel as a launching pad to consider the past, present, and future of spaceflight from scientific, humanistic, social, legal, and ethical angles.

Icon of science fiction Jules Verne is often considered a founder of the genre and a technological prophet who anticipated many modern-day technologies—including a moonshot launching from Florida with a trio of astronauts almost exactly a century before it happened. Verne didn’t just dream up cool gadgets: he innovatively combined the scientific and the literary to write his scientific romances. He also thought deeply about the relationship between the techno-scientific and the human at a time when the former was transforming human life on an unprecedented scale. Following in his footsteps, this annotated new edition bridges STEM and the humanities and sheds fresh new light on this underappreciated classic by an iconic author.

Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French writer and novelist, often considered a pioneer of the genre of science fiction. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth

Anastasia Klimchynskaya is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University. She is the author of Science Fiction and the Modern World

science fiction

June 6 ½ x 9, 352 pp.

52 b&w illus.

US $25.00 / $34.00 CAN paperback 9780262553865

augmented life and death as a cyborg

Candi K. Cann

A provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life.

We are all cyborgs, relying on technology— whether Alexa, a pacemaker, or a titanium knee—for our quotidian existence. In our deep connection to a technological world—from robots to augmented and virtual realities, metaverses and gaming—Candi Cann sees an opportunity, and good reason, to question our ideas about accessibility and inclusion. In augmented, she asks us to reconsider traditional notions of biology and death.

Having relied on hearing aids from the age of four, Cann uses her experience to challenge readers to reconsider their assumptions about technologies and their role in life—and death. She also focuses on what it means that most of us are living longer with the intervention of medical technologies—and how a better understanding of our relationship to technology will grant us greater control as we age.

Drawing on her life experience in Asia, the author also explains how cultural and religious views of machines and artificial intelligence vary globally—in particular, how a Western fear of machines contrasts with an animistic worldview that can see machines as conduits of care for others, embedding spiritual possibilities.

Former Fulbright Scholar, Candi K. Cann is Professor at Baylor University with a research focus on death, dying, and grief, and the intersections of marginality, diversity, and death technologies.

social science

March

6 x 9, 224 pp. 16 b&w illus.

US $29.95 / $39.95 CAN paperback 9780262051118

“A brilliant, compassionate, and provocative reframing of what it means to be human in a techentwined world—augmented urgently calls us to protect what matters most: care, connection, and meaning.”

Shoshana Ungerleider, MD, Host and Producer, TED Health; Founder, End Well

Priority Technologies

Ensuring US Security and Shared Prosperity

edited by Elisabeth B. Reynolds; foreword

by

Simon Johnson

Research and Recommendations from the MIT Priority Technologies Group

How to build innovation and industrial ecosystems in the US that support global leadership in priority technologies of the future.

A new world order is emerging, and within it, U.S. priorities are shifting. A reconfiguration of global supply chains. The redrawing of geopolitical lines and alliances with increasing threats of conflict. A rise in weather-related disasters. And the emergence of transformative technologies. All these factors are converging to create an environment filled with uncertainty and change— but also possibility.

For the country to flourish as well as defend and secure its interests, it must build on its decades of experience in developing frontier technologies and globally competitive industries through investments into priority technologies for the twenty-first century. This volume edited by Elisabeth Reynolds presents a high-level introduction to some of the key areas where the U.S. must excel and lead in the coming decades to ensure both national and economic security. The book provides an overview of six key priority technologies—biomanufacturing, quantum, critical minerals, semiconductors, drones, and advanced manufacturing—needed to build the innovation and industrial ecosystems that will keep the US secure and drive shared prosperity.

Elisabeth B. Reynolds is Professor of the Practice, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, at MIT. She previously served as Special Assistant for Manufacturing and Economic Development at the National Economic Council in 2021–2022 as well as the Executive Director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future and the Industrial Performance Center from 2010–2021.

technology

April

6 x 9, 152 pp.

US $24.95 / $33.95 CAN cloth 9780262054294

Profit vs. Progress

Why Socially Responsible Investment Doesn’t Work and How to Fix It

Brad Swanson

Why socially responsible investment promises to make investors richer and the world better— but fails at both.

Wall Street thrives by telling investors that clever financial strategies can reverse the trade-off between corporate profits and social progress. But the link between greater corporate social responsibility and improved financial performance is an illusion.

Profit vs. Progress dissects the massive $30 trillion “socially responsible” or “sustainable” finance industry—and finds the emperor has no clothes. At best, sustainable investing typically delivers average rates of financial and social returns. But it makes social and environmental crises harder to overcome, by using financial gimmickry to distract our attention from real solutions.

Author Brad Swanson argues that corporations in competitive markets act without moral values, and ethical investment can’t prod them to greater social responsibility. The only way to change the outcome of the game is to change the rules. The solutions will have to come from legislatures, not corporate boardrooms. His recommendations include breaking up the cartel of large asset managers, rebuilding the influence of organized labor, curbing the rapacious behavior of the private equity industry, and eliminating the conflict of interest that pits corporate directors against the greater good of the community.

The author shows that in previous eras of social crisis caused by corporate excess, meaningful reforms emerged through the political process. Today as well, the path forward is clear— if we have the will to follow it.

Brad Swanson manages socially responsible investments and is an adjunct faculty member in the Costello College of Business at George Mason University. Before entering the finance industry, he was a foreign service officer in the US Department of State, with tours of duty in several African countries.

business

March

6 x 9, 192 pp.

US $27.95 / $36.95 CAN cloth 9780262051590

Auditing AI

The Marquand House Collective

How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong.

Our lives are increasingly governed by automated systems influencing everything from medical care to policing to employment opportunities, but researchers and investigative journalists have proven that AI systems regularly get things wrong.

Auditing AI is a first-of-its-kind exploration of why and how to audit artificial intelligence systems. It offers a simple roadmap for using AI audits to make product and policy changes that benefit companies and the public alike. The book aims to convince readers that AI systems should be subject to robust audits to protect all of us from the dangers of these systems. Readers will come away with an understanding of what an AI audit is, why AI audits are important, key components of an audit that follows best practices, how to interpret an audit, and the available choices to act on an audit’s results.

The book is organized around canonical examples: from AI-powered drones mistakenly targeting civilians in conflict areas to false arrests triggered by facial recognition systems that misidentified people with dark skin tones to HR hiring software that prefers men. It explains these definitive cases of AI decision-making gone wrong and then highlights specific audits that have led to concrete changes in government policy and corporate practice.

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

The Marquand House Collective: Marc Aidinoff, Lena Armstrong, Esha Bhandari, Ellery Roberts Biddle, Motahhare Eslami, Karrie Karahalios, Nate Matias, Danaé Metaxa, Alondra Nelson, Christian Sandvig, and Kristen Vaccaro.

The Marquand House Collective comprises eleven experts in AI auditing spanning computing, law, policy, social science, and journalism. Members coined the term “algorithm audit” in 2014. The full group convened in 2024 at Marquand House in Princeton, New Jersey.

technology

April

5 x 7, 216 pp.

14 b&w illus.

US $19.95 / $25.95 CAN paperback

9780262051729

Cannabinoids

Linda A. Parker

The mysteries of the brain’s own cannabinoid system exposed and explained.

Though cannabis has been used, for pain or pleasure, for over 4000 years, only lately have we learned, first, what makes it work and, more recently, how. Unraveling the mystery of the human brain’s special relationship with a psychoactive chemical derived from a plant— tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, specifically— neuroscientist Linda Parker recounts the discovery of the brain’s own THC, called endocannabinoids, and describes the remarkable brain chemical system this discovery revealed.

In expert yet accessible terms, Cannabinoids explains what we know about this system, how it functions, and how it interacts with the plant materials in cannabis. Parker explores the role of the endocannabinoid system in regulating emotion, anxiety, depression, psychosis, learning, memory, feeding, nausea, pain, epilepsy, and neurological disorders—as well as, naturally, the brain’s reward system. Examining the link between anecdotal reports and the current scientific literature, the book offers a balanced presentation of the scientific evidence for the medicinal use of marijuana, providing a timely intervention in ongoing debates about cannabis’s medicinal value and its legal status.

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

Linda A. Parker is University Faculty Emeritus and former Canada Research Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

health / neuroscience

February 5 x 7, 232 pp. 4 b&w illus.

US $18.95 / $24.95 CAN paperback 9780262051392

Cultural Appropriation

Patti Tamara Lenard with Peter Balint

What cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is harmful.

What exactly is cultural appropriation? At one extreme are those commentators who suggest that any borrowing of elements outside of one’s own culture is cultural appropriation, and therefore, always wrong; at the other extreme, are those who argue that the history of human civilization just is cultural exchange, and therefore, never wrong. This book offers a clear and straightforward account of what cultural appropriation is, how it is deployed in public discourse, and if and when it is wrong.

Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint define cultural appropriation as the non-consensual, knowing (or culpably ignorant) taking of something of cultural value, usually a symbol or a practice, to others. Alleged acts of cultural appropriation generate substantial contestation in public discourse. But the fact of contestation, over whether an act is in fact cultural appropriation, is not sufficient to mean that someone has done something wrong and thereby merits criticism. The authors show that there are particular conditions— including power imbalances and potential profit at the expense of the cultural group—under which cultural appropriation is inarguably wrong, and therefore, worthy of criticism.

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

Patti Tamara Lenard is Professor of Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. She is the author of Democracy and Exclusion; Trust, Democracy and Multicultural Challenges; How Should Democracies Fight Terrorism?; Debating Multiculturalism (with Peter Balint); and Ordinary People, Extraordinary Actions

Peter Balint was Associate Professor in International & Political Studies at UNSW Canberra. His books include Debating Multiculturalism (with Patti Tamara Lenard) and Respecting Toleration, which was awarded an APSA CRISP Prize in 2018.

anthropology

March

5 x 7, 240 pp.

US $19.95 / $25.95 CAN paperback

9780262051583

THE MIT PRESS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE SERIES

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers accessible, concise, beautifully produced books on topics of current interest. Written by leading thinkers, the books in this series deliver expert overviews of subjects that range from the cultural and the historical to the scientific and the technical.

In today’s era of instant information gratification, we have ready access to opinions, rationalizations, and superficial descriptions. Much harder to come by is the foundational knowledge that informs a principled understanding of the world. Essential Knowledge books fill that need.

Synthesizing specialized subject matter for nonspecialists and engaging critical topics through fundamentals, each of these compact volumes offers readers a point of access to complex ideas. mitpress.mit.edu/eks

Machine Learning

Alpaydin

US $15.95T/$21.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-54252-4

Post-Truth

McIntyre

US $16.95T/$22.99 CAN paper 978-0-262-53504-5

Data Science

Kelleher

US $18.95T/$24.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-53543-4

Deep Learning

Kelleher

US $18.95T/$24.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-53755-1

Neuroplasticity

Costandi

US $18.95T/$24.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-52933-4

Algorithms

Louridas

US $16.95T/$22.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-53902-9

Computing

Ceruzzi

US $16.95T/$22.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-51767-6

Critical Thinking Haber

US $17.95T/$24.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-53828-2

The Internet of Things Greengard

US $15.95T/$21.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-54262-3

AI Ethics

Coeckelbergh

US $17.95T/$24.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-53819-0

The Technological Singularity

Shanahan

US $19.95T/$25.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-52780-4

Extremism

Berger

US $16.95T/$22.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-53587-8

Memes in Digital Culture

Shifman

US $15.95T/$21.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-52543-5

Cloud Computing

Ruparelia

US $16.95T/$22.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-54647-8

Quantum Entanglement

Brody

US $16.95T/$22.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-53844-2

Metadata

Pomerantz

US $19.95T/$25.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-52851-1

Nihilism

Gertz

US $16.95T/$22.99 CAN paper 978-0-262-53717-9

Behavioral Insights

Hallsworth

US $16.95T/$22.99 CAN paper 978-0-262-53940-1

Computational Thinking

Denning

US $18.95T/$24.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-53575-5

Phenomenology

Engelland

US $18.95T/$24.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-53940-1

Cybersecurity

Wilson

$16.95/$22.99 CAN paper 978-0-262-54254-8

Carbon Capture

Herzog

$16.95T/$22.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-53575-5

Sustainability

Portney

$16.95/$22.99 CAN paper 978-0-262-52850-4

Synesthesia

Cytowic

$34.95/$45.95 CAN paper 978-0-262-53509-0

Gender(s)

Stockton

$16.95/$22.99 CAN paper 978-0-262-54260-9

science fiction

March

5 1/4 x 8, 344 pp.

US $19.95 / $25.95 CAN paperback 9780262051620

Beatrice the Sixteenth

Irene Clyde; introduction by Lucy Sante

A pioneering feminist adventure in an alternate world—without the concept of gender.

Introduced by Lucy Sante, author of the acclaimed memoir of transition I Heard Her Call My Name, this pioneering 1909 feminist utopia is productively discombobulating. When Mary Hatherley, an intrepid British explorer, is kicked in the head by the camel she was riding through the Arabian desert, she finds herself transported to what seems to be an alternate version of Earth. Arriving in Armeria, she discovers a society in which the very concept of gender is unknown. Like Mary, the reader will become disoriented, enjoyably so: By avoiding the use of gendered pronouns, the story’s author (herself a gender-fluid activist) challenges our assumptions about gendered social paradigms.

Radium Age series

Irene Clyde (b. Thomas Baty, 1869–1954) was an English lawyer, writer, and activist who spent much of her life in Japan. She co-founded the Aëthnic Union, a society dedicated to challenging binary gender distinctions.

Lucy Sante’s books include Low Life, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and I Heard Her Call My Name. She was recently appointed an officer of the Order of the Crown by the Belgian government.

science fiction

March

5 1/4 x 8, 264 pp.

US $19.95 / $25.95 CAN paperback 9780262051651

Flaxman Low

Occult Detective

E. and H. Heron; edited by Alexander B. Joy; introduction by Alexander B. Joy

The weird—and weirdly delightful—adventures of fiction’s first occult detective.

Flaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective,” i.e., an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific method when tackling paranormal phenomena, appeared in a dozen stories first published from 1898–99. His creators, the mother-and-son team Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and Kate O’Brien Ryall Prichard (who published as “E. and H. Heron”), endowed the Oxford-trained psychologist with the bravery and acumen to tackle every sort of adversary from ghosts, mummies, and vampires to a mushroom mannequin.

Radium Age series

E. and H. Heron was a collective pseudonym used by the English writers Hesketh Prichard (1876–1922) and his mother, Kate O’Brien Ryall Prichard (1851–1935).

Alexander B. Joy earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Legend of the River King

Spring 2026

978-0-262-54643-0

978-0-262-54641-6

978-0-262-54906-6

978-0-262-54907-3

“Lovingly curated. . . . The series’ freedom from genre purism lets us see how a specific set of anxieties channeled through dystopias, Lovecraftian horror, arch social satire, and adventure tales—spurred literary experimentation and the bending of conventions.”

—Los Angeles Review of Books

“This is a rare work of art first and an equally powerful record of an important and ignored technological achievement.”

John Stilgoe, author of What is Landscape?

“[A]n immensely important visual project.”

—Michael Ernest Sweet, F-Stop Magazine

Marcella Hackbardt is a writer, curator, visual artist, and professor of art and photography at Kenyon College.

John P. Hankey served the B&O Railroad in a variety of capacities, including as company historian, locomotive engineer, and Curator of the B&O Railroad Museum. He has published over 100 articles.

photography/industrial history

February

8 x 10, 216 pp. 105 b&w illus.

US $39.95 / $53.95 CAN cloth 9780262051750

Silent Monoliths

The Coaling Tower Project

photographs by Jeff Brouws, foreword by Marcella Hackbardt; introduced by John P. Hankey

A beautifully arresting photographic record of North American coaling towers, which once fueled steam locomotives and powered the country.

In 1906, America commenced a major railroad modernization project, driven by massive industrial era investment and development. A lasting symbol of this time in history remains today: the imposing coaling towers that pepper the country and which once held the coal that powered steam locomotives. Over the course of five years and 20,000 miles, photographer Jeff Brouws documented these towers. Silent Monoliths tells their story.

The towers, built of concrete, a modern material with historical roots traceable to the Roman aqueducts, were constructed to replace aging (and less fire-retardant and less efficient) wooden coaling wharves and chutes. As the railroads transitioned from steam to diesel in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, most of these coaling towers slipped into obsolescence— some demolished, others “retired-in-place” and left standing. As a result of the latter, many examples of these sculptural, architectonic remnants of industrial brawn stand in silence across North America—from Flomaton, Alabama, to the northernmost reaches of Ontario, Canada; as far west as Glenns Ferry, Idaho, to the eastern seaboard in New Haven, Connecticut.

Essays from industrial and railroad historian John Hankey and art historian Marcella Hackbardt illuminate the significance of these otherworldly relics. In the spirit of Hilla and Bernd Becher, Brouws’ photographic portfolio presents over 105 examples of these austere monoliths, conveying their unique place in cultural history.

Jeff Brouws is a photographer, writer, and graphic designer. His publications include Various Small Books (MIT Press), Approaching Nowhere, Readymades, and Highway. His photographs are held in major museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fogg Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the Getty Museum.

Frederick Kiesler Vision

Machines

Mark Wasiuta

An in-depth exploration of the work of Frederick Kiesler, the visionary architect, with a special focus on his Mobile Home Library.

Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines explores the work of Austrian architect, theater designer, and theorist Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965). The book’s centerpiece is a close examination of Kiesler’s iconic but unrealized Mobile Home Library, which will be fabricated for the first time and photographed for the publication. Built around a speculative essay by Mark Wasiuta, tracing Kiesler’s visionary, even obsessive interest in sight, dreams, looking, and reading, the book covers Kiesler’s research and teaching at Columbia University’s School of Architecture in the late 1930s and 1940s, focusing on the main projects he developed at his Design Correlation Laboratory, the Mobile Home Library and the Vision Machine.

The Vision Machine was imagined as an ambitious device intended to visualize human sight, from optics and nerve stimuli to dream content and hallucinations. The Mobile Home Library was conceived as a dynamic, modular object—part device, part furniture—whose repertoire of rotating, spinning movements allowed variable forms of interaction with readers and users. At first glance these two projects barely resemble each other. Yet together they illustrate the strange and astonishing scope of Kiesler’s correalism, which spanned and confused his biotechnique (a biologically-oriented design process aimed at fostering human health) and his techno-oneiric surrealism.

The book is published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Graham Foundation in Chicago in September 2024, but is a stand-alone volume, not an exhibition catalogue.

Frederick Kiesler was born in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) in 1890 and died in New York in 1965. For a short time, he was a member of De Stijl, he briefly partnered with Adolf Loos in the 1920s, and he was an associate of many avant-garde artists, including Man Ray and Fernand Léger.

Mark Wasiuta is a writer, curator, and architect on faculty at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York. He is Co-Director of its master’s-degree program Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture. Wasiuta is coauthor and coeditor of Rifat Chadirj and Dan Graham’s New Jersey architecture

9 x 11, 192 pp. 150 color illus.

US $39.95 / $53.95 CAN cloth 9780262049269

The Society of the Screen

Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience

Martha Schwendener

How a lifelong engagement with experimental art informed the brilliant Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser’s early vision of a world dominated by glowing screens.

Predicting the importance of technology and images in the twenty-first century as early as the 1970s, Vilém Flusser warned, “the basic structure of our thinking is about to experience a mutation.” The bewitching images and screens that surround us could lead toward a centrally programmed, totalitarian society—or another, better one characterized by dialogue and collaboration among humans and new forms of intelligence.

In this book on the idiosyncratic and prescient Czech-Brazilian philosopher, art historian and critic Martha Schwendener explores the profound effect of art on Flusser’s thought. The Society of the Screen reveals how Flusser’s lifelong engagement with experimental practices—from abstract painting and concrete poetry in Brazil to video, cybernetics, and photography in Europe and the United States—as well as his extensive involvement with the São Paulo Biennial informed his belief that we were moving from “history”—a civilization informed by linear writing—into “post-history,” dominated by technical images.

The book delves deeply into how Flusser’s ideas evolved, particularly in correspondence and collaboration with artists like Mira Schendel, Fred Forest, Wen-Ying Tsai, Harun Farocki, Louis Bec, and Karl Gerstner.

Martha Schwendener is an art historian and an art critic for The New York Times. She is a visiting associate professor at NYU and a researcher in residence at the Vilém Flusser Archive, Berlin. She is the editor of Vilém Fusser’s Essays // Artforum, and her criticism and essays have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Critical Inquiry, The New Yorker, October, and many other publications.

philosophy

March 6 ¼ x 9 ½, 406 pp.

210 illus.

US $32.95 /$43.95 CAN paperback 9780262051224

The MIT Press is thrilled to announce the launch of

The Landmark Collection

Classic books from the MIT Press that continue to shape intellectual discourse.

The MIT Press Landmark Collection celebrates some of our most influential titles—definitive, widely read works at the intersection of science, technology, art, and design by leading thinkers from around the world. These beautiful editions refresh foundational books that have made an enduring contribution to the progress of knowledge. Look for new titles each season.

political science

February

6 x 9, 216 pp.

3 b&w photos, 2 b&w illus.

US $24.95 / $33.95 CAN paperback 9780262053976

Climate Justice

What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future

Cass R. Sunstein

The social cost of carbon: The most important number you’ve never heard of—and what it means.

Included in the Next Big Idea Club’s February 2025 Must-Read Books List

The Next Big Idea Club

“Climate Justice is a measured meditation on our obligations to one another in a warming world, and a reminder that, among all its other dizzying and distressing features, global warming is a red-hot problem from moral philosophy, asking of us, who counts and who doesn’t?”

David Wallace-Wells, The New York Times

“Sunstein creatively wrestles with how to quantify gains and losses resulting from climate policies.”

Foreign Affairs

Cass R. Sunstein is Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, where he is the cofounder and codirector of the Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law. Former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, he is the author of The CostBenefit Revolution, How Change Happens, Too Much Information, Sludge, Climate Justice (all published by the MIT Press), Nudge (with Richard H. Thaler), and other books.

social science

February

6 x 9, 344 pp.

US $24.95 / $33.95 CAN paperback 9780262053983

Sweet and Deadly

How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick

Murray Carpenter

How Coca-Cola makes Americans sick—and makes sure we don’t know it.

“The story of Coke is a case study in brilliant marketing, greed, and unchecked corporate power. Murray Carpenter tells the story well, exploring how an industrial mixture of sugar water and coloring agents and flavor additives has conquered the world—at the expense of our health.”

Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation

“A remarkable exposé.”

Steven Poole, The Daily Telegraph

Murray Carpenter is the author of Caffeinated. He has worked as a print and radio journalist in Maine for 25 years, and has reported for the New York Times, NPR, and the Washington Post

The Stack

On Software and Sovereignty

10th anniversary edition with new preface by the author

Benjamin H. Bratton

Why The Stack—an accidental megastructure— is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times.

What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the augmentation of the hand and eye to users identified by self-quantification and the arrival of legions of sensors, algorithms, and robots. Together, how do these distort and deform modern political geographies and produce new territories in their own image?

In his groundbreaking survey The Stack, Bratton anticipated the changes we see around us now. He proposes that different genres of computation—data centers, AI, cloud platforms, mobile apps, logistics, protocols, automation, robotics—can be seen not as different species evolving on their own, but as forming a coherent whole: an accidental megastructure called The Stack that is both a computational apparatus and a new governing architecture.

Benjamin H. Bratton is Professor of Philosophy of Technology and Speculative Design at University of California, San Diego. He is also Director of Antikythera, a think-tank, journal, and book series exploring the future of planetary computation.

technology

February 7 x 9, 532 pp. US $35.00 / $48.00 CAN paperback 9780262553919

Software Studies series

The Deep Learning Revolution

Terrence J. Sejnowski

How deep learning—from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants—is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy.

The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormous profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep learning networks can play poker better than professional poker players and defeat a world champion at Go. In this book, Terry Sejnowski explains how deep learning went from being an arcane academic field to a disruptive technology in the information economy.

“The Deep Learning Revolution is an important and timely book, written by a gifted scientist at the cutting edge of the AI revolution.” Nature

“If you’re serious about deep learning, as either a researcher, practitioner or student, you should definitely consider consuming this book.”

InsideBigData

Terrence J. Sejnowski is Francis Crick Chair at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Distinguished Professor at the University of California at San Diego. He has published over 500 scientific papers and 12 books, including The Computational Brain with Patricia Churchland. He was instrumental in shaping the BRAIN Initiative that was announced by the White House in 2013, and he received the prestigious Gruber Prize in Neuroscience in 2022.

technology

February 6 x 9, 352 pp. 135 b&w illus.

US $27.95 / $36.95 CAN paperback 9780262544993

The AI Conundrum

Harnessing the Power of AI for Your Organization—Profitably and Safely

Caleb Briggs and Rex Briggs

A timely, practical guide to AI—its strengths, weaknesses, and realworld applications—for business professionals and policymakers.

“Finally, an AI guidebook that bridges the gap between hype and reality.”

Gopi Kallayil, Chief Business Strategist, AI, Google

“I found The AI Conundrum very useful. It helped me understand what AI is, what its limits are, where it can be used and why, and where it shouldn’t be. For others, it should help demystify the apocalyptic specter that the media has created and help them understand this new tool.”

Louis Rossetto, Founder, WIRED

Caleb Briggs began coding at 10 and developing AI at 14. He has created several AI applications from scratch, building experience in genetic algorithms, machine vision, natural language, and more. Caleb is currently studying pure math and computer science at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Rex Briggs is an award-winning AI and data expert who holds five patents and has helped build multiple AI businesses. He currently serves as subject matter expert in AI for the marketing trade association MMA Global. He is the coauthor of What Sticks and the author of SIRFs-Up

Why We Cooperate

Michael Tomasello; Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, and Elizabeth S. Spelke

Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.

In Why We Cooperate, Tomasello’s studies of young children and great apes help identify the underlying psychological processes that very likely supported humans’ earliest forms of complex collaboration and, ultimately, our unique forms of cultural organization, from the evolution of tolerance and trust to the creation of such group-level structures as cultural norms and institutions. Scholars Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, and Elizabeth Spelke respond to Tomasello’s findings and explore the implications.

“… the fascinating approach to the question of what makes us human renders this a singularly worthwhile read.”

Publishers Weekly

Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. His recent books include Becoming Human, A Natural History of Human Morality, A Natural History of Human Thinking, Origins of Human Communication, and Why We Cooperate (the last two published by the MIT Press).

business/technology

February 6 x 9, 264 pp.

11 b&w photos, 21 line drawings, 40 charts

US $26.95 / $35.95 CAN paperback 9780262053969

Boston Review Books

psychology

May 4 ½ x 7, 232 pp.

US $20.00 / $27.99 CAN paperback 9780262053945

The Bias That Divides Us

The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking

Keith E. Stanovich

Why we don’t live in a post-truth society but rather a myside society: what science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics.

In The Bias That Divides Us, psychologist Keith Stanovich argues provocatively that we don’t live in a post-truth society, as has been claimed, but rather a myside society. Our problem is not that we are unable to value and respect truth and facts, but that we are unable to agree on commonly accepted truth and facts. We believe that our side knows the truth. Post-truth? That describes the other side. The inevitable result is political polarization. Stanovich shows what science can tell us about myside bias: how common it is, how to avoid it, and what purposes it serves.

“This is the book for our era: a brilliant and balanced explanation of the phenomenon of partisanship, how it is rooted in human cognition and human nature, how it distorts our collective rationality, and how we might deal with it. It is fascinating, timely, and profound.”

Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and the author of How the Mind Works and Rationality

Keith E. Stanovich is Professor Emeritus of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto. He is the author of What Intelligence Tests Miss, for which he received the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Education, and coauthor of The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking (MIT Press). In 2012, Stanovich received the E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

psychology/sociology

March

6 x 9, 256 pp.

1 illus.

US $25.00 / $34.00 CAN paperback 9780262053952

ACADEMIC TRADE

The Credibility Crisis in Science

Tweakers, Fraudsters, and the Manipulation of Empirical Results

Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer

A novel perspective on scientific fraud—how undisclosed “tweaks” to research designs and model specifications fuel the credibility crisis in science.

In The Credibility Crisis in Science, leading social scientists Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer argue that the most important fraudulent strategy is crucially underappreciated. While data fabrication and manipulation are widely recognized as fraudulent, “tweaks”—the intentional selection of research designs and model specifications based on the results they give—are not.

Thomas Plümper is Professor of Quantitative Social Research at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and Head of the Department of Socioeconomics. He is author of numerous articles and coauthor, with Eric Neumayer, of Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research

Eric Neumayer is Professor of Environment and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Geography. He is LSE’s Deputy President and Vice Chancellor.

How Deeply Human Is

Language?

Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy

Yosef Grodzinsky

A leading neurolinguist explains linguistic theory and large language models—the top contenders for understanding human language— and evaluates them in the context of the brain.

In How Deeply Human Is Language?, Yosef Grodzinsky explains linguistic theory and large language models and confronts them with the reality as it emerges from the engineering, the linguistic, and the neurological record. He walks readers through vastly different methods, tools, and findings from all these fields. Aiming to find a common path forward, he describes the conflict, but also locates points of potential contact, and sketches a joint research program that may unite these communities in a common effort to understand knowledge and learning in the brain.

Yosef Grodzinsky is currently Director of the Neurolinguistics Lab at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a scientific associate at the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, University Hospital Düsseldorf.

science

March

6 x 9, 280 pp.

10 illus.

US $35.00 / $48.00 CAN paperback 9780262051279

linguistics

April

6 x 9, 192 pp.

27 b&w illus., 5 color illus.

US $30.00 / $41.00 CAN paperback 9780262052009

April

5 ¼ x 8, 200 pp.

1 figure

US $30.00 /$41.00 CAN paperback 9780262052214

Artificial Religion

On AI, Myth, and Power

Mark Coeckelbergh

How AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations—and why we think we need it in the first place.

Artificial Religion argues that to fully understand our puzzling relation to AI, we must first look at the religious and existential background of our thinking about machines. Mapping some surprising connections between how we think about machines and Western religious narratives to political issues and existential human needs and aspirations, Mark Coeckelbergh looks back through history to offer a better understanding of how we think about machines and why we think we need them at all.

Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna and ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is the author of numerous books, including Growing Moral Relations, New Romantic Cyborgs, AI Ethics, Robot Ethics, The Political Philosophy of AI, and Why AI Undermines Democracy and What to Do About It.

Inventing ELIZA

How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI

Sarah Ciston, David M. Berry, Anthony C. Hay, Mark C. Marino, Peter Millican, Arthur I. Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, and Peggy Weil

How the infamous ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.

As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s groundbreaking chatbot system through the lens of critical code studies.

Software Studies series

technology

May

6 x 9, 320 pp.

US $35.00 /$48.00 CAN paperback 9780262052481

Sarah Ciston is the author of A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets David M. Berry is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Sussex. Anthony C. Hay has a degree in Computer Science from Imperial College, London. Mark C. Marino is Professor of Writing at the University of Southern California. Peter Millican is Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, University of Oxford. Arthur I. Schwarz is the former Chair of the Orange County IEEE Cybersecurity SIG. Jeff Shrager is a cognitive scientist and entrepreneur. Peggy Weil teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

40 mitpress.mit.edu | Spring 2026

social science

Alan Dunn

The Cartoonist as Architectural Critic

Gabriele Neri; foreword by Barry Bergdoll

The first in-depth study of American artist Alan Dunn (1900–1974), whose incisive cartoons mocked twentieth-century architecture and urban environments, expanding the field of architectural criticism.

Drawing on his pioneering expertise in the relationship between graphic satire and architecture, Gabriele Neri retraces Alan Dunn’s path from painter to renowned cartoonist, offering an unconventional perspective on architectural and urban transformations—and on their perception within society. Featuring 200 carefully selected images, including Dunn’s correspondence, preliminary sketches, unpublished cartoons, watercolors, and rare photographs, this book demonstrates the critical potential of caricature and cartoons for architectural history. It also reveals the complex intersections of architecture with media, publishing, commerce, society, art, and politics.

Gabriele Neri is Associate Professor of Architectural History at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He was a Weinberg Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, NY, and has been teaching at the Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland since 2012. He currently serves on the Scientific Committee of the MAXXI Foundation in Rome

On the Perspective of Painting

Piero della Francesca and Rocco Sinisgalli; prologue by Martin Kemp

An illuminating comparative translation of Piero della Francesca’s pioneering Renaissance work on scientific perspective, showcasing his groundbreaking methods and influence on art and architecture.

On the Perspective of Painting is the first English translation of Piero della Francesca’s renowned De Prospectiva Pingendi, complete with many of della Francesca’s drawings as well as never-before-seen drawings. Written between 1475 and 1481, De Prospectiva Pingendi was the first comprehensive manual on perspective and architecture; its importance and contribution to art and architecture cannot be overstated. Notable for its use of scientific and mathematical methods to depict objects, including the human head, della Francesca’s work anticipated modern 3D design techniques by centuries.

Rocco Sinisgalli is a retired Professor of Sciences of Representation in Art and Architecture in the Faculty of Architecture at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author of more than twenty books, including A History of the Perspective Scene from the Renaissance to the Baroque, Leonardo and the Divine Proportion, and Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting

AL AN DUNN

architecture

May 6 ¼ x 9 ½, 424 pp. 139 color illus., 60 b&w illus. US $40.00 /$54.00 CAN paperback 9780262052597

art

May

8 ½ x 11 ½, 480 pp.

88 color illus., 144 b&w illus.

US $75.00 / $99.00 CAN cloth 9780262049993

GABRIELE NERI FOREWORD BY BARRY BERGDOLL

technology/occultism

February 6 x 9, 264 pp. 12 b&w illus.

US $35.00 / $48.00 CAN paperback 9780262553889

The Unseen Internet

Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse

Shira

Chess

How the intersection of magical thinking and technological innovation helped to form digital culture, both past and present.

Our contemporary digital landscape often reflects a strange logic: Elon Musk believes there’s a one-in-a-billion chance that we are not living in a computer simulation. People argue about culturally collective false memories popularly known as “Mandela Effects.” And various factions engaged in a magic meme war leading up to the 2016 election. In The Unseen Internet, Shira Chess explores the tensions between the occult and digital spaces in the twenty-first century. These practices have resulted in distinct kinds of otherworldly discourse that affects the broader popular perceptions of reality in the twenty-first century, within and beyond the internet.

Shira Chess is Associate Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Play Like a Feminist (MIT Press) and Ready Player Two, and the coauthor of Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man

business/economics

May

6 x 9, 288 pp. 3 illus.

US $35.00 / $48.00 CAN paperback 9780262053525

Private Power and Democracy’s Decline

How to Make Capitalism Support Democracy

Mordecai Kurz

Why unfettered free-market capitalism endangers democracy—and what to do about it.

In Private Power and Democracy’s Decline, Mordecai Kurz explores the relationship between free-market capitalism and democracy. He shows that modern technological capitalism is different from the capitalism envisioned in the age of enlightenment. Technology enables the growth of centers of economic market power and monopoly concentration that results in a system in which some people are enriched immensely, while a large number of workers’ livelihoods are often destroyed. Contrary to one’s thinking, technological competition does not remove such market power, and therefore, it becomes a permanent fixture of free-market capitalism. These facts have immense political implications in creating political inequality that unleashes forces that cause democracy’s decline and possible destruction.

Mordecai Kurz is Joan Kenney Professor of Economics-Emeritus at Stanford University. His books include, most recently, The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age

42 mitpress.mit.edu | Spring 2026

Conservation by the People

The Future of Biodiversity in a Divided World

Taylor Dotson

What a wilder, more biodiverse planet could look like, where humanity fits into it, and how to get there.

Biodiversity loss now ranks alongside climate change as a threat to human survival. The United Nation’s secretary general has declared that “humanity is waging a war on nature.” According to some observers, humans are failing to do enough to avoid an extinction crisis. In Conservation by the People, Taylor Dotson challenges the catastrophic story that often gets told about the world’s ecosystems, uncovering the complex scientific, political, and cultural reasons why people disagree about conservation.

Taylor Dotson is Associate Professor of Social Science at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and the author of three books, including The Divide and Technically Together (both MIT Press).

science

March

6 x 9, 296 pp.

16 b&w illus.

US $45.00 /$60.00 CAN paperback 9780262052092

The Great Energy Transition

America from 1876 to 1929

David E. Nye

How new forms of energy transformed every aspect of American life in a span of 50 years, from 1876 to 1929—and how it seeded our current polarization.

The Era of Reform. The Gilded Age. The Progressive Era. What historians often divide into discrete eras was one period of profound change: a massive, multipronged energy transition. Oil, gas, and electricity were woven into a culture that had to heal sectional differences after the Civil War, absorb an enormous influx of immigrants, shift from a rural to an urban society, and adopt a scientific understanding of nature.

Every job, business, house, and street underwent a transformation so rapid and radical that Americans simply could not grasp the larger pattern. In The Great Energy Transition, David Nye documents this transformation—and explains our failure to see it for what it was.

David E. Nye received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal from the Society for the History of Technology in 2005. He is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Charles Babbage Institute, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Denmark, and author of 12 previous books with the MIT Press.

technology/history

March

6 x 9, 304 pp.

35 b&w illus.

US $45.00 / $60.00 CAN paperback 9780262052122

Technothriller

Film and the American Imagination

Soraya Murray

What technothrillers—popular films that center advanced technology—can tell us about ourselves, and how they ignite our imagination in technologically supercharged times.

In Technothriller, Soraya Murray reveals how popular American films after the 1960s, in which technology assumes a central role—mainly biotech, military, and computational—channel our cultural anxieties, dreams, and convictions about the power and meaning of advanced technology.

Along with iconic adaptations from technothriller novels by Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton, such as The Hunt for Red October and The Andromeda Strain, Murray considers Westworld, Rollerball, Demon Seed, WarGames, Ex Machina, Tenet, M3GAN, and The Creator, as well as the Terminator and Mission: Impossible franchises. Through these films and others, she traces deeply embedded popular beliefs about technology and innovation—and then asks what this tells us about the mechanics of power within our technological lives. Exploring how popular culture negotiates political and cultural attitudes toward innovation and difference, her work finds in technothrillers a new way of thinking about the troubled, sometimes catastrophic relationships between humans and their inventions.

“A beautifully crafted and timely book on the technothriller that shows the power of film in shaping how we see and engage with all manner of contemporary technologies from biotech to artificial intelligence. A book I wish I’d written.”

John Wills, author of Gamer Nation

Soraya Murray teaches in the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of On Video Games: The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space.

film

February 6 x 9, 296 pp.

81 b&w illus.

US $35.00 /$48.00 CAN paperback 9780262051019

PROFESSIONAL

Value Sensitive Design

Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination

second edition

Batya Friedman and David G. Hendry

A new edition of the definitive guide to value sensitive design— chock full of theory, design methods, and hands-on studios and applications for practice.

How do we make good on responsible AI and social media? On sustainable agriculture, energy, healthcare, and transportation systems? How do we develop inclusive and constructive tech policy? Value Sensitive Design offers a comprehensive approach for making progress on society’s toughest engineering and technical design problems, including practical methods for catalyzing and strengthening designers’ moral and technical imaginations.

Batya Friedman is Professor Emerita in the Information School, University of Washington, where she codirects the Value Sensitive Design Lab.

David G. Hendry is Associate Professor in the Information School, University of Washington, where he codirects the Value Sensitive Design Lab.

Sonic UX

The Science of Sound in User Experience Research

KC Collins foreword by Andrew Scott Duncan and Katie Edmonds

The science behind sound’s influence on user perception and emotion—and how to design, evaluate, and enhance sound-driven experiences across diverse products and interfaces.

Most user experience (UX) research prioritizes what users see and touch—but what about what they hear? Sound is a powerful, often overlooked layer of user experience, shaping perception, emotion, and behavior in ways users may not even realize. In Sonic UX, KC Collins offers UX researchers—both practitioners and academics—a comprehensive introduction to understanding how sound influences a user’s product perceptions, emotion, and cognition.

KC Collins is Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology at Carleton University, Canada. She is the author of Game Sound, Studying Sound, and Playing with Sound (all MIT Press).

March 6 x 9, 488 pp.

106 b&w illus.

US $40.00 / $54.00 CAN paperback 9780262553254

design

May 6 x 9, 296 pp.

29 b&w illus.

US $40.00 / $54.00 CAN paperback 9780262053730 technology

business/economics

April

6 x 9, 136 pp.

43 b&w illus.

US $30.00 / $41.00 CAN paperback 9780262052337

The Art of Monetary Policy

Lessons from Sun Tzu for Central Banks

Kristin Forbes

Strategic lessons for monetary policy from the last two tumultuous decades based on insights from Sun Tzu, the Chinese philosopher and author of The Art of War.

When central banks were forced to innovate and develop a multifaceted set of new weapons in response to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the result was a substantial expansion in their authority and reach. In The Art of Monetary Policy, Kristin Forbes draws lessons for monetary policy from the last two decades from the principles of Sun Tzu, the author of The Art of War, a Chinese philosopher and military strategist from the sixth century BC.

Karl Brunner Distinguished Lecture series

Kristin Forbes is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. In 2019, Forbes was named an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She is currently the Convener of the Bellagio Group, a research associate at the NBER and CEPR, a member of the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

A Guide for the Young Economist

third edition

William Thomson

A newly updated edition of the definitive guide for budding economists, with a new chapter of advice for young professors.

In clear, accessible language—a model for what he advocates—A Guide for the Young Economist shows how to make written and oral presentations both inviting and effective. William Thomson covers the basics of clear exposition, including such nuts-and-bolts topics as titling papers, writing abstracts, presenting research results, and holding an audience’s attention.

economics

July

6 x 9, 184 pp.

25 b&w illus.

US $40.00 / $54.00 CAN paperback 9780262051309

William Thomson is an economist who has taught at the University of Minnesota, Harvard University, and the University of Rochester. He received his PhD from Stanford University and is the author of several books and over 125 papers. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, an Economic Theory fellow, and a Fellow of the Game Theory Society, and received the Doctorate Honoris Causae from the University of Alicante.

Adaptive Finance

Embracing Uncertainty and Complexity

Frank J. Fabozzi and Sergio Focardi

A groundbreaking bridge between traditional financial theories and emerging interdisciplinary approaches, offering a unique perspective on finance in these uncertain times.

Adaptive Finance offers a forward-looking exploration of the evolving world of finance, addressing the most pressing challenges and emerging trends facing financial markets today. It examines how traditional economic and financial models, long dominant in the field, are being redefined by advancements in behavioral science, mathematics, and technology. Financial professionals and academics must confront risks and dynamics that established theories often fail to capture in an era marked by complexity, technological disruption, and global uncertainty. This book provides the intellectual foundation needed to tackle these challenges.

Frank J. Fabozzi is Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He is the author of Entrepreneurial Finance and Accounting for HighTech Companies and Introduction to Fixed-Income Analysis and Portfolio Management

Sergio Focardi is Professor at the University of Genoa, where he teaches risk management and financial engineering. He is the author or coauthor of 24 books and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers.

Statistical Decision Theory in Perception and Cognition

Signal Detection and General Recognition Theories

F. Gregory Ashby

A comprehensive survey of the dominant methods for separating perceptual from decisional effects and for studying perceptual interactions.

Signal detection theory (SDT) and its multidimensional generalization called general recognition theory (GRT) are, by far, the dominant methods for determining whether a change in performance is due to a change in perception or a change in how perceptual or cognitive information is used to select a response. In addition, GRT is the dominant method for studying perceptual interactions.

SDT and GRT are used in thousands of published articles that span an enormous range of fields, including vision and all other areas of perception, memory, decision making, eyewitness testimony, response time modeling, face perception, visual search, categorization, perceived similarity, preference, stereotyping, implicit learning, fMRI data analysis, and food science. The book includes examples that illustrate how the various methods are applied, and also includes Matlab code that performs several key computations.

F. Gregory Ashby is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. economics

February 6 x 9, 232 pp. US $50.00 / $66.00 CAN paperback 9780262051415

psychology/statistics

May 7 x 9, 384 pp.

84 b&w illus.

US $85.00 / $112.00 CAN paperback 9780262052511

business

April

6 x 9, 232 pp.

US $35.00 / $48.00 CAN paperback 9780262053761

Corporate Reckoning

How Businesses Can Address Historical Wrongs

Sarah Federman

How corporations can address legacies of historical oppression in ways that are good for them and good for others.

Increasingly, corporate executives find themselves called upon to atone for their predecessors’ moral transgressions. While many are prepared to address inherited failed product lines or dysfunctional teams, few know how to handle demands that their enterprise address legacies of mass atrocity such as slavery, genocide, or colonialism. In Corporate Reckoning, Sarah Federman provides a corporate atonement model for corporate leaders and employees across industries around the world.

Sarah Federman is Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution at the University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace Studies. She is the author of the award-winning books Transformative Negotiation and Last Train to Auschwitz, as well as two coauthored anthologies Introduction to Conflict Resolution and Narratives of Mass Atrocity. In 2022, Federman testified before Congress concerning the responsibility of U.S. banks to respond to their slavery ties. Federman’s TedX talk on this topic has been selected by TED’s main conference for wider promotion and will be released soon.

business

February

6 x 9, 184 pp.

44 b&w illus.

US $40.00 /$54.00 CAN cloth 9780262052184

Skill Versus Luck

Taking the Guessing Out of Equity Fund Selection

Michael A. Ervolini

How to move beyond guessing about manager skill with decisionbased analytics, not the outcome-based analytics used at present.

Skill is the raison d’être for active equity management. Yet precious little is known about manager skill. What is skill? Who has it? How should it be measured? Is a manager’s skill improving, declining, or remaining consistent? Unable to answer such fundamental inquiries capital, allocators have no choice but to rely on inferences, hunches, and guesswork. In Skill Versus Luck, Michael Ervolini explains how to move beyond today’s skill fog with the use of newer analytics developed over the past decade.

Michael A. Ervolini has over 45 years of executive experience in institutional asset management. He was the founder and CEO of two fintech companies: Cabot Investment Technology, Inc. and Charter Research LLC. He is the author of Managing Equity Portfolios (MIT Press).

50 mitpress.mit.edu | Spring 2026

Launching from the Lab

Building a Deep-Tech Startup

Lita Nelsen and Maureen Stancik Boyce; with Sophie Hagerty

An essential how-to guidebook for building new companies based on deep technology.

Launching from the Lab provides a much-needed framework for new entrepreneurs who are founding a company based on “deep technology”— groundbreaking innovations arising from new discoveries in fundamental research. Lita Nelsen and Maureen Stancik Boyce cover the steps to launch and fund such companies, beginning with emergence from the laboratory and acquiring intellectual property to the intensive research of customer needs, building a team, and raising capital.

Lita Nelsen is the retired director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office and a worldwide leader in technology transfer. She is a consultant to small biotech companies and a volunteer in the MIT Sandbox student entrepreneurship.

Maureen Stancik Boyce is a founding partner of Good Growth Capital, a venture-capital company specializing in early-stage technology-based companies. She has been a mentor of MIT’s Sandbox program since its inception.

Digital Crossroads

Telecommunications Law and Policy in the Internet Age, third edition

Jonathan E. Nuechterlein and Howard Shelanski

An incisive and thoroughly updated guide to U.S. telecommunications regulation—what it can teach us about competition policy for Big Tech.

In Digital Crossroads, two experts on telecommunications and tech policy offer a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the regulation of competition in the U.S. telecommunications industry. The first two editions of Digital Crossroads (also MIT Press) became essential guides for policymakers, lawyers, scholars, and students in a fast-moving and complex policy field. In this third edition, the authors have updated the book to include a wide range of industry developments that have reshaped telecommunications policy since the second edition’s publication in 2013. These include the rise and fall of common carrier regulation for broadband ISPs; further consolidation within the wireless industry; redoubled efforts to free up more spectrum for commercial uses; the increasing competitive significance of low-Earth-orbiting satellite broadband; and seismic shifts in broadband subsidy initiatives.

Jonathan E. Nuechterlein is Distinguished Scholar at George Washington University’s Competition Law Center and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School. Howard Shelanski is Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where he holds the Joseph and Madeline Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation, and a partner at Davis, Polk & Wardwell, LLP. business

February 6 x 9, 256 pp. 19 b&w illus.

US $35.00 / $48.00 CAN paperback 9780262051941

technology/telecommunications

May

6 x 9, 448 pp.

US $80.00 / $105.00 CAN paperback 9780262052245

political science

May

6 x 9, 532 pp.

43 b&w illus.

US $75.00 / $99.00 CAN paperback 9780262051910

psychology

May

6 x 9, 424 pp.

3 b&w illus.

US $70.00 / $92.00 CAN paperback 9780262045247

Steering Structural Change

Rethinking Government Policy to Support Fundamental Economic Transformations

edited by Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Maurice Obstfeld, and Petia Topalova

How to guide and support societal changes driven by geopolitical turbulence, technological advances like AI, and the green energy transition.

Steering Structural Change explores looming transformations that advanced and developing economies face as rising geopolitical tensions, accelerating climate change, and advances in technology disrupt economic structures. These seismic factors demand a fundamental reconsideration of economic policies.

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC.

Maurice Obstfeld is C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC.

Petia Topalova is Division Chief of the Development Macroeconomics Division in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund.

Mental Health for All Nations

Dinesh Bhugra

Basic principles for setting up mental health services in the context of mutual learning from across the globe.

As people globally are living longer, complex co-morbidities between physical and mental disorders are coming to the fore. Mental health, says Dinesh Bhugra, must therefore be the top priority for the citizens of all countries in policy and funding for research and service development. These must be integrated with primary and secondary healthcare delivery. The book presents the basic components of a good mental healthcare system, while stressing the need for international mutual learning.

Culture and Psychiatry series

Dinesh Bhugra is Professor Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He is a former President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2008–2011), the World Psychiatric Association (2014–2017), and the British Medical Association (2018–2019).

The Invariance Principle

David Lopez-Paz

How statistical invariances will help us build AI systems exhibiting human-like performance by following human-like strategies.

Current machine learning systems crumble when the distributions of training and testing examples differ in spurious correlations. This is a major roadblock toward the development of advanced machine intelligence, which demands not only human-like performance but the deployment of human-like strategies. The prevalent approach in AI, fixated on recklessly minimizing average training error, falls short in producing AI systems capable of authentic out-of-distribution generalization. This book introduces the Invariance Principle, a new epistemological tool to unearth correlations invariant across diverse collections of empirical data.

David Lopez-Paz is a research scientist at FAIR, Meta. Previously, he held positions in the European Space Agency, RedBull, Formula 1, and Google Research.

computers

June

6 x 9, 400 pp.

97 illus.

US $75.00 /$99.00 CAN paperback 9780262053341

Pathway to Change

Culture, Economics, Human Progress, and Prosperity

Naci Mocan

A fascinating deep dive into the dynamic interplay between culture, economics, institutions, and human prosperity.

In Pathway to Change, Naci Mocan investigates the economic origins of current cultural beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors, highlighting the lasting impact of historical agricultural practices and ecological conditions. He shows that cultural traits evolve in response to external shocks— such as exposure to violence, changes in institutional quality, and the laws and law enforcement—and argues that culture and institutions influence each other: culture shapes the functioning of institutions, while institutions also mold cultural norms. As a result, the success of institutional reforms depends heavily on the cultural context in which they are implemented.

Naci Mocan is the Ourso Distinguished Chair of Economics at Louisiana State University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has provided consulting to public and private institutions, including the U.S. Department of Justice, and has served on the Louisiana Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

business

May

6 x 9, 304 pp.

7 illus.

US $60.00 / $79.00 CAN paperback 9780262053044

SCHOLARLY

Glenn Ligon

edited by Huey Copeland

How contemporary artist Glenn Ligon’s expansive body of work mines American history and literature to ask critical questions about modern culture.

OCTOBER Files: Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) presents the first compilation of critical discourse on the multimedia work of one of the most influential American artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Often citing or annotating past literary (e.g., James Baldwin), artistic (e.g., Andy Warhol), and musical (e.g., Steve Reich) interventions, Ligon’s practice imaginatively explores the contradictions of speech, vision, authorship, identity, blackness and belonging in works that are at once historically resonant and materially sensuous.

October Files

Huey Copeland is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art and Black Study at the University of Pittsburgh. An editor of OCTOBER, his books include Bound to Appear, Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World, and Touched by the Mother: Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons A recipient of the 2019 Driskell C. Prize, Copeland currently serves on the board of directors of the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Pierre Huyghe

edited by André Rottmann

The first collection of critical writings on the work of the influential contemporary French artist Pierre Huyghe.

Influenced by wide-ranging ideas from land art and institutional critique to experimental cinematic practices and narrative film, the groundbreaking work of Pierre Huyghe since the early 1990s has arguably, even indelibly, altered the landscape of contemporary art. The French artist works at the beguiling intersection of fiction and reality, representation and performance, spectacle and memory, chance and agency, living organisms and technological entities. As formats and discourses of cinema (be it Godard or Lumet) and architecture, (invented or existing) holidays and games, (puppet) theatre and opera, fairy tales and (travel) literature, museology and computer technology, life sciences and popular culture (like Manga comics or Disney movies) are renegotiated in Huyghe’s variegated projects, the methods and modalities of producing, exposing, and experiencing art, in turn, come under both critical scrutiny and allegorical speculation.

October Files

André Rottmann is a Berlin-based art historian and Professor for Art and Media Theory at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. He is the editor of John Knight and author of Isa Genzken (both MIT Press). art

April

6 x 9, 312 pp.

68 b&w ills.

US $30.00 / $41.00 CAN paperback 9780262052627

art

April

6 x 9, 208 pp.

35 b&w illus.

US $30.00 / $41.00 CAN paperback 9780262052658

architecture

May

5 1/4 x 8, 288 pp.

US $55.00 / $73.00 CAN paperback 9780262052689

The Architecture of Participation

Giancarlo De Carlo; introduction by Luisa Lorenza Corna; translated by Alex Fletcher and Elisa Adami

Seminal texts by renowned Italian architect Giancarlo De Carlo on architecture, education, and anarchy.

Giancarlo De Carlo’s academic and professional career combined two seemingly opposed terms in a single vocation: architecture and anarchy. But this was a vocation that avoided the utopian fantasies of the 1960s and 1970s and instead strove for rigor. In the essays collected in this book, De Carlo shows how the idea of participatory architecture can open the way to a realistic, fully realizable utopia—in theory, but also in practice: in his urban planning of the city center of Rimini and in his architectural plan for the village of Matteotti in Terni. Also included are De Carlo’s celebrated essays “Why/How to Construct School Buildings” and “Architecture’s Public,” which address the potential of architecture to translate and realize the issues that arise from the act of protest.

Insubordinations: Italian Radical Thought series

Giancarlo De Carlo (1919–2005) was an architect and planner, educator and editor, writer and speaker, thinker and innovator. He was well-known in his native Italy and abroad as a founder of Team X and as a pioneer in participatory architecture.

Computational Reflections

Brian Cantwell Smith

A groundbreaking critique of the philosophical foundations of computing.

Computational Reflections is a wholly original investigation into the philosophical foundations of computing. Brian Cantwell Smith distills a lifetime of work into this volume which explores what it means to compute.

computer science

May

6 x 9, 400 pp.

9 b&w illus.

US $65.00 / $86.00 CAN paperback 9780262051088

The standard theoretical foundations of computer science address the fundamental concept of “mechanism,” but almost completely ignore the crucial role of “meaning” in any computational practice. Cantwell Smith takes the reader through these missing foundational gaps, including a historical analysis of why the field has reached its current state.

Brian Cantwell Smith was Professor of Information and of Philosophy as well as the Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human at the University of Toronto. His books include On the Origin of Objects and The Promise of Artificial Intelligence (both MIT Press).

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Start with Questions

The Classroom as Design Studio

Karen Brennan and Sarah Blum-Smith

An exploration of how K–12 teachers support students’ self-directed learning.

What if classrooms were places where all learners have opportunities to work on projects and explore ideas that feel important to them? To have their voice and curiosity honored, and to have access to peers and teachers who support them on their learning journeys? In Start with Questions, Karen Brennan and Sarah Blum-Smith explore how K–12 teachers are making this possible by supporting students’ self-directed learning—an approach to learning that enables students to find joy and meaning in what they are doing, enhancing their learning in the moment and creating excitement for future learning.

Based on a year-long study with 25 teachers in elementary, middle, and high school computing classrooms across the United States, the book showcases teaching that centers students’ ideas for what and how they learn. The book shares stories of practice drawn from teacher interviews, classroom observations, and reflective journals. Each story is accompanied by theory from educators, researchers, and philosophers – such as Eleanor Duckworth, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, and Donald Schön – to illuminate the powerful principles underlying teachers’ support of selfdirected learning in the classroom. Collectively, the stories and theory offer a vision of how beautiful learning happens when teachers start with questions and create the conditions for learners to take themselves and their ideas seriously.

Karen Brennan is Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Practice in Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she directs the Creative Computing Lab.

Sarah Blum-Smith is an elementary classroom teacher in the Medford Public Schools. education

March 6 x 9, 256 pp. US $45.00 /$60.00 CAN paperback 9780262051460

TEXTBOOKS

Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies

eleventh edition

Frank J. Fabozzi and Francesco A. Fabozzi

The comprehensively updated new edition of a bestselling textbook that covers fundamental features of bonds, analytical techniques, and portfolio strategies.

Now in its 11th edition, this bestselling textbook illuminates the complexities and dynamics of the bond markets, integrating rigorous technical content with real-world case studies to effectively bridge theory and application.

Frank J. Fabozzi is Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He is the author of Introduction to Fixed-Income Analysis and Portfolio Management, Capital Markets: Institutions, Instruments, and Risk Management, 6e and Entrepreneurial Finance and Accounting for High-Tech Companies and coauthor of Simulation, Optimization, and Machine Learning for Finance, The Economics of FinTech, and Foundations of Global Financial Markets and Institutions (all MIT Press).

Francesco A. Fabozzi is Research Director at Yale School of Management’s International Center for Finance. He serves as the Managing Editor of The Journal of Financial Data Science and the Director of Data Science at the CFA Institute Research Foundation and is the coauthor of six books in asset management and corporate finance.

Applied Microeconometrics

Damian Clarke

A rigorous, cutting-edge overview of the range of methods used to conduct causal inference in the social sciences.

This textbook provides a lucid, rigorous, and cutting-edge overview of the methods used to conduct causal inference in the social sciences, covering all the core techniques and latest advances. Offering a detailed survey of the current state of microeconometric theory, Damian Clarke delves deeply into machine learning applications and presents developments in difference-in-difference methods, instrumental variables, multiple hypothesis testing, and other advanced topics. A diverse range of examples and exercises provide hands-on experience and exposure to the sort of real data and questions being analyzed at the frontier of many fields.

Damian Clarke is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter and the University of Chile, Data Editor for the journals of the UK’s Royal Economic Society, and coauthor of Microeconometrics and MATLAB: An Introduction

finance

May

8 x 10, 988 pp.

US $180.00 / $234.00 CAN cloth 9780262052368

economics

June

8 x 9, 384 pp.

72 illus.

US $80.00 / $105.00 CAN paperback 9780262053648

computer science

July 7 x 9, 388 pp.

140 illus.

US $75.00 /$99.00 CAN paperback 9780262053167

Critical Web Design

xtine burrough and Owen Mundy

An innovative, learn-by-doing textbook that teaches how to design for the web while engaging a critical lens on the technoculture that sustains it.

Critical web design, like critical design, employs a social usefulness to challenge the ways technology enters our lives. It reclaims the mechanisms, tools, and practices used to produce coercive and commercial interfaces, harnessing the power of design and networked information to question preconceptions about the medium itself. This engaging, practical textbook explores how to design for the web while maintaining a critical understanding of the technoculture that sustains it.

xtine burrough is a professor in the Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology and the director of LabSynthE at the University of Texas, Dallas. She is the author of Foundations of Digital Art and Design and Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design and a coeditor of Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change

Owen Mundy is Professor of the Practice in Film, Media, and Digital Studies at Davidson College and an artist, designer, and programmer whose work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, NPR, and Wired Magazine

Fundamentals of Active Inference

Principles, Algorithms, and Applications of the Free Energy Principle for Engineers

Sanjeev V. Namjoshi

A comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to active inference and the free energy principle for an engineering-focused audience.

data science

March

8 x 10, 584 pp.

213 color illus., 24 b&w illus.

US $195.00 / $253.00 CAN cloth 9780262050951

Active inference, which uses machine learning to model brain function and behavior, emerged from decades of cross-disciplinary research in computational neuroscience, resulting in a vast literature but no unifying treatment. Filling this gap, Sanjeev Namjoshi provides comprehensive coverage of the foundational material needed to understand and navigate this fast-moving field from first principles. Using a simple, conversational style free of proofs, lemmas, and theorems, Namjoshi brings together theory and technical material in one self-contained text.

Sanjeev V. Namjoshi is a machine learning engineer at VERSES.AI. Over more than a decade in academia and industry, he performed research in bioinformatics and computational neuroscience as well as lead teams to build machine learning-based software.

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Introduction to Quantitative Economics

Jesse M. Shapiro

A paradigm-shifting textbook that teaches graduate students in economics how to use economic models to interpret data.

Graduate programs in economics often train students first in theory and econometrics, and then in more specialized fields of study, leaving fundamental aspects of how economists use theory to interpret data— concepts like falsifiability, identifiability, and counterfactual analysis— to be taught in niche, siloed contexts or not at all. Offering a new pedagogical paradigm, this textbook delivers a ready-made economics course covering the general concepts that unify different approaches to bringing economic models to data. Jesse Shapiro presents core ideas in quantitative economics as an abstract, cohesive whole and introduces canonical models that can be used across a wide range of applications.

Jesse M. Shapiro is George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Shapiro is a 2021 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and a 2025 recipient of the Harvard Graduate Economics Teaching Award for Advising.

Elements of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Tor D. Wager and Martin A. Lindquist

A comprehensive, accessible treatment of fMRI neuroimaging, covering conceptual foundations, technical details, and contemporary applications.

The growing prevalence of neuroimaging, particularly fMRI, poses a challenge. As an inherently technical enterprise, it requires a synthesis of biological, computational, statistical, and psychological expertise that spans many fields. This textbook introduces the fundamentals of how fMRI works and the principles that underlie it. Tor Wager and Martin Lindquist begin with a broad conceptual overview of what neuroimaging can and cannot say about the mind and behavior before moving to in-depth coverage of technical and mathematical detail.

Tor D. Wager is Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College and Director of Dartmouth’s Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience laboratory, the Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center, and the Dartmouth Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.

Martin A. Lindquist is Professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University and a recipient of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping’s Education in Neuroimaging Award.

economics

February 7 x 9, 104 pp.

US $45.00 /$60.00 CAN paperback 9780262051057

neuroscience

June 7 x 9, 552 pp.

110 illus.

US $175.00 / $227.00 CAN paperback 9780262045049

Of a Different Mind

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology

Erik Myin

A new way to teach philosophy of mind and psychology that makes room for action-first views.

Much of contemporary philosophical discourse of the mind is dominated by understanding the mind as a naturally evolved kind of computer. In this view, evolution has equipped us with a biological information processor, and it is thanks to cognitive operations that we perceive, act intelligently, and think. By contrast, this novel textbook presents an agential view of the philosophy of mind where action, rather than thought, is the most important thing a mind does. Erik Myin covers a broad range of action-based views—embodied, embedded, enacted, extended, and enculturated—while providing a thorough introduction to standard analytical philosophy of mind.

Erik Myin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Antwerp and coauthor of Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content (MIT Press).

philosophy

May

6 x 9, 336 pp. US $65.00 /$86.00 CAN paperback 9780262052993

The Handbook of Social Protection

Evidence and New Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Edited by Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken

A much-needed guide exploring social protection on poverty, inequality, health, and government finance—from cash transfers to unemployment insurance—in low- and middle-income nations.

In the past, much of the research on safety nets and social insurance has been centered on high-income countries. In recent years, given the changing policy landscape, there has been a new and growing economics literature on social protection systems in low-and middleincome countries.

The Handbook of Social Protection takes stock of this literature— to understand what we know about the differing aspects of social protection and to highlight the open questions for research for the future. It delves into the research on social protection programs by bringing together top experts in the field to cover topics from targeting to cash transfers to unemployment insurance.

Rema Hanna is Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Benjamin A. Olken is TEPCO Professor of Economics at MIT. He is a faculty Director of J-PAL, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, Co-Scientific Director of J-PAL’s Southeast Asia office, and Co-Chair of the J-PAL’s Social Protection Initiative.

The Open Handbook of (In)definiteness

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Interpreting Bare Arguments

Veneeta Dayal

A hands-on, accessible guide for investigating the meaning of noun phrases.

Why do many languages have definite and indefinite articles, while many others do not? What principles govern the use of articles? Do these principles apply to article-less languages? These are some of the questions that confront anyone who engages seriously with language, from theoretical linguists and cognitive scientists to language learners and language teachers. In The Open Handbook of (In)definiteness, Veneeta Dayal clarifies how morpho-syntactic signals related to (in) definiteness can be distinguished from interpretation.

Open Handbooks in Linguistics

Veneeta Dayal is Dorothy R. Diebold Professor & Chair of Linguistics at Yale University. In addition to articles on a wide range of topics in semantics and its interfaces with pragmatics and syntax, she is the author of Locality in Wh Quantification and Questions and coeditor of Clause Structure in South Asian Languages

political science

March

7 x 9, 504 pp.

43 figures

US $200.00 / $259.00 CAN paperback 9780262051408

linguistics

May

7 x 10, 464 pp.

20 figures

US $195.00 /$253.00 CAN cloth 9780262052795

Direct to Open

Everyone deserves access to scholarship. D2O makes it possible.

Direct to Open: A bold, innovative model for open access to scholarship and knowledge

D2O harnesses the collective power of libraries to support open and equitable access to vital, leading scholarship. Developed over two years with the generous support of the Arcadia Fund, in close collaboration with the library community, D2O:

• Opens access to new MIT Press scholarly monographs and edited collections (80-90 titles per year) via recurring participation fees.

• Provides participating libraries with term access to backlist/ archives (~2,500 titles), which would otherwise be gated.

• Covers partial direct costs for the publication of high-quality works that are also available for print purchase.

When Federal Climate Policy Works

Benefits, Business, and Politics

Roger Karapin and David Vogel

An original analysis of the federal government’s sectoral climate policy accomplishments over the last five decades, with recommendations for policy makers.

Roger Karapin is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. David Vogel is Professor Emeritus of Haas School of Business, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley.

political science

May 6 x 9, 372 pp. 2 b&w illus.

US $45.00 / $60.00 CAN paperback 9780262053556

American and Comparative Environmental Policy series

Living in the Simulacra

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love

Baudrillard

Mark Heisten, Kathleen M. Ryan, and David Staton

What is real in the twenty-first century, and how humans can navigate this shifting world.

Mark Heisten is Assistant Professor of Communication at Marist University. Kathleen M. Ryan is a documentary filmmaker and author of Pin Up! The Subculture and the coeditor of several books, including Interactive Documentary David Staton is Associate Professor at the University of Northern Colorado. He is a coeditor of several collections including Persevering During the Pandemic and the director/producer of three feature-length documentary films.

social science

June 6 x 9, 248 pp. 16 illus.

US $65.00 / $86.00 CAN paperback 9780262053105

The Military Entertainment Complex

Chimurenga Afrosonic Making of Zimbabwe

Mhoze Chikowero

An insightful exploration of the role of Zimbabwean liberation music—Chimurenga music—in shaping the history and politics of postcolonial Zimbabwe.

Mhoze Chikowero is Founder-Director of the UCSB Africa Center and a research fellow at Leiden University. His first book African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe won the Kwabena Nketia Book Award.

music/African studies

July 6 x 9, 424 pp.

US $85.00 / $112.00 CAN paperback 9780262053310

Global South Cosmologies and Epistemologies series

Exposing Violence

Media Practices and Aesthetics of Radical Truth

Agnieszka Jelewska and Michał Krawczak How small groups and grassroots collectives can act for justice and leverage contemporary media to document violence.

Agnieszka Jelewska is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland and a cofounder of the Humanities/ Art/Technology Research Centre at AMU. She is a coauthor of Nuclear Gaia Michał Krawczak is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland and cofounder of Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center at AMU. He is a coauthor of Nuclear Gaia.

social science

March

6 x 9, 280 pp. 30 illus.

US $55.00 / $73.00 CAN paperback 9780262053464

Leonardo series

Burnout Market Feminism

Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet

Age

Ling Tang

Why elite Chinese women find themselves caught in a cycle of burnout.

Ling Tang is an artist-activist-academic who views sociology as art and vice versa. They are a lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne and a singer-songwriter under the name Lyn Dawn (Spotify, YouTube) or (QQ Music, NetEase Music).

business

May

6 x 9, 208 pp.

US $50.00 / $66.00 CAN paperback 9780262051880

Labor and Technology series

Unlimited

Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media

Distribution

Rahul Mukherjee

How telecom companies in India have added a whole new group of mobile phone users—and the tremendous impact of this new reach.

Rahul Mukherjee is Associate Professor of TV and New Media in Department of Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Radiant Infrastructures

technology

March

6 x 9, 304 pp.

38 b&w illus.

US $50.00 / $66.00 CAN paperback 9780262552714

Distribution Matters series

100% Utilization

Computation and Labor After Moore’s Law

Andrew Lison

A wide-ranging analysis of how the material limits to discrete, silicon-based computing power impact employment and automation.

Andrew Lison is Associate Professor of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His research connects digital mediation with developments in political economy, critical theory, and popular culture.

social science

May

6 x 9, 300 pp.

4 illus.

US $60.00 / $79.00 CAN paperback 9780262051361

Software Studies series

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Bayesian Entrepreneurship

edited by Ajay Agrawal, Arnaldo Camuffo, Alfonso Gambardella, Joshua Gans, Erin L. Scott, and Scott Stern

A novel framework for how entrepreneurs can use Bayesian reasoning to make decisions.

Ajay Agrawal is Professor at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is the founder of the Creative Destruction Lab. Arnaldo Camuffo is Professor at Bocconi University and Co-Director of the ION Management Science Lab at SDA Bocconi School of Management. Alfonso Gambardella is Professor of Management of Innovation at Bocconi University. Joshua Gans is Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and Chief Economist of the Creative Destruction Lab. Erin L. Scott is Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Scott Stern is David Sarnoff Professor of Management at MIT Sloan School of Management.

economics

April

6 x 9, 372 pp.

32 illus.

US $120.00 / $157.00 CAN cloth

9780262052153

The Broken Machine

Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self

Edward Jones-Imhotep

A cultural history of technological breakdown, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic World.

Edward Jones-Imhotep is Professor at Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at University of Toronto.

technology

June

6 x 9, 256 pp. 30 b&w illus.

US $40.00 / $54.00 CAN paperback

9780262553346

Digital Exiles

Refugee Work in the Global Digital Economy

Andreas Hackl

A deep exploration of the opportunities and risks a global digital economy poses for refugees.

Andreas Hackl is a social anthropologist at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in international development, migration, and the digital economy. He is the author of The Invisible Palestinians

social science

May

6 x 9, 236 pp.

US $50.00 / $ 66.00 CAN paperback

9780262052450

A Dialogue of the Senses

Designing Interaction with the Body in Mind

Sile O’Modhrain

A comprehensive introduction to embodied cognition for designers of interactive artifacts, systems, and environments.

In this introduction to embodied cognition and the design of interactive systems A Dialogue of the Senses, Sile O’Modhrain argues for turning the interaction design process inside out. We cannot design the experiences of those who use our artifacts and devices, she says; we can only put in place the conditions under which users can bring forth, through their actions, an embodied experience of the world that includes the things we build.

Sile O’Modhrain is Professor of Performing Arts Technology and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan.

computers/design

April

6 x 9, 460 pp.

US $130.00 /$170.00 CAN paperback 9780262052399

Electric Life

Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy

Nikki Luke

How workers and customers engage utility regulation to act on climate change, energy affordability, and environmental, racial, and economic injustice.

Electric Life traces the intertwined history of Atlanta’s racialized uneven development and growing electricity use to show how electricity infrastructure shapes everyday life. Nikki Luke looks at how quotidian relationships with the electric utility catalyze intersectional organizing for energy democracy.

Nikki Luke is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Tennessee.

technology

March

6 x 9, 264 pp. 10 illus.

US $55.00 /$73.00 CAN paperback 9780262051972

Urban and Industrial Environments series

Peace Infrastructures

How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability

Silvia Danielak

The first comprehensive account of infrastructure building in United Nations peace operations.

Silvia Danielak is Assistant Professor at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. She is the recipient of the Peace Scholar Fellowship from the U.S. Institute of Peace.

political science

April

6 x 9, 232 pp.

US $45.00 / $60.00 CAN paperback 9780262553612

Hot Connections

Why Sexual Platforms Matter

Jenny Sundén, Susanna Paasonen, and Katrin Tiidenberg

A rethinking of “the social” in social media which includes the sexual.

Jenny Sundén is Professor of Gender Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is a coauthor of Who’s Laughing Now? (MIT Press) and Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku, Finland. She is the author of Carnal Resonance and Dependent, Distracted, Bored, as well as a coauthor of NSFW and Who’s Laughing Now? (all MIT Press). Katrin Tiidenberg is Professor of Participatory Culture at Tallinn University, Estonia. She is a coauthor of Tumblr and Sex and Social Media and the author of Selfies

social science

March

6 x 9, 228 pp.

US $55.00 / $73.00 CAN paperback 9780262052061

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Feminism and COVID-19

How Women Fare in the Face of a Global Crisis edited by Julia Smith and Clare Wenham

How dominant patriarchal structures permeated the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic—and women’s multiple and varied experiences of and resistance to these structures.

Julia Smith is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Conscripted to Care and Civil Society Organizations and the Global Response to HIV/ AIDS. Clare Wenham is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics. She is the author of Feminist Global Health Security and coauthor of Declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern

social science

February

6 x 9, 240 pp.

3 b&w illus.

US $65.00 /$86.00 CAN paperback 9780262554039

Nurturing Food Justice

Expansive and Intersectional Visions

edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman

How diverse communities are finding new ways to grow food, build movements, and challenge institutions to create more just and sustainable food futures.

Food, Health, and the Environment series

Alison Hope Alkon is Professor of Community Studies and Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. With Julian Agyeman, she is the coeditor of Cultivating Food Justice Julian Agyeman is Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. With Alison Alkon, he is the coeditor of Cultivating Food Justice

agriculture

February 6 x 9, 348 pp. 10 b&w illus.

US $75.00 / $99.00 CAN paperback 9780262553698

Nuclear Remains

On Temporalities, Responsibilities, and Values

Başak Saraç-Lesavre

An ethnography of U.S. nuclear waste policy, and how to understand contemporary societies’ attempts to establish “good” relations with the future.

Nuclear Remains asks what happens when a society decides to think long-term—examining the U.S. efforts to hold present and distant futures together.

Başak Saraç-Lesavre is Assistant Professor in the Center for the Sociology of Organizations at Science Po, Paris.

technology

May 6 x 9, 256 pp.

US $55.00 /$73.00 CAN paperback

9780262052856 Inside Technology series

Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature

edited by Tyler Millhouse, Stephen D. Petersen, and Don Ross

How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.

Tyler Millhouse is Assistant Professor of Practice in the University of Arizona’s College of Information Science. Steve Petersen is Professor of Philosophy at Niagara University. Don Ross is Professor in the School of Society, Politics, and Ethics at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author, most recently, of The Gambling Animal (with Glenn Harrison).

cognitive science

March 6 x 9, 304 pp. 25 figures, 28 equations, 4 tables

US $85.00 / $112.00 CAN paperback 9780262052030

Testing Einstein

One Hundred Years of Experimental Relativity

edited by Brian C. Odom and Daniel Kennefick; foreword by Peter Galison

A collection that confronts the reality of experimental gravity, which is different from the conventional—and overly simplistic— understanding.

Brian C. Odom is currently Chief Historian at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Daniel Kennefick is a physicist and historian of science at the University of Arkansas.

Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology series

physics

June 6 x 9, 392 pp. 22 b&w illus.

US $90.00 / $119.00 CAN paperback

9780262553643

Reasoning with Concepts

Conceptual Spaces as a Framework

Peter Gärdenfors and Matias Osta-Velez

A unified treatment of different types of reasoning with concepts, such as categorybased induction, nonmonotonic reasoning, analogies, and generics.

Peter Gärdenfors is Professor of Cognitive Science, Lund University. He is the author of Knowledge in Flux (MIT Press), Conceptual Spaces (MIT Press), How Homo Became Sapiens, and Geometry of Meaning (MIT Press). Matías Osta-Vélez is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of the Republic, Uruguay. Before that, he was a NeuroMind research Fellow at Ruhr University Bochum and a postdoctoral researcher at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

psychology

May 6 x 9, 260 pp.

23 figures

US $60.00 / $79.00 CAN paperback 9780262053402

Saving Utopia

Imagining Hopeful Futures in Dystopian Times

Joe P. L. Davidson

How utopian stories have preserved the vision of a better world in a cultural climate dominated by dystopia.

In Saving Utopia, Joe Davidson tackles the relative absence of utopia in the contemporary cultural landscape.

Joe P. L. Davidson is a research fellow at Loughborough University. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Political Studies, Environmental Politics, among others.

literary criticism

March 6 x 9, 248 pp.

US $45.00 /$60.00 CAN paperback 9780262554046

Unwinding Privatization

Cities and the Restoration of Public Power

edited by Alba Alexander, Larry Bennett, Evan McKenzie, and Michael Pagano

How remunicipalization can be implemented to restructure urban governance.

Alba Alexander is Clinical Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois Chicago. Larry Bennett is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at DePaul University. Evan McKenzie is Professor of Political Science and a member of the Law School faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago. Michael A. Pagano is Dean Emeritus of the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and Founding Director of the Government Finance Research Center at the University of Illinois Chicago.

political science

June 6 x 9, 348 pp. 14 b&w illus.

US $75.00 / $99.00 CAN paperback 9780262053372

Urban and Industrial Environments series

The Self-Evidencing Agent

Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing

Jakob Hohwy

How the concept of self-evidencing offers a philosophical principle for understanding mind and behavior, consciousness, value, wisdom, and meaning.

The Self-Evidencing Agent begins with a simple analysis of what it is for something to exist, then uses this starting point to understand how human agents perceive and make sense of the world, decide to act, and act of their own volition.

Jakob Hohwy is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Predictive Mind

philosophy

February 6 x 9, 354 pp. 19 b&w illus.

US $65.00 / $86.00 CAN paperback 9780262553896

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People Are STRANGE

Material Engagement and the Creation of SelfConsciousness

Lambros Malafouris

A groundbreaking exploration of selfconsciousness through material engagement theory, redefining what it means to be human in a constantly changing world.

Lambros Malafouris’ evocative proposal is that people are STRANGE, which stands for the process of Situated TRANsactional GEnesis by which self-becoming is realized at the intersection of mind and matter.

Lambros Malafouris is Professor of Cognitive and Anthropological Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology and Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, University of Oxford. He is the author of How Things Shape the Mind (MIT Press) and PI of HANDMADE, funded by the European Research Council.

science

February

6 x 9, 352 pp.

23 b&w illus.

US $75.00 / $99.00 CAN paperback 9780262553902

The Organism-Environment Pairing

A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal

Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda

A historical and philosophical exploration of the organism-environment relationship and its role in shaping biological thought.

This book examines early twentieth-century theoretical biology and contemporary debates across evolutionary biology, ecology, developmental biology, and philosophy of biology.

Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, a Mexican historian and philosopher of biology, is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, KU Leuven.

biology

May

6 x 9, 448 pp.

6 illus.

US $90.00 / $119.00 CAN paperback 9780262052825

Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology

Owning the Green Grid

The Political Economy of Renewable Energy Policy Design

Joshua A. Basseches

How corporate ownership of the electricity grid matters to state-level renewable energy policymaking.

Joshua A. Basseches is the David and Jane Flowerree Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Public Policy at Tulane University. His commentary has appeared in media outlets such as NBC News, The Boston Globe, and Vox, among others.

political science

June

6 x 9, 256 pp.

9 b&w illus.

US $60.00 /$ 79.00 CAN paperback 9780262053587

American and Comparative Environmental Policy series

Sustainability Inverted

How Environmental Policies Control People

Jin Sato

What environmental policies do to people, beyond what they do to the climate, forests, air, or water.

Sustainability Inverted explores the hidden politics of environmental policy and the unintended consequences of “inversion” policy—policies that turn potential local collaborators into adversaries.

Jin Sato is a professor of development studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo.

environmental science/policy

May

6 x 9, 304 pp. 17 illus.

US $50.00 /$66.00 CAN paperback 9780262053433

American and Comparative Environmental Policy series

North Stars of Emancipation

California’s Diverse Food and Farming Movements in Times of Racial Reckoning

Antonio Roman-Alcalá

How greater racial inclusion can propel movements forward and help realize sustainable change, from a longtime political organizer and researcher.

In North Stars of Emancipation, Antonio RomanAlcalá finds in the radical experiments of new food movements the seeds of a world liberated from old, extractive systems, where a more equitable way of eating and living is possible.

Antonio Roman-Alcalá is Assistant Professor at California State University East Bay.

agriculture

July 6 x 9, 272 pp.

US $55.00 / $73.00 CAN paperback 9780262053280

Food, Health, and the Environment series

Reactionary Worldbuilding

From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice

Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David Higgins, and Jordan Carroll

The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination.

Anindita Banerjee is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Sherryl Vint is Distinguished Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and English at the University of California, Riverside. David M. Higgins is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at EmbryRiddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide. He is the author of Reverse Colonization. Jordan S. Carroll is the author of Speculative Whiteness and Reading the Obscene.

literary criticism

May

6 x 9, 420 pp.

US $90.00 /$119.00 CAN paperback 9780262053679

The Society That Learns

Constructionism and Lifelong Learning in Thailand

Paulo Blikstein and Deborah A. Fields, with Arnan Sipitakiat, Nalin Tutiyaphuengprasert, Luis Morales-Navarro, Leah Rosenbaum, and Renato Russo

How Thai farmers, teachers, and workers created new approaches to lifelong learning through constructionism—and transformed communities across the country as a result.

Paulo Blikstein is Associate Professor at Teachers College and Affiliate Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia. Deborah A. Fields is Research Professor of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University. She is the coauthor of Connected Play (MIT Press).

education

July

6 x 9, 400 pp.

US $75.00 / $99.00 CAN paperback 9780262052276

SimPolitics

America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers

Fenwick McKelvey

How computer models became fundamental to political practice—from winning elections to global affairs—and how we imagine political futures as a computing problem.

In SimPolitics, Fenick McKelvey traces the entwined history of politics and computers from the 1960s to the late 1980s.

Fenwick McKelvey is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Codirector of the Applied AI Institute at Concordia University. He is the author of Internet Daemons and coauthor of The Permanent Campaign

political science

June 6 x 9, 372 pp. 32 b&w illus.

US $70.00 /$92.00 CAN paperback 9780262053198

Information Policy series

Embodied Intelligence

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid Systems

edited by Sheila L. Macrine, Jennifer M.B. Fugate, Arsen Abdulali, and Josie Hughes

An exploration of embodied intelligence that moves beyond the traditional focus on brains and code to the role of embodiment across various disciplines.

Sheila Landers Macrine is Professor of STEM Education at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Jennifer M.B. Fugate is Associate Professor of Psychology at Kansas City University. Arsen Abdulali is a research associate in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Josie Hughes is Assistant Professor at EPFL.

cognitive science

June 6 x 9, 360 pp.

US $80.00 / $105.00 CAN paperback 9780262053495

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Sleep and Its Meanings

Sociocultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies

edited by Diletta De Cristofaro

A wide-ranging collection exploring the many meanings of sleep, within the context of the humanities and social sciences.

Featuring essays by leading international scholars, Sleep and Its Meanings is the first collection devoted to this multidisciplinary field. Taken together, the book’s essays probe the social, cultural, political, historical, philosophical, and aesthetic meanings of sleep.

Diletta De Cristofaro is Assistant Professor in English Literature in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University, UK, and the author of The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel.

social science

May

6 x 9, 364 pp. 42 illus.

US $75.00 / $99.00 CAN paperback 9780262052306

Vajont

The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster

Marco Armiero

The sobering political implications of a disaster—the Vajont landslide in Italy in 1963— and how it speaks directly to our present environmental crisis.

Marco Armiero is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for the History of Science, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Consortium for Environmental History Organizations, and is the author of Wasteocene and a coauthor of Mussolini’s Nature (MIT Press).

history

April 5 1/4 x 8, 160 pp. 4 illus.

US $40.00 / $54.00 CAN paperback 9780262053013

History for a Sustainable Future series

Youth Well-Being by Design

Integrating Research, Critical Perspectives, and Innovation

edited by Carrie James and Mizuko Ito

An edited collection with fresh approaches to tech and youth well-being.

Carrie James is Co-Director of Project Zero and Managing Director of the Center for Digital Thriving at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the coauthor of Behind Their Screens and author of Disconnected (both MIT Press). Mizuko Ito is Professor in Residence and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at the University of California, Irvine, and Director of the Connected Learning Lab. She is a coauthor of Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children and Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out (both MIT Press).

social science

April

6 x 9, 348 pp. 12 b&w illus.

US $70.00 /$92.00 CAN paperback 9780262052542

Toward a Biosemiotic Theoretical Biology

Sign Processes and Meaning-Making in Living Systems

edited by Kalevi Kull and Donald Favareau

An edited volume bringing together 25 of today’s most forwardthinking biologists and philosophers on sign processes and meaning-making in organisms.

Kalevi Kull is a professor of biosemiotics at the University of Tartu. He specializes in modelling the basic mechanisms of meaning-making and diversification in living systems.

Donald Favareau is Associate Professor in the University Scholars Program at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Essential Readings in Biosemiotics

biology

June

7 x 10, 300 pp.

18 illus.

US $80.00 / $105.00 CAN paperback

9780262053617

Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology series

Machineries of Similarity and Difference

AIDS from Its Research Infrastructures

David Ribes

An examination of three research infrastructures over three decades as they sought to support studies of HIV/AIDS across dramatic changes to the disease, the science, and its politics.

David Ribes is Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering and Director of the Data Ecologies Lab (deLAB) at the University of Washington.

science

April

6 x 9, 340 pp.

20 b&w illus.

US $70.00 / $92.00 CAN paperback

9780262553599

Infrastructures series

CLIENT DISTRIBUTIONS

The STEIM Touch

The Emergence of Musical Sensor Instruments

Andi Otto

The story of STEIM and the first sensor instruments in digital music.

STEIM, the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music in Amsterdam, was different from other music studios of the 20th century. Its explicit dedication to the live performance of electronic music made it a hub for artists seeking individual ways to bring music technology to the stage. In its 52 years of existence, STEIM has supported and inspired around 1500 artists and engineers to develop individual ways of touching electronic sound.

This first documentation of the studio’s archive and aesthetics fills an essential gap—not only as a historical account, but also as a blueprint for today’s challenges concerning embodiment and performance in artificial, algorithmic musical environments.

Sonics series

Andi Otto is a Hamburg-based sound artist, composer, and performer. His work centers on the exploration of experimental human-machine interfaces in electronic music. He is a lecturer in the Sound Arts department at the HKB in Bern and co-founder of the record label Pingipung.

The Department of What It (Really) Means to Be Human

M. Darusha Wehm

A near-future real-life society transitions to a post-capitalist, postclimate change reality.

The Department of What It (Really) Means to Be Human is a thoughtful, optimistic sci-fi novel set in a near-future Aotearoa New Zealand where an investigator navigates a newly post-capitalist world in search of a missing artist.

When the world changed, Emerald Hutson closed the door on their old life. Now they’re a freelance investigator for the Grants and Stipends Office, augmenting basic income with cases that are both simple and easily resolved. Until they’re assigned to track down Gen Ecks, a notable installation artist who’s fallen off the map.

Sonics series

M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, the award-winning Hamlet, Prince of Robots, and over a dozen other novels, including the Terraforming Mars tie-in Shores of a New Horizon. Originally from Canada, Darusha lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand after several years sailing the Pacific.

March

6 x 9, 256 pp.

30 b&w illus.

US $39.95 /$53.95 CAN cloth 9781915983459

5 x 7, 224 pp.

US $14.95 / $19.95 CAN paperback 9781915983466

GOLDSMITHS PRESS

GOLDSMITHS PRESS

environmental

May

6 x 9, 280 pp.

6 b&w illus.

US $29.95 /$39.95 CAN paperback 9781915983480

GOLDSMITHS PRESS fiction

March

5 1/2 x 8, 120 pp.

US $16.95 / $22.99 CAN paperback 9781635902723

Low Carbon Research Methods

Making Equity and Epistemological Gains Through Decarbonising Academic Work

edited by Anne Pasek and The Low-Carbon Research Methods Group

Scholars around the world on how climate change stands to alter our research methods.

Low Carbon Research Methods explores the epistemological and equity impacts of high-carbon research as well as the potential gains made possible through a transition towards slower, less mobile, and more collaborative forms of inquiry and exchange. Through short, multiauthored chapters the book examines the prospects and challenges of decarbonizing different academic methods, including archival, ethnographic, arts-based, textual, and digital modes of inquiry.

Methods Lab

Anne Pasek is Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Media, Culture and the Environment, Trent University Department of Cultural Studies and Trent School of the Environment.

Offenses

Constance Debré; translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman

An account of flawed justice, based on the true story of a murder in a housing project outside Paris.

He is guilty, yes. He is guilty of having yielded, of not allowing himself to be crushed. He is guilty of not having been reasonable, of not having stayed in his place, the one that was his. To have disturbed the order of things…

In Offenses, Debré trains her sights on a single case of inevitably flawed justice that, like hundreds of others like it, reveals the enmeshed culpabilities of the perpetrator, the victim, the place, and the past. In a housing project adjacent to Paris, an unemployed teenager kills his elderly neighbor to pay off a drug debt of €450. Writing with impassioned detachment, Debré uses forensic detail to explore the ambient senselessness behind this senseless crime.

Native Agents

Constance Debré was born in 1972. She is the author of four novels, all published in English translation by Semiotext(e): Love Me Tender (2022), Playboy (2024), Name (2025), and Offenses (2026).

Lee and Elaine

Ann Rower; introduction by Jessica Ferri

Ann Rower’s forgotten turn-of-the-millennium classic that looks at the lives of Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning with obsessed, louche brilliance.

I knew the roads weren’t that safe. There had been many famous accidents out here. I almost did a Jackson—Jackson Pollock’s drunk car tree Saturday night death on this same road. But I was struggling to eat a muffin, not slugging from a pint like he must have been, while juggling his scared girlfriend and her terrified friend.

Separating from her long-term partner Jack and beginning a passionate affair with a much younger female student, the narrator of Lee and Elaine takes time off to write. Leaving Manhattan for an off-season Springs, East Hampton rental and haunting the Green River Cemetery where artistic giants of the mid-twentieth century are buried, she becomes obsessed with the lives and friendship of Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning, who were both artists and the wives of famous men.

Native Agents

Ann Rower is the author of If You’re A Girl Armed Response. She has collaborated as a writer with the Wooster Group, and taught writing for decades at the School of Visual Arts.

Thinking after Gaza

An Essay on Ferocity

Franco “Bifo” Berardi

A call to imagine a less deadly future, written in the shadow of genocide and “ferocious optimism.”

After Gaza, it is time to recognize that the attempt to humanize history has failed, and that there will not be a second try. It is time to recognize that the experiment called “civilization” has failed…

“Thinking after Gaza” means recognizing the collapse of universal reason and democracy, the humanistic values that were the famed—and fragile—promise of modernity. But it also means searching for ways to escape the grim future awaiting those born in this disenchanted century: this century that promises to be the last, in which thought has lost all political power and the survival instinct struggles to withstand the ferocity of techno-military extermination machines.

Intervention series

Franco Berardi, aka “Bifo,” founder of the famous Radio Alice in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia movement, is a writer, philosopher, and media activist. He teaches at the Accademia di Brera, Milan.

February 5 1/2 x 8, 264 pp.

US $17.95 /$24.95 CAN paperback 9781635902747

philosophy

March

4 1/2 x 7, 176 pp.

US $16.95 /$22.99 CAN paperback 9781635902761

fiction

literary collections/lgbtq+

May

6 x 9, 200 pp.

US $17.95 / $24.95 CAN paperback 9781635902808

performing arts / lqbtq+

April

5 1/2 x 8, 184 pp. 30 b&w illus.

US $17.95 /$24.95 CAN paperback 9781635902785

CLOWNS

edited by Michelle Tea

The third anthology from DOPAMINE Books that considers the many-sided splendor of the clown.

A blogging dog sitter cringes out on celebrity, Slinkys, and selfpromotion. A poet experiences the clowny vulnerability of falling in love. Drunk Muppets ponder the uselessness of art. A transitioning drag queen muses on being “the crazy one, the one who doesn’t give a fuck.”

In this anthology of poetry, fiction, screenplay, and more, writers explore and explode the archetype of the CLOWN in all of its humiliating, earnest, magical, subversive glory. From fiction that reveals the humanity beneath the smeared greasepaint to psychedelic autofiction to poetry that exposes normal folk for the sickening anomalies they are, CLOWNS will get under your skin until it liberates your own inner clown, be it a smart-ass or trickster, sad sack or buffoon.

With work from Megan Milks, Tania De Rozario, Nicole J. Georges, Clement Goldberg, Catherine Christina Martinez, Julián Delgado Lopera, Justin Chin, Andrea Lawlor, MariNaomi, Sophie Robinson, Chris E. Vargas, and others.

Michelle Tea is the author of many books, including the classic Valencia and the PEN/America-winning Against Memoir. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and editor at DOPAMINE Books.

Hell in a Handbag

Jibz Cameron

The debut memoir from the unhinged queer genius known as Dynasty Handbag.

With her debut memoir Hell in a Handbag, Cameron traces her warped and inspired perspective from a childhood spent with hippie clowns on the broke-down commune scene of Northern California, to making morbid zines as a teen in the East Bay punk scene, to in-your-face experiences of misogyny in New York City’s avant-garde theater scene, to the grisly birth of Dynasty Handbag and her droll evisceration of contemporary life. An engrossing and swiftly paced story as candid as it is wise, Hell in a Handbag is an immersion in unhinged queer genius.

Jibz Cameron is a writer, performer, visual artist, and actor. Her work has been presented by REDCAT, the Broad, MOCA Los Angeles, the Kitchen, Brooklyn Academy of Music, as well as a bajillion other dives. Jibz is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, a 2021 United States Artist Award recipient, and a 2020 Creative Capital Grant awardee. Her film Weirdo Night, directed by Mariah Garnett, was an official 2021 Sundance Film Festival selection, and her comedy record, The Bored Identity, was released by Wacky Wacko Records in November 2023.

Soulmate as a Verb

Kelsey L. Smoot

Poems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment.

Like a body, Smoot’s daring poetry metabolizes cruelty, seeking the tender knowledge and kinships that allow for buoyant survival. The subjectivity of a Black, trans self becomes a prism, shining a variegated intellect on everything from suburbia to Palestine, top surgery to police violence. By utilizing forms such as kwansaba, calligram, Craigslist personals, and golden shovels, Soulmate as a Verb revels in structures that locate poet and poem in a lineage of innovative and contemporary Black, queer verse. Kelsey L. Smoot dazzles.

“This collection explodes the idea of transition as linear and redefines what we think we know about love.”

Marisa Crane, author of A Sharp Endless Need

Kelsey L. Smoot (they/he/Kelz) is a gender theorist, an elective Southerner, a writer, and a poet. Proudly, Kelz is the author of two chapbooks: we was bois together and Muse

poetry/lgbtq+

February

5 1/2 x 8, 80 pp. US $16.95 / $22.99 CAN paperback 9781635902822

Compression

Tim Griffin

Artmaking since the turn of the millennium, using compression algorithms as a descriptive tool.

Since the turn of the millennium, contemporary artists have navigated a landscape comprising two worlds: one still indebted to critical operations of the past, and another whose real-time reformatting of culture through swift technological developments asks for an entirely different set of discursive models. The essays in Compression consider these superimposed realities by examining artists’ altered approaches across generations. Compression examines such questions as presented by the work of artists Chantal Akerman, Sayre Gomez, Pierre Huyghe, Ralph Lemon, Robert Longo, Maria Hassabi, Taryn Simon, Avery Singer, and many others.

Critic and curator Tim Griffin has written on contemporary art for more than two decades. As executive director and chief curator at The Kitchen, New York (2011–21), he developed projects with artists such as Chantal Akerman, ANOHNI, and Charles Atlas, among others. Previously, Griffin was editor of Artforum (2003–10), and was awarded the insignia of chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. art

February 13 x 12, 176 pp. 20 b&w illus.

US $26.95 /$ 35.95 CAN paperback 9781915609793

architecture/design/environmental science

April

5 x 7, 80 pp.

US $19.95 / $25.95 CAN paperback 9781915609816

art

April

8 ½ x 12, 450 pp.

150 color illus. & 350 b&w illus.

US $46.00 / $61.00 CAN paperback 9781915609847

The Circle and the Sphere

Earth Ethics as Inspiration

Karenna Gore

A future for the design practices that works within the living and intelligent design of Earth.

On a spring afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, standing against the concrete and glass backdrop of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, Karenna Gore addressed a graduating class of future architects, landscape architects, design engineers, and urban planners and designers.

She began her speech by foregrounding the shared task of facing a climate crisis that continues to threaten life and systems on Earth in new and increasingly erratic ways, and encourages a future for design that lies in learning from the natural world. Calling on figures as varied as theologian Thomas Berry to landscape architect Kate Orff, Gore suggests this multidisciplinary Earth-centered approach could not only be beneficial to design thinking but integral to it. “It is not Earth that needs fixing,” she said. “It is us.”

Copublished by Harvard Design Press

Karenna Gore is the founder and executive director of the Center for Earth Ethics and visiting professor of practice of earth ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York. She is the author of Lighting the Way.

... E Prini

Luca

Lo Pinto

This first monograph on Italian artist Emilio Prini and his radical approach to art.

This is the first monograph dedicated to of one of Italy’s most enigmatic and complex artistic figures, Emilio Prini (1943–2016), a key figure of Arte Povera whose work has never been fully surveyed. Structured chronologically from 1966 to 2016, it examines his work via a systematic iconographic and bibliographic analysis of Prini’s archives along with the institutions he exhibited at. The volume includes a text by curator Luca Lo Pinto and scholarly contributions from Alexander Alberro, Stefano Chiodi, Catherine David, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Andrea Viliani, alongside artist interventions by five international artists: Trisha Donnelly, Lara Favaretto, John Knight, Anri Sala, and Studio for Propositional Cinema.

Copublished by MACRO–Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome

Luca Lo Pinto is an Italian curator and editor. He was the artistic director of MACRO–Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome from 2020–25, and a curator of Kunsthalle Wien from 2014–19. He is co-founder of the magazine and publishing house NERO.

Unlearning with Translation

A Critical and Collective Practice

Virginie Bobin; contributions by Andrea Ancira

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

Based on practical experiments, Unlearning with Translation posits the act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times. Written by French curator, writer, editor, and self-taught translatress Virginie Bobin, the essay revisits a series of workshops, exhibitions, and other collective activities that took translation as both subject and method to unsettle entrenched conceptions of language, identity, and belonging.

Scratching the Surface

Virginie Bobin is a professor in Art and Social Practices at ésadhar (Rouen), co-founder of the editorial and curatorial platform Qalqalah , and a Doctor in Artistic Research (practice-based PhD, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna).

February

4 ¼ x 6, 144 pp.

US $15.95 / $21.99 CAN paperback 9781915609830

The Institution and Its Intentions

Bettina Steinbrügge

On the place, role, and future of cultural institutions in the twentyfirst century.

This publication collects and preserves the ideas put forward during the symposium “A Model: Reimagining Museums,” which took place at Mudam, the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, in June 2024. The convening explored the mission of museums today and examined how contemporary institutions can continue to serve as sources of culture, preservation, education, and community in the future.

Mudam series

Copublished with Mudam Luxembourg—Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean.

Bettina Steinbrügge is Director of Mudam, Luxembourg. art

April

4 ¼ x 7, 152 pp. 12 color illus.

US $20.95 / $27.95 CAN paperback 9781915609823

architecture/nature

April

4 ¼ x 7, 248 pp.

72 b&w illus.

US $25.95 / $34.95 CAN paperback 9781915609809

Plant Space

Territories, Architectures and Technologies of the Vegetal

Michelle Howard, Adam Hudec, Carmen Lael Hines

How plants shape space, knowledge, and hierarchies across historical, ecological, and epistemic terrains.

Plant Space: Cultures of the Vegetal brings together eighteen international contributors working across critical theory, philosophy, art, design, architecture, and critical ecology to radically reimagine the role of plants in shaping the built environment and its overlapping economies and ecologies.

Copublished by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Michelle Howard is a social ecological architect, professor, author, researcher, and activist. She heads the Platform for Construction, Materials, and Technology at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Adam Hudec is an architect, researcher, and educator. Carmen Lael Hines currently curates at The Ryder Projects, teaches at the Institute for Postnatural Studies—where she coordinates Cyberwitches and Feminist Internet—and is pursuing a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

architecture

April

6 x 9, 240 pp.

50 b&w illus.

US $24.95 / $33.95 CAN paperback

9781915609717

Infrastructuring Assemblies

On Interstices and Agonisms Toward Democratic Futures

edited

by

Markus Miessen

An investigation into social and political assembly and how urban infrastructure can support pluralism, social resilience, and democracy.

Infrastructuring Assemblies investigates the phenomenon of social and political assembly while speculating on the potential of proximity and urban (micro-)infrastructure as a form of cultural resistance.

Contributors

Anita Osorio, Clemens v. Wedemeyer, Diane E. Davis, Georgeen Theodore, Gustav Eden, Hannes Grassegger, iLiana Fokianaki, Keller Easterling, Kenny Cupers, Mariette Schiltz & Edna Gee, Marija Maric, Markus Miessen & César Reyes, Martha Rosler, Miguel Robles-Duran, Mirjam Zadoff, Najha ZigbiJohnson, Neeraj Bhatia, Neftalie Williams, Pablo Prado, and Torange Khonsari.

Markus Miessen is an architect, writer, and Professor of Urban Regeneration at the University of Luxembourg, where he holds the Chair of the City of Esch. Amongst many other books and writings, Miessen is the author of The Nightmare of Participation and Crossbenching (both Sternberg Press).

Postcards from Fairyland

Missives from England’s Magical Landscapes

Nina Antonia

A richly illustrated document of England’s mythic landscape through antique postcards.

What remains of Elfin England? Postcards From Fairyland: Missives From England’s Magical Landscapes excavates a hidden topography haunted by boggarts, imps, hobgoblins, and fairies through the lost art of the picture postcard. Compiled and authored by Nina Antonia, and richly illustrated with hundreds of color and black and white images, this unique survey illuminates a shadowy landscape teetering on the brink of modernity, where devils, witches, and pucks once ran riot before the technologies of steam train and street lamp sent them scurrying into obscurity.

Nina Antonia is an English music journalist, author, and former singer. She is the editor of Incurable: The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson and The Decadent Era’s Dark Angel

photography

May

7 ½ x 8 ½, 208 pp.

US $32.95 / $43.95 CAN paperback 9781917674133

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International Freak

Robin Farquharson and the Dream of Psychedelic Revolt

M. Syd Rosen

A critical biography of the radical South African author and activist Robin Farquharson.

Born in 1930 into a privileged South African family, Robin Farquharson was part of a new wave of intellectuals who tasked themselves with reimagining society in the wake of World War II—until a phone call from God brought everything crashing down.

Drawing on meticulous archival research and extensive new interviews, International Freak marshals an extraordinary cast of characters in order to tell Farquharson’s story for the first time. Equal parts experimental biography, social history, and psychedelic true crime, this is a portrait of a singular man and the world he sought desperately to transform.

M. Syd Rosen writes about fame, fantasy, and radical politics, with a particular interest in marginal and experimental publishing. He has a PhD in the History of Science from the University of Cambridge. Rosen is the co-director of Jargon, a non-profit dedicated to diasporic culture.

biography

June

6 x 9, 256 pp.

40 b&w illus.

US $22.95 / $ 29.95 CAN paperback 9781917674102

ST RANGE AT TRA CT OR PRES S

film/television

August

6 x 9, 256 pp.

12 color and 30 b&w illus.

US $22.95 /$29.95 CAN paperback 9781917674119

Pale Hecate’s Offerings

Witchcraft in British Film and Television

Ethan Doyle White

British witchcraft and paganism in film and television.

Pale Hecate’s Offerings provides the definitive examination of witchcraft in British film and television. Covering a wide range of genres, including children’s programming, horror cinema, whodunnits, and documentaries, this necessary book analyses the ways that these popular representations interact with Britain’s rich heritage of literature, lore, and practical occultism. In doing so it offers intriguing insights into the island’s cultural history that should fascinate all those interested in supernatural fiction, British film and television, and the strange worlds of modern witchery.

Ethan Doyle White is a historian of religion and esotericism. He writes on witchcraft, modern Paganism, and supernatural folklore. He is the author of numerous books, including Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends and Rituals

ST RANGE AT TRA CT OR PRES S science fiction/occultism/philosophy

March

6 x 8, 384 pp.

US $24.95 / $33.95 CAN paperback 9781915103222

Recursed 2005–1995

CCRU

CCRU does not, has not, and will never exist. Again.

Drawing on a number of archival sources previously thought lost to the mistmares of time, this new assemblage of texts charts the nonlinear course of the ill-fated CCRU from its inception through subsequent “swarms” of the zine Abstract Culture and other publications to inconclusive shards of abandoned unprojects and schizotypal oddments deposited as CCRU spins out through Y2K into oblivion.

Cybernetic Culture Research Unit was a name on a door in the Philosophy Department of Warwick University, UK, during the late 1990s. It was a rogue unit, blurring the borders between traditional scholarship, cyberpunk sci-fi, and music journalism. Its frenzied interdisciplinary activity, including the Virtual Futures and Virotechnology conferences and the journal Abstract Culture, disturbed Warwick’s Philosophy Department, resulting in the termination of the unit.

Philosophy of Correctability

Hiroki Azuma; translated by John D. Person

A profound rethinking of the political categories of openness and closedness.

In a new work building upon his Philosophy of the Tourist, Hiroki Azuma reconsiders the connection between the figure of the tourist and that of the family. Setting out from the reevaluation of the family as a figure of containment following the COVID-19 pandemic, in this exploration of the inside and outside of community, Azuma questions the shifting values of openness and security, challenging the distinction between the openness of civil society and the closedness of the family, which he deciphers as an artefact of a Western philosophical standpoint in which polis is opposed to oikos

Mono

Hiroki Azuma is the founder of Genron, a publisher and live forum for critical thought in Tokyo, Japan. A leading cultural critic in Japan, he is the author of seven books, including Ontological, Postal, which won the 2000 Suntory Literary Prize, Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals, General Will 2.0: Rousseau, Freud, Google, and Philosophy of the Tourist

The Phenoumenodelic Ark

Passages in the Wake of Pleromatica

Maya B. Kronic and Jean-Christophe Goddard

Mapping out multiple paths through Gabriel Catren’s innovative psychedelic work of transcendental philosophy.

In Pleromatica, Gabriel Catren confronts the most fundamental challenges of modernity. It is a major philosophical work that kicks against postmodern nihilism in a style that digests the ventriloquizing transpoetics of Leminski, the neobaroque queerness of Néstor Perlongher, the cannibalism of Oswald De Andrade, and the startling imagery of Lezama Lima. In this collection, contributors from a wide range of philosophical perspectives assess the speculative achievements of Pleromatica and extend the new perspectives that Catren’s book opens up for thought.

Maya B. Kronic is a philosopher and Head of Research and Development at Urbanomic. She is the co-author, with Amy Ireland, of Cute Accelerationism (Urbanomic, 2024). Jean-Christophe Goddard is a professor in philosophy at Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès.

philosophy

April

6 x 8, 400 pp. US $29.95 /$39.95 CAN Paperback 9781915103185

philosophy

March

6 x 8, 384 pp.

US $24.95 / $33.95 CAN paperback 9781915103178

Notes on the Third Ear / Phantom Lure

Steve Goodman, Angus Carlyle

Two original essays scrutinize the use of acoustic camouflage and the outer limits of unsound.

In Phantom Lure Angus Carlyle explores the ways in which the frequency spectrum can become a site for disguise and deception. Acoustic camouflage is deployed in the concrete curves of sound mirrors, military battlefield sensors, and snipers’ sonic concealment tactics, but also in the silent steps of the hunter and the mimicry of duck calls, antler rattles, and fox flutes.

In Notes on the Third Ear Steve Goodman plunges further into the thresholds of audibility and the Janus-faced instrumentalization of vibration involved in sonic warfare.

An Urbanomic K-Pulp Switch: singular texts by two different authors in a classic pulp format.

5 x 7, 160 pp. US $18.95 / $24.95 CAN paperback 9781915103208

Steve Goodman (aka Kode9) is founder of the record labels Hyperdub and Flatlines, author of the book Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear (MIT Press) and co-editor of Audint—Unsound:Undead (Urbanomic, 2019). Angus Carlyle is Professor of Sound and Landscape at University of the Arts London. With Professor Cathy Lane he cowrote the oral histories In the Field (2013) and Sound Arts Now (2021) and coorganized the first three Sound Gender Feminism Activism conferences.

JOURNALS

Afric an Ar t s

Álvaro Lúis Lima, Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Carlee S. Forbes, Carol Magee, David G. Pier, Erica P. Jones, Fiona Mc Laughlin, Jordan A. Fenton, Joseph Underwood, Kristen Windmuller-Luna, Lisa Homann, MacKenzie Moon Ryan, Matthew Francis Rarey, Nomusa Makhubu, Olubukola Gbadegesin, Peri Klemm, Priscilla Layne, Robin Poynor, Sarah Van Beurden, Silvia Forni, Victoria L. Rovine, editors

African Arts presents original research and critic al discourse on traditional, contemporary, and popular Afric an arts and expressive cultures

2024 Impact Factor: 0.4

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 6

ISSN: 0001-9933 E-ISSN: 1937-2108

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/ Winter

direct .mit .edu/afar

ARTMargins

Sven Spieker, executive editor

Pedro Erber, Octavian Eşanu, Douglas Gabriel, Elizabeth Harney, Angela Harutyunyan, Raino Isto, Megan Sullivan, Sanjukta Sunderasson, editors

ARTMargins publishes material related to the histories of 20th-century and contemporary art, art theory, art institutions, and curatorship It places special emphasis on marginal histories and innovative critic al and methodologic al perspectives

2024 Impact Factor: 0.3

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 3 ISSN: 2162-2574 E-ISSN: 2162-2582

Triannual: February/June/October direct mit edu/artm

C omputer Music

Journal

Douglas Keislar, editor

C omputer Music Journal is published quarterly with an annual sound and video anthology containing curated music For four dec ades, it has been the leading public ation about computer music, concentrating fully on digital sound technology and all music al applic ations of computers

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 10

ISSN: 0148 -9267 E-ISSN: 1531-5169

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/ Winter direct mit edu/comj

Critic alProductive

Milton S. F. Curry, editor-in-chief

CriticalProductive Journal is an academic journal/magazine located at the critical confluence of culture, arts, architecture, and urbanism. It is dedicated to interrogating the ways in which politics is entangled with spatial and aesthetic production. CriticalProductive’s mission is to mobilize the consciousness and potential of unfinished social movements through the publication of peer-reviewed creative work and scholarship.

ISSN: 2163-2537 E-ISSN: 2169-8864

Quarterly: Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall direct.mit.edu/cpro

Dædalus

Phyllis S Bendell, editor-in-chief

Drawing on the nation’s most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, humanities, and social sciences, as well as the professions and public life, Dædalus, the open access Journal of the Americ an Ac ademy of Arts and Sciences, explores the frontiers of knowledge and issues of public importance.

2024 Impact Factor: 2.7

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 41 ISSN: 0011-5266 E-ISSN: 1548 -6192

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct .mit .edu/daed

Design Issues

Meghan Bausone, Bruce Brown, Richard Buchanan, Carl DiSalvo, Dennis P. Doordan, Kipum Lee, Teal Triggs, Frederick van Amstel, Xin Xiangyang, editors

The first Americ an ac ademic journal to examine design history, theory, and criticism Design Issues provokes inquiry into the cultural and intellectual issues surrounding design

2024 Impact Factor: 0.9

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 17 ISSN: 0747-9360 E-ISSN: 1531-4790

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct mit edu/desi

Grey Room

Lucia Allais, Eric C.H. de Bruyn, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Noam M. Elcott, Byron Hamann, John Harwood, Matthew C. Hunter, editors

Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretic al articles from the fields of architecture, art, media , and politic s to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns

2023 Impact Factor: 0 3

2023 Google Scholar h5-index: 7

ISSN: 1526-3819 E-ISSN: 1536-0105

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct .mit .edu/grey

Leonardo

JD Talasek, Editor in Chief

Leonardo is the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music and the applic ation and influence of the arts and humanities on science and technology

2024 Impact Factor: 0.3

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 15 ISSN: 0024-094X E-ISSN: 1530-9282

Six issues per year: February/April/ June/August/October/December direct mit edu/leon

The New England Quar terly

Holly Jackson, Editor

Betsy Klimasmith, Associate Editor

Sarah Georgini, Reviews Editor

For over ninety years, The New England Quarterly has published the best that has been written on New England’s cultural literary, politic al, and social history

2024 Impact Factor: 0.1

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 4 ISSN: 0028 -4866 E-ISSN: 1937-2213 Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct mit edu/tneq

October

Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson (1922–2018), George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Huey Copeland, Leah Dickerman, Devin Fore, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Pamela M. Lee, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey, editors

At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critic al attention on the contemporary arts film, painting, music, media , photography, performance, sculpture and literature and their various contexts of interpretation

2024 Impact Factor: 0.3

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 7 ISSN: 0162-2870 E-ISSN: 1536-013X

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct mit edu/octo

Projections

Projections, the Journal of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning published by the MIT Press, focuses on the most innovative and cutting-edge research in planning projections.pubpub.org

Thresholds

Established in 1992, Thresholds is the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture Each independently themed issue features content from leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of architecture, art, and culture

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 2 ISSN: 1091-711X E-ISSN: 2575-7338

Annual: Spring direct mit edu/thld

Asian Economic Papers

Wing Thye Woo, editor-in-chief

Sungbae An, Fukunari Kimura, Ming

Asian Economic Paper s focuses on rigorous analysis of key economic issues of a particular Asian economy or of the

solutions to these Asian economic issues

2024 Impact Factor: 1 1

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 17

ISSN: 1535-3516 E-ISSN: 1536-0083

Triannual: Winter- Spring/Summer/Fall direct .mit .edu/

Educ ation Finance & Policy

Li Feng and Cassandra Hart, editors

Tolani Britton, Sean Corcoran, Oded Gurantz, Joshua Hyman, Tammy Kolbe, Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, Roddy Theobald, associate editors

Education Finance and Policy (EFP) publishes policy-relevant research papers concerning educ ation finance, policy, and practice The journal draws from a range of fields including economic s, politic al science, public administration and policy, law, and educ ation covering topic s that span from early childhood to graduate educ ation in the United States and around the world

2024 Impact Factor: 2.0

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 29

ISSN: 1557-3060 E-ISSN: 1557-3079

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct mit edu/edfp

The Review of Economic s and St atistic s

Marcella Alsan, Will Dobbie, and Treb Allen, co-chairs

Treb Allen, Pierre Azoulay, Michael Dinerstein, Peter Hull, Brian A. Jacob, Scott Kominers, Paulina Oliva, Tavneet Suri, Stephen Terry, editors

Americ an Journal of L aw and Equalit y

Randall Kennedy, Martha Minow, Cass Sunstein, editors-in-chief

The Review of Economics and Statistics is a 100-year-old general journal of applied economics. Edited at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Review aims to publish both empirical and theoretical contributions that will be of interest to a wide economics readership, building on its long and distinguished history that includes work from such fi gures as Kenneth Arrow, Milton Friedman, Robert Merton, Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, and James Tobin.

2024 Impact Factor: 6 8

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 88

ISSN: 0034-6535 E-ISSN: 1530-9142

Five issues annually: March/May/July/October/December direct mit edu/rest

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E-ISSN: 2694-5711

The American Journal of Law and Equality seeks articles from a variety of perspectives that examine legal issues involving equality and discrimination in all their forms Submissions might address issues involving economic equality, race, gender, disability, religion, political viewpoint, geography, gender identity, sexual orientation, or other categories involving categorization of human beings direct .mit .edu/ajle

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

Laura Centemeri, Carla Malafaia, Taina Meriluoto, editors in chief

The European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology is a fully open access peer-reviewed journal published under the auspices of the European Sociological Association by the MIT Press The journal is a forum to explore the interplay between culture and politics, drawing upon a diverse array of theoretical and methodological approaches in sociology

ISSN: 2325-4823 E-ISSN: 2325-4815

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct mit edu/ecps

European Societies

Evelyn Ersanilli, Alexi Gugushvili, Patrick Präg, editors

European Societies is the flagship journal of the European Sociological Association and is published with the MIT Press. The journal includes peerreviewed research from or about Europe. European Societies welcomes all sociological methods and approaches in sociological theory, as well as contributions from other disciplines that substantially advance sociological knowledge.

2024 Impact Factor: 2.2

ISSN: 1461-6696 E-ISSN: 1469-8307

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct mit edu/euso

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2024 Google Scholor h5 -index: 17

2024 Google Scholor h5 -index: 44

Global Environment al Politic s

Susan Park, Henrik Selin, D G Webster, editors

Global Environmental Politics examines relationships between global political forces and environmental change, with particular attention given to the implications of local-global interactions for environmental management, as well as to the implications of environmental change and environmental governance for world politics.

2024 Impact Factor: 4.0

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 31 ISSN: 1526-3800 E-ISSN: 1536-0091

Quarterly: February/May/August/ November direct .mit .edu/glep

Innovations

Technology, Governance, Globalization

Philip E . Auerswald and Iqbal Z. Quadir, editors

Innovations is about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges The journal features c ases authored by exceptional innovators; commentary and research from leading ac ademic s; and essays from globally recognized executives and politic al leaders The journal is jointly hosted at George Mason University ’ s School of Public Policy, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and MIT ’ s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship

ISSN: 1558 -247 7 E-ISSN: 1558 -2485

Annual direct .mit .edu/itgg

International Securit y

Steven E . Miller, editor-in-chief

Jacqueline L . Hazelton, executive editor

Owen R. Coté Jr., editor

Amanda Pearson, deputy editor

Monica Achen, managing editor

International Securit y, the #2 journal in International Relations based on 2021 impact factor, publishes lucid, welldocumented essays on the full range of contemporary security issues Its articles address traditional topic s of war and peace, as well as more recent dimensions of security, including environmental, demographic and humanitarian issues transnational networks, and emerging technologies

2024 Impact Factor: 6.1

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 30

ISSN: 0162-2889 E-ISSN: 1531-4804

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct mit edu/isec

Journal of C old War Studies

Mark Kramer, editor

The Journal of C old War Studies features peer-reviewed articles based on archival research in the former Communist world, in Western countries and in other parts of the globe.

2024 Impact Factor: 0.7

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 11 ISSN: 1520-3972 E-ISSN: 1531-3298

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct mit edu/jcws

The Journal of Interdis ciplinar y

Anne E . McCants, editor

History

Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K Rabb (1937-2019), founding editors

Reed Ueda, co-editor emeritus

The Journal of Interdisciplinar y Histor y features substantive articles, research notes, review essays, and book reviews that combine the study of history, spanning all geographical areas and periods, with other scholarly disciplines.

2024 Impact Factor: 1.2

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 10 ISSN: 0022-1953 E-ISSN: 1530-9169

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct .mit .edu/jinh

Perspectives on Science

William Mark Goodwin, editor

Per spectives on Science publishes science studies that integrates historic al, philosophic al, and sociologic al perspectives Its interdisciplinary approach is intended to foster a more comprehensive understanding of the sciences and the contexts in which they develop. Each issue of Perspectives on Science selection of theoretical essays, case studies and review essays.

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 16

ISSN: 1063-6145 E-ISSN: 1530-9274

Quarterly: January-February/MarchApril/May-June/July-August direct mit edu/posc

Susan Stepney, Alan Dorin, coeditors-in-chief

Artifi cial Life, launched in the fall of 1993, has become the unifying forum for the exchange of scientific information on the Study of artificial systems that exhibit the behavioral characteristics of natural living systems, through the synthesis or simulation using computational (software), robotic (hardware), and/or physicochemical (wetware) means.

2024 Impact Factor: 1.5

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 18 ISSN: 1064-5462 E-ISSN: 1530-9185 Triannual: Winter/Spring/Summer-Fall direct mit edu/artl

C omput ational

L inguistic s

Wei Lu, editor-in-chief

C omputational Linguistics is the longest-running public ation devoted exclusively to the computational and mathematic al properties of language and the design and analysis of natural language processing systems This highly

industry linguists, computational linguists, artificial intelligence and machine learning investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists and philosophers the latest information about the computational aspects of all the facets of research on language.

2024 Impact Factor: 5.3

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 41 ISSN: 08 direct mit edu/coli

91-2017 E-ISSN: 1530-9312

Har vard Dat a Science Review

Evolutionar y

C omput ation

Thomas Bäck and Hao Wang, editors-in-chief

Evolutionar y C omputation is a leading journal in its field It provides an international forum for facilitating and enhancing the exchange of information among researchers involved in both the theoretic al and practic al aspects of computational systems drawing their inspiration from nature, with particular emphasis on evolutionary models of computation such as genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies, classifier systems, evolutionary programming, and genetic programming

2024 Impact Factor: 3.4

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 29

ISSN: 1063-6560 E-ISSN: 1530-9304

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/ Winter direct mit edu/evco

Imaging Neuros cience

Ryan Adams, John Eltinge

Ralf Herbrich, Nichloas Horton

Frauke Kreuter, Greg Lewis

Susan Paddock, Bin Yu, co-editors

Xiao-Li Meng, founding editor-inchief By uniting the strengths of a premier research journal, a cutting-edge educ ational public ation, and a popular magazine, Har vard Data Science Review provides a crossroads at which fundamental data science research and educ ation intersect directly with societally-important applic ations from industry, governments, NGOs, and others hdsr mitpress mit edu/

Stephen Smith, editor-in-chief

Imaging Neuroscience is an open access non-profit journal The scope of the journal includes research that signific antly contributes to the understanding of brain function, structure, and behavior through the applic ation of neuroimaging as well as major advances in brain imaging methods The focus is on imaging of the brain and spinal cord, in humans and other species, and includes neurophysiologic al and neuromodulation methods direct mit edu/imag

Journal of C ognitive

Neuros cience

Bradley R. Postle, editor-in-chief

The Journal of C ognitive Neuroscience investigates brain-behavior interactions and promotes a lively interchange among the mind sciences Published by the MIT Press and the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute.

2024 Impact Factor: 3.0

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 46

ISSN: 0898 -929X E-ISSN: 1530- 8898

Monthly direct .mit .edu/jocn

L inguistic Inquir y

Samuel Jay Keyser, editor-in-chief

Linguistic Inquir y leads the field in research on current topic s in linguistic s This key resource explores new theoretic al developments based on the latest international scholarship, c apturing the excitement of contemporary debate in full-sc ale articles as well as shorter contributions (Squibs and Discussion) and more extensive commentary (Remarks and Replies)

2024 JCR Impact Factor: 1.6

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 28

ISSN: 0024-3892 E-ISSN: 1530-9150

Quarterly: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall direct .mit .edu/ling

Net work Neuros cience

Olaf Sporns, editor

Network Neuroscience features innovative scientific work that signific antly advances our understanding of network organization and function in the brain across all sc ales, from molecules and neurons to circuits and systems

2024 Impact Factor: 3 1

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 36

E-ISSN: 2472-1751

Quarterly: Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter direct mit edu/netn

Neural C omput ation

Terrence Sejnowski, editor-in-chief

Neural C omputation disseminates important, multidisciplinary research in theory, modeling, computation, and statistic s in neuroscience and in the design and construction of neurally inspired information processing systems

2024 Impact Factor: 2 1

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 37

ISSN: 0899-7667 E-ISSN: 1530- 888X

Monthly direct .mit .edu/neco

Neurobiology of L anguage

Steven L . Small and Kate E . Watkins, editors-in-chief

Neurobiology of Language provides a new venue for articles across a range of disciplines addressing the neurobiologic al basis of speech and language.

2024 Impact Factor: 3.1

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 29

E-ISSN: 2641-4368

Quarterly direct mit edu/nol

Open Mind

Discoveries in Cognitive Science

Edward Gibson, Samuel J. Gershman editors

Open Mind provides a new venue for the highest quality, most innovative work in open access publishing, concise and accessible articles and quick turnaround times for authors The journal covers the broad array of content areas within cognitive science, using approaches from cognitive psychology, computer science and mathematic al psychology, cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, comparative psychology and behavioral anthropology, decision sciences, and theoretic al and experimental linguistic s

2024 Google Scholar h5-index: 21

E-ISSN: 2470-2986

Annual direct .mit .edu/opmi

PRESENCE

Virtual and Augmented Realit y

Eugene Ch’ng , editors-in-chief

The longest-established ac ademic journal that is devoted to research into teleoperation and virtual environments (3D virtual reality worlds), PRESENCE : Virtual and Augmented Realit y is filled with stimulating material about fundamental research into topic s such as presence, augmented reality, haptic s, user interfaces, and virtual humans, and applic ations that range from heritage and educ ation to training simulators, healthc are, and entertainment

2024 Impact Factor: 1.5

ISSN: 1054-7460 E-ISSN: 1531-3263

Continuous publishing direct mit edu/pvar

Quantit ative Science

Studies

Vincent Larivière, editor

Rodrigo Costas, Li Tang, and Gemma Derrick

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