#mit-press — Public Fediverse posts

here's a random paperpost, from 5 June 2015:

A lovely little book - 101 things...
https://www.paperposts.me/a-lovely-little-book-101-things

#book #architecture #MITpress #paperpost

Rewiring #Democracy with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders in conversation with Cindy Cohn

December 3, 2025 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm PST Online

City Lights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and The #MIT Press present Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders (in conversation with Cindy Cohn/EFF) discussing their new book Rewiring Democracy: How #AI Will Transform Our #Politics , #Government , and #Citizenship – Published by The #MITPress.
@eff

https://www.eff.org/event/rewiring-democracy

What Is Intelligence?

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049955/what-is-intelligence/

#HackerNews #WhatIsIntelligence #Intelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #MITPress #Knowledge #Exploration

🎨🤖 Ah, the "art" of coding in languages nobody uses, for problems nobody has, all while under the delusion that #Minesweeper holds the secrets of the universe. MIT Press, proving once again that academia’s favorite pastime is renaming #nonsense as "culture". 🧩💻
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-hacker-folk-art-of-esoteric-coding/ #artofcoding #codingculture #MITPress #academia #HackerNews #ngated

Thanks Demmy for highlighting @openbookcollect, alongside #OpenLibraryOfHumanities and #MITpress' #D20, as examples of initiatives that provide some hope for other, sustainable pathways for open scholarly publishing

Acquisitions: MIT Press Acquires University Science Books

The 47-year-old University Science Books' inventory is moving to MIT Press' distribution partner, Penguin Random House Publishing Services.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/06/acquisitions-mit-press-acquires-university-science-books/

#AcademicPublishing #MergersandAcquisitions #MITPress #PenguinRandomHouse #ScholarlyPublishing
@indieauthors

I've picked up Susumu Kuno's The Structure of the Japanese Language, a 1976 book full of geeky goodness about Japanese grammar and why it be like that. I'm a n00b at Japanese but it's still wicked enjoyable. #japaneselanguage #languagelearning #mitpress #currentstudiesinlinguistics

MIT Press: A note on LibGen and the unauthorized use of our authors’ work. “We want to be clear: The MIT Press has not licensed any of our books or journal articles for LLM training purposes, nor have we granted permission for any such use. However, we are well aware that many MIT Press publications have ended up in pirated training data sets. We share the deep distress of our authors whose […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/mit-press-a-note-on-libgen-and-the-unauthorized-use-of-our-authors-work/

Link to book, Trans Technologies, by Oliver L. Haimson:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551861/trans-technologies/

#OpenAccess as soon as it's officially released! (Feb 25)

@commodon @sts #STS #Commodon #Bookstodon @bookstodon #TransTechnologies #MITPress

MIT Press: MIT Press’s Direct to Open reaches annual funding goal for 2025, opens access to 80 new monographs. “The MIT Press is pleased to announce that Direct to Open (D2O) has reached its full funding goal for 2025 and will open access to 80 new monographs and edited book collections in the spring and fall publishing seasons.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/23/mit-press-mit-presss-direct-to-open-reaches-annual-funding-goal-for-2025-opens-access-to-80-new-monographs/

How to flip your journal: A guide to more equitable publishing with #DiamondOA https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14652446

Colleagues from several Dutch university libraries have prepared a guide on how to flip a journal to diamond open access. It includes a lot of highly valuable advice!

The guide also covers the flip of Elsevier's Journal of Informetrics to @QSS_ISSI, a journal owned by the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics #ISSI and published by #MITPress.

hal foster: “fail better. reckoning with artists and critics”

Sandro Ricaldone

HAL FOSTER
Fail Better
Reckoning with Artists and Critics
The MIT Press, 2025
(forthcoming)

“Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. “By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.” In Fail Better, Foster, an art critic and historian whose influential work spans disciplines and decades, brings this peripatetic perspective to contemporary art, art criticism, art history, and his own work over the past 50 years.

In these 40 texts, Foster reviews artists from Richard Hamilton and Jasper Johns to Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha; considers contemporaries from Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman to Jeremy Deller and Adam Pendleton; and traces the development of criticism since the early 1960s, with essays on such influential figures as Susan Sontag and Rosalind Krauss and institutions like Artforum magazine and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Taking his title from Beckett—“try again, fail again, fail better”—Foster notes that, etymologically, an essay is always an attempt, more or less failed. Critics fail artworks, because there can never be a definitive reading; art fails its historical moment, because it cannot resolve the contradictions that prompt it. But in these failures Foster finds historical consciousness, and with it the promise of future work, future illumination. In his “reckonings” he turns his own long history of criticism to account, and succeeds in conveying shifting concepts of art and criticism, the work of key artists and critics, and the relationships between criticism, theory, history, and politics over the last six decades.

#AdamPendleton #art #arte #ArtforumMagazine #artists #CindySherman #criticism #critics #EdRuscha #GerhardRichter #HalFoster #JasperJohns #JeremyDeller #LouiseLawler #MITPress #RichardHamilton #RosalindKrauss #SusanSontag #WhitneyMuseum #WhitneyMuseumIndependentStudyProgram

"Universal Basic Income" by Karl Widerquist

This is this year's Christmas read and I will start later today.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546898/universal-basic-income/

#UBI #UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #MITpress #socialchange #politics #equality #aoc #bernieSanders #angelarayner

1/ #MITPress (@mitpress) just sent a survey to its authors on how or whether to allow #AI tools to train on their publications. Here's the main question and my response.

[Q] Do you believe that works you have authored should be used to train generative AI systems? How do publisher practices in this area impact your own choice of publishing partners?

More...

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My latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is now available on Episode 741 of the #StarShipSofa #podcast. I discuss the #RadiumAge imprint of reissued #ScienceFiction classics from 1900-1935 published by #MITPress.

#SFF #Books #Bookstodon #RadiumAge

Here is the link!

https://shows.acast.com/starshipsofa/episodes/starshipsofa-no-741-matthew-kressel

📬 Link-Busters verlangt wöchentlich 56 Mio. Löschungen von Google
#EBooks #DMCALöschanfragen #LinkBusters #MITPress #RandomHouse #TaylorFrancis https://sc.tarnkappe.info/2a3591

#MITPress Releases Direct to Open Impact Report

👉 Data show that #openaccess #monographs receive significantly more use and #citations than their non-open counterparts and are more successful at reaching audiences beyond the academy.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/open-access-at-mit-press/d2o-impact-report-2024/

#D2O #openscience #books #publishing

Two journals from the European Sociological Association (#ESA) are leaving #TayloAndFrancis to become #DiamondOA at #MITPress (@themitpress).
https://mitpress.mit.edu/european-sociological-association-journals-european-societies-and-european-journal-of-cultural-and-political-sociology-move-to-diamond-open-access-at-the-mit-press/

The two journals "are the inaugural beneficiaries of the shift+OPEN program, an initiative by the MIT Press aimed at facilitating the transition of traditional journals to diamond open access."

#OpenAccess #SocietyJournals #SSH

🚨 Free book alert!

Reason and Less: Pursuing Food, Sex, and Politics via #MITpress: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12811.001.0001

Dr. Goel follows arguments and evidence from multiple fields in cognitive science to some challenging conclusions about common beliefs. An #openAccess gem!

#neuroscience #psychology #cogSci #epistemology #decisionScience #xPhi #politics #religion #diet

If you're at #ica2023, you can check out #InsolventBook at the #MITpress stand! https://twitter.com/nicole_s_cohen/status/1662525740334628868

The #MITPress announces “shift+OPEN”, a new initiative to flip existing subscription-based journals to a Diamond #OpenAccess publishing model: https://mitpress.mit.edu/shiftopen/.

Reminder that Jaroslav Švelch's
"Player vs. Monster" is right around the corner. 📚

A study of the gruesome game characters we love to beat—and what they tell us about ourselves.

Read more about it here:
👉 https://thevideogamelibrary.org/book/player-vs-monster-the-making-and-breaking-of-video-game-monstrosity

#GameStudies #Zombies #Aliens #Gaming #VideoGame #VideoGames #Gamer #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #MIT #MITPress #TLOU #TheLastOfUs #Bloodborne #SpaceInvaders #Reading #Bookworm #GameBooks #VideoGameBook #Monstrosity #Monster #Beast #Creature #Enemy #Boss

@xchatty Jesse Gilbert and I discussed this challenge in our "Carrier Wave Principle" article, and we devote a large bit of our final chapter to it in our forthcoming #MITpress book "The Secret Life of Data." https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/download/11946/2881

Delighted that MIT has published a new paperback edition of Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory, my book with Richard Rinehart—just in time to use as a reference text in my spring #DigitalPreservation course! http://re-collection.net

#collections #archives #museums #digipres #metadata #glam #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #DigitalArt #NewMedia #MITpress

@mike Anyone from OASPA able to comment? https://oaspa.org/welcoming-the-mit-press-as-an-oaspa-member-copy/ #OpenAccess #OASPA #MITPress