New and forthcoming releases from the MIT Press

A revolutionary way of seeing bodies and built environment that unites radical politics and trans aesthetics.

From a leading author and queer theorist known for reframing many of the most pressing questions about counter-intuitive ways of being.

Anarchitecture, a radical aesthetic practice of...

How we can prepare children to find insights and cognitive agency in a world of ever shrinking opportunities to learn how things work.

From infancy onwards, children show a natural interest in the hidden causes of surface patterns. But that kind of childhood is being derailed by a world that is no...

A dazzling work of science fiction to which Dune, the Foundation trilogy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey owe a major debt.

Narrated telepathically by one of the Last Men, Olaf Stapledon’s epic history of the future caused a literary sensation when it first appeared in 1930. Over the course of two billion...

An eye-opening collection from contemporary artists and authors about how art and technology can reimagine humanity’s relationship with nature and society.

Shimmer—the apt name of both the highly-illustrated book and the exhibition it accompanies—offers a timely collection of essays by today’s key...

How employers can compete in a challenging labor market—by hiring differently, redesigning job quality, and rethinking their government relations strategies.

From two leaders in business and workforce development with a proven track record in innovative workforce strategies.

Over the past ten years...

An urgent and clear-eyed look at the battle over reproductive control in our tipping-point moment—and how to forge a path forward.

Birth control, which includes contraception, abortion access and more, has not only enabled women to enter civic life in significant numbers for the first time, but it...

An action-oriented guide to revitalizing higher education by putting learning at the center of institutional action.

As the challenges to higher education continue to mount, we believe that the surest path forward is a renewed commitment to the primary purpose of colleges and universities: higher lea...

A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.

Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from...

An engaging and timely essay collection on the challenges, risks, and opportunities of this historic moment in American law and governance.

1,000-word essays from the country’s leading legal scholars and experts.

It is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. is...

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 Jules Verne’s classic From the Earth to the Moon (1865) offers a...

How the original 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...

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

Investigating just over a century of experimental relativity, the individual essays in this volume place the process of experimental relativity within its...

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

Historically (and for the foreseeable future), most public policy action in the United States to combat the global climate crisis has taken place at the state level. Former President Joe Biden’s...

Why our current system of higher education is financially and morally unsustainable and how to address the crisis with the creative implementation of digital technologies.

For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and...

A groundbreaking critique of the philosophical foundations of computing.

Computational Reflections is a wholly original investigation into the philosophical foundations of computing. The author's lifetime of work is distilled into this volume, which explores what it means to compute.

The standard...

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.

With over 150 full-color illustrations, a unique gift book for everyone from the avid birder to the bird beginner.

Consider feathers: They define birds’ wings...

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

The Broken Machine explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic World. Edward Jones-Imhotep reveals how breakdowns are not the kinds of...

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.

With gorgeously rich tritone photographs and a hard-bound cover with tip-in, perfect for fine art or history lovers.

Some of...

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 alive, clothing has...

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 endgame of...

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...

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 for the twenty-first century as early as the 1970s, Vilém Flusser warned, “the...