What’s Wrong With Innovation?
Once America’s great hope, innovation culture eventually met its fiercest critics.| The MIT Press Reader
Once America’s great hope, innovation culture eventually met its fiercest critics.| The MIT Press Reader
An excerpt from the Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist’s 1991 book “Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture.”| The MIT Press Reader
How evolution wired us to act against our own best interests.| The MIT Press Reader
A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom.| The MIT Press Reader
The interplay between repetition and variation is central to how we perceive structure, rhythm, and depth across mediums.| The MIT Press Reader
Eye makers for millennia have been trying to re-create the expressionist power of the human body’s most complex and emotionally meaningful visible organ.| The MIT Press Reader
Decades of global surveys point to a single, consistent foundation of well-being: our relationships.| The MIT Press Reader
Owen Flanagan explores how Buddhism reconciles meaning and science — without a creator, a soul, or supernatural scaffolding.| The MIT Press Reader
What looks like minimalism in Kiarostami is something else entirely: a method for holding the unseen in view.| The MIT Press Reader
If there is no clear evidence of brain abnormalities in psychopathic persons, why do so many scientists keep portraying psychopathy as a neurodevelopmental disorder?| The MIT Press Reader
“Cyberspace” was once celebrated as a public, non-tracked space that afforded users freedom of anonymity. How did individual tracking of users come to dominate the web as a market practice?| The MIT Press Reader
The evolutionary story behind meat consumption is more complicated — and less convincing — than it sounds.| The MIT Press Reader
For one strange year in the 18th century, flaunting a false pregnancy was all the rage.| The MIT Press Reader
Writing starts with flow, but it’s sustained by discipline, revision, and grit.| The MIT Press Reader
Magic realism may be what we need to break free from design’s overly rational futures.| The MIT Press Reader
By inviting players to tackle real scientific problems, games can offer a hand in solving medicine’s toughest challenges.| The MIT Press Reader
Video is the most consequential medium of our time. So why do we still lack the tools to cite, dissect, and challenge it like we do with print?| The MIT Press Reader
Reflections on Harriet Jacobs’s loophole of retreat — and my mother’s personal archive of memories.| The MIT Press Reader
World Bank pandemic bonds paid out only after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investors turn calamity into capital.| The MIT Press Reader
Our mental and ecological health are linked. Recognizing this interdependence can change how we relate to the world and to ourselves.| The MIT Press Reader
A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity.| The MIT Press Reader
Road ecology, the scientific study of how road networks impact ecosystems, presents a perfect opportunity for community science projects.| The MIT Press Reader
How a group of artist-mothers quietly rejected the reigning taboo of their era and forged a thriving practice of creativity and caregiving.| The MIT Press Reader
Sacred values may signify that one has a conscience, but they also have a dark side.| The MIT Press Reader
"Investigations of a Dog" is a funny and deeply philosophical tale of a lone, maladjusted dog who defies scientific dogma and pioneers an original research program in pursuit of the mysteries of his self and his world.| The MIT Press Reader
The tech world’s obsession with artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.| The MIT Press Reader
Any attempt to understand the complexities of American economic thought without considering the significant role of religious beliefs is incomplete.| The MIT Press Reader
Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R." premiered in January 1921. Its influence cannot be overstated.| The MIT Press Reader
Robert Barsky examines the profound impact of "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.| The MIT Press Reader
A mind-bending, jargon-free account of the popular interpretation of quantum mechanics.| The MIT Press Reader
Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.| The MIT Press Reader
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.| The MIT Press Reader
If protolanguages began as largely gestural systems, why and how did vocalization become so important?| The MIT Press Reader
