Proxemics 101: Understanding Personal Space Across Cultures | The MIT Press Reader
Where you stand when you talk to someone is reflexive and varies widely depending on your culture.| The MIT Press Reader
Where you stand when you talk to someone is reflexive and varies widely depending on your culture.| The MIT Press Reader
An excerpt from Bini Adamczak’s new book “Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future.”| The MIT Press Reader
Illuminating the bold ideas and voices that make up the MIT Press's expansive catalog.| The MIT Press Reader
An excerpt from Didier Eribon’s book “The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman,” a personal and philosophical reflection on the question of old age as a limit concept of Western thought.| The MIT Press Reader
The system of federally funded research gave the U.S. wealth, power, and prestige. Its future is now uncertain.| The MIT Press Reader
Karel Styblo’s life work against tuberculosis created a system that has saved millions, even if his name remains largely unknown.| The MIT Press Reader
Esolangs, or esoteric programming languages, highlight the hidden metaphors and conventions that structure mainstream programming.| The MIT Press Reader
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.| The MIT Press Reader
Samuel Jay Keyser on why repetition enchants the mind, and what evolution has to do with it.| The MIT Press Reader
Engaging in ritual for ritual’s sake only deepens nihilism.| The MIT Press Reader
What frogs teach us about sex, science, and why biology is messier than we think.| The MIT Press Reader
An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal accidents.| The MIT Press Reader
A classic critique shows how creationists’ calls for “equal time” in classrooms blurred the line between legitimate scientific debate and intellectual imposture.| The MIT Press Reader
A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances.| The MIT Press Reader
Women in physics have long been forced out of the field, and out of the story.| 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
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
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
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
