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Fragilities
Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
ISBN: 9780262550758
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.
Mother Media
Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780262049559
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
An essential history for understanding how we mother now, and how motherhood itself became a medium—winner of the Brooke Hindle Award from the Society for the History of Technology.
Humane Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262542128
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
How we can work together to understand, imagine, and build humane infrastructures and a better world.
The Saucerian
The Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker
ISBN: 9780262049542
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
The strange, but true biography of the colorful founder of Saucerian Books, a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century.
Fire and Flood
Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future
ISBN: 9780262552127
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
How extreme events, paradoxically, sow the seeds of positive response—and create opportunities for becoming adaptive to place.
Indigenous Currencies
Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780262552530
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
How Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism.
Re/Marks on Power
How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice
ISBN: 9780262551038
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 15, 2025
An interdisciplinary exploration of annotation that shows how this participatory act marks public memory, struggles for justice, and social change.
Pre/Architecture
ISBN: 9783956792847
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: April 8, 2025
How a pre-architectural world became a central object of study by architectural historians and architects in the aftermath of world historical events.
Playing at the World, 2E
Three Pillars of Role-Playing Games
ISBN: 9780262552318
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 8, 2025
The second volume of two in a new, updated edition of the 2012 book Playing at the World, which charts the vast and complex history of role-playing games.
The Urban Naturalist
How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground
ISBN: 9780262049092
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 1, 2025
A manifesto—and a field guide—for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.