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The mindful reader
Although introspection is an individual project, you don’t have to do it alone: Turn inward as we turn the calendar page with these books on mindfulness, consciousness, and our complicated inner lives. Read our list of titles on mindfulness on the MIT Press Blog.
2024 Awards
We are proud to highlight the awards our authors have received this past year, ranging from literary honors to design accolades.
CriticalProductive
The MIT Press is pleased to share that CriticalProductive Journal, the highly-anticipated independent peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the intellectual project of culture, arts and architecture, has published its first issue this month.
January releases
An exploration of how Taiwan rose to global prominence in high tech manufacturing, a critical study on the history of photography and film from Los Angeles, an investigation of how digital social reading apps are changing the way we read, and more.
Spring 2025
Featuring a field guide for a new dawn of natural history, an accessible and authoritative guide to AI, and a much-needed corrective to a dangerous blind faith in expertise, our Spring 2025 seasonal catalog features a carefully curated selection of titles that explore the most pressing issues of our time.
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Short Circuits Series
A short circuit occurs when there is a wrong connection in the network—wrong, of course, from the standpoint of the smooth functioning of the network. The starting premise of this series is that Lacanian psychoanalysis is a privileged instrument of critical reading, offering a collection of short Lacanian interventions into art, philosophy, theology, and ideology through marginalized or disavowed lenses.
Series editor: Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupančič, & Slavoj Žižek
The Emperor’s New Nudity by Yuval Kremnitzer offers an analysis of contemporary authoritarianism and the medium in which it flourishes, the internet, as well as what lies at the complex intersection of authority and technology. Kremnitzer asks foundational questions to explore how technology reshapes the very fabric of social and political life.
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Fresh books for the mindful reader
The best books to start the new year with a clean slate.
Wednesday January 8, 2025