The MIT Press to launch open access journal Imaging Neuroscience

In a significant move, the former editorial teams of Neuroimage and Neuroimage: Reports will lead the new MIT Press journal, delivering on promise to lower APC fees.

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New releases for May

This month: an intimate study of architecture and family life, a guide to developing ethical design practice, a primer on pragmatism, and more.

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$10 million endowment gift for OA

The new fund will support the MIT Press’s ground-breaking efforts to publish open access books and journals in fields ranging from science and technology to the social sciences, arts, and humanities. It will also help the MIT Press continue to develop tools, models, and resources that make scholarship more accessible to researchers and other readers around the world.

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Cover story: Artery

London-based Canadian artist Allison Katz has been exploring painting’s relationship to questions of identity and expression, selfhood and voice, for more than a decade. Animated by a restless sense of humor, her works articulate what the artist has called a “genuine ambiguity.”

Artery—a book that situates itself somewhere between a monograph, exhibition catalog, and an artist’s book—is an exploration of what is within and below.

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Along with many of our outstanding partners like the MIT Press Bookstore and MIT Libraries, the MIT Press offers virtual, in-person, and hybrid events throughout the year. Join us for conferences and exhibits, author talks, panel discussions, and more.

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An Illustrated Guide to Mouth Gestures and Their Meanings Around the World An excerpt from François Caradec’s book “Dictionary of Gestures.”

By François Caradec

‘It’s very likely you won’t be electrocuted’: On Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik’s ‘TV Bra’ As an object, “TV Bra” perfectly encapsulates Paik’s artistic goals, Moorman’s brilliance as a performer, their personal history, and its cultural context.

By Joan Rothfuss

The Two-Century Quest to Quantify Our Senses The quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with surveillance capitalism but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the 19th century.

By Chris Salter

Inside Alec Baldwin’s Crusade to Take Down a Nobel Prize-Winning Lab Twenty-five years before our era of fake news and celebrity pseudoscience, the star actor teamed up with Montel Williams to promote an unfounded conspiracy.

By Robert P. Crease

Spotlight: Management on the Cutting Edge

Books in the Management on the Cutting Edge series present original research from leading lights in academia and industry, providing practical advice to business leaders on how to prepare for the exciting—and challenging—future that awaits us. The series is edited by Robert Holland and published through a collaboration between MIT Sloan Management Review and the MIT Press.

The newest title in the series—Workforce Ecosystems by Elizabeth J. Altman, David Kiron, Jeff Schwartz, and Robin Jones—is a pioneering guide to understanding and leading workforce ecosystems to accomplish enterprise and individual goals.

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