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D2O is funded for 2025

The MIT Press is pleased to announce that Direct to Open has reached its full funding goal for 2025 and will open access to 81 new monographs and edited book collections in the spring and fall publishing seasons. Support for D2O includes two new three-year, all-consortium commitments from the Florida Virtual Campus and the Big Ten Academic Alliance.

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From Pessimism to Promise

2024 Awards

We are proud to highlight the awards our authors have received this past year, ranging from literary honors to design accolades.

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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.

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The Pointillistic City

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.

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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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When Teachers Dread Science, Students Suffer
When Teachers Dread Science, Students Suffer Adult anxieties about STEM can stifle children’s curiosity — but there are ways to break the cycle.

By Frank C. Keil

The Hyperloop: A 200-Year History of Hype and Failure
The Hyperloop: A 200-Year History of Hype and Failure Elon Musk's Hyperloop Alpha is another overhyped venture, recycling 200-year-old dreams and exaggerated claims of innovation.

By Vaclav Smil

The Extinction Loop
The Extinction Loop Libertarian fantasies thrive on ecological collapse, profiting from the very destruction they helped to accelerate.

By Jonas Staal

The Cruel Reality of Public Assistance Programs
The Cruel Reality of Public Assistance Programs I tried to overhaul a system meant to help people in need, but it was designed to fail.

By Mariana Chilton

Short Circuits Series

The Emperor’s New Nudity

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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MIT Press’s Direct to Open reaches annual funding goal for 2025, opens access to 80 new monographs

Support for Direct to Open in 2025 includes two new three-year, all-consortium commitments from the Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) and the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA).

Thursday January 16, 2025

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