Writer and educator Marcus Gilroy-Ware (After the Fact?, Filling the Void) speaks with Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner about their new book You Are Here.
Authors and Editors discuss topics, themes, and trends explored within the pages of MIT Press books and journals.
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In this episode academic and author of OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose, Nancy D Campbell explains one of the defining tragedies of contemporary life; the overdose. She explored the history of drug overdoses and the ways activists to fighting to prevent more deaths.
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Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 brings together urgency and scientific rigor so the world’s researchers can quickly disseminate new discoveries that the public can trust. Amy Brand (Director, The MIT Press) and Vilas Dhar (Trustee, The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation) discuss this new overlay journal, its innovative goals, and its role as a proof-of-concept for new models of peer-review and rapid publishing.
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A reading from Jackie Wang's Carceral Capitalism by Conor Rose. This extract, taken from the opening of the book, offers insight into the Black Lives Matter movement as well as new forms of predatory policing, informed by the 2008 financial crash.
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Academic, writer and member of Forensic Architecture, Susan Schuppli discusses her book, Material Witnesss, and the role of material evidence in understanding things such as natural disasters, climate change, and conflict zones.
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Best known for its introduction of French theory to American readers, Semiotext(e) has been one of America's most influential independent presses since its inception more than three decades ago. Publishing works of theory, fiction, madness, economics, satire, sexuality, science fiction, activism and confession.
In this interview Chris Kraus and Hedi El Kholti, who run Semitext(e) alongside Sylvère Lotringer, discuss the history of the press.
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Lucas Richert, author of Break On Through, explores the Anti-psychiatry movement, psychedelics, and historic development of mental health treatment throughout 1970s America.
