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Triangles and Tribulations
Translations, Betrayals, and the Making of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
ISBN: 9780262552172
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 17, 2025
How the sociology of translation can help us understand a social science framework—cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT)—as a set of uneasy settlements that both further and betray their original intentions.
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.
Trans Technologies
ISBN: 9780262551861
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.
Unboxing Japanese Videogames
A Metadata-Based Approach to the Production and Distribution of Spatial Instability
ISBN: 9780262552226
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
A new perspective on the spatial complexity and plurality of Japanese videogames.
The Silicon Shrink
How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum
ISBN: 9780262049351
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 4, 2025
Why the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm.
Design Rules
How Technology Shapes Organizations
ISBN: 9780262049337
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 17, 2024
How the innate physical properties of different technologies influence the strategy and structure of the organizations implementing the technologies, the sequel to Design Rules: The Power of Modularity.
Tech Agnostic
How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
ISBN: 9780262049207
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
An urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Good without God.
Pioneering Progress
American Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
ISBN: 9780262549448
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
An expert exploration of the foundations of America's science and technology policies, and the dynamics of its innovation system.
Post-Europe
ISBN: 9798985423518
Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
Envisioning a post-European thinking: not through a neutralization of differences nor a return to tradition, but through an individuation of thinking between East and West.
Triangles and Tribulations
Translations, Betrayals, and the Making of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
ISBN: 9780262552172
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 17, 2025
How the sociology of translation can help us understand a social science framework—cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT)—as a set of uneasy settlements that both further and betray their original intentions.
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.
Trans Technologies
ISBN: 9780262551861
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology.
Unboxing Japanese Videogames
A Metadata-Based Approach to the Production and Distribution of Spatial Instability
ISBN: 9780262552226
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 25, 2025
A new perspective on the spatial complexity and plurality of Japanese videogames.
The Silicon Shrink
How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum
ISBN: 9780262049351
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 4, 2025
Why the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm.
Design Rules
How Technology Shapes Organizations
ISBN: 9780262049337
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 17, 2024
How the innate physical properties of different technologies influence the strategy and structure of the organizations implementing the technologies, the sequel to Design Rules: The Power of Modularity.
Tech Agnostic
How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation
ISBN: 9780262049207
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
An urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Good without God.
Pioneering Progress
American Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
ISBN: 9780262549448
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 29, 2024
An expert exploration of the foundations of America's science and technology policies, and the dynamics of its innovation system.
Post-Europe
ISBN: 9798985423518
Publisher: Urbanomic/Sequence Press
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
Envisioning a post-European thinking: not through a neutralization of differences nor a return to tradition, but through an individuation of thinking between East and West.