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Archiving Machines
From Punch Cards to Platforms
ISBN: 9780262553247
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 11, 2025
Electronic Baroque
Building a Historical Organ for the Present
ISBN: 9780262553636
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 26, 2025
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.
Ascending Republic
The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: 9780262549806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 10, 2025
Why and how the French made the balloon into one of the quintessential symbols of late nineteenth-century modernity, and how the balloon's reinvention shaped the airplane's assimilation in the early years of aviation.
License to Spill
Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives
ISBN: 9780262551588
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
How everyday wetness—from finger smudges, sweat, and spilled drinks to showering and swimming—collides with consumers' media devices designed to stay dry.
Indigenous Currencies
Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780262552530
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
How Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism.
The Architecture of the Wire
Infrastructures of Telecommunication
ISBN: 9780262551632
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
A visually inspiring architectural history of the wire and its representations that illuminates the relationship between telecommunications, technology, and architecture.
Differential Privacy
ISBN: 9780262551656
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
A robust yet accessible introduction to the idea, history, and key applications of differential privacy—the gold standard of algorithmic privacy protection.
The Unreliable Nation
Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
ISBN: 9780262051200
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 18, 2025
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.
The Container Principle
How a Box Changes the Way We Think
ISBN: 9780262051194
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 18, 2025
A cultural history of the shipping container as a crucible of globalization and a cultural paradigm.
Archiving Machines
From Punch Cards to Platforms
ISBN: 9780262553247
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 11, 2025
Electronic Baroque
Building a Historical Organ for the Present
ISBN: 9780262553636
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 26, 2025
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.
Ascending Republic
The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: 9780262549806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 10, 2025
Why and how the French made the balloon into one of the quintessential symbols of late nineteenth-century modernity, and how the balloon's reinvention shaped the airplane's assimilation in the early years of aviation.
License to Spill
Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives
ISBN: 9780262551588
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
How everyday wetness—from finger smudges, sweat, and spilled drinks to showering and swimming—collides with consumers' media devices designed to stay dry.
Indigenous Currencies
Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780262552530
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
How Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism.
The Architecture of the Wire
Infrastructures of Telecommunication
ISBN: 9780262551632
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 22, 2025
A visually inspiring architectural history of the wire and its representations that illuminates the relationship between telecommunications, technology, and architecture.
Differential Privacy
ISBN: 9780262551656
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 25, 2025
A robust yet accessible introduction to the idea, history, and key applications of differential privacy—the gold standard of algorithmic privacy protection.
The Unreliable Nation
Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
ISBN: 9780262051200
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 18, 2025
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.
The Container Principle
How a Box Changes the Way We Think
ISBN: 9780262051194
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 18, 2025
A cultural history of the shipping container as a crucible of globalization and a cultural paradigm.