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"An intimate, interstellar testament to humanity’s future."
@locusmag reviews "Vaster Than Empires," a new anthology edited by @jonathanstrahan, with contributors @gregegansf, @WTalabi, @TochiTrueStory, and more: locusmag.com/review/vaster-t…
ALT "Vaster Than Empires: Speculative Fiction of the Eternal and the Ephemeral"
"We embodied beings are out in the world where the wetness of our bodies in a sudden storm is not a symbol,” writes David Weinberger. "Our embodiment is this intrinsic, direct openness to the world. That is exactly what AI lacks." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/w…
ALT Why AI and Consciousness May Never Meet A chatbot may be able to reason, remember, and change its mind. But it has nothing at stake, because it has no body to lose. By David Weinberger
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MIT Press presents An Open Work, the first English-language publication to focus on the iconic architect-designer Marco Zanuso.
#mitpress #MarcoZanuso #efluxArchitecture
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"The first publication about the brain changes in mothers was published almost a decade ago. But in scientific terms, that’s like yesterday morning."
Susana Carmona discussed the research behind her new book, "A Mother's Brain," with @nautilusMag: nautil.us/the-myth-of-mommy-…
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📚 Forthcoming from MIT Press: The Blockchain Chronicles: A Social History of Ideology, Code, and Law.
Primavera De Filippi, Joel Dietz, Morshed Mannan, and Kelsie Nabben trace blockchain's intellectual and social history, from cypherpunk ideology and cryptographic experimentation to cryptocurrencies, DAOs, and network states.
The book examines blockchain as a technological, legal, and political project, shaped by competing visions of governance, authority, and collective organisation.
Pre-order here: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620607…
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Next Book: Endorsements for Virus: Annotated for Today's Global Digital Humans (and Aliens) make me feel privileged and honoured. The book is going to hit stores on Nov. 17! Get it here!
India: amazon.com/dp/0262056283/
Global: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620562…
@mitpress @mitpbookstore
"There's only two sure things in life, death & taxes. Actually, taxes you can get out of quite easily & cheaply."
Author Saul Newman joined @adamconover on the “Factually!” podcast to discuss the bullshit problem plaguing longevity science: youtube.com/watch?v=itYSCny8…
Shantel Blakely investigates the celebrated, enigmatic Italian architect-designer Marco Zanuso (1919–2001) in "An Open Work," with a narrated tour—chapter by chapter, room by room—of his 1960s Milan apartment.
Available now: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620547…
ALT An open book displaying two pages with photographs of interior designs.
ALT An open book displaying a page with an image of a room interior.
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Countdown to #ThePowerofLines (mitpress.mit.edu/97802620571…) pub day (Nov. 17!) from @mitpress. Enjoy today's teaser! #linearalgebra #math
Free for the MIT community: Join Bill Lichtenstein, author of "WBCN and the American Revolution," for a screening of “The Airwaves Belonged to the People: WBCN and the American Revolution."
📆 Fri., November 13
🕓 7 PM
📍 LSC Theater, MIT 26-100, 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
ALT WBCN staffer Charles Laquidara in the station’s record library, circa 1970.
New this week from the MIT Press. Happy publication day to our authors! 📖
ALT A stack of nine MIT Press books.
"Living with unread books is a hedge against mortality, even if it’s a delusional one. As long as I have more books than I can ever read, I might live forever, right?"
Lovely Q&A with our former art/architecture/visual culture editor Roger Conover: stoutbooks.com/blogs/news/co…
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Join us Sunday the 15th for The Battleground of Art, a conversation between Marco Baravalle and Gregory Sholette moderated by Hallie Ayres. Doors at 3:30pm, event at 4pm. 414 Broadway, 3rd Floor. instagram.com/p/DfaQjIRGwGn/
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I’m excited to see A Historian’s Handbook for Saving the World published next week!
I am fortunate to have an interview featured (in the shadow of interviews with climate luminaries like @billmckibben) about working on climate as a contingent faculty and my alt-ac journey.
In cities like Soweto and Ramallah, limited infrastructure and constrained freedom of movement don’t stop DIY skate communities from thriving. "When it comes down to it," writes Suridh Hassan, "a skatepark can come from virtually anything." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/t…
ALT "The Global Spirit of DIY Skateboarding." From Soweto to Ramallah, DIY skaters are turning scraps into skateparks - and are carving out communities for self-expression. By Suridh Hassan.
Even one violin lesson can reveal changes in neural activity linked to motor learning. A new @imagingneurosci study offers insights into how the brain acquires musical skills: thestrad.com/news/researcher… via @theStradMag
Join "Queens of Code" author Eileen Buckholtz for a free, virtual talk at the @IntlSpyMuseum and learn about the women at the NSA in the '60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s who helped shape the early days of computing.
Thurs., Nov. 12th at noon ET.
Register here 👇 spymuseum.org/calendar/queen…
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"You might ask: How do these volunteers get anything done if nobody is in charge?"
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ALT Cover image of an article titled "From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet." The image shows a digital representation of a network, with interconnected nodes and lines on a dark background. The article is credited to Benjamin Mako Hill, Christian Pentzold, and Aaron Shaw.
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3) “The Liberal Balance of Power and the Four Horsemen of Its Apocalypse,” by Jack Snyder
doi.org/10.1162/ISEC.a.425
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