MIT Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/mit-press/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png MIT Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/mit-press/ 32 32 “Just Use the Telephone, Please”: Hannah Zeavin on the Power of Teletherapy https://www.publicbooks.org/just-use-the-telephone-please-hannah-zeavin-on-the-power-of-teletherapy/ Thu, 07 Jul 2022 15:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49170 “You can have really intense intimacy over distance, sometimes only because distance is there.”

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]]> Why Does the State Allow Environmental Inequalities to Persist? Talking with Jill Lindsey Harrison https://www.publicbooks.org/environmental-justice-government-agencies-jill-lindsey-harrison/ Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:00:25 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47816 “What state and federal environmental regulatory agencies in the US have not yet done is reform the way agency staff make decisions.”

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]]> The Planet Needs Collective Action—Not Tech https://www.publicbooks.org/the-planet-needs-collective-action-not-tech/ Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:00:35 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45072 Digital tech cannot stop climate change merely by “greening” individual consumption.[none-for-homepage]

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]]> No Cure https://www.publicbooks.org/no-cure/ Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43521 Tech promises to cure any ailment, whether an unwelcome feeling or a global pandemic. But what if tech itself is ill? And what is a cure, anyway?

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]]> Public Picks 2021 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2021/ Fri, 21 May 2021 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=43288 Each May we send our readers into summer with a curated list of the titles that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us most over the past year (or so).

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]]> Can Free Assembly Survive the Internet? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-free-assembly-survive-the-internet/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:00:39 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=41344 When the internet is in everything, its problems are everywhere.

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]]> Can Smart Cities Be Equitable Cities? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-smart-cities-be-equitable-cities/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:00:14 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=38820 Tech does not arrive in a city to save it. Instead, tech’s financial success depends on dismissing and exploiting existing disparities.

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]]> Public Picks 2020 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2020/ Fri, 22 May 2020 15:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36167 Each year around this time we send our readers into summer with a thoughtfully curated list of the titles appearing over the past 12 months that dazzled, moved, and challenged us most.

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]]> Public Thinker: Ian Bogost on Games, Doorknobs, and General Readers https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-ian-bogost-on-games-doorknobs-and-general-readers/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=33513 Particularly with the advent of the handheld device, digital games now seem a ubiquitous part of our culture ... [none-for-homepage]

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]]> The Book of Faces https://www.publicbooks.org/the-book-of-faces/ Fri, 29 Nov 2019 16:00:35 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=32631 I’m not actually sure if I should call Jessica Helfand’s Face: A Visual Odyssey a book. I mean, it looks like a book. It has text, divided into sentences, paragraphs, and sections. It’s on pages ...

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