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I've picked up Susumu Kuno's The Structure of the Japanese Language, a 1976 book full of geeky goodness about Japanese grammar and why it be like that. I'm a n00b at Japanese but it's still wicked enjoyable. #japaneselanguage #languagelearning #mitpress #currentstudiesinlinguistics

Book cover, with art suggesting sentence diagrams. The book is _The Structure of the Japanese Language_

Example of how the book works. A sentence is presented in Japanese with translations of each word, then an explanation of why the words are in that order.

MIT Press: A note on LibGen and the unauthorized use of our authors’ work. “We want to be clear: The MIT Press has not licensed any of our books or journal articles for LLM training purposes, nor have we granted permission for any such use. However, we are well aware that many MIT Press publications have ended up in pirated training data sets. We share the deep distress of our authors whose […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/mit-press-a-note-on-libgen-and-the-unauthorized-use-of-our-authors-work/

Link to book, Trans Technologies, by Oliver L. Haimson:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551861/trans-technologies/

#OpenAccess as soon as it's officially released! (Feb 25)

@commodon @sts #STS #Commodon #Bookstodon @bookstodon #TransTechnologies #MITPress

MIT Press: MIT Press’s Direct to Open reaches annual funding goal for 2025, opens access to 80 new monographs. “The MIT Press is pleased to announce that Direct to Open (D2O) has reached its full funding goal for 2025 and will open access to 80 new monographs and edited book collections in the spring and fall publishing seasons.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/23/mit-press-mit-presss-direct-to-open-reaches-annual-funding-goal-for-2025-opens-access-to-80-new-monographs/

How to flip your journal: A guide to more equitable publishing with #DiamondOA https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14652446

Colleagues from several Dutch university libraries have prepared a guide on how to flip a journal to diamond open access. It includes a lot of highly valuable advice!

The guide also covers the flip of Elsevier's Journal of Informetrics to @QSS_ISSI, a journal owned by the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics #ISSI and published by #MITPress.

hal foster: “fail better. reckoning with artists and critics”

Sandro Ricaldone

HAL FOSTER
Fail Better
Reckoning with Artists and Critics
The MIT Press, 2025
(forthcoming)

“Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. “By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.” In Fail Better, Foster, an art critic and historian whose influential work spans disciplines and decades, brings this peripatetic perspective to contemporary art, art criticism, art history, and his own work over the past 50 years.

In these 40 texts, Foster reviews artists from Richard Hamilton and Jasper Johns to Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha; considers contemporaries from Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman to Jeremy Deller and Adam Pendleton; and traces the development of criticism since the early 1960s, with essays on such influential figures as Susan Sontag and Rosalind Krauss and institutions like Artforum magazine and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Taking his title from Beckett—“try again, fail again, fail better”—Foster notes that, etymologically, an essay is always an attempt, more or less failed. Critics fail artworks, because there can never be a definitive reading; art fails its historical moment, because it cannot resolve the contradictions that prompt it. But in these failures Foster finds historical consciousness, and with it the promise of future work, future illumination. In his “reckonings” he turns his own long history of criticism to account, and succeeds in conveying shifting concepts of art and criticism, the work of key artists and critics, and the relationships between criticism, theory, history, and politics over the last six decades.

#AdamPendleton #art #arte #ArtforumMagazine #artists #CindySherman #criticism #critics #EdRuscha #GerhardRichter #HalFoster #JasperJohns #JeremyDeller #LouiseLawler #MITPress #RichardHamilton #RosalindKrauss #SusanSontag #WhitneyMuseum #WhitneyMuseumIndependentStudyProgram

"Universal Basic Income" by Karl Widerquist

This is this year's Christmas read and I will start later today.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546898/universal-basic-income/

#UBI #UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #MITpress #socialchange #politics #equality #aoc #bernieSanders #angelarayner

The news from global politics isn’t promising, but we can respond by dedicating ourselves to what we believe in. Costanza Chock’s Design Justice offers essential guidelines. Let’s work towards a fairer, more inclusive future. @schockolatl @mitpress
#GlobalPolitics #DesignJustice #CostanzaChock #SocialJustice #Activism #EquityInDesign #JusticeMatters #InclusiveDesign #SocialChange #BuildBetter #CommunityDriven #EquityAndJustice #SystemicChange #Empowerment #design #book #mitpress

1/ #MITPress (@mitpress) just sent a survey to its authors on how or whether to allow #AI tools to train on their publications. Here's the main question and my response.

[Q] Do you believe that works you have authored should be used to train generative AI systems? How do publisher practices in this area impact your own choice of publishing partners?

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Influential Graphic Designers You Should Know About Part 4: #JacquelineCasey

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdNdUSff/

#GraphicDesign
#MITpress
#WomenDesigners

My latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is now available on Episode 741 of the #StarShipSofa #podcast. I discuss the #RadiumAge imprint of reissued #ScienceFiction classics from 1900-1935 published by #MITPress.

#SFF #Books #Bookstodon #RadiumAge

Here is the link!

https://shows.acast.com/starshipsofa/episodes/starshipsofa-no-741-matthew-kressel

Pictured are two book titles with retrofuturist cover art from the Radium Age series from MIT Press, specifically The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories by Francis Stevens and The People of the Ruins by Edward Shanks.

Pictured are two book titles with retrofuturist cover art from the Radium Age series from MIT Press, specifically The Inhumans and Other Stories edited and translated by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and Man's World by Charlotte Haldane.

📬 Link-Busters verlangt wöchentlich 56 Mio. Löschungen von Google
#EBooks #DMCALöschanfragen #LinkBusters #MITPress #RandomHouse #TaylorFrancis https://sc.tarnkappe.info/2a3591

#MITPress Releases Direct to Open Impact Report

👉 Data show that #openaccess #monographs receive significantly more use and #citations than their non-open counterparts and are more successful at reaching audiences beyond the academy.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/open-access-at-mit-press/d2o-impact-report-2024/

#D2O #openscience #books #publishing

From soundscapes to shipwrecks, cosmotechnics, and the cartography of touch.

Read 𝘓𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘰 Volume 57, Issue 1 out now!
👉 https://buff.ly/49p2fEr

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿:
Dario Lanza, Catharsis #821—In the Mood, 2022. Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 License. See the article in this issue by Dario Lanza “Designing a Long-Structure NFT Generative Art Project.”

#ArtSciTech #ArtandScience #academicjournal #MITPress @MITPress

Graphic image showcasing Leonardo Journal Volume 57, Issue 1. The cover looks like splattered paint; mainly, yellow, red, white and black.About the cover: Dario Lanza, Catharsis #821—In the Mood, 2022. Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 License. See the article in this issue by Dario Lanza “Designing a Long-Structure NFT Generative Art Project.”

“Talk openly about everything that comes to mind while using the substance,” Hausner advised. “The purpose of sitting is not to ‘extract’ experiences that you would not discuss in a completely awake state.”

A long read from upcoming book about the history of LSD in communist Czechoslovakia by Ross Rockford.

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/an-untold-story-of-lsd-psychotherapy-in-communist-czechoslovakia/

#lsd #czechoslovakia #substance #therapy #rossrockford #mitpress

Milan Hausner counsels a patient in his office at the Sadská clinic in 1974. A color photo of the same scene in a popular magazine contributed to the end of LSD psychotherapy in Czechoslovakia.

Two journals from the European Sociological Association (#ESA) are leaving #TayloAndFrancis to become #DiamondOA at #MITPress (@themitpress).
https://mitpress.mit.edu/european-sociological-association-journals-european-societies-and-european-journal-of-cultural-and-political-sociology-move-to-diamond-open-access-at-the-mit-press/

The two journals "are the inaugural beneficiaries of the shift+OPEN program, an initiative by the MIT Press aimed at facilitating the transition of traditional journals to diamond open access."

#OpenAccess #SocietyJournals #SSH

An accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses.

#mitpress #3dprinting #3d #printing #book #bookstagram #bookbook #bookface #booktok #bookstodon #bookthreads #littlefreelibraries #littlefreelibrariesofinstagram #bookdrop

🚨 Free book alert!

Reason and Less: Pursuing Food, Sex, and Politics via #MITpress: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12811.001.0001

Dr. Goel follows arguments and evidence from multiple fields in cognitive science to some challenging conclusions about common beliefs. An #openAccess gem!

#neuroscience #psychology #cogSci #epistemology #decisionScience #xPhi #politics #religion #diet

We're proud to announce the arrival of 𝘓𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘰 journal Volume 56, Number 4.

In this issue: A Performance with Human-Plant Interaction / Istanbul’s 𝘜𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥 / Human-Nonhuman Communication / Art-Medicine Collaboration / and More!

Read 𝘓𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘰 journal Vol. 56, No. 4: https://direct.mit.edu/leon/issue/56/4

𝘓𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘰 is the leading international peer-reviewed journal at the nexus of art, science, and technology.

#ArtTech #SciArt #ArtSci #journal #MITpress

#MITPress

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