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Auditing AI
ISBN: 9780262051729
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 21, 2026
How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong.
Artificial Religion
On AI, Myth, and Power
ISBN: 9780262052214
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 7, 2026
How AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations—and why we think we need it in the first place.
The Great Energy Transition
America from 1876 to 1929
ISBN: 9780262052122
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 31, 2026
How new forms of energy transformed every aspect of American life in a span of 50 years, from 1876 to 1929—and how it seeded our current polarization.
The Unseen Internet
Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse
ISBN: 9780262553889
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 10, 2026
How the intersection of magical thinking and technological innovation helped to form digital culture, both past and present.
American Bridge
Reinventing Building, Making History
ISBN: 9780262552110
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2026
Why a world-transforming invention remained an untold story—until now.
Archiving Machines
From Punch Cards to Platforms
ISBN: 9780262553247
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 11, 2025
The story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage.
Electronic Baroque
Building a Historical Organ for the Present
ISBN: 9780262553636
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 26, 2025
A fascinating, real-time ethnography of the building of a unique musical instrument with both mechanical and electronic components.
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.
Auditing AI
ISBN: 9780262051729
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 21, 2026
How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong.
Artificial Religion
On AI, Myth, and Power
ISBN: 9780262052214
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 7, 2026
How AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations—and why we think we need it in the first place.
The Great Energy Transition
America from 1876 to 1929
ISBN: 9780262052122
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 31, 2026
How new forms of energy transformed every aspect of American life in a span of 50 years, from 1876 to 1929—and how it seeded our current polarization.
The Unseen Internet
Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse
ISBN: 9780262553889
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 10, 2026
How the intersection of magical thinking and technological innovation helped to form digital culture, both past and present.
American Bridge
Reinventing Building, Making History
ISBN: 9780262552110
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2026
Why a world-transforming invention remained an untold story—until now.
Archiving Machines
From Punch Cards to Platforms
ISBN: 9780262553247
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 11, 2025
The story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage.
Electronic Baroque
Building a Historical Organ for the Present
ISBN: 9780262553636
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 26, 2025
A fascinating, real-time ethnography of the building of a unique musical instrument with both mechanical and electronic components.
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.