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 […]
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.”
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.
Diamond Open Access is a scholar-led publishing model in which content is made freely accessible to readers, under an open licence, at no cost to authors. In recent years this model has gained increased visibility and popularity as it is seen as an alternative to commercial publishing. This guide has been written for all journal editors (in the Netherlands and beyond) who find themselves uncomfortable with the hold of commercial publishers over their journals and would like to transition their journal to a Diamond Open Access publication model. It provides an overview of which steps to take while considering the flip to Diamond Open Access, which routes are possible (subscribe to open, university presses, publishing platforms and do-it-yourself publishing) and which are the costs and possibility of funding the journal under the new model.
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
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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