Lancaster University’s Lucy Suchman’s concern is with the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security, their deadly and injurious effects, and the legal, ethical, and moral questions that haunt their operations.
Professor William Uricchio on how co-creation is picking up steam as a claim, aspiration, and buzz-word du jour. But what is and why does it matter?
Vivek Bald reads from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability, racialization, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status.
Anushka Shah asks, our trust in politics and public institutions is falling globally — can entertainment and pop culture be a way out?
“It was only through working concretely with the Calla campaign that I truly learned of the challenges of communicating between researchers and artists.”
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MIT writer’s new work, “Three Flames,” explores the fractures and bonds among kin in a rebuilding society.
Three Flames portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and a cruel and dictatorial father, set in a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values.
Helen Elaine Lee reads from the manuscript of her novel, Pomegranate, about a recovering addict who is getting out of prison and trying to stay clean, regain custody of her children, and choose life.
Congratulations to this year’s students published in Angles, a collection of the best pieces from introductory writing courses at MIT.
Nick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations.
“Sometimes not having a lot of knowledge about an area can be a good very useful thing,” Christopher Weaver says. “It forces you to look at it with untutored or naive eyes.”
Weaver, founder of Bethesda Softworks, discusses how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation, childhood education, and medicine.
