All articles from MIT Press Reader
The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA
Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death.
Curiosity Is No Solo Act
It gains its real power when embedded in webs of relationship and shared meaning-making.
‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic
A new spin on an old genre replaces flesh-and-blood monsters with the mundanity of modern bureaucracy.