Furnace and Fugue by Tara Nummedal, Professor of History, and Donna Bilak, Independent Scholar Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary brings to life in digital form an enigmatic seventeenth-century text, Michael Maier’s alchemical emblem book Atalanta fugiens. This intriguing and complex text reinterprets Ovid’s legend of … Furnace and Fugue
Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World by Massimo Riva, Professor of Italian Studies Shadow Plays explores popular forms of entertainment used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to transport viewers to a new world, foreshadowing present-day virtual, augmented, and extended reality experiences (VR, AR, and XR). Typically studied as part of the pre-history … Shadow Plays
A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures by Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Professor of History This groundbreaking, born-digital work invites readers to imagine Islam anew. Moving beyond conventional theological, nativist, and orientalist approaches, A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures decenters Islam from a geographical identification with the Middle … A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures
Grounds for Reclamation: Fascism and Postfascism in the Marshes by Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies Grounds for Reclamation: Fascism and Postfascism in the Marshes focuses on the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes south of Rome during two phases of its existence: first, under the fascist regime; second, in the content of recent … Grounds for Reclamation
On Seeing is a new publication series devoted to visual literacy. Publications foreground the political agency, critical insight, and social impact inscribed in representation. Centering underrepresented perspectives and understudied questions, these books articulate complex ideas about how we see, comprehend, and participate in the visual world. The MIT Press will publish each On Seeing volume … On Seeing Series
