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.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/23/mit-press-mit-presss-direct-to-open-reaches-annual-funding-goal-for-2025-opens-access-to-80-new-monographs/

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.

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.

The news from global politics isn’t promising, but we can respond by dedicating ourselves to what we believe in. Costanza Chock’s Design Justice offers essential guidelines. Let’s work towards a fairer, more inclusive future. @schockolatl @mitpress
#GlobalPolitics #DesignJustice #CostanzaChock #SocialJustice #Activism #EquityInDesign #JusticeMatters #InclusiveDesign #SocialChange #BuildBetter #CommunityDriven #EquityAndJustice #SystemicChange #Empowerment #design #book #mitpress

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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My latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is now available on Episode 741 of the #StarShipSofa #podcast. I discuss the #RadiumAge imprint of reissued #ScienceFiction classics from 1900-1935 published by #MITPress.

#SFF #Books #Bookstodon #RadiumAge

Here is the link!

https://shows.acast.com/starshipsofa/episodes/starshipsofa-no-741-matthew-kressel