Aldous Huxley's Deep Reflection(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

90 points by torritest 3 years ago | 51 comments

How Typing Transformed Nietzsche's Consciousness(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

61 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 25 comments

Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

444 points by axiomdata316 2 years ago | 155 comments

An MIT Press Reader essay on how Stanisław Lem's novel "The Invincible" anticipated ideas about artificial life and what it teaches about the present.

An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist czechoslovakia(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

109 points by anarbadalov 2 years ago | 59 comments

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt](thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

664 points by the-mitr 5 months ago | 224 comments

MIT Press Reader book excerpt recounting how whistleblower Mark Klein gave the EFF evidence of the NSA's secret AT&T wiretapping facility, Room 641A.

'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

18 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 3 comments