@itgodp.bsky.social has a series worthy of a listen. Here we discuss how writers can pursue equity in their writing, how to deal with the toxicity of reading alt-right works, and examples of anti-fascist writing. 🎧Listen now itgodp.libsyn.com or wherever you like to pod. #WriterSky #SciFiSky #SFF
Coming soon: A launch for Dr. Brittany Lewis's BUILDING A NEW TABLE: May 5th, 6pm, Loft Literary Center, Mpls. Please register: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
Dan Hassler-Forest’s Fast and Furious Franchising charts the transformation of Hollywood through the story of one of its most successful cinematic universes.
🔗 buff.ly/FLMCGy9
📍Utrecht University
🗓️ 22 April 17:00 - 18:00
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@danhf.bsky.social
🆕🎧: New podcast episode on cybercultural revolution in the 1960s—crucial to understanding the AI-driven present—with Brian Bartell and John Elrick: share.transistor.fm/s/37c9223c
Book cover for On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s by Matthew I. Thompson. Cutaway image of a section of a ringed space station, showing buildings, greenery, and people. Title type in star-filled letters above.
Book cover for Robie House: A Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece by Patrick F. Cannon and James Caulfield. Interior of Prairie-style residence with dark woodwork, gray carpet, and windows with geometric patterns. Title at top and authors at bottom.
Book cover for Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire by Sharon N. Tran. At bottom, an Asian Girl in profile, partially obscured by faint American flag. Title and author in narrow font at top. All else is white.
Three new books out today!
-On Life Support by Matthew I Thompson: Soylent Green & other '70s eco-dystopian cinema
-Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire by Sharon N. Tran: How the "Asian girl" is central to US imperialism
-Robie House: A lavish guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece
Author Olga Goriunova's lecture is on the first day of Miu Miu Literary Club during Milan Design Week! Goriunova is author of Ideal Subjects: The Abstract People of AI.
londontribune.co.uk/miu-miu-lite...
Urgent and passionate, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin asks readers to reexamine conceptions of breakage, maintenance, and repair, viewing them as tools of abolition and justice.
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📍Newnham College, Cambridge
🗓️ 17th April 2026
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There's a book launch event tonight at 7pm at the Mill City Museum for "Making Mill City" www.mnhs.org/events/47738...
Collage with six book-cover crops from leading educational research titles; images include a purple monolith, illustrated instructor, street signs, school door handles. At bottom, black bar with white overlaid all-caps text: Collection: Education Research.
Get 30% off new and noteworthy releases during the American Research Education Association meeting #AERA2026. Use code MNAERA26 through June 1st: www.upress.umn.edu/aera26/
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
Amazing upcoming 4/22 event in Chicago featuring Deborah Jiang-Stein, co-sponsored by @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social and the Abolition and Carceralities Working Group: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...
"The history of struggle against technology is also the history of struggle over what makes the human different from the machine." @chaykak.bsky.social on @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social 's TECHNO-NEGATIVE in @newyorker.com : www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Urgent and passionate, Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin asks readers to reexamine conceptions of breakage, maintenance, and repair, viewing them as tools of abolition and justice.
🔗 buff.ly/GTLnCfi
📍Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
🗓️ 13th April 2026
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Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
My contribution to the discussion about social media platforms is that everyone on the left should read this book
www.upress.umn.edu/978081669864...
Book cover for Making Mill City: Flour and Fortune in Minneapolis by Robert M. Frame III. Vintage photo of steam train crossing arched stone bridge in front of row of brick mill buildings. Title in bold letters above and below.
Book cover for Fast and Furious Franchising: How the Serialized Blockbuster Remade Hollywood by Dan Hassler-Forest. Lime green cover with black type and front view of muscle car. Series title vertical in black bar at spine.
Spectacular #PubDay!
-Making Mill City: How flour forever changed the culture and architecture of Minneapolis by Robert M. Frame III.
-Fast and Furious Franchising by Dan Hassler-Forest: Hollywood's transformation as seen through one of its most successful cinematic universes.
@danhf.bsky.social
Photo of Matthew I. Thompson's book On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s (2026). Location: arrayed against a small waterfall on hike in Pembroke, Virginia. It's resting against a rock.
Poster for Soylent Green. Bottom of the poster above the title shows the cat. Image is of a riot control truck scooping up people. The urban dystopia stretches in the distances with massive crowds and other trucks.
Interview with Matthew I. Thompson, author of On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s (2026): sciencefictionruminations.com/2026/04/02/e...
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Today in the ARB: @alisonfincher.bsky.social reviews “The Luminous Fairies and Mothra” by Takehiko Fukunaga, Yoshie Hotta & Shin’ichiro Nakamura @uminnpress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-luminous...
A book cover with the title printed sideways up the left side, subtitle presented (in five rows) across the page next to it, with the author's name in all caps just below. The featured image is a colored engraving of wildflowers and berries on the vine, with a bird alighting on the top.
Miller Parker is 1 of the artists featured - alongside Gwen Raverat, Clare Leighton & Joan Hassall - in Kristin Bluemel's new book "Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain," from
@uminnpress.bsky.social, www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477...
The book is available in pbk!
A black and white wood engraved illustation of a hare, ears upright and seated on its haunches with its front paws raised, in a snowy landscape. The artist presents the hare in the foreground from a three-quarter view. Behind it, dwindling into the hilly distance, are its tracks in the snow. In the far distance the viewer glimpses the tops of trees, and a mountain.
In celebration of the anniv of the artist's birth, there is a new guest post today on the #ArtHerstory blog!
Agnes Miller Parker: Engraving Green Worlds in Black and White
by Kristin Bluemel, @monmouthuniversity.bsky.social
artherstory.net/agnes-miller...
#womenartists @uminnpress.bsky.social
In @artforum.com's April issue, a review of Władysław Strzemiński's THEORY OF SEEING: www.artforum.com/columns/wlad...
@eflux.bsky.social
In his later years, Hertzel remembered, her father confided, "'There were just so many of you. There wasn't enough love to go around.' I thought that was heartbreaking. It's wrong. There's always enough love."
“Whereas now, with the smartphone and social media, it’s the younger generations going: ‘Yeah, no thanks. I don’t want this in the present — nor in the future.’” UMP author Thomas Dekeyser in the @nytimes.com Magazine:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Book cover for Ghosts of Fourth Street: My Family, a Death, and the Hills of Duluth by Laurie Hertzel. Two-story house with porch and railing filtered in quadrants of red and blue. A bicycle stands in front and a transparent book floats at the roofline.
Book cover for Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (20th Anniversary Edition) by Katherine McKittrick. Archways and window openings of ruined stone structure. Title above and author below. Red medallion for 20th anniversary edition.
Book cover for Heartbreak and Other Geographies: Collected Writings of Katherine McKittrick, edited by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne. Below, a tower audio speaker stands upright in an empty warehouse space, lit in saturated purple. Title in bold purple above, on a white panel.
Book cover for Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown, and White by Rhea Rahman. Cream background with intricate mosaic patter in two corners. Its pieces come loose and circulate the type in the otherwise empty center.
Four wonderful titles out today!
-the "achingly generous" Ghosts of Fourth Street by @lhertzel.bsky.social
-Katherine McKittrick x2: the 20th anniv. ed. of DEMONIC GROUNDS & the collection Heartbreak and Other Geographies (co-ed: @camillahawth.bsky.social )
-Racializing the Ummah by Rhea Rahman
From @uminnpress.bsky.social's series Mass Markets: Storyworlds Across Media edited by @gerrycanavan.bsky.social and yours truly. Send us your pitches.
"Opening an unsigned hatch, the group stares at their target: an immense nestling of fiber-optic cables linked to power cables." An excerpt from TECHNO-NEGATIVE: A LONG HISTORY OF REFUSING THE MACHINE, by Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social pghrev.com/burning-down...
Book cover collages including books by Lisa Namakura, Peter McDonald, Thomas Dekeyser, Christophe Wall-Romana, Dan Hassler-Forest. At bottom, black line with white all-caps sans-serif font overlay: Collection: Film and Media Studies.
Get 30% off new releases and top film and media studies books during #SCMS26. Use code MNSCMS26 through May 1st: www.upress.umn.edu/scms/
Laurie Hertzel's GHOSTS OF FOURTH STREET is about the stories we tell to stay alive. Here's an excerpt in @startribune.com : www.startribune.com/former-books...
Me a month ago: I need to read up on historical reactions to emerging computer technologies.
@uminnpress.bsky.social: We gotchu, bestie.
(Published today: Techno-Negative by Thomas Dekeyser)
Laurie Hertzel on telling a story when your family wants privacy. Brilliant. brevity.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/p...
Book cover for The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet by Lisa Nakamura. Title in white on black background, upper left. Subtitle and author in oval fields among colored circles and eyes that take up most of lower right.
Book cover for Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine by Thomas Dekeyser. Title in orange at center with a collage of black-and-white thumbnail images above and below showing different perspectives of things on fire.
Book cover for Bridging Benjamin: A Philosophy of Technology, Place, and Education by Dominic Smith. On blue background two columns of white rectangles in shifting perspective becoming almost straight lines at top. Title in white above.
Book cover for Olfactory Worldmaking by Hsuan L. Hsu. Dark green with yellow and white sans-serif font and Forerunners series detail element at lower right corner.
Banger week for new releases!
-The Inattention Economy / @lnakamura.bsky.social
-Techno-Negative / @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social
-Bridging Benjamin / Dominic Smith
-Olfactory Worldmaking / Hsuan L. Hsu
