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Watching Chinatown fifty years after its release reveals hidden connections to today’s energy and climate crises Pipeline Noir offers a fascinating inte...

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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Aug 7

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · 4d

Got some pictures from my local coffee shop book talk from one of the attendees. I enjoyed reading from "Abolition Time" and talking with folks about art & social justice. And it was really well attended for a small town in the northern New Mexico mountains!

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Jess stands at a microphone at the back of a coffee shop reading from their book "Abolition Time" as people seated at tables listen.

Jess is seen standing and gesturing in mid-sentence at a book talk on a small coffee shop. They are wearing a pink dress, black boots, and a keffiyeh.

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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · 3d

Out today: Michael Rubenstein's Pipeline Noir! Chinatown through the lens of petromodernity
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791926...

Pipeline Noir

Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · 4d

Officially out tomorrow, but I'm so excited to be holding a copy today! Our newest Forerunner: Pipeline Noir: Seeing Oil through Chinatown by Michael Rubenstein

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Nonbinary Jane Austen | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 119

Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · 7d

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 10d

🎧 New on our podcast: Chris Washington, Christopher Breu, Marquis Bey, and Alison Sperling on reading Jane Austen as an early gender abolitionist and establishing a politics of plurality and possibility.
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Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently from how she is classically understood; rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, Washington argues that Austen leverages the generi...

Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance, a Book Talk with Leon Hilton

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 9d

October has dawned—and so has our spooky sale. Ghosts and monsters, Mothra and Godzilla, horror theory and horror film, the supernatural and the speculative: 30% off our collection with code MN93980.
www.upress.umn.edu/ghosts-and-m...

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 9d

"especially illuminating on early 20th-century American labour politics, and ..the clear parallels with the political climate today."
Michael Jongen reviews Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre (eds) The Popular Wobbly:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/owen-clayton...
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Image of cover of book The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre, reviewed by Michael Jongen in the Newtown Review of Books.

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 8d

Book talk with Leon Hilton at NYU Tisch on 10/16, cosponsored by @center4ds.bsky.social : tisch.nyu.edu/performance-...

We are excited to welcome back PS Alum Leon Hilton (Ph.D. '16) to discuss his new book, Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance.

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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · 10d

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Nonbinary Jane Austen | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 119

Chris Washington reads Jane Austen differently from how she is classically understood; rather than the doyen of the cisheteronormative marriage plot, Washington argues that Austen leverages the generi...

Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 14d

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · 15d

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 17d

🎧 New on our podcast: A deep philosophical dive into the fundamental dimensions of subjectivity, society, and time through the lens of transcendence, with Andrea Righi and Michael Lewis. share.transistor.fm/s/aab495f2

Three economies of transcendence | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 118

“Lack of political will and corruption of the ruling class are certainly enormous obstacles but do not (fully) explain the widespread inaction against our current multidimensional crisis (ecological c...

Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation

Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · 24d

Our fantastic Editorial Director, Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social, is one of the speakers at this week's AUPresses webinar!

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 24d

Inviting the AUPresses community to attend the "AUPresses Hangout - Peer Review and Indigenous Collaborators," Thurs 9/18 at 4p ET, sponsored by our Acquisitions Editorial Committee during #PeerReviewWeek.

Register today: https://bit.ly/4p8Ff4O

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25d

Many traditional forms of U.S. democracy, including the debate, have been emptied of their deliberative character & transformed into reactionary performances, as @thegurglingcod.bsky.social so powerfully shows.

Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible Jonathan Beecher Field tracks the permutations of the town hall me...

"We Cannot Water Down Our Proposals Anymore": UMN Teamsters Go on Strike - Workday Magazine

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Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social · Sep 9

I got my undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota and have worked for the University for 24 years. I fully support my coworkers striking for a fairer contract.

Workday Magazine @workdaymagazine.bsky.social · Sep 9

“We Cannot Water Down Our Proposals Anymore”: UMN Teamsters Go on Strike

On Monday night, Teamsters Local 320 announced rolling strikes against the University of Minnesota. The first one starts at 10:00 p.m. on the Crookston and Morris campuses. Then the strikes will conti...

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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · Sep 9

Marta Figlerowicz's The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader is out today! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791968...

The Bad Child

Collected writings from a visionary thinker about the perilous edge between patriotism and fascism How do nationalism and patriotism shape our understand...

Sneak Peek at The Bad Child w/ Marta Figlerowicz

Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · Sep 5

Relatedly, I love Igor Omulecki's iconoclastic and playful portrait of Janion on the cover!

Author on bench with false foot on her hand; gnome figure on other side of bench. Red, high-heel shoes and another false foot litter grass before them. Forest and dark sky above.

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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · Sep 4

Check out Marta Figlerowicz on her book, The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader, which is out next week!

University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · Sep 3

"A subtle thinker who is clear-eyed about the dangers of the political developments of the kind that we're dealing with now in the world. Also somebody who refuses to give in to total pessimism." A sneak peek at Maria Janion's The Bad Child (out 9/9): www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuPb...

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Leon J. Hilton, "Counter-Cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · Sep 3

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<p>What if we embraced neurodivergent ways of being not as deviations to be corrected but as vital ways of inhabiting the world? What new realities might emerge? Bringing a much-needed humanistic pers...

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Three Economies of Transcendence

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · Sep 3

I started reading the list of Bucknell English dept faculty. I don't think I know any irl or on here but every single bio lists a current book project or a/many published book/s--expected, presumably, for tenure. Will Bucknell--upon closing Bucknell UP--stop expecting their own fac to publish books?

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · Aug 29

Side note: I look forward to Chicago and any other schools suspending PhD admissions and hiring also suspending publication requirements for current faculty in those fields since such reqs presuppose the existence of an adequate pool of peer reviewers

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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · Sep 2

Andrea Righi's Forerunner is out today! Three Economies of Transcendence explores climate change through the interconnections between sociality, theory of money, and a different concept of time
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791838...

Exploring climate change through the interconnections between sociality, theory of money, and a different concept of timeThree Economies of Transcendence ...

Published by the University of Minnesota Press Horror generates a strange cultural fascination with the impure, the toxic, and the monstro...

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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Capitalism Hates You is cultural criticism and political analysis at their sharpest. The book left me with a deeper appreciation of horror as a tool for recognizing—and resisting—the oppressive structures that shape our lives."
jedi-book-reviews.blogspot.com/2025/08/capi...

Capitalism Hates You

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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · Aug 28

"The volume is an especially timely read, a poignant reminder that injustice, class divisions, and ethnic strife are longstanding and enduring issues among America's workforce." jedi-book-reviews.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

Published by the University of Minnesota Press A sharp, witty, and critical voice in the labor movement of the 1920s to 1940s, T-Bone Slim—...

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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · Aug 27

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · Aug 19

🎧 So excited to launch our latest podcast episode, Capitalism Hates You, on horror film and Marxist theory, with the incredible @joshuagooch.bsky.social and Johanna Isaacson. Available on Spotify, Apple, the usual places, or right here: share.transistor.fm/s/535654e1

Capitalism Hates You: Horror film and Marxist theory. | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 114

From Get Out to The Babadook to Saint Maud: In his new book, Josh Gooch uses the horror film genre to expose the hostile conditions of life under capitalism, drawing connections between Marxist theory...