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Jeffrey Insko

@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social

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Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 1d

this is a banger of an essay and you should all read it

Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 1d

I joke that it took me twenty years to figure out how to get this off my chest about Herman Melville, starting from my first encounter as an undergrad in 2005. But it kind of did. So thrilled that this essay has a home at J19: Project MUSE - Melville's Idea of a Wife muse.jhu.edu/article/970112

Project MUSE - Melville's Idea of a Wife

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 2d

well ffs

Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 3d

I blog there (for/sponsored by a nonprofit env org); it's a simple and convenient platform for writing but I don't much think of it as an interactive social media site and I don't do much of that kind of thing there but maybe should idk. (withholding shameless link...)

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 6d

except if institutional strategy and good pedagogy are misaligned, the institution is already lost (plus I'm far from convinced its good institutional strategy).

Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 6d

Have spent the past couple of days writing about the two centuries-long movement to make the upper peninsula a separate state. I'm almost persuaded.

Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 7d

Sincere question: is there a single college or university anywhere that is approaching AI from a position of resistance?

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 10d

I hear you but I swear it’s the best chapter! So funny! m.youtube.com/watch?v=SOwk...

The Ultimate Semester at Sea (Moby-Dick, Part 1)

YouTube video by The Norton Library

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 10d

you got this!!

Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 11d

It’s the worst genre

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 14d

This is traight from Douglass: “At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.”

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 15d

Btw, about that @michigansierra.bsky.social award some kind friends mentioned over the weekend: this is really the important thing you need to know. thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/the-other-...

The Other End of Line 5

Why aren't Detroit's most polluted neighborhoods part of the pipeline debate?

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 17d

thank you! and lol

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 18d

JUST found out @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, WHO I AM CURRENTLY PLANNING AN ENERGY STUDIES SYMPOSIUM WITH, has been given Burton V Barnes Award for Academic Excellence by Sierra Club

Jeff did not tell me. Or post about it. Because Jeff is a Hoosier GenXer

Jeff probably asked the Sierras to reconsider

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 17d

aw shucks man

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 18d

@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social just this afternoon took home an award the @sierraclub.org named for another Michigan environmentalist, Burton V. Barnes. If you haven’t read Insko’ relentless work on pipelines and especially @enbridge.bsky.social here’s your daily quota:
open.substack.com/pub/thecurre...

Against the Environment

But what if 'the environment' is actually the problem?

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 19d

Can’t wait to read this book!

Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 19d

Hey, remember that Harper‘s letter? Lol

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 23d

my colleague Tim Donahue on "agree to disagree civility" earlier this year: www.publicbooks.org/civility-and...

Civility and/or Social Change? - Public Books

“Agreeing to disagree” requires tolerating the intolerable

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 24d

fabulous

Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 26d

Oakland U's got it going on.

Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · Sep 8

a little snippet from a certain book-in-progress...

Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · Sep 8

Jfc

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · Sep 8

you guys, people still get tenured with articles from their diss and no book requirement. It’s not (only) a relic from the cushy past. You often have to teach a 4:4 or more and do a metric shitload of service. Ask me how I know.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · Sep 4

strong agree!

Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · Sep 3

I can think of just one thing that will make that tooth better... (also, that's an affordable price!)