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Matthew I. Thompson @quickpickles.bsky.social on EcoCast Podcast on the environmental fantasy of containment and control
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Friends! Would you or somebody you know want to review our @uminnpress.bsky.social edited collection Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination for @asapartsnow.bsky.social? If so, please head on the journal's site (asapjournal.com/submit/) and pitch your review!
Also, please repost! Thank you!
A b&w engraving of a baby bird perched on a leafy branch.
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.
The Fledgling Dove, engraved 1951, by #JoanHassall, OBE (British, 1906-1988) who was born #otd, Mar 3.
Hassall is 1 of 4 artists featured in Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain, by Kristen Bluemel, www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477... ( @uminnpress.bsky.social, 2026)
This kind of sums up working with first time scholarly authors.
I did this interview with the wonderful Eleanor Drage about my book The Inattention Economy: How women of color built the internet, out from U Minn press next month.
On Life Support--cover with cutaway image of a section of a ringed space station, showing buildings, greenery, and people. Title type in star-filled letters above--next to The Inattention Economy--cover with 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.
So many great books (w/fantastic covers) coming out this spring. I'm thrilled to see Matthew I Thompson's @quickpickles.bsky.social On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s & Lisa Nakamura's @lnakamura.bsky.social The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet!
Kristin Bluemel's book "Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain" focuses on artists Gwen Raverat, Agnes Miller Parker, Clare Leighton, and Joan Hassall.
And it is available in paperback!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477...
A great podcast episode in which Erica Rand talks about her "beautifully written" Forerunner, Skating Away from the Binary, with Mary Louise Adams and Travers
share.transistor.fm/s/5ce9d8f8
A true publishing event... The collected writings of the esteemed Katherine McKittrick, out now from the @uminnpress.bsky.social.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791706...
"our curiosity about whales and dolphins has compelled us to fetch them out of the ocean. The irony is that, once we have gotten a good look, we recognize their right to be free in an environment they are no longer equipped for." --Matthew I. Thompson theconversation.com/what-can-wha...
β'Film doesnβt really care about national borders,' Kurosawa writes. 'It plays an important role by enabling people to understand each other, actually.' The sentiment holds true for books, too."
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Image collage from six book covers including Enchanted Wood, Drawn to Nature, Place-Keepers, Long Take, Digital Animalities, and A Perfectionist Impulse. Lots of foliage, Akira Kurosawa profile crop, a pink seahorse, close crop of illusration in front of Taco Taxi. White text on black strip at bottom: Collection: College Art.
Hello, College Art in Chicago! Visit our booth or browse the sale online: www.upress.umn.edu/caa/ #CAA114 #CAA
I'm so excited to see your book one step closer to its readers!
Book cover for Long Take by Akira Kurosawa, translated by Anne McKnight. Grayscale photo of Akira Kurosawa wearing a suit, tie, and sunglasses, looking downward; his name appears prominently in a black column on the right.
Nice LONG TAKE review in @ShelfAwareness: "an indispensable companion to the director's autobiography and a singular look at his perspectives on film."
www.shelf-awareness.com/sar3-issue.h...
Book cover for βLong Take by Akira Kurosawa, translated by Anne McKnight. Grayscale photo of Akira Kurosawa wearing a suit, tie, and sunglasses, looking downward; his name appears prominently in a black column on the right.
Book cover for Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film by Ivan Cerecina.Β Helmeted Nazi soldiers on upper half. Doubled red image of Coca Cola sign and Finnish flags on lower half. Title in white and gold left center.
Book cover for Black Light: Revealing the Hidden History of Photography and Cinema by Christophe Wall-Romana. Black background with burnt film cell at center Title in white above, subtitle and author in gray at bottom.
Book cover for Lulu In Hollywood: Expanded Edition by Louise Brooks. Black background, typography in vintage cinematic font in white, in particular 'Lulu' covering top half. Profile image of the subject in green dress.
Beautiful film studies releases:
-Long Take, memoir of director Akira Kurosawa, translated @annekmck.bsky.social
-Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film / Ivan Cerecina
-Black Light: Revealing the Hidden History of Photography and Cinema / Christophe Wall-Romana
-Louise Brooks autobiography
βBook cover for Skating Away from the Binary by Erica Rand. Orange with yellow and white sans-serif font and Forerunners series detail element at lower right corner.
Shouting out a very timely, short, and readable little book, Erica Rand's Skating Away from the Binaryβa call to transform gender norms in sport. Available in print; free to read online: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792055...
Margret Grebowicz hypothesizes, "Loving dogs has become an expression not of loneliness but of how unhappy many Americans are with society and other people."
theconversation.com/americans-ar...
Our Books for Understanding ICE in Minnesota collection featured on @fox9mn.bsky.social over the weekend: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0biW...
Oh hey. A book I wrote and translated came out today! If you're inclined to buy, please consider buying from your local indie bookseller, from Bookshop.org, or the publisher, U of Minnesota Press, so they can continue their good work, in MPLS and at large...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790329...
And while I'm here: I love this snappy little book by Golumbia from 2016. You can read it in like 2 hours!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151790180...
2000 agents are still here. Woke up this morning to horns and whistles down my street -- panic jumped out of bed ready to run outside, but the cars were being pursued. ICE is still kidnapping people, still getting stymied at every turn, still brutalizing observers because they know they're losing.
"The resistance in our city comes out of how our children have come of age within a diversity that so many fear and we here celebrate." David Mura in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy :
lithub.com/letter-from-...
Out today! Very excited to see Anne McKnight's translation of Long Take, an intimate, provocative, & revealing portrait of Kurosawa from his own writings, conversations w/writer Inoue Hisashi & director Yamada YΕji, & essays by daughter & colleague Kurosawa Kazuko www.upress.umn.edu/978151790329...
Erica Rand's Forerunner, Skating Away from the Binary, is out today! Through exquisite writing, Rand offers a vision of sport as a space where all people can experience joy and freedom in their bodies and identities. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792055...
An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities.
standwithminnesota.com/read
The journal @lithub.com.web.brid.gy has been running Letters from Minnesotans this week, essays by some of our most respected writers. Today's from Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong woman and a brilliant and honored writer, might break you. But all of them are powerful. lithub.com/letter-from-...
π π§ The perilous edge between patriotism and fascism: On the work of Maria Janion, with Marta Figlerowicz and @noahfeldman.bsky.social
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"In an age increasingly defined by technological acceleration and ethical diminishment, GΓΌnther Andersβ work stands as a grim but indispensable companion" marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2246...
