Announcing my book, Techno-Negative! It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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! @uminnpress.bsky.social

Just released!!! New book on queer bullying from @uminnpress.bsky.social. Edited by QuERI directors Payne and Smith with contributions from an amazing group of international scholars.

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

Mark Griffiths shows how the infamous Checkpoint 300 embodies larger geographies of Israeli control — reshaping a once-vibrant commercial strip in the West Bank. nextcity.org/features/che...

Via @publisherswkly.bsky.social: "Creature feature buffs will be thrilled." 🦋 www.publishersweekly.com/9781517920012

Grateful to Jay Cephas for a brief but incisive review of our book at Places. "Solidarity cites" collectively written by @stephenhealy72.bsky.social, @msafri.bsky.social, @craigborowiak.bsky.social, and myself. Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social. placesjournal.org/article/book...

So while the government is 'shut down', it seems a good time for a reminder that governance can be done in much better ways. New podcast discussion on my book out today with the New Books Network. newbooksnetwork.com/replace-the-... @uminnpress.bsky.social #geosky #booksky

"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... @uminnpress.bsky.social #BookSky 💙 📚

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...

🎧 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. share.transistor.fm/s/57e6a465

Just received in the mail! Our new volume on queer kids and bullying is out now! Thank you to all the outstanding contributors! @uminnpress.bsky.social

Oh hey! The author copies of Leaf Town Forever, the picture book that I wrote with @bethrooney.bsky.social arrived in the mail this weekend from @uminnpress.bsky.social! @martinseay.bsky.social thinks it’s pretty good.

Thanks to Nick Clare and Joe Kearsey for a generous review and appreciation of mapping that we used as an ontological practice for landscapes of solidarity economy in Solidarity Cities: Confronting racial capitalism, mapping transformation. academic.oup.com/cdj/advance-...

I'm a professor who writes about Blackness and speculative fiction, also 🌈 My first book is SPECULATIVE BLACKNESS, from @uminnpress.bsky.social The book I edited is THE BLACK FANTASTIC, from @libraryofamerica.bsky.social and next year, get AUDIOFUTURISM, from @fordhampress.bsky.social!

Behind Checkpoint 300: A short Q&A with author @casesofyou.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaZ...

I’m bookmarking @touloumi.bsky.social's book, Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior. It paints a complex picture of who designed the headquarters and why: for photography and television. Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social.

🎧 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

Out today: Drawing on nearly a decade of fieldwork, a sensitive, timely examination of how colonial power infiltrates family dynamics, enforces gendered mobility restrictions, shapes local economies. Checkpoint 300 by @casesofyou.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791984...

The cover for my upcoming book, The Impossible Reversal, is up on UP Minnesota's website! Super thrilled by this design. (you can pre-order it there as well). www.upress.umn.edu/978151791622...

Coming soon. The Citizen and the Vagabond. A Politics of Mobility.

Feels more urgent than ever to support cities as bulwarks against the storm. Very excited to have this new podcast drop with me and coauthors about our #SolidarityCities book! Thank you. @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social

In my first book, Food Allergy Advocacy, I discussed the national campaign to change every state's laws, one at a time, to allow teachers and other community members to administer epinephrine auto-injectors to kids when needed. So now I have some thoughts about these multi-state collaboratives:

A new issue of the International Journal of Surrealism is out via @projectmuse.bsky.social -Special issue: Surrealism and the Black World -Guest Editors: Tiffany E. Barber and Carine Harmand -Journal Editors: Katharine Conley and Alyce Mahon -OA article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

See you on Saturday for this FREE event! ✌🏽 First five families get a free signed book. @uminnpress.bsky.social

CBC Radio has produced a wonderful documentary about the philosopher Günther Anders and the notion of Promethean Shame, with the excellent Christopher John Müller, and I was able to contribute a little bit too. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

This is super exciting. Anders's _Obsolescence of the Human_ is out in an English translation. (Finally.) I've only gotten to know it through secondary lit, looking forward to diving in. #philtech

I got to write about how @bethrooney.bsky.social & I wrote LEAF TOWN FOREVER, out next month from @uminnpress.bsky.social, in a sneak peek for @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/17/a...

So pleased to share the cover for my new picture book, beautifully illustrated by Huy Voun Lee, and published @uminnpress.bsky.social Where Is My Sister? is the story of a young girl asking family members where her sister has gone after her mother has a stillbirth. Pre-order deets soon.

Check out a sneak peek of @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social and @bethrooney.bsky.social's picture book "Leaf Town Forever" (and illustrated by Betsy Bowen) from @uminnpress.bsky.social this October! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/17/a...

🎧 New episode on our podcast on Star Trek (beginning with Enterprise) and the franchise era, with Adam Kotsko and David Seitz. share.transistor.fm/s/1a04a2fd

"Leaf Town's residents suggest that the aggressors join them, a gesture of kindness in an all-too-unkind world." Thanks to Lisa Farver of Patch for this feature on @bethrooney.bsky.social's & my picture book from @uminnpress.bsky.social & 10/21 event at Anderson's in DG! patch.com/illinois/dow...

A lovely shout-out to Talia Mae Bettcher's BEYOND PERSONHOOD by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/b...

"We must, believed Serres, be in constant motion to establish a reciprocal give-and-take between ourselves and others, in the process ceaselessly altering our understanding." Zach Gibson revisits Michel Serres' "Hermes" series. lareviewofbooks.org/article/revisiting-michel-serress-hermes-series/

New releases this week! -The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader, edited and translated by Marta Figlerowicz -Her Place in the Woods: The Life of Helen Hoover, by David Hakensen -Theory of Seeing by Władysław Strzemiński

🎧: New on our podcast: The science and culture of the paranormal, with Derek Lee and Alicia Puglionesi. share.transistor.fm/s/8d8167e3

The world would be a better place if more people knew Anders' work! Günther Anders, The Obsolescence of the Human. Christian Dries (@morbuscriticus.bsky.social) and Christopher John Müller, eds. @uminnpress.bsky.social, 2025. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791265...

"It's galling that the benefits of our roadway system accrue so disproportionately to higher-income, able-bodied, nonminority adult drivers, while the risks and harms fall especially on nondriving children, older people, those with disabilities, and lower-income communities." @uminnpress.bsky.social

"I want people to see past the mistaken assumption that the state is the only place where politics happen." @replacethestate.bsky.social in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social : www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/05/r...

"Günther Anders may be the most prophetic philosopher you've never heard of." Our forthcoming translation featured on the Ideas podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

MAINSTREAMING PALESTINE encourages readers to critically assess the relationship between the politics of liberation and the all-consuming engine of contemporary capitalism 30% #MeCCSA2025 conference discount can be found here: buff.ly/onnhJSS @meccsa.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social

(35/61) “you think I do nothing / all day / I am busy loving / human beings” —Marcie R. Rendon, “Dream Songs” (Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium) @uminnpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

"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...

"'See?' he tells the class, 'there are tons of things I haven’t considered.' This is thought, at its most alive—and you are right there in the room with him." www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/01/t...

"Along with the rise of Mussolini’s fascist regime, the interwar years in 🇮🇹 also saw the widespread dvlpmt of its modernist interior design + furnishing... While the regime’s politics were [overt] in monumental 🏛️, Furnishing Fascism examines the subtler... role of household goods + decor...."

New books out today! -Drama of Democracy: Political Representation in Mumbai / Lisa Björkman -Vaivén: 21st-Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora -Three Economies of Transcendence / Andrea Righi

Thanks to Mary Ann Grossman of the Pioneer Press for including LEAF TOWN FOREVER--co-written with @bethrooney.bsky.social & illustrated by Betsy Bowen--from @uminnpress.bsky.social on her reading list for a thrilling Fall! www.twincities.com/2025/08/31/r...

NEWS: Guess who got to write a blurb for the forthcoming translated novella of THE LUMINOUS FAIRIES AND MOTHRA? Release is in January! ❤️ @uminnpress.bsky.social

Hustle Urbanism offers critical theorization of precarious urban environments and the affirmative modes of making life work in the city against the odds. 📚 buff.ly/14UNct3 Visit us at #RGS2025 or online: buff.ly/Ae3I8yF @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social

"Groundbreaking." Weatherby's LANGUAGE MACHINES "goes to the heart of the matter: our tendency to confuse linguistic fluency with intelligence. . . . We need to accept that linguistic creativity can be completely distinct from intelligence." London (U.K.) Observer @uminnpress.bsky.social