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 @uminnpress.bsky.social @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

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. 🔗 buff.ly/RuJOo8u 📍Newnham College, Cambridge 🗓️ 17th April 2026 @uminnpress.bsky.social

There's a book launch event tonight at 7pm at the Mill City Museum for "Making Mill City" www.mnhs.org/events/47738...

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 @uminnpress.bsky.social

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...

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

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...

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!

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/...

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...

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...

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

"What is the effect of leveling the diversity of techno-negative feelings (frustration, anger, disgust, fear, sadness, boredom, indifference) into the singularity of ‘phobia’?" @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social TECHNO-NEGATIVE excerpt in @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/technophobe-...

"A brilliant and brave book that brings to the fore the brute refusal that haunts the history of technology.” @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social 's TECHNO-NEGATIVE out today! & included in this amazing @literaryhub.bsky.social roundup: lithub.com/louise-erdic...

Resistance against machines is shaped by class and the violence of the archive itself. Our book of the week traces arcs from Luddite loom-burners to French arsonists, viewing techno-negativity as both revolt and refusal. By @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social on @uminnpress.bsky.social buff.ly/MLjXabq

It’s here!! Today I received my pile of author’s copies of FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING from @uminnpress.bsky.social. My warmest compliments to their entire team, which has been a joy to work with. So proud of this thing!! 🤗

ICYMI: on April 22, my university is hosting a public launch event for my new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: HOW THE SERIALIZED BLOCKBUSTER REMADE HOLLYWOOD, published by @uminnpress.bsky.social. See link for free registration and further details: www.uu.nl/en/events/bo...

We love the @appliedanthro.bsky.social group and are enjoying Albuquerque! Exhibits close at 5 tomorrow so be sure to by our tables to buy books from 12 publishers such as @iupress.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social &more. #sfaa26 #anthropology

Out this week! -Late Theory, an engagement with Fredric Jameson, by Phillip E. Wegner -The Citizen and the Vagabond by @timcresswell.bsky.social -Deadly Refusals by Serra M. Hakyemez -Weather and the Whale: artworks and creative texts, companion to an exhibit at UCSC

Kristin Bluemel is the author of the new book "Enchanted Wood: Engraving a Place for Women Artists in Rural Britain," published by @uminnpress.bsky.social, www.upress.umn.edu/978151791477... She discusses the contributions of artists Gwen Raverat, Agnes Miller Parker, Clare Leighton & Joan Hassall.

*NEW EPISODE* Is exclusion inherent in school choice programs? We welcome back Dr. Ujju Aggarwal (The New School) to discuss her book "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education". (1/2) #EduSky #Education #PublicEducation #EdEquity ethicalschools.org/2026/03/scho...

Oh lá lá! Just received this review copy in the mail from the fine folks at @uminnpress.bsky.social.

🎧 New on the pod: Abolitionist thinking, practical realities, and radical change with Anna Terwiel and Kirstine Taylor. share.transistor.fm/s/0b209d97 @amc-etc.bsky.social

What does it mean to feel outclassed by your own creations? @acidhorizon.bsky.social gets into AI, nuclear weapons, and the philosophy of Günther Anders with translator Christopher John Müller: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9EA...

Neue Podcasts zu Günther Anders und »The Obsolescence of the Human« 👇 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... und www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9EA...

Our local academic publishing house has a treat for everyone: "The story that hatched Mothra—available in English for the first time, translated by Jeffrey Angles, who wrote an afterword about the novella’s cultural context, the unusual story of its composition, and the development of the 1961 film"

Women writers, artists, scientists, critical thinkers who have made history, created community, made cultural and literary contributions—who go above and beyond. Books 30% off through March when you order using promo code MN95230. www.upress.umn.edu/womens-histo... #WomensHistoryMonth

If you want a taste of my new memoir GHOSTS OF FOURTH STREET (pubbing March 31 from @uminnpress.bsky.social ) here's an excerpt in today's @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/family-ghost... Enjoy!

"I have a big family and there is no consensus on what I should or should not write." @publisherswkly.bsky.social talks to @lhertzel.bsky.social : www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Three wonderful Foreword INDIES finalists! House on Rondo (Juvenile Fiction) My Seven Mothers (Autobiography & Memoir) Kitchens of Hope (Cooking) www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final... @pipsen72.bsky.social @leesdean.bsky.social

"Chicano Park is now the symbolic heart of San Diego's barrio, a spectacular example of how a community improvises a new relationship to the freeway, taking advantage of its immediate proximity to inspire a #Chicano sense of place," Avila. @uminnpress.bsky.social: www.upress.umn.edu/978081668073...

Kicking off Women's History Month with a conversation about self-trained scientist and off-the-grid nature writer Helen Hoover, who made a place for herself in the world of her time. 🎧: share.transistor.fm/s/3abbd0a7

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)

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!