Diacritics author and board member Grant Farred writes about nostalgia for late industrial capitalism in his most recent publication "The Prettiest Woman," forthcoming with @uminnpress.bsky.social For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...

Another @moderniststudies.bsky.social author has stopped by our display. Michael Rubenstein is pictured below with his @uminnpress.bsky.social book, Pipeline Noir. #msa2025 #modernism

"A major theorist of fascism, nationalism, and collective fantasizing, her thinking has arguably become more urgently relevant than ever." --Marta Figlerowicz on Maria Janion at LitHub

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

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

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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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...

"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 💙 📚

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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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?

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...

“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...

"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-...

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Something very exciting happened while I was on vacation last week!

Remake the world with neurodivergence at its heart! Leon J. Hilton's Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance is out today! www.upress.umn.edu/978151790903...

Congratulations to Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social on winning a HUGO AWARD for his Forerunner, SPECULATIVE WHITENESS!

A fantastic win for @jordanscarroll.bsky.social . My review at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social : nerds of a feather, flock together: Review: Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right share.google/dyDr02kyw0gg...

#Hugo for Best Related Work: Speculative Whiteneess: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordon S. Carroll (University of Minnesota Press) I hope this work helps resist Fascism adn that the universe of tomorrow belongs to all of us. #SciFiChat #WorldCon

This book has enduring value and should be a resource for all serious scholars of science fiction and of fandom history.

Also if you are course prepping, why not check out one or several of the essays, or perhaps the intro, of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination...? See table of contents below!

Our latest Forerunner, Andrea Righi's Three Economies of Transcendence, is here!

Congratulations Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social: Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right received an honorable mention for the SFRA Book Award! sfra.org/awards/2025-...

Listen up! When the system is stacked against you, when mainstream society sidelines you (or worse), where do you look for liberatory possibilities? Eve Dunbar on Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing under Segregation kpfa.org/episode/agai...

Joshua Gooch's @joshuagooch.bsky.social "adroitly underscores that horror criticism needs Marxism, and, vice-versa ... because capitalism is not just an economic system but a social system that is revealed by the wild imagination of horror films" www.supernaturalstudies.com/reviews/book...

It's here! Very excited to hold my copy of Leon J. Hilton's Counter-cartographies in my hands!

Rowan Cahill reviews The Popular Wobbly, a powerful selection of T-Bone Slim's work, by editors Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre, who give us a rich array of guidance, from an introduction to Slim's life & times to specific motifs in Slim's writing & where to find them rowancahill.net/blog/f/retur...

New article by me, "The Failure of Climate Dialogue: Why Global South Voices Must Be Climate Talk Leaders" (Public Humanities), where I engage with Bakhtin, Fanon, @naomiaklein.bsky.social + others to argue COP talks need to be reformed, and offer pointers as to how dialogue should be re-envisioned.

Listen up! Chris Washington theorizes how Jane Austen's writing works to abolish gender exclusivity and establish a politics that ushers in a future built on plurality and possibility. player.fm/series/new-b...

Editor says final chapter deals with school buses as a technology. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791565...

This is so good, and such an important subject!

I've read a fair few of these, but not The Magnificent Ambersons, though I lived in Indiana for several years www.businessinsider.com/most-famous-...

🎧 New on our podcast: How fascist ideas permeate contemporary culture, with Alexander Menrisky, April Anson, and Kyle Boggs. share.transistor.fm/s/add5e9b8 @aprilanson.bsky.social

Listen up! Ela Przybyło on Ungendering Menstruation, a new Foreruuner that engages with disability studies, critical menstruation studies, and trans and queer studies to develop a justice framework for menstruation. player.fm/series/new-b...

Delighted to receive my advance copy of THE BAD CHILD: A MARIA JANION READER -- edited/translated by Marta Figlerowicz!!! Coming out in Sept. from @uminnpress.bsky.social in the @culturalcritique.bsky.social book series! 📚📚📚 www.upress.umn.edu/978151791968...

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My favorite is @lizwfab.bsky.social ‘s book “The Computer’s Voice: From Star Trek to Siri” www.upress.umn.edu/978145296413...