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My newest book on the social movement organizing we need officially comes out Aug 5 - and having an event in Chicago to mark the launch at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social with @jarrodshanahan.bsky.social (book order link in comments and page bio @uminnpress.bsky.social) #geosky #booksky

All through the Town The role of the humble school bus in transforming education in America Everyone knows the yellow school bus. It’s been invisible and also omnipresent for a...

Editor says final chapter deals with school buses as a technology.

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The International Affairs summer reading list 2025 There is nothing quite like spending the summer lost within the pages of a great book — or ten. Every year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana…

☀️ The wait is over: our summer reading list 2025 is here!

Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...

At top, three human headshots. Below, large image of book cover of ​P​rosthetic Immortalities: Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life by Adam R. Rosenthal ( Negative image of handprint in gray-blue. Title in thin white font divided by black ruled lines. Author name similarly divided.). At right, a quote: "What is the specificity of the human now within the contemporary form of modern biotechnologies?" —Adam R. Rosenthal. At wee bottom, text: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast.

At top, three human headshots. Below, large image of book cover of ​P​rosthetic Immortalities: Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life by Adam R. Rosenthal ( Negative image of handprint in gray-blue. Title in thin white font divided by black ruled lines. Author name similarly divided.). At right, a quote: "Why not say that the right thing to do is to insist on finitude?" —Deborah Goldgaber. At wee bottom, text: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast.

At top, three human headshots. Below, large image of book cover of ​P​rosthetic Immortalities: Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life by Adam R. Rosenthal ( Negative image of handprint in gray-blue. Title in thin white font divided by black ruled lines. Author name similarly divided.). At right, a quote: "Extending life is also a question of extending death, to the extent that death is understood as a moment." —David Wills. At wee bottom, text: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast.

🎧 New on the pod: The dream of indefinite life, with Adam R. Rosenthal, David Wills, and Deborah Goldgaber. share.transistor.fm/s/05f90526

Dan's review of Late Star Trek 5/5: Adam Kotsko’s compulsively readable analysis of 21st-century Star Trek is a thrilling book that finds the perfect balance between the deep dive of a lifelong franchise fan and the broader perspec...

My five-star GoodReads review of @adamkotsko.bsky.social’s superb (and often very funny!) new book LATE STAR TREK: THE FINAL FRONTIER IN THE FRANCHISE ERA, from @uminnpress.bsky.social. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

My own book FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISING: HOW THE SERIALIZED BLOCKBUSTER REMADE HOLLYWOOD will be the next title in the new book series Mass Markets: Storyworlds Across Media from @uminnpress.bsky.social. Out next April!

Opinion | Obama Won Record Numbers of Nonwhite Voters. This Is How the Democrats Lost Them. One in five voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024 was a person of color. Why?

“The rightward drift of minority voters is not a story of just one election. It is a phenomenon years in the making," Daniel Martinez HoSang writes. "And to understand this movement, you must understand the transformations in the places they are happening."

Diagrammes is a new series that aims to diagnose our contemporary authoritarian condition through conversations with left scholars, journalists, and activists including Melinda Cooper, Thea Riofrancos, and Quinn Slobodian.

I spoke with them about the past and future of the far right in the US.

BONUS: Climate Book Reviews with author Ashley Shelby on Honeymoons in Temporary Locations Podcast Episode · Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems · S6 Bonus · 46m

"If you like your climate fiction smart, satirical, and maybe a little too close to home, this one’s for you." @ashleyshelby.com interview in @energyvsclimate.bsky.social :
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What a privilege to chat with Dr. Roger Thompson and Ed Whittingham for this episode of @energyvsclimate.bsky.social Climate Book Reviews. If you're not following this podcast, subscribe. I may not be inducement enough, but their last episode featured @katharinehayhoe.com. Just sayin'

Wilderness as Marketing Strategy: Joseph Whitson on the Outdoor Industry, Colonialism, and Land Back Futures The outdoor industry markets wilderness to profit from colonial land, masking settler control, while Indigenous activists resist through digital storytelling.

Today on our site @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social speaks with Joseph Whitson about the outdoor industry, colonialism, and the use of wilderness as a marketing strategy.

Whitson's book, Marketing the Wilderness, came out earlier this year with @uminnpress.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/07/24/w...

This is so good, and such an important subject!

Radical Secrecy Reimagining transparency and secrecy in the era of digital data When total data surveillance delimits agency and revelations of political wrongdoing fail to ...

Clare Birchall addresses this well imo www.upress.umn.edu/978151791043...

The Decorated Tenement Winner of the International Society of Place, Landscape, and Culture Fred B. Kniffen AwardA reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-ce...

Rather than inscribing their fantasies of artisanal craftsmanship on Victorian urban housing builders, people should read The Decorated Tenement

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This was such a great conversation to be a part of, about a too timely topic and a superb book that helps us understand it.

At top, three human headshots. Below, large image of book cover of Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature by Alexander Menrisky (Title at center oriented vertically, reading bottom to top with subtitle and author name flanking. Grainy image of children playing in background.). At right, a quote: "So much of what can be described as fascism is about cultural storytelling." —Alexander Menrisky. At wee bottom, text: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast.

At top, three human headshots. Below, large image of book cover of Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature by Alexander Menrisky (Title at center oriented vertically, reading bottom to top with subtitle and author name flanking. Grainy image of children playing in background.). At right, a quote: "It's like a rhetorical trick where the human is a stand-in for the systems that produce inequality." —Kyle Boggs. At wee bottom, text: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast.

At top, three human headshots. Below, large image of book cover of Everyday Ecofascism: Crisis and Consumption in American Literature by Alexander Menrisky (Title at center oriented vertically, reading bottom to top with subtitle and author name flanking. Grainy image of children playing in background.). At right, a quote: "We are all differently implicated and responsible for these messy systems that we're in." —April Anson. At wee bottom, text: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast.

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

Wicazo Sa Review 38.1&2 cover featuring a large, stylized photo of feathers that fills nearly the entire surface. The cover is washed dark red.

New: Wicazo Sa Review Vol. 38, 1&2
🌌 Special issue: Indigenous Futurisms
🖊️ Guest edited by Joshua Whitehead and Madeline Rose Mendoza
🔗 Read at: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55163
🔗 Article by @kevinlujanlee.bsky.social is free for a limited time via @projectmuse.bsky.social - muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

My favorite is @lizwfab.bsky.social ‘s book “The Computer’s Voice: From Star Trek to Siri”
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Cultures of Energy: 234 - Failed States (feat. Imre Szeman) Dominic reports briefly on how your co-hosts returned home to their own personal Hurricane Harvey. Then (4:20) returns to the podcast to talk about his new book Futures of the Sun: The Struggle Over ...

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast. We talk with old friend Imre Szeman about his new book Futures of the Sun and why energy transition is too often the story of failed states. tinyurl.com/5n6bp8b6 @cymene.bsky.social @imreszeman.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

We interrupt all this dire news to announce that I HAVE A COVER OF MY NEW BOOK. It will pub in March 2026 with the @uminnpress.bsky.social . So happy to work with this great press again. And you will be happy to know that the title is not misleading--there are REAL GHOSTS in this book.

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! 📚📚📚

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Cover of Paranatures in Culinary Culture: An Alimentary Ecology by Thomas R. Parker. Kaleidoscopic drawing of oysters, fruits, nuts, and berries overrun with vines and insects; title in red at center against a dark background.

Cover of The Racial Cage by Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Amade Aouatef M'charek and Anne Pollock. Dark purple background with title in white sans-serif font and authors in lighter purple sans-serif font, with small Forerunners series detail elements throughout and logo in bottom right corner.

This week's new releases:

-Paranatures in Culinary Culture: a gastronomic odyssey through ordinary ingredients (bread, oysters, cheese, wine) and the cultural forces shaping our diets.

-The Racial Cage: Analyzes how race is materialized through both metaphorical and literal cages.

Nico has out-remaindered me in humanism in this generous and thorough review that keeps the attention on semiotics as the proper lens for AI @uminnpress.bsky.social

07/15/2025 Write On! Radio | KFAI | Minneapolis & Saint Paul

i was on Minneapolis's KFAI Write On! Radio to talk about my book Language Machines
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Opinion | How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Have Fun With A.I.

"I think we’re having the wrong debates about A.I. altogether." Author @leifw.bsky.social in @nytopinion.nytimes.com : www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...

A black background with, at top, a photo of a few dozen University of Minnesota Press staff in the office building's glass-walled atrium; in middle, a special 100th Press logo; at bottom, two black and white images side by side: (1 at left) The sales department in 1947. L to R: Evelyn Munro; Renee Groth Smith; Mrs. DeVries; Mrs. Irma Koefod; Mrs. Zita M. Greb; Mrs. Charlotte Jones; Minnie Matsuura. (2, at right) Press book exhibit, late 1930s, a poster with header The University of Minnesota Press Reflects the Life of City State World.

100 Years Appreciation Post.
The University of Minnesota Press was made official at a Board of Regents meeting on July 16, 1925.
We have marked this milestone with an exhibit at the U's Andersen Library and content that can be viewed at z.umn.edu/ump100.
Thank you for following us. 💯

University of Minnesota Press Marks a Century of Success The press, which was founded in July 1925 to publish pamphlets and bulletins, is celebrating its centennial all year as both its scholarly publishing and its trade and regional lists continue to thriv...

Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the birthday wishes! 💯
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The collection Monster Theory: Reading Culture = published 1996. UMP took a chance on this project; readers around globe ensured 3 decades later it remains in print, spur to fresh thinking. To celebrate flourishing of Monster Studies look for Monster Theory 3.0 w 22 new essays
#monsters 🧌👹🧛🏼🧟💀

The Inner Harbour A beguiling, perspective-shifting story of obsession and loss set in the grimy, late-colonial decadence of Macau at the end of the twentieth century   In T...

Also: I'm behind on my Antoine Volodine-coverage, but it's always good to see ARC of another of his "Post-Exotic Novels" — 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑟 ( @uminnpress.bsky.social 10/2025) www.upress.umn.edu/978151791969...

This was publication week for my book, Fortress Power. It's about hostile built environments from the bastion fortress to contemporary cities and borders. It examines how the desire to fortify is thwarted by a turbulent world and the damage that defensive architecture does along the way.