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School Choice: Who Does the Choosing? - Ethical Schools We welcome back Dr. Ujju Aggarwal, assistant professor at The New School, to speak about her book, Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education. In Unsettling Choice, Dr. ...

*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)

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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.
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The Obsolescence of the Human: AI, Nuclear Weapons, and the Philosophy of Günther Anders YouTube video by Acid Horizon

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:
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Günther Anders 'The Obsolescence of the Human' with Christopher John Müller by Hermitix Dr. Chris Muller is Senior Lecturer, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University.Book link: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912659/the-obsolescence-of-the-human/Other book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prometheanism-Technology-Critical-Perspectives-Politics/dp/1783482389“Apocalypse Blindness”, Climate Trauma and the Politics of Future oriented Affect (Anders and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road): https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SXZQBDNCNMRRZFXYZT6P/full?target=10.1080/0969725X.2023.2233808 (50 free downloads)“Utopia Inverted" Intro to Special Journal Issue, Anders Technology and the Social: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0725513619865638Prometheanism: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783482382/Prometheanism-Technology-Digital-Culture-and-Human-Obsolescence (PDF easily downloadable online)Anders & Nuclear Criticism: https://aeon.co/essays/gunther-anders-a-forgotten-prophet-for-the-21st-centuryAnders Podcast Real is not Real Enough: https://www.goethe.de/ins/au/en/kul/lok/gap.html---  Become part of the Hermitix community:  Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix:  Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK  Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

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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.
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Family Ghosts: On What We Do and Do Not Learn About Our Parents My mother married my father because she was fainting in the streets with hunger. She told me this one morning as she was getting dressed when I asked her, again. I wanted a story about a moonlit pr…

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!

All in the Family: PW Talks to Laurie Hertzel The former Minneapolis Star-Tribune books editor’s elegiac memoir chronicles Hertzel’s upbringing in a large family that broke down following the death of her oldest brother when he was 18.

"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 :

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Three wonderful Foreword INDIES finalists!

House on Rondo (Juvenile Fiction)
My Seven Mothers (Autobiography & Memoir)
Kitchens of Hope (Cooking)

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"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.

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Helen Hoover's Place in the Woods | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 131 During the late 1950s through the early 1970s, Helen Hoover’s stories and essays of life in the wilderness on northern Minnesota’s Gunflint Lake, published in popular magazines and several bestselling...

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.

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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)

Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination Igniting political power through the lens of art and the imaginationPostpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination investigates the erosion of meaningful politic...

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!

New releases:
-Michel Serres's Hermes III: Translation
-The Impossible Reversal by @pdmcdonald.bsky.social : a cultural history of play from Fluxus to SimCity
-Border Mediascapes by Francesco Zucconi: on cinema and border zones
-Out of the Blue: translated Icelandic fiction, now in PB

The Blue House I Loved by Kao Kalia Yang, illus Jen Shin is an open-house tour that lovingly shows how memories leave a lasting mark, "inviting us toward the past, to ourselves and each other, again." Here's my ⭐Booklist #bookreview: tinyurl.com/5n97va5x #KidLit @uminnpress.bsky.social 📚👍

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!

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Reaching Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche, the posthuman, and beyond.

New Nietzsche #books from Edgar Landgraf (@uminnpress.bsky.social) and @dharlanwilson.bsky.social (@rdspress.bsky.social)! 💙📚 #booksky
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We have been delighted with a box of treats from our resident recipe-tester🍪

Filled with perfect bake sale recipes, check out The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book for your fundraising needs!

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I’m reading, signing and selling books, and doing a kid’s activity around my children’s PB book tonight at 6 pm, at the Home and Garden Show at the convention center!

Tix are cheap, but use the promo code to get half price: BABYCAKES

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Letter From Minnesota: Waiting For the Barbarians to Get the F*ck Out When I came home from prison in 2022, I moved back to the Powderhorn Park neighborhood where I grew up. I was 21 years old when I left, I was 44 when I returned. It was supposed to be a much differ…

"The unspoken part of divisive rhetoric and propagandized fear is how much work the presence of barbarians—real and imagined—does to solidify the status quo." Zeke Caligiuri in @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/letter-from-...

Book launch Dan Hassler-Forest: Fast and Furious Franchising Dan Hassler-Forest’s Fast and Furious Franchising charts the transformation of Hollywood through the story of one of its most successful cinematic universes.

On April 22, my university will host a book launch event for my new monograph FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISING, with presentations by Bruce Mutsvairo, @aways.bsky.social and @joostvervoort.bsky.social. It's free and open to the public, followed by free drinks! Register here: www.uu.nl/en/events/bo...

🎧 At age 60, Erica Rand took up pairs figure skating, and directly encountered the interconnected binarisms shaping athletic participation. Her story, and a call to transform gender norms in sport, on the Press podcast with Travers and Mary Louise Adams. share.transistor.fm/s/5ce9d8f8

Announcing a new series, Cohabitations, for studies of past, present, and future habitats, featuring editors Namita Vijay Dharia, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Peg Rawes, Ikem Stanley Okoye, and Daniel A. Barber. www.upress.umn.edu/announcing-a...

Hello, College Art in Chicago! Visit our booth or browse the sale online: www.upress.umn.edu/caa/ #CAA114 #CAA

Focus on Global Lit: Nonfiction in Translation | Kirkus Reviews Foreign books get short shrift in the U.S., but there is great nonfiction available if one seeks it out. We recommend six new titles.

“Film doesn’t really care about national borders,” Kurosawa writes. “It plays an important role by enabling people to understand each other, actually.” Beautiful translated nonfiction roundup in Kirkus: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Eine Sprache für unsere Zeit? Zur radikalen Gegenwärtigkeit von Günther Anders YouTube video by Futures of Sustainability, Universität Hamburg

Wer möchte, kann unser Hamburger Gespräch über Günther Anders als Denker der Gegenwart, 70 Jahre »Antiquiertheit« und die erste englische Gesamtübersetzung (@uminnpress.bsky.social) jetzt nachhören und -sehen 👇

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🙏 an @chrhentschel.bsky.social und Martin Kollmann!

Whose Journey? On the Travel Writing of Displacement Travel—and the writing that seeks to capture it—is inherently generative. Travelers use movement through space to explore personal identity and social norms. Then, by organizing those explorations …

"Deep engagement with place, identity, and transformation invites readers to reconsider what counts as travel—and whose voices deserve to be heard." lithub.com/whose-journe...

The @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast devoted a full episode to my new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING, which will be published by @uminnpress.bsky.social very soon now! newbooksnetwork.com/fast-and-fur...

Nice LONG TAKE review in @ShelfAwareness: "an indispensable companion to the director's autobiography and a singular look at his perspectives on film."
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