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Just out: Fall & winter catalogue @uminnpress.bsky.social - featuring Chris Müller's brillant first translation of Günther Anders's »masterpiece of critical theory«, The Obsolescence of the Human! 👉 www.upress.umn.edu/fall-winter-...

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@uminnpress.bsky.social is having a sale: if you order at least 3 paperbacks you get them for $10 EACH! If you haven't gotten a copy of my book Abolition Time yet, now's your chance! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791789... Pick it up along w/two other fantastic books & use code MN93820 at checkout!

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$10 paperback sale, #PrideMonth edition: Award-winning nonfiction from Joshua Whitehead, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Hil Malatino, Mairead Sullivan. Unlock $10 paperbacks on our site when you order 3 or more using code MN93820. Expires July 1st. www.upress.umn.edu/special-sale...

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Starboard Vineyard Tours listeners: Ben and I have picked out the books we're getting from this sale! - Histories of the Transgender Child - Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams - Simultaneous Worlds - Fuel - The Dada Cyborg - Speculative Blackness

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Tax people like him down to a level where they can't buy elections. Too much to ask?

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A core competency skill of any university president has to be the ability to send out emails full of words that do not actually say anything.

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I'm very excited to be traveling to OKC tomorrow for my first NAISA meeting since -gasp- 2018. Can't wait to reconnect with scholars in the field. I am also thinking about those who won't be attending due to fears of the fascist state rising in this country.

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Nice going, New York!

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Thinking about all the cool base building in Dune: Awakening, reminds me that I am STILL dying to publish a book or Forerunner on how games like Dune provided an "acceptable" way for adults and especially men to "play house".

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Really excited to see this advance copy of Deleuze’s 1981 seminars ON PAINTING. This is a very different Deleuze — lively, a bit informal, but no less challenging or perceptive. Out from @uminnpress.bsky.social and shipping to bookstores and libraries this week.

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SVT listeners: don't sleep on this! University of Minnesota Press publishes Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, and many other works of SF studies, as well as Histories of the Transgender Child, which has come up before on our show.

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Do it!

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We have an amazing sale going on at the University of Minnesota Press this week... stock on summer reading with $10 paperbacks presswide when you buy 3 or more and use checkout code MN93820! Wondering where to start? Check out this 🧵 for some starter packs to unlock $10 books:

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Started my new dream base in Dune: Awakening only to find out at night there's constant gunfire coming from the slaver camp nearby. Location, location, location.

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There remains a multitude of important questions surrounding the political assassinations of Democratic legislators by a Trump supporting, conservative terrorist. Here's why I think we'll never get answers:

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The Museum of the Moving Image has restored the Muppet Babies puppets – and on Sunday they’re hosting a a panel discussion with the Henson Creature Shop about puppet conservation! (It’s a shame that we live in a 🌎 where big bank branding is necessary for such work — but it’s 🥹✨amidst the 😱🔥)

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🎉Time to stock up on summer reads!🎉 The @uminnpress.bsky.social has a sale through 7/1. Unlock $10 paperbacks PRESS WIDE when you choose at least 3 & apply code MN93820 at checkout. Where does one even start? We've put together a heady list of summer reads here: www.upress.umn.edu/stock-up-on-...

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Two thought-provoking articles on AI disclosures and scholarly publishing.

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I was bummed to be missing Twin Cities (Target-free) Pride this year as I'll be on a work trip in Oklahoma City but just discovered it's their Pride same weekend! 🏳️‍🌈

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What happened to Pizza Luce? I ordered a pizza last night for the first time in several months and something changed. The pizza dough was thin and the pizza was floppy, like neapolitan.

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With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

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If I were a reporter, the question i'd be asking is how much time elapsed between officers arriving at Hortman's residence, encountering the suspect, and when they found her body via drone. During this time, officers surrounded the house, but the suspect was away on foot. Was that 10 mins? 2 hrs?

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Republicans will cry on the radio all day today about what a good friend Melissa Hortman was. Pay attention also to their words BEFORE the targets of their violent rhetoric are assassinated. From the Presidency to Minnesota's own Republicans, the rhetoric has been extreme and violent.

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My heart breaks for Minnesota.

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State Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband murdered in an act of political violence in Minnesota this morning.

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Killed.

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In a few days I've seen a U.S. Senator tackled, my own Governor being subjected to the most ugly lying rhetoric from Repub reps on Capitol Hill, and the Trump admin call for liberating cities from socialist officials. Now this morning I wake up to political assasinations of Dem reps in my state.

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Just out: Fall & winter catalogue @uminnpress.bsky.social - featuring Chris Müller's brillant first translation of Günther Anders's »masterpiece of critical theory«, The Obsolescence of the Human! 👉 www.upress.umn.edu/fall-winter-...

@uminnpress.bsky.social is having a sale: if you order at least 3 paperbacks you get them for $10 EACH! If you haven't gotten a copy of my book Abolition Time yet, now's your chance! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791789... Pick it up along w/two other fantastic books & use code MN93820 at checkout!

$10 paperback sale, #PrideMonth edition: Award-winning nonfiction from Joshua Whitehead, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Hil Malatino, Mairead Sullivan. Unlock $10 paperbacks on our site when you order 3 or more using code MN93820. Expires July 1st. www.upress.umn.edu/special-sale...

Starboard Vineyard Tours listeners: Ben and I have picked out the books we're getting from this sale! - Histories of the Transgender Child - Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams - Simultaneous Worlds - Fuel - The Dada Cyborg - Speculative Blackness

Tax people like him down to a level where they can't buy elections. Too much to ask?

A core competency skill of any university president has to be the ability to send out emails full of words that do not actually say anything.

I'm very excited to be traveling to OKC tomorrow for my first NAISA meeting since -gasp- 2018. Can't wait to reconnect with scholars in the field. I am also thinking about those who won't be attending due to fears of the fascist state rising in this country.

Nice going, New York!

Thinking about all the cool base building in Dune: Awakening, reminds me that I am STILL dying to publish a book or Forerunner on how games like Dune provided an "acceptable" way for adults and especially men to "play house".

Really excited to see this advance copy of Deleuze’s 1981 seminars ON PAINTING. This is a very different Deleuze — lively, a bit informal, but no less challenging or perceptive. Out from @uminnpress.bsky.social and shipping to bookstores and libraries this week.

SVT listeners: don't sleep on this! University of Minnesota Press publishes Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right, and many other works of SF studies, as well as Histories of the Transgender Child, which has come up before on our show.

Do it!

We have an amazing sale going on at the University of Minnesota Press this week... stock on summer reading with $10 paperbacks presswide when you buy 3 or more and use checkout code MN93820! Wondering where to start? Check out this 🧵 for some starter packs to unlock $10 books:

Started my new dream base in Dune: Awakening only to find out at night there's constant gunfire coming from the slaver camp nearby. Location, location, location.

There remains a multitude of important questions surrounding the political assassinations of Democratic legislators by a Trump supporting, conservative terrorist. Here's why I think we'll never get answers:

Two thought-provoking articles on AI disclosures and scholarly publishing.

I was bummed to be missing Twin Cities (Target-free) Pride this year as I'll be on a work trip in Oklahoma City but just discovered it's their Pride same weekend! 🏳️‍🌈

What happened to Pizza Luce? I ordered a pizza last night for the first time in several months and something changed. The pizza dough was thin and the pizza was floppy, like neapolitan.

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

If I were a reporter, the question i'd be asking is how much time elapsed between officers arriving at Hortman's residence, encountering the suspect, and when they found her body via drone. During this time, officers surrounded the house, but the suspect was away on foot. Was that 10 mins? 2 hrs?

Republicans will cry on the radio all day today about what a good friend Melissa Hortman was. Pay attention also to their words BEFORE the targets of their violent rhetoric are assassinated. From the Presidency to Minnesota's own Republicans, the rhetoric has been extreme and violent.

My heart breaks for Minnesota.

State Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband murdered in an act of political violence in Minnesota this morning.

Killed.

In a few days I've seen a U.S. Senator tackled, my own Governor being subjected to the most ugly lying rhetoric from Repub reps on Capitol Hill, and the Trump admin call for liberating cities from socialist officials. Now this morning I wake up to political assasinations of Dem reps in my state.

The news is so bad these days I don't even want to leave it on for the dog when I leave the house.

Peed next to Alec Baldwin at Shakespeare in the Park.

Gave Judy some sliced turkey from Cecil's and this is the face she made..