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Leah Pennywark

@lpennywark.bsky.social

Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Kathryn J. Gindlesparger... [shows] how everyday documents such as meeting minutes, policy drafts, budgets, and accreditation reports can be used to push back against authoritarian and corporate forces that undermine an institution’s mission." (Echoes of Ben Kafka's The Demon of Paperwork 😈)

Paper Pusher

Paperwork is the new protest: leveraging bureaucracy for progressive actionIn contemporary higher education, power increasingly circulates through documents ...

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Leah Pennywark@lpennywark.bsky.social · 3w ago

Between folks' writing playlists and @uminnpress.bsky.social's summertime 90s-music-inspired reading list (www.upress.umn.edu/90s-playlist...), I think I'm going to need to come up with some reading playlists

90s Playlist! Summer Reading Guide 2026 - University of Minnesota Press

Summer, summer, summertime! Literary jams to help you sit back and unwind. Waterfalls And the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to (or the ones you’re not used to),... READ MORE

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Dr. Penelope K Hardy@pkhardy.bsky.social · last mo.

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out @moirafitzgibbons.bsky.social (Marist University)’s review of Colin Williamson (@uoregon.bsky.social)’s book _Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science_, pub 2025 @uminnpress.bsky.social #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

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H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · last mo.

New book review: Fitzgibbons on Williamson, Colin: _Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science_. University of Minnesota Press, 2025. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20155841

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social · 4w ago

🆕 ▶️ Brand-new episode on the pod! Featuring Hsuan L. Hsu and @drallylouks.bsky.social talking scent, worldmaking, art, smell-o-vision, jelly beans, Proust's madeleine, a dash of Heated Rivalry, truly a must-listen! share.transistor.fm/s/2f81e613

Scent and scentsibility: How smell shapes present and possible worlds. | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 142

How does smell attune us to possibility? Hsuan L. Hsu studies smell’s capacity to shape our worlds, our futures, and our modes of being and relating—noting that olfactory worldmaking is going on aroun...

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Lisa Nakamura@lnakamura.bsky.social · last mo.

What a great, fun conversation this was! It’s not often the case that you get to do a podcast with IRL friends who are also experts in your field. There’s some pretty mind blowing insights esp from @cassiusa.bsky.social highly recommend!

University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social · last mo.

🆕🎧▶️ Fantastic new conversation on the pod featuring Lisa Nakamura, André Brock, Jr., Wendy Sung, and Cassius Adair talking material labor and the digital economy: share.transistor.fm/s/2200797c @lnakamura.bsky.social @cassiusa.bsky.social

Leah Pennywark@lpennywark.bsky.social · last mo.

Thrilled about this project!

Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉@slavagreenberg.bsky.social · last mo.

Folks, I just signed a contract for OUT OF YOUR MIND: CINEMA, PSYCHEDELICS, & PAIN with U of Minnesota P’s Forerunners series 🥹 It’s happening. This one’s for the trans, crips, neurodivergents, spoonies, Mad, in pre/postop/chronic pain, stoners, painkiller seekers, binge-re-watchers, loopers. 💙📚

FORERUNNERS Agreement This Agreement made this sixteenth day of June, 2026 by and between Slava Greenberg (hereinafter "the Proprietor," "You," or "you," whether one or more individuals) and the Regents of the University of Minnesota (hereinafter the "University") regarding (tentatively titled) Out of Your Mind: Cinema, Psychedelics, and Pain (hereinafter the "Work"). As the Proprietor desires the University to publish the Work through its university press, the following terms and conditions are agreed upon:
Civics of Technology@civicsoftech.bsky.social · last mo.

We've got a book club this week! We're reading Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine by Thomas Dekeyser. Join us on Wednesday, June 24th at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Register: sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...

Techno-Negative

A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimis...

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University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🆕🎧 New podcast episode: KJ Cerankowski talks with Hil Malatino and Ianna Hawkins Owen about absence, asexuality, and expansiveness. share.transistor.fm/s/dfafdc4f

Absence and asexuality. | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 139

We’ve seen the page that states “this page intentionally left blank” or heard an authority figure declare “nothing to see here, folks”—and yet the so-called blank page has writing on it, and folks def...

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Alan Liu@alanyliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Announcing the release of the online, open-access edition of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ (in Debates in DH series): dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/cri.... Editors: Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, James Smihties @jamessmithies.bsky.social). Print ed. appeared January 2026

Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities

This volume reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies as it explores how DH builds on and extends the field’s theories and technologies. Inc...

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Alan Liu@alanyliu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

Screenshot of page 52 University of Minnesota Press Spring 2026 catalog, showing the book cover, description, and contributor names of the new book in the Debates in DH series (ed. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies) titled _Critical Infrastructrure Studies and Digital Humanities_. The text of the description reads as follows: How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our world. _Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities_ reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection....
𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫@robertmoor.com · 2mo ago

File under: Books that feel written for me and my weird interests, specifically. Immediate pre-order.

Kyle Parry@kyleparry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Preorder-able, $10 @uminnpress.bsky.social A book influenced by Ursula Le Guin's dark insights, eg "...I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country."

catalog entry for ways of seeing after dark; the book cover is followed by descriptive copy that reads: Rethinking darkness through the politics and possibilities of vision Darkness is widely misunderstood, argues Kyle Parry. We take darkness as the enemy of sight, yet we can’t see without it. We call the worst parts of our lives dark, yet we wouldn’t be here without wombs, skulls, oceans, the moon, and other shadowed places. Ways of Seeing After Dark contends that darkness is not absence but presence, shaping how worlds are sensed, inhabited, and understood. Darkness brings peril, but it is also a fundamental, if increasingly threatened, condition of living together on this planet. Tracing links between John Berger’s influential Ways of Seeing and his more poetic later writings, Parry recasts contemporary conditions defined by light pollution, digital mediation, and racialized regimes of seeing. In dialogue with artists, critics, and astronomers, Ways of Seeing After Dark examines how fear of darkness is built rather than universal and how such training intersects with broader social structures, including racism and capitalism. Showing how “felt darkness displaces physical darkness” and “brighter nights bring darker days,” Parry reveals the dark as a multifaceted phenomenon with political and perceptual significance, calling for new ways of seeing with the night.
Perry Areolar@perryodontal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

my wife's book on a real and fascinating gender-nonconforming person in the gilded age is up for preorder! with high praise from the great @hughryan.bsky.social and Emily Skidmore. Lots of other good offerings by university of mn press as well. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791584...

Romantic Sensation

Exploring gender and sexuality in the Gilded Age through one sensationalized lifeAddie Liona Walker. Leon A. Belmont. Nova McClure Carr. Romantic Sensation t...

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