October 13 is going to be fabulous! 7 works of #SFinTranslation all coming out at once: translated from the Italian, French, Spanish, and Bulgarian www.sfintranslation.com?page_id=15892
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the world is on fire, and everything is awful, BUT my book is finally an actual, tangible thing in the world and not just a bunch of random computer files! holding my book about perfection and its preservation in my imperfect garden. huge thanks to everyone at @uminnpress.bsky.social
Happy pub day to my book, Disorienting Phenomenology: Queer Space and Trans Life with @uminnpress.bsky.social! Track down a copy here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792174...
Disorienting Phenomenology
Rethinking space from the ground up through trans theory, philosophy, and radical possibilityDisorienting Phenomenology takes as its point of departure the t...
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The summer issue of @culturalcritique.bsky.social -- on Marxism, Form & Futurity -- is live on @projectmuse.bsky.social!! muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283 @uminnpress.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social 📚‼️
"How should a nation, a landscape, or a life be and feel? . . . The emotionally precise, and suitably meta, ending concerns what it means to be purged—to move on, to be moved, to keep moving— while preserving an identity and a tradition." Thank you, @necessaryfiction.com !
Necessary Fiction@necessaryfiction.com · 3d agoOut of the Darkness: Classic Short Fiction from Sweden, eds Vendela Vida, David Katznelson, and Ulf Olsson (@uminnpress.bsky.social). Reviewed by Martha French. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/out-...
Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2
🆕🎧: New on the Press pod: Dominic Smith and Esther Leslie reimagine Walter Benjamin through the forgotten power of radio: share.transistor.fm/s/ad1d0e21
There's the 3,000-year-old Odyssey, and then there's legendary canoeist Bob O'Hara's 50-year-long odyssey through arctic canoeing from the Boundary Waters to the far north—out today! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791581...
Thanks to the 3,579 of you who entered the Goodreads Giveaway for “A More Dangerous Game: How A Young Sportswriter Met Patty Hearst and Landed in Federal Prison.” Ten of you got lucky. All you others, please consider a pre-order. www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920... @uminnpress.bsky.social
Drawing on cases from Fluxus works and toys such as the Easy-Bake Oven to video games including Tetris and SimCity, this talk explores how playfulness became a governing code in postwar US culture. With @pdmcdonald.bsky.social on @uminnpress.bsky.social
George Brecht to Game Boy: A history of play and playfulness
In his study of how a new and messy set of codes about playfulness took shape in the postwar US, Peter D. McDonald illuminates how playfulness became essential for understanding cultural, technical,…
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Engaging a variety of case studies, Foutch explores the 19th century’s desire to forestall the march of time and immortalize the fleeting moment through art and technology. Browse our virtual #BAVS2026 exhibition here: buff.ly/TnA2pdr #VictorianStudies @bavs-uk.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
I join my colleagues at the @uminnpress.bsky.social mourning the passing of longtime press author Tom Conley. Across many press publications he explored the intersections of spatial thinking, film, & literature, including his pathbreaking work CARTOGRAPHIC CINEMA (www.upress.umn.edu/978081664357...)
Cartographic Cinema
Cartography and cinema are what might be called locational machinery. Maps and movies tell their viewers where they are situated, what they are doing, and, t...
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Exciting to have this in hand! #philsci
University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social · 2w agoNew books! Out today! -Perspectives on the Human Genome Project and Genomics, Christopher R. Donohue and Alan C. Love, eds. -Digital Animalities: Mediating Life in an Age of Planetary Domestication, Judy Berland and Thomas Lamarre, eds. -Now in PB: Minnesota's Geologist by Sue Leaf
➡️ One more day to enter our galley giveaway for Jay Weiner's A MORE DANGEROUS GAME: How a Young Sportswriter Met Patty Hearst and Landed in Federal Prison. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Excited that The AAG Review of Books by @geographers.bsky.social just published our book forum Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/283E6.... Reviewers Priscilla Ferreira, @nik-heynen.bsky.social, Eric Sarmiento, and Luke Bergmann.
Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation
Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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We’ve all heard and had so many conversations about and with LLMs lately... Leif Weatherby (@leifw.bsky.social) does some deep work on and thinking about these models in his new book 'Language Machines' (from @uminnpress.bsky.social). 💙📚 #booksky #ai #llms wellredbear.com/leif-weather...
Loving this CBC Books list: 10 essential reads to understand the impact of AI. So wonderful to see THE PRISON HOUSE OF THE CIRCUIT here in excellent company! www.cbc.ca/books/10-ess...
10 essential reads to understand the impact of AI | CBC Books
As conversations around AI use continue to grow, it can be challenging to stay informed about the impact AI is having on society and our role as consumers. CBC Books has compiled a list of books from ...
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🕶️ Nice pre-order promo! Includes Barbey d'Aurevilly's The Bewitched (first English translation in 100 years) and Jas Obrecht's Early Blues (coming soon in PB)
MNG - University Presses@mngupbooks.bsky.social · 2w agoEnds Friday! An abundance of University Press books featured in the @waterstones.bsky.social 25% pre-order promotion this week. Enter code SUMMER26 at checkout, online only, valid until 24 July 2026. 🔗 buff.ly/FOow52q @unipresssalesbot.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social #ReadUP
New books! Out today! -Perspectives on the Human Genome Project and Genomics, Christopher R. Donohue and Alan C. Love, eds. -Digital Animalities: Mediating Life in an Age of Planetary Domestication, Judy Berland and Thomas Lamarre, eds. -Now in PB: Minnesota's Geologist by Sue Leaf
Oh hey, you can read all about why red recording lights are so creepy in my book The Computer’s Voice: From Star Trek to Siri. 🔴
Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2w agowe're so cooked www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
"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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I recently got to talk to the brilliant art historians and media scholars @tiffanyfunk.bsky.social and Chaz Evans on the @uminnpress.bsky.social podcast! We chatted about experimental games, Fluxus, media art, and the connections to #gamestudies. Check it out! share.transistor.fm/s/47ecd5a6
George Brecht to Game Boy: A history of play and playfulness | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 143
In his study of how a new and messy set of codes about playfulness took shape in the postwar US, Peter D. McDonald illuminates how playfulness became essential for understanding cultural, technical, a...
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“This is not an upbeat or easy read, but it is one that opens conversations about deep feelings, especially among very young audiences. It does nothing to ‘fix’ anyone else's loss, other than than to suggest that none of us are alone…” @uminnpress.bsky.social
Where Is My Sister? A Gentle Reflection on Sibling Loss
Few books address a child's experience of death, although some are so well done they merit call backs HERE (elders) , HERE (pets) , and ...
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Two new journal issues: -Buildings & Landscapes 33.1. -Wicazo Sa Review 41.1-2: Indigeneity & Disability Guest Editor: Sandra Yellowhorse Free Article by Melanie McKay Cody: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic... Journals available on @projectmuse.bsky.social
With immense gratitude to the courageous people of Minnesota for standing up to fascism; and, of course, to all the wonderful contributors to this important anthology. (More specifically grateful to my brilliant co-editor Su Hwang and to the folks @uminnpress.bsky.social)
Check out Choice's Reviews of the Month for July 2026 Spotlighting four book reviews for their relevance or pure reading pleasure! ow.ly/29ri50ZnVqi Texas Tech University Press @uminnpress.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @mitpress.bsky.social
Ali Fard, Grounding the Cloud: Urbanism in the Shadow of Data - @uminnpress.bsky.social, June 2026 www.upress.umn.edu/978151791961... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Miranda Melcher newbooksnetwork.com/grounding-th...
Grounding the Cloud
A detailed foray into the material and spatial realities of cloud computingSince the 1990s, technologists have promoted a vision of the “cloud” as a shap...
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LUAC offers 27 concise, critical, & generative essays on machine, learning, and the more-than-human. My contribution provides an epistemological & technical intervention of LLM reinforcement learning, engaging thinkers in cybernetics and radical black feminist thought. Happy to share a pdf!
University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social · 3w agoToday's beautiful new releases! -Sea Salt Eatery cookbook—launch tomorrow, Moon Palace Books, 7pm! -Cary Wolfe's Jagged Ontologies—latest in the Posthumanities series -Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions, eds. Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román, P. Taylor Webb
🆕🎧▶️ Today on the Pod: From George Brecht to Game Boy, from the Easy-Bake Oven to Tetris, a history of play and playfulness—with @pdmcdonald.bsky.social, Tiffany Funk, and Chaz Evans. share.transistor.fm/s/47ecd5a6
George Brecht to Game Boy: A history of play and playfulness | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 143
In his study of how a new and messy set of codes about playfulness took shape in the postwar US, Peter D. McDonald illuminates how playfulness became essential for understanding cultural, technical, a...
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