WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
File under: Books that feel written for me and my weird interests, specifically. Immediate pre-order.
Y’all shouldn’t be in here; none of y’all who are here, anywhere, should be in here. I don’t want you to be in here and I don’t want to be in here with you, but I am so happy and so proud to be here because I am happy and proud to be with you,
It's official! Out this November.
I've loved working with @uminnpress.bsky.social and @lpennywark.bsky.social a second time.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792214...
Rich review essay (in German) on my A Theory of Assembly, Legacy Russell's Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us, and Valentina Tanni's Memesthetics: The Eternal September of Art
from an issue on memes: zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/archiv/...
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Miriam Posner
because I need to be with you, because I want to learn from you and learn with you. I have been studying how we can be together. I have been studying how we are together. — in Fred Moten Commencement Speech, Stateville Correctional Facility, 2022 [quoted in www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Moten: "I have been studying how we can be together. I have been studying how we are together."
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."
