iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 11h

It’s always the Boy Moms.

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have you heard? Douglass Day in 2027 is going to launch "Transcribe the Early Black Press" Join us this Weds for a little preview of this vast new global history -> douglassday.substack.com/p/a-press-of... Help us spread the word for #DouglassDay!

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“A Press of Our Own”: A Short History of the Early Black Press

Community Gathering this Wednesday!

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not Old English. (Ye) Olde English. Famously a language. More famously, the language spoken in early modern (ahem) England.

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Adam Shprintzen @veghistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One thing about posts like this that is super important is that they highlight the actual lived experiences of Jewish-Americans. It stands in such stark contrast to the right wing philosemitism that goes through the lens of an abstraction of Jewishness that exisits to serve evangelical needs.

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Scott B Ritner @podsekalnikov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today! At 4pm, I'll be talking about my forthcoming book at the place I did my PhD, @nssrnews.bsky.social The book is coming out on Nov 24 with @stanfordpress.bsky.social, link is in my bio!

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Friends! Hsuan Hsu and I are organizing a VIRTUAL ACLA seminar (May 2027), "Sensory Aesthetics: Beyond the Five Sense Paradigm." Submissions are open -- we'd love to be in conversation with you!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Couldn't move on with my morning until I got this just right. One true sentence, as Hemingway says.

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🎂 SAVE THE DATE for Feb 11, 2027! 🎂 Douglass Day will feature Transcribe the Early Black Press! 💻 New Crowdsourcing Project 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! Host an event or join us online! Help us spread the word? Register now: DougalssDay.org

Postcard graphic with large text saying "Save the Date for Douglass Day" Below that, text reads "Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Black Press" and the date "2.11.2027" followed by the web address DouglassDay.org.

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Despite never having spoken to Charles Dickens about the matter, I can promise you that Scrooge’s characterization is not meant to be subtle. If Dickens wants to make a point, he is going to bang it into the fucking ground, and A Christmas Carol is one such example of this. There’s no gray area!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

weird how you never hear about police department layoffs

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026

My mom just told me she saw this performance and I’ve never been so jealous

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Dr. Liz Powell (they/them) @drlizpowell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Y'all, this article is so good because it makes it clear that the crappy tools are a result of the way no one takes gynecological pain seriously.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“In 2024, Google DeepMind unveiled a ‘Habermas Machine,’ which has been described as a ‘scaffolded pair of LLMs designed to find consensus among people who disagree.’ The philosopher had not given Google permission to use his name, and he was horrified when he heard about the scheme.”

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Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age

The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere.

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy to say this article is now published as part of an overall fantastic special issue on Writing in the 21st Century. Just look at those contributors! (Plus me.) If you don’t have institutional access, would like a copy, and we are mutuals, please DM me an email address. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57010

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Project MUSE - Social Research: An International Quarterly-Volume 93, Number 2, Summer 2026

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 01/06/2026

My book has a cover! I told the press I had a thing for the design of computer books from the 1970s and I was so excited they took that seriously. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I stepped off the library dean path when it became clear that this would be the job--managing the end of academic libraries as we know them. Please know that these changes are just a result of defunding. They do not herald some bright digital future. There will just be less access to knowledge.

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Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Books are wonderful things, and this is a wonderful essay about them.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Hey, Rebecca, do you know where I can get a copy of little known up-and-comer Friedrich Hölderlin's complete correspondence in English? SO GLAD YOU ASKED. Now out in paperback from @sunypress.bsky.social. 750 pages of translated epistolary awesomeness. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

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The Complete Correspondence of Friedrich Hölderlin

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Okay I am gonna try this Bluesky thing again, mostly so I can celebrate the terrific books that @ericafretwell.bsky.social and I have the privilege of stewarding into the world for OUP’s American Literary History Series. Watch this space 👀

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This talk, from @ericafretwell.bsky.social, looks characteristically 💯: exploring the contribution of tactile print "to Progressive Era pedagogical reform, especially the philosophies and practices of experiential learning advocated by John Dewey and Maria Montessori."

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Presenters and Abstracts

Sari Altschuler (Northeastern University) and David Weimer (Newberry Library) “Touch This Page: What We Learned from Creating a Pop-Up Tactile Exhibition” In early 2019, we launched Touch Thi…

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/04/2026

This is a horror.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books

Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I had two college dreams as a HS senior: either Mills College to study experimental music (final choice!), or Hampshire for my self-designed historical puppetry major. It is such a disappointment that current weird kids will have neither option available to them.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/04/2026

A huge loss, a bad sign. Plus the elimination of Hampshire College means an end to one of the best things about Hampshire: getting to take classes there on UMass tuition. (I did, all the sweeter for having been accepted to but not being able to afford Hampshire.) RIP “the Five Colleges.”

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J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It was a great pleasure to get to think with @ericafretwell.bsky.social Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke UP, 2024) & Hsuan L. Hsu’s The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities & Olfactory Aesthetics (NYUP, 2020) for the new issue of American Literature.

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Tween came home talking about a "gayship," and I thought he was talking about the Pequod but turns out he was referring to a gay relationship on an anime show.

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

need to adopt a kitten so I can name it "Project Mews"

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

the most german story possible: a nietzschean dentist-philosopher and his burro-loving mistress; misanthropy dressed up as libertarian settler life; a hausfrau who gives birth in a cave; a fractious polycule headed by a baroness; poisonous chicken www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tHu...

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The Galápagos Affair: Satan Comes to Eden | Official Documentary | FSC

YouTube video by The Film Sales Company

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A thread of some of Edward Gorey's decorated envelopes in the collection of the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social. Art—Nature, 1948

A letter-sized envelope decorated with a black ink drawing of two seated men, facing each other. On the left, the man is perched on a cushioned, tasseled chair and footrest atop a spindly stem, labeled "Art." On the right, a man perched in the branch point of a spindly tree branch, labeled "Nature." Addressed to "Miss Sylvia Simons 3240 Lake Shore Dr Chicago 13 ILL" across the bottom. A red 5¢ airmail stamp with a plane in the upper right corner and the franking mark is from Boston, MA, dated May 8, 1948, and also includes a statement to "BUY U.S. SAVINGS BONDS ASK YOUR POSTMASTER."

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The deep deep yearning I have for course packs and mix tapes (same thing, different format)

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

“Paula Rabinowitz … argues the format’s genius was its physical intimacy and portability … ‘I consider [the mass market paperback] one of the significant technological interventions, of the 20th century.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

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‘We’re losing accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback

The so-called ‘pocket book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US, the latest sign of an ongoing shift in how people are choosing to read

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

"We are always haunted by the myth of our potential." Damn, Adam Phillips, don't hold back!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

me: (living in a bog) Emily Dickinson: How public - like a Frog -

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

had the honor of hosting archivist Dorothy Berry for Douglass Day celebrations. Her book THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT is a beautiful meditation on the fitful relation between Black people and archival institutions. Please buy two copies -- one for yourself and one for a friend! www.weherepress.org

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We Here Press

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A child of 1982, my phone is overfull with Jens, Sarahs/Saras, Jamies/Jaimes, and Lindseys/Lindsays.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I guess I have to say this too: staff worked ourselves ill to do our best for students and we didn't make the decisions that led to their dissatisfaction *but we know that we'll bear the fallout from it.* We are already losing jobs, departments, campuses, fields of expertise to government decisions.

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

In the off-chance you're in the upstate region... check out some of the fantastic events my colleague Wendy Roberts & I organized for Douglass Day! Free and open to the public!

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

(1/3) It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of Teresa de Lauretis (1938–2026), an internationally renowned feminist and film theorist whose work reshaped the fields of cinema studies, feminist theory, and queer thought.

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leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The analog classroom is ironically the most innovative environment you can create in 2026. Cut out the noise and you create a superior learning situation. But it is a battle to maintain, especially when admin pushes “no cost” or “low cost” online books like they do at my comprehensive public uni

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Parents to kids, 1980s: Don't open the door because kidnappers & murderers may be pretending to be cops 2020s: Don't open the door because the kidnappers & murderers are cops

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

the people who need to hear it won't hear it but i will say it anyway: this has been fascism, and it is fascism.

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

well in other news, happy biannual 'google how to activate your course' day/week/month to those who celebrate

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Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

gonna start a 20th c food studies journal called Modernism/McDernity

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Emily Doucet, Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts - @dukepress.bsky.social, April 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/inventing-na...

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Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts

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