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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Exactly this. And I game, even. Just not that much.

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 12/09/2025

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I’m so glad to see this collection of essays published in honor of Larry. I had intended to contribute, but the timing of its preparation didn’t allow me to finish. I regret not being able to participate, but I’m grateful to celebrate this book and the community it represents.

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Better Stories: Mapping Cultural Studies with Lawrence Grossberg

<p>Better Stories assembles essays and provocations in honor of Lawrence Grossberg’s radically contextual and affectively attuned lifework. In over fifty chapters, contributors trace mattering maps of...

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A little too on the nose, as far as falling empires go

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Sharing my latest in CC/CS, a special forum on sexual politics, authoritarian desire, and the 2024 Trump election. Free download link of my intro essay here, and @e-bumps.bsky.social's is also open access www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TQVDQ... Many thanks to @marinalevina.bsky.social for her support!

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Daddy's home: sexual politics, authoritarian desire, and the re-election of Donald Trump

This essay introduces a forum on the sexual politics of authoritarianism in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election. In it, Wood argues that gender and sexual politics are central to authoritar...

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I was honored to be a part of the volunteer collective that assembled this resource library, and I hope you (no matter who you are) find it useful; the immense power of education must be put to good collective use. Resource on Addressing Authoritarianism and Fascism: www.natcom.org/about-this-r...

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About This Resource Library - National Communication Association

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The article itself is studiously balanced. (To a fault to my mind, but that's my perspective.) But this very dry paragraph in the middle is the whole deal. Why would an educational institution make this leap without any evidence of efficacy?

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

What Are We Doing x.com/specialrepor...

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Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

It's so so important to understand that these technologies are absolutely failing within a market context, they all lose a ton of money and are set to lose more, the only path to profit for these vultures is to attach themselves to educational and government institutions.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

It's the *breakneck speed* at which our country is hitting rock bottom that, I admit, caught me by surprise.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

In "On the Way to Theory," Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory, including theorists Kant, Marx, and Heidegger to Foucault, Deleuze, and Hall. Read the intro for free now! assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

Cover of On the Way to Theory by Lawrence Grossberg. Cover features a gradient background composed of light blue, warm orange, and light pink, reminiscent of a sunset. Atop the gradient background is a shape composed of thin, black lines, curves, and loops. Title letters are in bright white and are on top of the shape.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/12/2024

NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️

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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Someone send this man Gramsci's prison notebooks stat

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Season 4 of the brilliant "Conjuncture" podcast -- co-sponsored by the Antipode Foundation -- opens with feminist historian Catherine Hall talking about the history of racial capitalism, colonizing geographies, and social reproduction trinitysocialjustice.com/racial-capit...

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Racial Capitalism

Catherine Hall discusses the history of racial capitalism, colonizing geographies, social reproduction, and her groundbreaking new book Lucky Valley.

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 01/12/2024

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Literally no one, especially no New Yorker, is gonna turn in John Q for some damn reward money. All the insurance companies execs will STAY shook. www.kxan.com/news/10000-r...

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$10,000 reward offered for information on UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting: NYPD

Thompson, 50, was killed in a “targeted attack” just before 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning, according to authorities.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Grateful to WHYY's @whyythepulse.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about why ChatGPT et al don't understand (but seem like they do). >>

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Problematic Otter @problematicotter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Why didn't they just put the photos inside a glass case that only the manager can open

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"So in the end, you have tech moguls misleading their followers about a federal consumer protection agency that they don’t like for other, perhaps personal, reasons.....Some might call it a desire to defund the police." prospect.org/power/2024-1...

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Elon Musk and Friends Propose Defunding the Fraud Police

Some tech billionaires hate the CFPB, which protects Americans from scams and abuse. Why?

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

“Two years after capturing the public’s imagination, it seems ChatGPT’s main legacy has been in padding the finances of tech’s biggest players.”

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

TWO Cultural Studies starter packs for the price of one! A collaborative effort with @gil-rodman.bsky.social. These packs include folks committed to cultural studies as both an intellectual and political practice. go.bsky.app/VEpToCi go.bsky.app/LJvnwMj

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 21/11/2024

no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The European Journal of Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary platform for charting new questions and new research – and we are very much looking forward to sharing and discussing #culturalstudies with you here ✨

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Sometimes you come across PhD. opps like this and your intrusive do-over dreams ignite. Goddess speed, whoever lands it! 🫡

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Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

BOOK PROJECT. I posted this CFP in 300 character chunks earlier but here is the full pdf. Message w/ any questions. "Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" - deadline for abstracts is 10 Dec, with complete submissions (100-1500 words) due Dec 31. Click the link for the pertinent details.

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Capacities To CFP.pdf

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Followed the mass academic migration back over here to @bsky.app to see what's new... Follow and I'll follow back: time to build a more interesting feed!

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Megan M Wood @meganmwood.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Looking for some fresh reviewers to write about a couple of exciting new books! Check them out in the replies, and DM me (or email m-wood@onu.edu) if you're interested in a review copy and starting the review writing process with me. Feel free to share with folks who might be interested!

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