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pepepierce.bsky.social
I have been thinking about creating a couple “study guides” or prompts for people reading/teaching Speculative Relations, and I wanted to ask: do you think that’s a good idea? If so, do you have any suggestions for what you’d want out of something like that?
January 7, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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criticalai-journal.bsky.social
An excerpt from #maritmacarthur's introduction to #CriticalAI's new series: an ongoing cluster of essay on 'GENERATIVE AI AND WRITING IN HIGHER EDUCATION.
CAI 3.2 also includes to essays from the series and host of complementary articles and reviews.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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jhppl.bsky.social
Making last-minute syllabi additions? JHPPL has published wide-ranging research touching on domestic and comparative health law, politics, and policy, and spanning both institutional analysis and political behavior. Here is a glimpse at some articles we've published over the years... 🧵
January 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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armanc.bsky.social
I had a great time recording an episode with Julia Elyachar (@jeelyachar.bsky.social) on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to discuss her new book, On the Semicivilized (@dukepress.bsky.social).

Give it a listen! 🎧

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Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo" (Duke UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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January 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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mngstm.bsky.social
This National Hobby Month, whisk up something new!

🧁Our baking books are ideal for everyone - from curious beginners to seasoned bakers.

📚Find out more: tinyurl.com/yfehauph

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January 7, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression" by @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, which calls for a bisexual reimagining of queer film studies.
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Cover of Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression by Jacob Engelberg. The cover features a photograph of a man in a black tank top and a woman in a velvet dress mid-embrace, a second woman in a sequined gown partially obscured by their figures. The photograph is rotated and superimposed upon itself twice across the cover. The title appears in a single line of white text across the center of the image, and the author's name in white text rotated ninety degrees along the bottom right-hand corner.
January 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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aestheticspolitics.bsky.social
"The Politics of Collecting promises no easy curative or reparative reading. Instead, it argues that the only just way forward might be wholesale abolition of the art museum and the art world as we know it."

an exhilarating review of my book by Laura Vrana!

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January 6, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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In our newest review, @callmevrana.bsky.social reads Eunsong Kim’s *The Politics of Collecting*: “Kim emphasizes that these exception(s) prove(s) the rule—the ongoing, pervasive rule of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and racial capitalism in the art world.”

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Dismantling the Shields of the Contemporary Art World: Review of Eunsong Kim’s The Politics of Collecting - ASAP/Review
Museums lie at the center of much media coverage and popular debate in America today, the subject of controversy provoked by Trump’s insistence on rewriting history by influencing the curatorial direc...
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January 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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it's the official publication date for my first book CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION. don't forget you can get 30% off at @dukepress.bsky.social
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January 6, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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In "Abolitionist Archives, Feminist Futures," Kathi Weeks explores the work of three iconic feminist thinkers—Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway. Read the introduction for free now. #FeministTheory #Marxism
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Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures by Kathi Weeks. The cover features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black. The title is written in all caps in a bold sans serif white font. The title is written diagonally. The author’s name appears below in the same font and direction but in hot pink. Where the author’s name overlaps with the red rectangle in the background, the text appears black.
January 6, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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julesboykoff.bsky.social
🔴⚽ My new book "Kicking" is available for preorder at the @dukepress.bsky.social website at a 30% discount w/ the code E26KICK. The book braids memoir w/ my analytical writing on soccer politics. Preorders help a lot, so I'd be grateful if you'd consider the possibility. www.dukeupress.edu/kicking
Screenshot of a book cover that is peach-ish in color bearing the words "Practices Kicking Jules Boykoff." to the right is thew following text: "Kicking JULES BOYKOFF As a poet, public-facing scholar of sports politics, and former professional soccer player, having represented the United States on the men’s U23 national soccer team, Jules Boykoff draws on his lifetime of athletic experience to reflect on the practice of kicking. With short vignettes blending the personal, the reflective, the historical, and the analytical, Kicking is uniquely positioned to reflect on the most popular sport in the world. From the act of kicking a soccer ball, Boykoff looks outward to his own family history, including his mother’s struggle with polio, which fed her insistence on his athleticism; to broader trends like greenwashing and sportwashing; and to reflections on sport’s toxic masculinity, the poetics of on-field revenge, and the power-politics of both the men’s and women’s World Cups. Kicking is a must-read for all those who love the beautiful game. Special offer: Use coupon code E26KICK to save 30% when you order from dukeupress.edu. "In this poignant memoir Boykoff writes about his passions, family then football, in a way that offers an opportunity to engage with the vulnerability of one of the world’s best public scholars. We know Boykoff won’t stop advocating for better sport, and for the people who love it.” — Shireen Ahmed, sports journalist and Senior Contributor with CBC Sports Practices dukeupress.edu/kicking May 2026 | 176 pages, 25 illustrations 978-1-4780-3890-0 | $19.95 paperback $13.97 with discount"
January 5, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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If your resolution this year is to be a better ally, you can catch the amazing and inspiring Melanie Morrison, author of "Becoming Trustworthy White Allies" at events in NC, MD, MI, AL & NJ this month!
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Cover of Becoming Trustworthy White Allies by Melanie S. Morrison. The background features layered bands of warm orange, amber, and gold tones with a subtle textured pattern. The title is centered and spaced across three lines: “becoming” and “white allies” appear in bold white uppercase letters, while “trustworthy” is in a bright yellow serif font. The author's name is in small yellow text at the bottom.
January 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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So excited to be in conversation Anand Pandian and Ashanté Reese!

We had so much fun talking about Something Between Us that we decided to do it again.

Thanks to SAR for hosting us. You can register here:

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Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World - School for Advanced Research
Book Talk | Author Danilyn Rutherford will be joined in discussion by colleagues Anand Pandian, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, and Ashanté Reese, Associate P...
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January 5, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Stay in and read "Love Saves the Day" by Tim Lawrence and "Raving" by @mckenziewark.bsky.social
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If you don’t have the energy for New Year carousing, pick up these books instead, Andrew Holter writes.
What to Read When Your Friends Are Out Partying
If you don’t have the energy for New Year carousing, pick up these books instead.
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January 5, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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sjcerv.bsky.social
You should not just read this book but sit with the stakes of its call for other modes of engagement.

‘unrest in the nebulae’ is available for preorder with Duke university press now (latest book in writing matters! series)
January 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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sjcerv.bsky.social
[ ] Earthly aquatic oceanic rift and ripple…ante and anti colonial syntax the way unextractable energy moves…a desire for untrespassed upon togetherness …in and and through an insistent on the murmuration in the fragment. The quivering rock part of language.
January 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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but not a rebuilding organized by coherence, sameness, the colonial devouring of difference but rather an anticolonial poetics and poethics…that dwells with rupture.
January 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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After I read/sat with/listened/abided the silences of “unrest,” I wrote: The book asks after rebuilding a relation with earth that might happen by way of a rebuilding a relation with word…
January 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Recently, I was honored to receive an advanced copy of gitan djeli’s ’unrest in the nebulae’ (forthcoming, Duke University Press, ‘Writing Matters!’ book series, March 2026) @dukepress.bsky.social
Book cover of Gitan Djeli’s ‘Unrest in the Nebulae’. The cover is shades of muted oranges with a shadowy silhouette of an image resembling flowers and other seemingly abstract shapes in the foreground
January 5, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Under Pressure: A Song By David Bowie & Queen (Max Brzezinski, @dukepress.bsky.social, 2025)

A thoughtful and thorough exploration of one of our greatest pop anthems of the last half century.

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Cover for Under Pressure: A Song By David Bowie & Queen (Max Brzezinski, @dukepress.bsky.social, 2025)
December 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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📢 Webinar launch for #EmergentGenders
@dukepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ happening next year hosted by Fabio Gygi @soasuni.bsky.social #Japan Research Centre

📅 January 14 (Wed)
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Speaker: Michelle H. S. Ho In this book, I trace the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and...
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December 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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esraakcan.bsky.social
Thank you Cornell Chronicle for this interview on my book "Architecture and the Right to Heal" (Duke UP) @kwissoker.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @cornellaap.bsky.social

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December 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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lmesseri.bsky.social
<3 I remain so happy and humbled that "In the Land of the Unreal" won the Bateson prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology and was an honorable mention for the Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science. It was a good year for this book that I worked so hard on.
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Sending congratulations to all the DUP authors who have won awards and honors for their books this fall! See them all on our blog: buff.ly/2JZRktP
Covers of When Monsters Speak, Third Worlds Within, In the Land of the Unreal, Excited Delirium, Fire Dreams, The Color Black, After Palmares, Visual Disobedience, Violent Intimacies, and Disability Worlds arranged in a 5x2 grid.
December 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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sepoy.bsky.social
I am especially proud of the Dec 2025 issue of *CSSAAME* @dukepress.bsky.social with the special issue "Technologies of War* (edited by Madiha Tahir and Adrien Zakar) and the Kitabkhana on Hafsa Kanjwal's *Colonizing Kashmiri* (2024) <--free to read!
Volume 45 Issue 3 | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East | Duke University Press
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December 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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sjcerv.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who read, taught and/or supported my books in 2025
Two books side by side. On the left is the book ‘Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life’. On the cover the artist Xaviera Simmons is standing in ankle high water holding a fishing pole with a forest and mountains behind her. She is wearing a green floral dress On the right is the book Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom. On the black and white cover, the artist Carrie Mae Weems is seen wearing a black dress looking out toward the ocean from a stony path
December 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM