Jonathan
@jsench.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Book History UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper @UMassPress. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @ PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach. #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
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Jonathan
@jsench.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Hello bluesky! I am a book historian trained in literature (early&c19 American) who’s worked in a library/info studies dept for 13 years. I wrote a book abt what rag paper makes present & how writers thought abt that from 1650-1900. Im an editor of PBSA, thinking abt what bibliography is in the C21.
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-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
December 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
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Earlier this year, Republicans tried to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in their 2026 budget, while proposing a 13% increase in defense spending. The Institute of Museum and Library Services just got their funding back through courts.
Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939
December 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Earlier this year, Republicans tried to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in their 2026 budget, while proposing a 13% increase in defense spending. The Institute of Museum and Library Services just got their funding back through courts.
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Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
December 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
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I'm doing it. I'm printing course packs.
Canvas used to be helpful but that time has passed.
Last semester I gravitated some of my course materials off Canvas. This coming semester I will pull off even more.
Last semester I gravitated some of my course materials off Canvas. This coming semester I will pull off even more.
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I'm doing it. I'm printing course packs.
I walked past Oprah and Gayle who were (without fanfare) attending a high school speech and debate tournament (or maybe mock trial?) at Cornell Law School.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I walked past Oprah and Gayle who were (without fanfare) attending a high school speech and debate tournament (or maybe mock trial?) at Cornell Law School.
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
Time to dust this one off.
December 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Time to dust this one off.
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Modern authoritarian states no longer need mass killing to produce mass suffering. They govern by deciding who will be protected — and who can be left exposed.
#Necropolitics #Authoritarianism #Immigration #HumanRights #Democracy
#Necropolitics #Authoritarianism #Immigration #HumanRights #Democracy
The Grammar of Abandonment
How Modern Authoritarianism Governs Through Exposure Rather Than Extermination
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Modern authoritarian states no longer need mass killing to produce mass suffering. They govern by deciding who will be protected — and who can be left exposed.
#Necropolitics #Authoritarianism #Immigration #HumanRights #Democracy
#Necropolitics #Authoritarianism #Immigration #HumanRights #Democracy
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Happy to see this, written with the excellent @mattseybold.bsky.social , out in the world. Solidarity to everyone fighting for education and civil society!
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Happy to see this, written with the excellent @mattseybold.bsky.social , out in the world. Solidarity to everyone fighting for education and civil society!
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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Late stage capitalism hustle culture grindcore nonsense. Not every minute of our lives needs to be monetized.
December 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Late stage capitalism hustle culture grindcore nonsense. Not every minute of our lives needs to be monetized.
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God gives his strongest soldiers birthdays during this week 😤😭
The days between Christmas and NYE are a vortex. I’m just out here vibing.
December 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
God gives his strongest soldiers birthdays during this week 😤😭
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Holiday reading for the soul! An antidote to the bureaucrats and yes-men trying to turn us all into imbeciles
December 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Holiday reading for the soul! An antidote to the bureaucrats and yes-men trying to turn us all into imbeciles
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Why are we being told that all the good stuff from our earlier years - like having undergrad mentors - has suddenly become disposable and unnecessary? The subtext seems to be that the kind of human development we enjoyed - the kind of people we became via education - is & are no longer welcome.
December 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Why are we being told that all the good stuff from our earlier years - like having undergrad mentors - has suddenly become disposable and unnecessary? The subtext seems to be that the kind of human development we enjoyed - the kind of people we became via education - is & are no longer welcome.
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Eye-opening for me: “Maintaining students at the center of our focus means not only refusing to use AI in teaching. Paradoxically, it also means refusing to devise assignments that deflect AI, and, thus, making AI the main focus again.”
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Eye-opening for me: “Maintaining students at the center of our focus means not only refusing to use AI in teaching. Paradoxically, it also means refusing to devise assignments that deflect AI, and, thus, making AI the main focus again.”
Every one of these crimes must be prosecuted. If the US won’t do it an international body must step in.
ICE agents spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot—even taking his groceries for themselves.
A bystander asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of his wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused.
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A bystander asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of his wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused.
trib.al/kF8CDpe
December 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Every one of these crimes must be prosecuted. If the US won’t do it an international body must step in.
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Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more.
Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
bookriot.com/trends-in-co...
Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
bookriot.com/trends-in-co...
The Latest Trends in Comics Censorship: Book Censorship News, December 26, 2025
What are the trends in comics censorship over the last year? A look at the data and titles being targeted, with help from a comics scholar.
bookriot.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more.
Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
bookriot.com/trends-in-co...
Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
bookriot.com/trends-in-co...
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trans people if you did nothing else this year you made it through 12 months of the federal government having your extermination not low on its list of priorities and you can feel really good about that it’s a big deal
December 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
trans people if you did nothing else this year you made it through 12 months of the federal government having your extermination not low on its list of priorities and you can feel really good about that it’s a big deal
You Can Just Call Me No
Make a Bond movie academic
The Word Count Is Not Enough
The Word Count Is Not Enough
Make a Bond movie academic
Tenure is Forever
Tenure is Forever
December 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
You Can Just Call Me No
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“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
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“Private collectors have thus taken on greater responsibility as custodians of history, often at great expense. And a handful of prominent ones … have emerged as both preservationists and exhibitors in this landscape.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/n...
That Old Classic Film in the Theater? It Might Be From This Man’s House.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“Private collectors have thus taken on greater responsibility as custodians of history, often at great expense. And a handful of prominent ones … have emerged as both preservationists and exhibitors in this landscape.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/n...
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.