Jeffrey Insko
@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social
Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
terrifying! thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
Disaster on Gichigami
What if the most famous disaster on Lake Superior never really ended?
thecurrentowdm.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
terrifying! thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
here fort this! www.jstor.org/stable/20464...
"All of Us Are Ahabs": "Moby-Dick" in Contemporary Public Discourse on JSTOR
Jeffrey Insko, "All of Us Are Ahabs": "Moby-Dick" in Contemporary Public Discourse, The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 40, No. 2, Special Convention Issue: High & Low / Cultu...
www.jstor.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
here fort this! www.jstor.org/stable/20464...
lol as if university webpages get updated!
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
lol as if university webpages get updated!
no, that's mine. sorry.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
no, that's mine. sorry.
And it turns out, my friend @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social was thinking the same thing! Great minds and what not. niche-canada.org/2025/11/07/f...
Finding Environmental History in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad immortalized the 1975 Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, linking Great Lakes industry, Indigenous history, environmental change, and enduring cultural memory.
niche-canada.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
And it turns out, my friend @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social was thinking the same thing! Great minds and what not. niche-canada.org/2025/11/07/f...
Great minds, etc etc thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
Disaster on Gichigami
What if the most famous disaster on Lake Superior never really ended?
thecurrentowdm.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Great minds, etc etc thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/disaster-o...
that is a beautiful cover!
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
that is a beautiful cover!
it should end their careers. shameful and embarrassing.
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
it should end their careers. shameful and embarrassing.
I just joined forces with a bunch of my neighbors in our extremely conservative rural township to prevent an ill-conceived BESS facility here. Will do the same when a data center is proposed. Shit is going to get awkward when a solar project comes to town tho...
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I just joined forces with a bunch of my neighbors in our extremely conservative rural township to prevent an ill-conceived BESS facility here. Will do the same when a data center is proposed. Shit is going to get awkward when a solar project comes to town tho...
I'll be the judge of that
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I'll be the judge of that
Douglass always so circumspect about his personal affairs...
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Douglass always so circumspect about his personal affairs...
♥️ or even less ambitious, someone who can't afford the internet can just, like, send a fucking email, search the web for some information, whatever.
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
♥️ or even less ambitious, someone who can't afford the internet can just, like, send a fucking email, search the web for some information, whatever.
I’ve written about this very thing!
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I’ve written about this very thing!
I seriously think it might be the primary barrier to genuine decarbonization
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I seriously think it might be the primary barrier to genuine decarbonization
I think about this ALL THE TIME
November 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I think about this ALL THE TIME