Nathan K. Hensley
@nathankhensley.bsky.social
Action without Hope (2025) • Forms of Empire (2016) • Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo242060390.html
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo242060390.html
Hoping it might just be a mistake ?
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Hoping it might just be a mistake ?
Hoping it might just be a mistake ?
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Hoping it might just be a mistake ?
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The European Reading Room, Library of Congress, is another one I’ve been in before. It can take your breath away, the beauty of the democratic ideal of general public education
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The European Reading Room, Library of Congress, is another one I’ve been in before. It can take your breath away, the beauty of the democratic ideal of general public education
The Rose Reading room at the NYPL, for instance, is a place where literally anyone can have access to world class research materials— a universe of ideas— and, if they use them right, and stay at it, they can become a genius
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The Rose Reading room at the NYPL, for instance, is a place where literally anyone can have access to world class research materials— a universe of ideas— and, if they use them right, and stay at it, they can become a genius
Amazing day of digital panels in our first @navsa2025.bsky.social presession today— thanks so much to all who contributed!
Programs for the in person conference have just arrived, and they are… nice 🤩
Programs for the in person conference have just arrived, and they are… nice 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Amazing day of digital panels in our first @navsa2025.bsky.social presession today— thanks so much to all who contributed!
Programs for the in person conference have just arrived, and they are… nice 🤩
Programs for the in person conference have just arrived, and they are… nice 🤩
listening to this right now and it's incredible
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
listening to this right now and it's incredible
I had no idea she did an edition of Maud! Gorgeous (if somewhat domesticating of the poem's weirdness & violence) 🤩
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I had no idea she did an edition of Maud! Gorgeous (if somewhat domesticating of the poem's weirdness & violence) 🤩
i mean look at these. astonishing
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
i mean look at these. astonishing
“whenever [knitting] frames were sabotaged, people would jokingly say ‘Ned Ludd did it’”
November 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“whenever [knitting] frames were sabotaged, people would jokingly say ‘Ned Ludd did it’”
Frame breaking time, Ned Ludd where you at
November 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Frame breaking time, Ned Ludd where you at
Because I do think the turn at the end, towards “teachers” who are supposed to show “will” to “create spaces” for AI refusal, is a little surprising given the rest of the essay:
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Because I do think the turn at the end, towards “teachers” who are supposed to show “will” to “create spaces” for AI refusal, is a little surprising given the rest of the essay:
updated schedule now posted on the @navsa2025.bsky.social website. the darker and more dangerous things get, the more it matters to think real thoughts, together. we are getting very excited to see many of you all here in DC soon.
navsa.georgetown.edu
navsa.georgetown.edu
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
updated schedule now posted on the @navsa2025.bsky.social website. the darker and more dangerous things get, the more it matters to think real thoughts, together. we are getting very excited to see many of you all here in DC soon.
navsa.georgetown.edu
navsa.georgetown.edu
Here's a link to Brathwaite's lecture, which I've learned lots about from @posypoet.bsky.social and @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social
www.amherst.edu/system/files...
www.amherst.edu/system/files...
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Here's a link to Brathwaite's lecture, which I've learned lots about from @posypoet.bsky.social and @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social
www.amherst.edu/system/files...
www.amherst.edu/system/files...
So not even something like Big Yout's "Salaman Agoundy" (1972)—w its "reggae canter of downbeat on the 1st syllable of the 1st + 2nd bars, followed by a syncopation on the 3rd 3rd, followed by full offbeat/downbeats in the 4th," as Brathwaite says, will capture this rhythm. The music is new now
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
So not even something like Big Yout's "Salaman Agoundy" (1972)—w its "reggae canter of downbeat on the 1st syllable of the 1st + 2nd bars, followed by a syncopation on the 3rd 3rd, followed by full offbeat/downbeats in the 4th," as Brathwaite says, will capture this rhythm. The music is new now
"The hurricane does not roar in pentameter. ...We have been trying to break out of the entire pentametric model in the Caribbean and to move into a system that more closely and intimately approaches our own experience."
--Kamau Brathwaite, "History of the Voice" (1979/1981)
--Kamau Brathwaite, "History of the Voice" (1979/1981)
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"The hurricane does not roar in pentameter. ...We have been trying to break out of the entire pentametric model in the Caribbean and to move into a system that more closely and intimately approaches our own experience."
--Kamau Brathwaite, "History of the Voice" (1979/1981)
--Kamau Brathwaite, "History of the Voice" (1979/1981)
Great, scathing, important essay by @jraden.bsky.social on the function of "AI" in accelerating already-existing dynamics of transformation in higher ed —and what we can do to fight them
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Great, scathing, important essay by @jraden.bsky.social on the function of "AI" in accelerating already-existing dynamics of transformation in higher ed —and what we can do to fight them
i teared up when i read these beautiful words from the CEOs of KKR investments, the current co-owners of Instructure/Canvas & therefore architects of the outage now making it so none of my students can access any learning materials
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
i teared up when i read these beautiful words from the CEOs of KKR investments, the current co-owners of Instructure/Canvas & therefore architects of the outage now making it so none of my students can access any learning materials
Downtown Silver Spring
October 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Downtown Silver Spring
wow i wonder if this schematic & mindless drivel was produced using an algorithmic engine whose sole purpose is to generate the plausible simulacrum of ideas?
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
wow i wonder if this schematic & mindless drivel was produced using an algorithmic engine whose sole purpose is to generate the plausible simulacrum of ideas?
I wasn't married but I am now. Women love the vehicle.
October 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I wasn't married but I am now. Women love the vehicle.
in other words, to me the phenomenon is best seen as a perfectly reasonable [individual] response to [general] crisis. As for Zambian copperbelt workers in the 1970s, so for proletarianized academic gig workers after 2000
www.ucpress.edu/books/expect...
www.ucpress.edu/books/expect...
October 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
in other words, to me the phenomenon is best seen as a perfectly reasonable [individual] response to [general] crisis. As for Zambian copperbelt workers in the 1970s, so for proletarianized academic gig workers after 2000
www.ucpress.edu/books/expect...
www.ucpress.edu/books/expect...