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* Wes Anderson’s The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders. * A billion-year storage medium that could outlive the human race. * New drugs could extend cancer patients’ lives—by days. At a cost of...
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* Thursday at C21: Christopher Newfield, “The Humanities in the Post-Capitalist University.” Then, this weekend, elsewhere at UWM: After Capitalism. * I have a short piece on “WALL-E and Utopia,”...
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* Call for applications: 2014—15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. * So Paul Di Filippo really liked Green Planets. * Receive this petition in nomination of three candidates for MLA...
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* The Declaration of Independence has a typo; America is abolished. Happy Fourth of July. * America at 238, by the numbers. * Hobby Lobby as Pandora’s Box. The icing on the cake. * Like the Founders...
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* Did you know Jaimee Hills’s incredible How to Avoid Speaking has started to ship? Buy it today! Hear her on Lake Effect! * Presenting the MOSF Journal of Science Fiction. * The Founders misread...
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* All jokes work the same way. * Protecting UW-Madison faculty from poaching cost $8 million. I realized just now though that these retention leaks are ultimately about trying to put a dollar sign on...
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* Hey look! LARoB reviewed Green Planets. * Another science fiction studies research opportunity: The 2016-2017 Le Guin Fellowship. * Notes from ICFA roundtable on The Force Awakens, on cast,...
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* Some CFPs I posted yesterday: Buffy at 20! SFFTV Call for Reviewers! And Paradoxa 28: “Global Weirding” has officially appeared in the world as well; see a table of contents and our introduction, and...
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* My review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s (excellent!) New York 2140 is finally up at the Los Angeles Review of Books: Utopia in the Time of Trump. Where most contemporary histories of the future imagine...
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* Some kinda life. * The evolving English major. * The Humanities as Contradiction: Against the New Enclosures. * Colleges Can’t — or Won’t — Track Where Ph.D.s Land Jobs. Should Disciplinary...
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* CFP for the Conference on the Global Status of Women and Girls: Intersectionality: Understanding Women’s Lives and Resistance in the Past and Present. * Recruiting Diverse and Excellent New Faculty....
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* CFP: “TechnoLogics: Power and Resistance.” CFP: Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy. * I have an essay in this new open-access book, Materialism and the Critique of Energy: “Peak Oil after...
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* ST: TNG: TNG: Patrick Stewart to Return as Capt. Picard in New ‘Star Trek’ Series for CBS All Access. Well, that’s something! CBS All Access Is Laying the Groundwork for Non-Stop Star Trek. #STLV...
View ArticleReturn of the Son of Linkblogging: The Return!
With some new responsibilities post-tenure, a new work-childcare schedule that I’m still getting used to, and some intense end-of-the-summer deadline crunches, I haven’t had the time to do a link post...
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* ‘I Don’t Think We Should Be Afraid of Protests’: Marquette Faculty Members Speak Out Against Policy Requiring Approval for Demonstrations. * Conservatives say we’ve abandoned reason and civility. The...
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* CFP: A special issue of Science Fiction Film and Television on gaming. * Happening today at Duke: Whose Crisis? Whose University? Abolitionist Study in and beyond Global Higher Education. * You’ve...
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* Sneak preview: the landmark Paradoxa “climate fictions” issue, edited by the great Ali Sperling! * The 2020 Hugo Awards: The Political Hugo. * Hold the Starships — an Interview with Kim Stanley...
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