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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Jul 2

Happy pub day, Rose! So excited to read your book!

Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Mar 9

UIUC folks! Literary journal Ninth Letter publishes exceptional writing and graphic design, and provides undergrad and grad students with hands-on experience in publishing and editorial work. Support them during Orange and Blue week! Crowdfunding here: payment.giving.illinois.edu/schools/Univ...

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Feb 12

Thanks, @c4noff.bsky.social!

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Feb 12

Thank you, @ericcalderwood.bsky.social!

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Feb 12

Reading Better States now has a cover! Very grateful to Silvestre Santiago Pejac ("Pejac") for allowing us to use his arresting image, "Le Bateau Ivre." Forthcoming with Fordham University Press in late 2025!

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Dec 17

I'll be there! Let's meet up!

Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Dec 16

"I say yes because I want to support my students and colleagues. I feel obligated to “pull my weight" but it’s become increasingly clear to me that, in doing so, I’m also propping up and validating a system that is austere, inefficient, exploitative, fetishistically hierarchical, and exclusionary."

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Dec 16

Powerful read. Depressing, maddening, mandatory. wordsinspace.net/2024/12/13/t...

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Nov 18

Was it Star?

Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Nov 18

Critical infrastructure scholars - who first used the term "soft infrastructure"? The discussion of hard and soft infrastructures is ubiquitous at this point but where did it come from? @liquidperson2.bsky.social @jessicahurley.bsky.social @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Nov 17

Anyone know where I can find an English subtitled copy of Amina Weira's film Anger in the Wind? Only found French so far. #complit #africanstudies #film #filmstudies

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Nov 16

Has anyone already done an #envihum starter pack? Recent energy and connections on this platform are great but I haven't seen this on my feed yet.

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Nov 9

Wow, talk about timely

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Nov 8

my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿

Action without Hope

A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Nov 9

Haven't been on Bluesky in so long but given the dumpster fire nightmare we are now in, guess it's really time to abandon the other place. Hello again!

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Mar 22

thank you!

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Mar 22

So, after years of hard work, stress, imposter syndrome and other stops on the first-book rollercoaster, this is happing! My book is going to be a thing in the world! Feeling slow-onset happiness and much gratitude as it sinks in. Thanks to all who helped me get here.

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Mar 20

Reading/teaching Woman at the Edge of Time for the first time. Awesome book, grim, hopeful and super interesting! But LOLed at this: "We don't think telling people what to do is a real world skill." 😂

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · Feb 24

Her book--The Atlas of AI--is tremendous. Highly recommend.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Feb 24

Excellent Kate Crawford piece here on the rapidly rising environmental costs of generative software - and importantly, the slimy corporate secrecy used to try and downplay and obscure those costs

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret

First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but there’s a long way to go. First-of-its-kind US bill would address the environmental costs of the technology, but ...

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Feb 3

📣 Pick up @c4noff.bsky.social's brilliant Subjunctive Aesthetics!! EH folks, Mexicanists, Latin Americanists, and speculators of all stripes, this one's for you! 📣 So excited to read it!

Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · Feb 2

My book is out! I was waiting to post a pic holding it IRL, but alas, it is yet to arrive. I hope you will check it out, and ask your library to buy a copy! www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650617...

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Jan 31

Congrats!!

Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Jan 29

Sachertorte? Or this tart is delish smittenkitchen.com/2008/11/dark...

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Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Jan 22

Freezing rain here and the sidewalks are basically ice rinks 🥶

Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Jan 22

Waiting is the worst. I'm in a period between projects, and waiting for reviews. Can't opt out of working, but also not totally focused. Recommendations for what to do/how to approach this kind of time?? 😩

Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social · Jan 21

This panel looks 🔥!

Tierney S. Powell @tierneyspowell.bsky.social · Jan 21

"Material Lives of Logistics" - panel proposal for the upcoming American Literature Association Conference. We invite abstracts that explore logistics & infrastructures in literary texts. >> 1/24/24

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cfp | call for papers

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