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Ken Wissoker

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Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · Jun 2

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · May 12

Remember to register!
Ken Wissoker in conversation with Macarena Gómez-Barris
Tues June 3rd at 6:30pm ET via Zoom
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 4h

This is a very useful explainer, re: the incident with the priest & the ICE agents/thugs. (The post she quotes is good, too.) 👇🏽

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 16h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21h

Looking forward to joining Shoshana Zuboff and Cathy O'Neil this week at the Harvard Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights for a conversation on democratic resilience in the age of AI and tech power concentration.

Join us October 16, 5-6pm ET. You can register here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/surve...

Social card for the event: Surveillance Capitalism, Power, and our Democratic Future

Speakers and Presenters

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and architect of the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.";
Cathy O'Neil, Data Scientist and Author of Weapons of Math Destruction;
Mathias Risse, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights;
Shoshana Zuboff, Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emeritus and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Technology Fellowship

Date and Location
October 16, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET
Starr Auditorium

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 1d

During the Philippine–American War, the US Army’s massacre of between 600 and 1,200 civilians made for “sensational news in the United States when it was first reported…. Eventually the event disappeared from popular consciousness and barely figured in popular accounts.” —Vicente L. Rafael

Massacre Under the Starry Flag | Vicente L. Rafael

The history of a single photograph reveals how an atrocity in the Philippines was forgotten by its American perpetrators.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 2d

Providing a much-needed forum for interdisciplinary discussion, GLQ publishes scholarship, criticism, and commentary in areas as diverse as law, science studies, religion, political science, and literary studies. Issue 31:4 is now online. View the full TOC: buff.ly/c7vD3iw

Cover of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 31, Number 4, October 2025. The top section has a lime-green background with the journal title in white and magenta. Below are four black-and-white photographs of a shirtless person viewed from the back, arms wrapped around themselves in various poses. A tattoo of a chain encircles their lower back. The images evoke themes of self-embrace and constraint.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 4d

Black Disability Politics by Dr. Sami Schalk is SPECTACULAR.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 1d

What did Africa mean to Okwui Enwezor? @eflux.bsky.social reviews his new 2-volume Selected Writings: www.e-flux.com/notes/678340...

What Did Africa Mean to Okwui Enwezor? - Notes - e-flux

Serubiri Moses reviews two recent essays collections by Okwui Enwezor.

www.e-flux.com

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Mare Nostrum Group @marenostrumgroup.bsky.social · 2d

Eating Is an English Word argues that social scientists should let go of the dream of universal concepts.

📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803086...

Browse Anthropology: mngbookshop.co.uk/mng-subject-...

@dukepress.bsky.social #Anthropology

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it.
UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu
UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu
College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Chris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 2d

My gig at @dukepress.bsky.social rules. I sell translation rights so our books end up translated all over the world, like these books on this table here. Japanese publishers make beautiful hardcovers with ribbon bookmarks, central and eastern European book designers are scary creative. Books are rad

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Lauren O'Neill-Butler @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social · 2d

Managed to see many NYC gallery shows this week and did not take any photos! But here are my top 3:
1. @naylandblake.bsky.social @ Matthew Marks
2. Reggie Uluru @ D’Lan Contemporary
3. “Surreal America” @ Michael Rosenfeld

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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 3d

Arrived today from @dukepress.bsky.social!

A copy of the book, Modern Peru: A New History.

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Wazhmah Osman @wazhmah.bsky.social · 2d

Please join us for the launch of our edited volume Decolonizing Afghanistan! November 6, 5pm, at NYU. Link to register: tinyurl.com/mrafhcr6 , dukeupress.edu/decolonizing..., with @nyukevo.bsky.social , @sepoy.bsky.social , @dukepress.bsky.social

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 3d

Save 30% on #NewBook "Crip Screens" by Olivia Banner, which provides a wide-ranging and ongoing history of Black, feminist-of-color, and crip resistance to psychiatry’s incorporation of hegemonic media technologies into treatment and research. #DisabilityStudies
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Cover of Crip Screens: Countering Psychiatric Media Technologies by Olivia Banner. The background features a black-and-white TV static pattern with large sweeping shadows that create a sense of depth and movement. The title is in clean white text at the top right. The subtitle title runs vertically along the left edge. The author's name appears vertically within a solid lavender circle at the lower right corner.

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 3d

Tomorrow, I will be in Berlin to participate in the "Idea(l)s of Home" workshop at the Technische Universität. I will deliver a keynote on my book For a Liberatory Politics of Home @dukepress.bsky.social

I am very thankful to my comrade Judith Keller for inviting & to all for organising.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Feb 10

Dr. Carter G. Woodson, born to enslaved parents, earned a PhD from Harvard in 1912 AND taught Spanish and French language.

DuBois recalled how Woodson had orchestrated an elaborate meal for them in flawless French when they were both in Paris.

And he was supervisor of schools in Philippines! #BHM

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · 6d

All of these books are FANTASTIC. I was blown away — in different ways — by each one and they were each a joy to read. The world is dark but scholarship continues to amaze

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 9d

We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!

Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.

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Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP)

Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP)

Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press)

Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP)

Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP)

Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

Updated the Blackademics starter pack again (!) to include Vincent Brown, Imani Perry, the Harare Review of Books and others. Stay tuned for more developments coming soon....

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 3d

Good question! Would students prefer a book or two (a reader, I guess) or a course pack?

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Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 3d

Where now with pdfs no one pays and presses are taking a huge hit.

Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! There was a big lawsuit which Kinkos lost, and the fees were paid through copyright clearing house. Small amounts but they would add up (both for costs passed on to students and in a needed way for presses).

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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 4d

Second up in our shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize is Kency Cornejo’s VISUAL DISOBEDIENCE: ART AND DECOLONIALITY IN CENTRAL AMERICA from @dukepress.bsky.social. We will announce the winner at this year’s conference in Houston, TX. Please join us!

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