Jamie L. Jones
@jamieljones.bsky.social
Environmental Humanities, Energy, Oceans | Assoc Prof, English, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | RENDERED OBSOLETE: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling, UNC Press https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674827/rendered-obsolete
Happy pub day to @parhee.bsky.social and this SPECTACULAR BOOK, which will totally change the way you think about the history of US environmentalism. Essential reading! Get it at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
May 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Happy pub day to @parhee.bsky.social and this SPECTACULAR BOOK, which will totally change the way you think about the history of US environmentalism. Essential reading! Get it at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Excited to present at and help host this conference on Climate Justice and Climate Futures here at UIUC this weekend -- hosted by the European Union Center with support from the CAS Climate | Change research initiative. If you're in the area, please drop in!
cas.illinois.edu/node/2936
cas.illinois.edu/node/2936
March 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Excited to present at and help host this conference on Climate Justice and Climate Futures here at UIUC this weekend -- hosted by the European Union Center with support from the CAS Climate | Change research initiative. If you're in the area, please drop in!
cas.illinois.edu/node/2936
cas.illinois.edu/node/2936
Amid and despite *all this* (this is fine), I'll be visiting Northwestern University tomorrow to give a talk on Moby-Dick, metaphors, and my favorite cetacean art of the last several years by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Wu Tsang, and mayfield brooks. Chicagoans I'd love to see you!
February 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Amid and despite *all this* (this is fine), I'll be visiting Northwestern University tomorrow to give a talk on Moby-Dick, metaphors, and my favorite cetacean art of the last several years by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Wu Tsang, and mayfield brooks. Chicagoans I'd love to see you!
I LOVED working with the editors at @limnpress.bsky.social : I loved the collaborative peer review process, and I loved being part of a cohort thinking together about obsolescence. I also appreciated the deep care that went into editing and design. I mean, look at this thing. 2/
December 17, 2024 at 5:35 PM
I LOVED working with the editors at @limnpress.bsky.social : I loved the collaborative peer review process, and I loved being part of a cohort thinking together about obsolescence. I also appreciated the deep care that went into editing and design. I mean, look at this thing. 2/
I'm *thrilled* that my book was shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book! Enormous thanks to the committee for honoring RENDERED OBSOLETE, and congratulations to the winners, Adhaar Noor Desai and Miya Qiong Xie!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
December 11, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I'm *thrilled* that my book was shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book! Enormous thanks to the committee for honoring RENDERED OBSOLETE, and congratulations to the winners, Adhaar Noor Desai and Miya Qiong Xie!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
Emerson and Fuller's Transcendentalist journal, THE DIAL, has relaunched, thanks to the labor and love of @chrishanlon.bsky.social. I'm so honored to have an essay in the inaugural issue, where I write about climate change, Thoreau and global shipping.
thedialjournal.org
thedialjournal.org
November 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Emerson and Fuller's Transcendentalist journal, THE DIAL, has relaunched, thanks to the labor and love of @chrishanlon.bsky.social. I'm so honored to have an essay in the inaugural issue, where I write about climate change, Thoreau and global shipping.
thedialjournal.org
thedialjournal.org
I’m excited to be presenting and meeting all these amazing people at this symposium at the University of Chicago. Please come by if you’re in Chicago on Friday. Registration link here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
April 2, 2024 at 6:59 PM
I’m excited to be presenting and meeting all these amazing people at this symposium at the University of Chicago. Please come by if you’re in Chicago on Friday. Registration link here: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
I wish I were hanging out (and walking out!) with all of you at ASA. But my book is there, and I hope some of you will buy it with the sweet 40% ASA discount @uncpress.bsky.social -- available in person in Montreal AND online at the link below! Use code 01DAH40!
uncpress.org/amstudies-vi...
uncpress.org/amstudies-vi...
November 4, 2023 at 4:59 PM
I wish I were hanging out (and walking out!) with all of you at ASA. But my book is there, and I hope some of you will buy it with the sweet 40% ASA discount @uncpress.bsky.social -- available in person in Montreal AND online at the link below! Use code 01DAH40!
uncpress.org/amstudies-vi...
uncpress.org/amstudies-vi...
A gloriously oceanic moment (yes, in Illinois) at the Tarble show "Who Speaks for the Oceans?" Favorites: Ursula Biemann's short film ACOUSTIC OCEAN and Jenny Kendler and Andrew Bearnot's WHALE BELLS (made from glass and fossilized whale ear bones!), works prompting deep listening.
October 22, 2023 at 11:51 PM
A gloriously oceanic moment (yes, in Illinois) at the Tarble show "Who Speaks for the Oceans?" Favorites: Ursula Biemann's short film ACOUSTIC OCEAN and Jenny Kendler and Andrew Bearnot's WHALE BELLS (made from glass and fossilized whale ear bones!), works prompting deep listening.
A miracle: Deke Weaver, Jen Allen, brilliant cast and crew brought the ocean to Illinois with CETACEAN. I'm sitting with these lines from the performance: "Ships are built for buoyancy. Many compromised vessels can be salvaged." Not climate doomism or false hope but something better & more real.
October 4, 2023 at 5:33 PM
A miracle: Deke Weaver, Jen Allen, brilliant cast and crew brought the ocean to Illinois with CETACEAN. I'm sitting with these lines from the performance: "Ships are built for buoyancy. Many compromised vessels can be salvaged." Not climate doomism or false hope but something better & more real.
Tom? Wamsgans? What about:
September 27, 2023 at 2:17 AM
Tom? Wamsgans? What about:
Friends anywhere near Urbana, Illinois! Mark your calendars for the upcoming performances of Deke Weaver and Jen Allen’s CETACEAN, 7:30 every night from Thursday, September 28-October 2 at the UIUC Stock Pavilion. You can’t even begin to imagine how Deke tells stories. Come!
September 20, 2023 at 3:42 PM
Friends anywhere near Urbana, Illinois! Mark your calendars for the upcoming performances of Deke Weaver and Jen Allen’s CETACEAN, 7:30 every night from Thursday, September 28-October 2 at the UIUC Stock Pavilion. You can’t even begin to imagine how Deke tells stories. Come!
I forgot to post a picture of the generous blurbs that @hesterblum.bsky.social and @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social wrote! I still can't believe THESE folks wrote THESE words about my book. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
September 5, 2023 at 5:36 PM
I forgot to post a picture of the generous blurbs that @hesterblum.bsky.social and @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social wrote! I still can't believe THESE folks wrote THESE words about my book. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
In CH 5, I read Rockwell Kent's MD illustrations as "skeuomorphs," works that refer to, or appear as though they were made by, older practices and tech. Skeuomorphs = rendering obsolescence through design. (Your iPhone does this too.) 14/
August 22, 2023 at 7:17 PM
In CH 5, I read Rockwell Kent's MD illustrations as "skeuomorphs," works that refer to, or appear as though they were made by, older practices and tech. Skeuomorphs = rendering obsolescence through design. (Your iPhone does this too.) 14/
Finally got my copy of the new Norton Library edition of Moby-Dick, edited and with an ESSENTIAL introduction by @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social !! 🐳💛🐳💛🐳💛
August 14, 2023 at 5:24 PM
Finally got my copy of the new Norton Library edition of Moby-Dick, edited and with an ESSENTIAL introduction by @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social !! 🐳💛🐳💛🐳💛
I just got the first physical copy of my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling (@uncpress.bsky.social )! Much more to say before (and after!) the August 29 release. But for now, look! It's a real thing in the world! It casts a shadow on my table!
July 31, 2023 at 4:56 PM
I just got the first physical copy of my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling (@uncpress.bsky.social )! Much more to say before (and after!) the August 29 release. But for now, look! It's a real thing in the world! It casts a shadow on my table!
If I had a time machine, I'd take at least one trip to 1970 to visit African Rhythms, the jazz club Randy Weston co-owned with Abdeslam Akaaboune in Tangier, Morocco. Here's the legendary club's business card, designed by eminent painter Mohamed Melehi.
July 28, 2023 at 6:07 PM
If I had a time machine, I'd take at least one trip to 1970 to visit African Rhythms, the jazz club Randy Weston co-owned with Abdeslam Akaaboune in Tangier, Morocco. Here's the legendary club's business card, designed by eminent painter Mohamed Melehi.
Spotted this amazing design on the gas tank door of a classic Mercedes collective taxi in Tetouan, Morocco. Now obsessed with gas tank door art, petroculture par excellence and extra poignant on a day of killing heat.
July 12, 2023 at 10:02 AM
Spotted this amazing design on the gas tank door of a classic Mercedes collective taxi in Tetouan, Morocco. Now obsessed with gas tank door art, petroculture par excellence and extra poignant on a day of killing heat.
I don’t know what to do with all of the proliferating social media apps, but I assume these kittens in my neighborhood in Tangier belong on all of them
July 7, 2023 at 2:41 PM
I don’t know what to do with all of the proliferating social media apps, but I assume these kittens in my neighborhood in Tangier belong on all of them
La Caleta in Cádiz, Spain: the most beautiful urban beach in the world?
July 2, 2023 at 7:34 PM
La Caleta in Cádiz, Spain: the most beautiful urban beach in the world?