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Bro excitement over “AI” art strikes me as another example of the notion that an “idea” is worth more than execution, as in “I’ll give you my idea, you write it, and we’ll split the proceeds 50/50.”

Ideas are cheap. The execution of ideas is the part that takes skill, & skill that makes great art.

UPs were created to disseminate scholarly work. What we do—publish books that prob wouldn’t be pub’d if profit were the goal—is, at base, a service—at least that’s the idea. But a lot of scholars see us as parasitic, as just feeding off their work. Put it this way: UPs came BEFORE “tenure books.”

You want advances that reward you for your academic labor? That's great. Let's work together to get massive public funding for scholarly publishing, because that's the only way such a thing will be possible.

"All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode." —Kate Braverman

With the proliferation of posting platforms, it makes sense that our first post is a screenshot of a screenshot.

(Please help, we're so tired.)

Wherever you go, we'll be there—books and pictures of our mascot in hand. #NUPPup

I keep coming back to this typography, which is extremely good, and there are so many layers of references here, down to the selective use of red, it is truly a work of art in addition to a protest object. It is a broadside in more ways than one and I hope it’s plastered all over campus.

“There is a certain mode of reading connected to a tradition of colonial practices in which every book by any Black writer appears as sociol-ogy. Then all of that book's explorations, its meanings, and its ambitions lodge in a place called identity.” — Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Inaugural post had to be the rabbit fairy. Obviously.