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Wellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 24 - Trying to Escape or TransformEpisode 24 - Trying to Escape or TransformIn this episode of Wellness Mastery, coach Jen Hoyer explores the deeper reasons behind the rush for quick weight loss and the importance of foundational change. Using a metaphor of reconstructing a century-old building, she highlights the necessity of addressing internal beliefs, emotional patterns, and thoughts. Jen stresses that true transformation and lasting wellness come from unearthing and rebuilding our mindsets, not from quick fixes. She emphasizes patience, self-compassion, and doing the deep internal work needed to create lasting health and peace. Tune in to start building...2025-05-0917 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 23 - 3 Tools That Make Weight Loss Finally ClickEpisode 23 - 3 Tools That Make Weight Loss Finally ClickIn episode 23 of Wellness Mastery, host and certified health coach Jen Hoyer shares three powerful tools that can transform your weight loss and health journey by focusing on understanding your body, managing thoughts, and building emotional resilience. Jen emphasizes the importance of nurturing the internal environment—our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions—for successful and sustainable wellness. She uses relatable metaphors to illustrate how the right tools can make the process smoother, more efficient, and enjoyable. 00:51 A Funny Story with a Lesso...2025-04-2516 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 22 - From Drill Sergeant to Self-CompassionEpisode 22: From Drill Sergeant to Self-CompassionIn Episode 22 of Wellness Mastery, coach Jen Hoyer discusses the powerful yet often overlooked concept of self-compassion in the context of long-term health and weight loss. Contrasting the common 'drill sergeant' mentality, Jen explains how harsh self-criticism and perfectionism can lead to self-sabotage and stress. By embracing self-compassion, you can create a more sustainable and enjoyable journey towards your health goals. The episode highlights the elements of self-compassion, including self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness, offering practical strategies for implementing these principles into one's life. Jen also shares her...2025-04-1125 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 21 - Misaligned ExpectationsEpisode 21: Misaligned ExpectationsIn Episode 21 of Wellness Mastery, Coach Jen Hoyer explores the concept of misaligned expectations and how they can undermine health and wellness journeys. Jen discusses the impact of internal beliefs, thoughts, and emotions on achieving health goals. She shares personal experiences and provides five powerful mindset shifts to align expectations with reality, focusing on sustainable progress rather than fast, linear results. Listeners are guided to replace misaligned expectations with curiosity, process-oriented focus, and compassion.00:49 Understanding Misaligned Expectations04:31 Jen's Personal Weight Loss Journey06:00 Com...2025-03-2816 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 20 - Mastering Nights and WeekendsEpisode 20: Mastering Nights and WeekendsIn Episode 20 of Wellness Mastery, health coach Jen Hoyer discusses the common struggles faced during nights and weekends when it comes to maintaining healthy habits. She explores why people often lose control during these times, despite starting the week strong, and provides actionable strategies to overcome this cycle. Key topics include understanding the role of willpower, avoiding deprivation, slowing down during meals, treating health habits as non-negotiables, and managing emotional eating. 00:49 The Weekend Struggle: Why We Lose Control05:43 Common Mistakes in Managing He...2025-03-1427 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 19 - Self Worth and Weight LossEpisode 19: Self-Worth and Weight LossIn this episode Coach Jen explores the crucial role of self-worth in achieving lasting health and weight loss. Jen challenges common misconceptions about self-worth tied to achievements or external validation, and emphasizes the importance of internal beliefs, thoughts, and emotions in shaping behaviors. Through personal anecdotes, analogies, and a compassionate approach, she guides listeners in redefining self-worth as inherent value and ferocious self acceptance. Jen also offers practical advice for cultivating self-worth.00:49 Understanding Self Worth02:22 The Foundation of Health04:43 Redefining Sel...2025-02-2825 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 18 - The Power of FocusEpisode 18: The Power of Focus In episode 18 of Wellness Mastery, coach Jen Hoyer explores the critical role of focus in achieving health and wellness goals. She shares a personal story about overcoming fear and maintaining focus while cleaning a second story window. Jen emphasizes how our internal environment—our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions—shape our actions and influence our ability to achieve lasting wellness. She illustrates how focusing on what we want, rather than what we fear or want to avoid, can affect our exercise, diet, and overall health journey. The episode also provides prac...2025-02-1424 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 17 - Never Let Your Past Dictate Your FutureEpisode 17 - Never Let Your Past Dictate Your Future: Mastering a Future-Focused MindsetIn Episode 17 of Wellness Mastery, host and certified coach Jen Hoyer emphasizes the importance of not letting past experiences dictate your future. Exploring the concepts from Dr. Daniel Kahneman's System 1 (the impulsive, reactive 'teenage brain') and System 2 (the deliberate, thoughtful 'adult brain'), Jen illustrates how our automatic responses often hinder personal growth. She offers practical steps to foster a future-focused mindset, such as envisioning 'future you,' speaking in present tense, and practicing self-compassion. This episode...2025-01-3118 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 16 - Breaking the Start-Stop Cycle: The True Way to ConsistencyEpisode 16: Breaking the Start-Stop Cycle: The True Way to ConsistencyIn Episode 16 of 'Wellness Mastery', coach Jen Hoyer addresses the common cycle of short-term health and weight loss goals driven by upcoming events and how this mindset often leads to inconsistency and failure. She emphasizes the importance of transforming internal environments—thoughts, beliefs, and emotions—to sustain long-term wellness. Jen shares her own experiences with quick-fix diets and the realization that true change stems from a lifestyle that promotes lasting health. She offers practical advice including building a sustainable eating style, viewing exercise as an i...2025-01-1723 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 15 - A 7-Step Journey to Goal Success Inspired by KidsEpisode 15 - A Seven-Step Journey to Goal Success Inspired by KidsThis episode explores a unique approach to achieving health goals inspired by the developmental stages of children. Jen emphasizes the importance of transforming internal beliefs and emotions as a foundation for lasting wellness. She discusses the emotional high from setting New Year's resolutions and why they often fail, advocating instead for a kid-like curiosity and steady, small steps in goal setting. Jen outlines seven stages, from exploring like a baby to pursuing excellence like a professional, each offering insights into building sustainable and...2025-01-0323 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 14 - Choose Your Discomfort WiselyEpisode 14: Choose Your Discomfort WiselyIn Episode 14 of the Wellness Mastery podcast, coach Jen Hoyer discusses the importance of choosing the right kind of discomfort to achieve lasting wellness. She emphasizes that internal environments, such as thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, significantly impact health and wellness. Jen explains that while comfort can lead to stagnation and dissatisfaction, embracing productive discomfort can foster growth and transformation. She shares insights from books like 'Antifragile' and 'The Comfort Crisis' and provides practical tools for making discomfort work in your favor. The episode encourages listeners to make conscious choices...2024-12-2018 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 13 - 3 Ways to Make Failure Work in Weight Loss—and 1 Watch Out.wavEpisode 13: 3 Ways to Make Failure Work in Weight Loss—and 1 Watch OutIn Episode 13 of Wellness Mastery, host Jen Hoyer shares three transformative approaches to turn failures into fuel for success in your weight loss journey, plus one crucial watch out. Drawing inspiration from a personal story about her daughter's rejection letter, Jen emphasizes the importance of shifting perspectives, uncovering underlying lessons, and sharing experiences to overcome shame. She also explains how not to let failure define your identity and highlights the ongoing nature of personal growth. This episode is a motivational guide for an...2024-12-0625 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 12 - Stop Overcomplicating Weight LossEpisode 12 of Wellness Mastery with Jen Hoyer: Stop Overcomplicating Weight LossIn episode 12 of the Wellness Mastery podcast, Coach Jen Hoyer addresses the common pitfall of over-complicating weight loss. She emphasizes the importance of simplifying actions and focusing on internal factors such as thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. Jen shares personal anecdotes to illustrate how scaling back and focusing on a few critical, manageable habits can make a significant difference in achieving sustainable weight loss. The episode encourages listeners to identify their bare minimums, break away from the 'shoulds' influenced by social media, and create...2024-11-2216 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 11 - The 2 Components For Successful Weight LossEpisode 11: The 2 Components You Need For Successful Weight LossIn episode 11 of Wellness Mastery, Coach Jen Hoyer delves into the intertwined roles of physical actions and mental work essential for achieving successful weight loss and long-term health. She highlights how thoughts, beliefs, and emotions shape actions and underlines the need to address mental hurdles such as resistance and self-doubt. The discussion emphasizes the importance of becoming aware of automatic thinking patterns, transforming self-talk, and the profound influence of language on behaviors. Practical advice is provided to overcome mental blocks, with an invitation to join...2024-11-0818 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 10 - The Greatest Lie We Tell Ourselves in Weight LossEpisode 10: The Greatest Lie We Tell Ourselves in Weight LossIn episode 10 of Wellness Mastery, Coach Jen Hoyer shatters the biggest myth in weight loss: the belief that all problems are solved once the weight is lost, and we just go back living like we did before the weight loss journey. She delves into the crucial role of our internal environment, including thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, in shaping health behaviors. Using real-world examples from TV shows like The Biggest Loser, lottery winners, and home makeover recipients, Jen underscores the importance of building sustainable habits...2024-10-2519 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 9 - 5 Things That Could Derail Your Weight Loss Journey During the HolidaysEpisode 9 - 5 Things That Could Derail Your Weight Loss During The HolidaysIn this episode of Wellness Mastery, Coach Jen Hoyer explores five crucial factors that can impede your weight loss journey during the holiday season. She emphasizes the impact of the internal environment, such as thoughts and beliefs, on achieving health goals. Key points discussed include overcoming FOMO and scarcity mindsets, shifting beliefs about self-control around food, maintaining health priorities during holidays, finding balance amidst holiday stress, and managing emotional eating. Coach Jen provides strategies for developing a 's...2024-10-1124 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 8 - The Hidden Drama in Your Mind Halting Your ProgressEpisode 8: The Hidden Drama in Your Mind Halting Your ProgressIn this episode of Wellness Mastery, Coach Jen Hoyer delves into the often overlooked internal factors that hinder health progress. She explains how hidden negative thought loops shape our perceptions, actions, and overall reality. By understanding and transforming these internal narratives, listeners can achieve lasting wellness. Jen discusses the formation of these thought loops, their impact on our lives, and effective strategies to disrupt them, including the importance of identifying and challenging automatic negative thoughts. Listeners are encouraged to be...2024-09-2721 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 7 - Why 'I Don’t Know' Keeps You Stuck and How to Break FreeEpisode 7 - Why 'I Don’t Know' Keeps You Stuck and How to Break FreeIn episode seven of Wellness Mastery, health coach Jen Hoyer delves into the concept of being stuck in indecision, a common barrier to achieving health and wellness goals. Jen discusses how our internal environment—comprising our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions—shapes our actions and behaviors, and why discomfort in decision-making often keeps us stuck. The episode offers practical strategies to break free from this paralysis, such as expanding your options, aligning decisions with your future self, and embracing 'messy action...2024-09-1221 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 6 - How Moralizing Food Traps You in a Cycle of Guilt and OverindulgenceEpisode 6: Breaking Free from Moralizing Food and Health BehaviorsIn this episode of Wellness Mastery, host Jen Hoyer addresses the detrimental effects of moralizing food and health behaviors. Jen explains how labeling food and actions as 'good' or 'bad' can lead to a harmful cycle of guilt and overindulgence. The discussion, inspired by the book 'The Willpower Instinct' by Kelly McGonigal, PhD introduces the concept of moral licensing and its impact on our health goals. Jen provides practical tips for shifting our perspective, redefining our identity, and fostering a healthy relationship with food and...2024-08-3018 min
Fire Up at 55 Plus69. Lasting Wellness & Weight Loss with Jen Hoyer (Part Two)Mastering yourself, especially for wellness and weight loss, is possible! Certified health coach Jen Hoyer did it for herself, and now guides women on transformative journeys to lasting physical, mental, and emotional health. In Part One, hear Jen’s personal story of fulfillment, and discover techniques she's created to free you from self-limiting patterns. In Part Two, learn more about the doable specifics you can apply, centered around building habits and new identity. (Including her Atomic Habits book club.)Jen Hoyer’s website: www.wellnessmasteryforlife.comwww.wellnessmasteryforlife.com/bookclub - Jen’s Atomic Habits Book ClubSocial Media @wellnessmastery4lifePo...2024-08-2226 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 5 - How Root Cause Analysis Could Transform Your Health & Weight Loss JourneyEpisode 5: Transforming Your Health with Root Cause AnalysisIn this episode Jen explores how root cause analysis, a concept borrowed from industries like manufacturing and healthcare, can revolutionize your health and weight loss journey. Jen discusses how identifying and addressing underlying issues such as low self-esteem, fear, identity, beliefs, a dysregulated nervous system, and chronic stress can lead to lasting transformation. She also explains how these root causes impact daily behaviors and offers practical advice for addressing them. The episode emphasizes the importance of both process management and mental-emotional work in achieving and maintaining...2024-08-1923 min
Fire Up at 55 Plus68. Lasting Wellness & Weight Loss with Jen Hoyer (Part One)Mastering yourself, especially for wellness and weight loss, is possible! Certified health coach Jen Hoyer did it for herself, and now guides women on transformative journeys to lasting physical, mental, and emotional health. In Part One, hear Jen’s personal story of fulfillment, and discover techniques she's created to free you from self-limiting patterns. In Part Two, learn more about the doable specifics you can apply, centered around building habits and new identity. (Including her Atomic Habits book club.)Jen Hoyer’s website: www.wellnessmasteryforlife.comwww.wellnessmasteryforlife.com/bookclub - Jen’s Atomic Habits Book ClubSocial Media @wellnessmastery4lifePo...2024-08-1523 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 4 - Two phrases to add to your self talk in your weight loss journeyEmpowering Self-Talk for Sustainable Weight LossIn this episode of Wellness Mastery, coach Jen Hoyer discusses two crucial phrases to add to your self-talk for a sustainable weight loss journey. She explains the importance of self-talk in shaping our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, which in turn influence our actions and behaviors. Emphasizing believable and empowering self-talk over toxic positivity, Jen provides practical insights into maintaining patience and embracing challenges as key factors in achieving lasting wellness. Join Jen as she guides you through transforming your internal environment for true an...2024-08-0615 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 3 - The Three Levels of Weight Loss JourneyThe Three Levels of a Weight Loss JourneyIn this episode of 'Wellness Mastery with Jen Hoyer,' Coach Jen Hoyer explores the three critical stages of a weight loss journey: Want, Willing, and Committed. Jen discusses the importance of recognizing and understanding these stages to avoid frustration and ensure a smoother weight loss journey. She provides insights into how to identify which stage you are in, and practical advice on how to progress to the next level. The episode emphasizes the significance of self-awareness, desire, motivation, and adaptability in achieving lasting wellness. Jen...2024-07-2321 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 2 - Confidence is an Inside JobConfidence: An Inside Job - Understanding True vs. Superficial ConfidenceIn this episode of Wellness Mastery with Jen Hoyer, Jen explores the importance of building genuine, inner confidence versus superficial confidence. She discusses the impact of internal beliefs, thoughts, and emotions on health and wellness goals. Jen distinguishes between true confidence, which is resilient and based on self-awareness, and superficial confidence, which relies on external validation and is fragile. She also provides practical tips for developing true confidence, emphasizing ferocious self-acceptance, self-awareness, and curiosity. Jen shares personal anecdotes and encourages listeners to focus on...2024-07-2324 minWellness Mastery with Jen HoyerEpisode 1 - What My Journey to Better Health Taught MeWhat My Journey to Better Health Taught MeIn the premiere episode of Wellness Mastery, certified health, weight loss, and behavior change coach Jen Hoyer introduces her podcast by challenging traditional beliefs about health and wellness. Jen shares her personal journey through weight gain, blended family stress, and subsequent internal transformation. She emphasizes the importance of focusing on one's internal environment—thoughts, beliefs, and emotions—as the key to achieving lasting wellness. Jen discusses her experiences with failed weight loss attempts and the ultimate realization that true change begins from within.2024-07-2319 min
New Books in Library ScienceMyra Tawfik, "For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law" (U Toronto Press, 2023)Myra Tawfik's book For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law (U Toronto Press, 2023) addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and reputational interests of authors and the commercial interests of publishers often conflict with the public interest in access to knowledge. It chronicles Canada’s earliest copyright law to explain how pre-Confederation policy-makers understood copyright’s normative purpose.Using government and private archives and copyright registration records, Myra Tawfik demonstrates that the nineteenth-century originators of copyright law intended to promote the advancement of learning in schools by encouraging the ma...2023-05-241h 02
New Books in LawMyra Tawfik, "For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law" (U Toronto Press, 2023)Myra Tawfik's book For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law (U Toronto Press, 2023) addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and reputational interests of authors and the commercial interests of publishers often conflict with the public interest in access to knowledge. It chronicles Canada’s earliest copyright law to explain how pre-Confederation policy-makers understood copyright’s normative purpose.Using government and private archives and copyright registration records, Myra Tawfik demonstrates that the nineteenth-century originators of copyright law intended to promote the advancement of learning in schools by encouraging the ma...2023-05-241h 02
Scholarly CommunicationMyra Tawfik, "For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law" (U Toronto Press, 2023)Myra Tawfik's book For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law (U Toronto Press, 2023) addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and reputational interests of authors and the commercial interests of publishers often conflict with the public interest in access to knowledge. It chronicles Canada’s earliest copyright law to explain how pre-Confederation policy-makers understood copyright’s normative purpose.Using government and private archives and copyright registration records, Myra Tawfik demonstrates that the nineteenth-century originators of copyright law intended to promote the advancement of learning in schools by encouraging the ma...2023-05-241h 01
New Books in Canadian StudiesMyra Tawfik, "For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law" (U Toronto Press, 2023)Myra Tawfik's book For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law (U Toronto Press, 2023) addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and reputational interests of authors and the commercial interests of publishers often conflict with the public interest in access to knowledge. It chronicles Canada’s earliest copyright law to explain how pre-Confederation policy-makers understood copyright’s normative purpose.Using government and private archives and copyright registration records, Myra Tawfik demonstrates that the nineteenth-century originators of copyright law intended to promote the advancement of learning in schools by encouraging the ma...2023-05-241h 01New Books in Library ScienceMichelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. In Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford UP, 2022), Michelle Warren tells the story of one such manuscript—an Arthurian romance with textual origins in twelfth-century England now diffused across the twenty-first century internet. This trajectory has been propelled by a succession of technologies—from paper manufacture to printing to computers. Together, they have made literary history itself a cultural technology indebted to colonial capitalism.B...2023-05-1646 minScholarly CommunicationMichelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. In Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford UP, 2022), Michelle Warren tells the story of one such manuscript—an Arthurian romance with textual origins in twelfth-century England now diffused across the twenty-first century internet. This trajectory has been propelled by a succession of technologies—from paper manufacture to printing to computers. Together, they have made literary history itself a cultural technology indebted to colonial capitalism.B...2023-05-1644 min
New Books in Literary StudiesMichelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. In Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford UP, 2022), Michelle Warren tells the story of one such manuscript—an Arthurian romance with textual origins in twelfth-century England now diffused across the twenty-first century internet. This trajectory has been propelled by a succession of technologies—from paper manufacture to printing to computers. Together, they have made literary history itself a cultural technology indebted to colonial capitalism.B...2023-05-1646 min
New Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyMichelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. In Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford UP, 2022), Michelle Warren tells the story of one such manuscript—an Arthurian romance with textual origins in twelfth-century England now diffused across the twenty-first century internet. This trajectory has been propelled by a succession of technologies—from paper manufacture to printing to computers. Together, they have made literary history itself a cultural technology indebted to colonial capitalism.B...2023-05-1646 min
New Work in Digital HumanitiesMichelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. In Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford UP, 2022), Michelle Warren tells the story of one such manuscript—an Arthurian romance with textual origins in twelfth-century England now diffused across the twenty-first century internet. This trajectory has been propelled by a succession of technologies—from paper manufacture to printing to computers. Together, they have made literary history itself a cultural technology indebted to colonial capitalism.B...2023-05-1644 min
New Books in CommunicationsMichelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. In Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford UP, 2022), Michelle Warren tells the story of one such manuscript—an Arthurian romance with textual origins in twelfth-century England now diffused across the twenty-first century internet. This trajectory has been propelled by a succession of technologies—from paper manufacture to printing to computers. Together, they have made literary history itself a cultural technology indebted to colonial capitalism.B...2023-05-1646 min
New Books in Medieval HistoryMichelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)Medieval books that survive today have been through a lot: singed by fire, mottled by mold, eaten by insects, annotated by readers, cut into fragments, or damaged through well-intentioned preservation efforts. In Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford UP, 2022), Michelle Warren tells the story of one such manuscript—an Arthurian romance with textual origins in twelfth-century England now diffused across the twenty-first century internet. This trajectory has been propelled by a succession of technologies—from paper manufacture to printing to computers. Together, they have made literary history itself a cultural technology indebted to colonial capitalism.B...2023-05-1644 min
New Books in Policing, Incarceration, and ReformAnne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons being used as a testing ground for technologies that are later adopted by the general public. If we recognize the prison as a central site for the development of media technologies, how might that change our understanding of both media systems and carceral systems? In Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology (MIT Press, 2023), Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt foreground the ways in which the prison is a mo...2023-05-1326 min
New Books in Public PolicyAnne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons being used as a testing ground for technologies that are later adopted by the general public. If we recognize the prison as a central site for the development of media technologies, how might that change our understanding of both media systems and carceral systems? In Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology (MIT Press, 2023), Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt foreground the ways in which the prison is a mo...2023-05-1328 minNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyAnne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons being used as a testing ground for technologies that are later adopted by the general public. If we recognize the prison as a central site for the development of media technologies, how might that change our understanding of both media systems and carceral systems? In Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology (MIT Press, 2023), Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt foreground the ways in which the prison is a mo...2023-05-1328 minNew Books in CommunicationsAnne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons being used as a testing ground for technologies that are later adopted by the general public. If we recognize the prison as a central site for the development of media technologies, how might that change our understanding of both media systems and carceral systems? In Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology (MIT Press, 2023), Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt foreground the ways in which the prison is a mo...2023-05-1328 min
New Books in TechnologyAnne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt, "Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons being used as a testing ground for technologies that are later adopted by the general public. If we recognize the prison as a central site for the development of media technologies, how might that change our understanding of both media systems and carceral systems? In Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology (MIT Press, 2023), Anne Kaun and Fredrik Stiernstedt foreground the ways in which the prison is a mo...2023-05-1326 min
New Books in PsychoanalysisAmi Harbin, "Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity" (Oxford UP, 2023)In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity (Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing badly is a key part of many of our moral failures, and fearing better a central part of our moral repair.We might think that fearing is undesirable and should be avoided whenever possible. In fact, Fearing Together shows that the avoidance of fear causes some of our greatest threats. This book brings together philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and psychoanalysis to help us understand fear as a relational practice so t...2023-05-0740 min
In Conversation: An OUP PodcastAmi Harbin, "Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity" (Oxford UP, 2023)In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity (Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing badly is a key part of many of our moral failures, and fearing better a central part of our moral repair.We might think that fearing is undesirable and should be avoided whenever possible. In fact, Fearing Together shows that the avoidance of fear causes some of our greatest threats. This book brings together philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and psychoanalysis to help us understand fear as a relational practice so t...2023-05-0740 min
New Books in Big IdeasAmi Harbin, "Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity" (Oxford UP, 2023)In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity (Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing badly is a key part of many of our moral failures, and fearing better a central part of our moral repair.We might think that fearing is undesirable and should be avoided whenever possible. In fact, Fearing Together shows that the avoidance of fear causes some of our greatest threats. This book brings together philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and psychoanalysis to help us understand fear as a relational practice so t...2023-05-0740 min
New Books in AnthropologyAmi Harbin, "Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity" (Oxford UP, 2023)In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity (Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing badly is a key part of many of our moral failures, and fearing better a central part of our moral repair.We might think that fearing is undesirable and should be avoided whenever possible. In fact, Fearing Together shows that the avoidance of fear causes some of our greatest threats. This book brings together philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and psychoanalysis to help us understand fear as a relational practice so t...2023-05-0740 min
New Books in PsychologyAmi Harbin, "Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity" (Oxford UP, 2023)In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity (Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing badly is a key part of many of our moral failures, and fearing better a central part of our moral repair.We might think that fearing is undesirable and should be avoided whenever possible. In fact, Fearing Together shows that the avoidance of fear causes some of our greatest threats. This book brings together philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and psychoanalysis to help us understand fear as a relational practice so t...2023-05-0740 min
New Books in SociologyAmi Harbin, "Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity" (Oxford UP, 2023)In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity (Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing badly is a key part of many of our moral failures, and fearing better a central part of our moral repair.We might think that fearing is undesirable and should be avoided whenever possible. In fact, Fearing Together shows that the avoidance of fear causes some of our greatest threats. This book brings together philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and psychoanalysis to help us understand fear as a relational practice so t...2023-05-0740 min
New Books in Early Modern HistoryEmma Hagström Molin, "Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries" (Brill, 2023)In Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries (Brill, 2023), Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives on document and book plundering. At the forefront of her study is the controversial heritage connected to the Swedish Empire (1611–1721) kept in Swedish archives and libraries.Previous studies suggest that continental spoils were perceived as an inferior and problematic category, and that Catholic books in particular were hard to accommodate in Protestant libraries. However, by considering systems of classification and collection orders of archives and libraries, Hagström Molin unearths a much more complex history of how plundered knowle...2023-05-0557 min
New Books in Western European StudiesEmma Hagström Molin, "Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries" (Brill, 2023)In Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries (Brill, 2023), Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives on document and book plundering. At the forefront of her study is the controversial heritage connected to the Swedish Empire (1611–1721) kept in Swedish archives and libraries.Previous studies suggest that continental spoils were perceived as an inferior and problematic category, and that Catholic books in particular were hard to accommodate in Protestant libraries. However, by considering systems of classification and collection orders of archives and libraries, Hagström Molin unearths a much more complex history of how plundered knowle...2023-05-0557 min
Brill on the WireEmma Hagström Molin, "Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries" (Brill, 2023)In Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries (Brill, 2023), Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives on document and book plundering. At the forefront of her study is the controversial heritage connected to the Swedish Empire (1611–1721) kept in Swedish archives and libraries.Previous studies suggest that continental spoils were perceived as an inferior and problematic category, and that Catholic books in particular were hard to accommodate in Protestant libraries. However, by considering systems of classification and collection orders of archives and libraries, Hagström Molin unearths a much more complex history of how plundered knowle...2023-05-0557 min
New Books in Museum StudiesEmma Hagström Molin, "Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries" (Brill, 2023)In Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries (Brill, 2023), Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives on document and book plundering. At the forefront of her study is the controversial heritage connected to the Swedish Empire (1611–1721) kept in Swedish archives and libraries.Previous studies suggest that continental spoils were perceived as an inferior and problematic category, and that Catholic books in particular were hard to accommodate in Protestant libraries. However, by considering systems of classification and collection orders of archives and libraries, Hagström Molin unearths a much more complex history of how plundered knowle...2023-05-0556 minNew Books in CommunicationsBrahim El Guabli, "Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence" (Fordham UP, 2023)Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence (Fordham UP, 2023) investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the “years of lead”—a period of authoritarianism and political violence between Morocco’s independence in 1956 and the death of King Hassan II in 1999—to examine the transformative roles memory and trauma play in reconstructing stories of three historically marginalized groups in Moroccan history: Berbers/Imazighen, Jews, and political prisoners.This book demonstrates how Moroccan cultural production has become an other-ar...2023-04-3059 min
New Books in Middle Eastern StudiesBrahim El Guabli, "Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence" (Fordham UP, 2023)Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence (Fordham UP, 2023) investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the “years of lead”—a period of authoritarianism and political violence between Morocco’s independence in 1956 and the death of King Hassan II in 1999—to examine the transformative roles memory and trauma play in reconstructing stories of three historically marginalized groups in Moroccan history: Berbers/Imazighen, Jews, and political prisoners.This book demonstrates how Moroccan cultural production has become an other-ar...2023-04-3059 min
New Books in African StudiesBrahim El Guabli, "Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence" (Fordham UP, 2023)Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence (Fordham UP, 2023) investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the “years of lead”—a period of authoritarianism and political violence between Morocco’s independence in 1956 and the death of King Hassan II in 1999—to examine the transformative roles memory and trauma play in reconstructing stories of three historically marginalized groups in Moroccan history: Berbers/Imazighen, Jews, and political prisoners.This book demonstrates how Moroccan cultural production has become an other-ar...2023-04-3059 minScholarly CommunicationBrahim El Guabli, "Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence" (Fordham UP, 2023)Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence (Fordham UP, 2023) investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural production concerning the “years of lead”—a period of authoritarianism and political violence between Morocco’s independence in 1956 and the death of King Hassan II in 1999—to examine the transformative roles memory and trauma play in reconstructing stories of three historically marginalized groups in Moroccan history: Berbers/Imazighen, Jews, and political prisoners.This book demonstrates how Moroccan cultural production has become an other-ar...2023-04-3059 minScholarly CommunicationJeannette A. Bastian, "Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory" (Routledge, 2023)“Archivists feel that what their mission is, is to document society. And the question is: how can you document society if you only look at or value or preserve—maybe value is the right word—a particular segment of the expressions of society?”In Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory (Routledge, 2023), Jeannette Bastian defines and models the concept of cultural archives, focusing on how diverse communities express and record their heritage and collective memory and why and how these often-intangible expressions are archival records. Analysis of oral traditions, memory texts and performance arts demonstr...2023-04-2244 minNew Books in Museum StudiesJeannette A. Bastian, "Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory" (Routledge, 2023)“Archivists feel that what their mission is, is to document society. And the question is: how can you document society if you only look at or value or preserve—maybe value is the right word—a particular segment of the expressions of society?”In Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory (Routledge, 2023), Jeannette Bastian defines and models the concept of cultural archives, focusing on how diverse communities express and record their heritage and collective memory and why and how these often-intangible expressions are archival records. Analysis of oral traditions, memory texts and performance arts demonstr...2023-04-2244 minScholarly CommunicationKristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Beacon Press, 2022) provides a field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future.Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tir...2023-03-261h 04New Books in Museum StudiesKristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Beacon Press, 2022) provides a field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future.Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tir...2023-03-261h 02New Books in Public PolicyKristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Beacon Press, 2022) provides a field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future.Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tir...2023-03-261h 04
New Books in ArchitectureKristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Beacon Press, 2022) provides a field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future.Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tir...2023-03-261h 04
New Books in ArtKristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Beacon Press, 2022) provides a field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future.Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tir...2023-03-261h 02
New Books in Urban StudiesKristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Beacon Press, 2022) provides a field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future.Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tir...2023-03-261h 04
NBN Book of the DayKristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Beacon Press, 2022) provides a field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future.Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tir...2023-03-261h 04
New Books in Critical TheoryKristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices (Beacon Press, 2022) provides a field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future.Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tir...2023-03-261h 04New Books in Museum StudiesAnnie Pfeifer, "To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation" (Cornell UP, 2023)To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (Cornell UP, 2023) rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors—Henry James, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein—Annie Pfeifer examines the relationship between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of collecting objects. From James's paper hoarding to Einstein's mania for African art and Benjamin's obsession with old Russian toys, she shows how these authors' literary techniques of compiling, gleaning, and reassembling constitute a modernist style of collecting which that reimagines the relationship betwe...2023-03-1759 minScholarly CommunicationAnnie Pfeifer, "To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation" (Cornell UP, 2023)To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (Cornell UP, 2023) rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors—Henry James, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein—Annie Pfeifer examines the relationship between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of collecting objects. From James's paper hoarding to Einstein's mania for African art and Benjamin's obsession with old Russian toys, she shows how these authors' literary techniques of compiling, gleaning, and reassembling constitute a modernist style of collecting which that reimagines the relationship betwe...2023-03-1759 minNew Books in ArtAnnie Pfeifer, "To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation" (Cornell UP, 2023)To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (Cornell UP, 2023) rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors—Henry James, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein—Annie Pfeifer examines the relationship between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of collecting objects. From James's paper hoarding to Einstein's mania for African art and Benjamin's obsession with old Russian toys, she shows how these authors' literary techniques of compiling, gleaning, and reassembling constitute a modernist style of collecting which that reimagines the relationship betwe...2023-03-1759 minNew Books in Literary StudiesAnnie Pfeifer, "To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation" (Cornell UP, 2023)To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (Cornell UP, 2023) rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors—Henry James, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein—Annie Pfeifer examines the relationship between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of collecting objects. From James's paper hoarding to Einstein's mania for African art and Benjamin's obsession with old Russian toys, she shows how these authors' literary techniques of compiling, gleaning, and reassembling constitute a modernist style of collecting which that reimagines the relationship betwe...2023-03-1759 minNew Books in Critical TheoryJessa Lingel, "The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom" (U California Press, 2023)The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full of, even fueled by, bias. This was not inevitable. The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom (U California Press, 2023) argues that much like our cities, the internet has become gentrified, dominated by the interests of business and capital rather than the interests of the people who use it. Jessa Lingel uses th...2023-03-1231 minScholarly CommunicationJessa Lingel, "The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom" (U California Press, 2023)The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full of, even fueled by, bias. This was not inevitable. The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom (U California Press, 2023) argues that much like our cities, the internet has become gentrified, dominated by the interests of business and capital rather than the interests of the people who use it. Jessa Lingel uses th...2023-03-1231 minNew Books in CommunicationsJessa Lingel, "The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom" (U California Press, 2023)The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full of, even fueled by, bias. This was not inevitable. The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom (U California Press, 2023) argues that much like our cities, the internet has become gentrified, dominated by the interests of business and capital rather than the interests of the people who use it. Jessa Lingel uses th...2023-03-1231 min
New Books in Politics and PolemicsJessa Lingel, "The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom" (U California Press, 2023)The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full of, even fueled by, bias. This was not inevitable. The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom (U California Press, 2023) argues that much like our cities, the internet has become gentrified, dominated by the interests of business and capital rather than the interests of the people who use it. Jessa Lingel uses th...2023-03-1231 minNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyJessa Lingel, "The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom" (U California Press, 2023)The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full of, even fueled by, bias. This was not inevitable. The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom (U California Press, 2023) argues that much like our cities, the internet has become gentrified, dominated by the interests of business and capital rather than the interests of the people who use it. Jessa Lingel uses th...2023-03-1231 minNew Books in TechnologyJessa Lingel, "The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom" (U California Press, 2023)The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full of, even fueled by, bias. This was not inevitable. The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom (U California Press, 2023) argues that much like our cities, the internet has become gentrified, dominated by the interests of business and capital rather than the interests of the people who use it. Jessa Lingel uses th...2023-03-1229 minNew Books in Public PolicyRobyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott, "Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2022)How can cultural heritage give us the methodological tools and source material to confront climate change? How can the cultural heritage sector lead the way into a future that proactively faces the climate crisis? Who can be involved in this work—who gets to identify as a “cultural heritage expert”—and what is the work to be done?Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage (Routledge, 2022) examines the challenges that environmental change, both sudden and long-term, poses to the preservation of cultural material. But more than this, Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott point out how our confrontation of the cl...2023-02-181h 14
New Books in Environmental StudiesRobyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott, "Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2022)How can cultural heritage give us the methodological tools and source material to confront climate change? How can the cultural heritage sector lead the way into a future that proactively faces the climate crisis? Who can be involved in this work—who gets to identify as a “cultural heritage expert”—and what is the work to be done?Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage (Routledge, 2022) examines the challenges that environmental change, both sudden and long-term, poses to the preservation of cultural material. But more than this, Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott point out how our confrontation of the cl...2023-02-181h 14
New Books in World AffairsRobyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott, "Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2022)How can cultural heritage give us the methodological tools and source material to confront climate change? How can the cultural heritage sector lead the way into a future that proactively faces the climate crisis? Who can be involved in this work—who gets to identify as a “cultural heritage expert”—and what is the work to be done?Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage (Routledge, 2022) examines the challenges that environmental change, both sudden and long-term, poses to the preservation of cultural material. But more than this, Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott point out how our confrontation of the cl...2023-02-181h 14Scholarly CommunicationRobyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott, "Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2022)How can cultural heritage give us the methodological tools and source material to confront climate change? How can the cultural heritage sector lead the way into a future that proactively faces the climate crisis? Who can be involved in this work—who gets to identify as a “cultural heritage expert”—and what is the work to be done?Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage (Routledge, 2022) examines the challenges that environmental change, both sudden and long-term, poses to the preservation of cultural material. But more than this, Robyn Sloggett and Marcelle Scott point out how our confrontation of the cl...2023-02-181h 14
New Books in British StudiesKathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press. In Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture (Duke UP, 2023), Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of printers, whose materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s.Ferguson shows how printers—whether working at presses in homes, offices, or community centers—arranged text, ink, images, graphic markers, and blank space within the architecture of the pa...2023-02-1555 minNew Books in Literary StudiesKathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press. In Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture (Duke UP, 2023), Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of printers, whose materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s.Ferguson shows how printers—whether working at presses in homes, offices, or community centers—arranged text, ink, images, graphic markers, and blank space within the architecture of the pa...2023-02-1555 minScholarly CommunicationKathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press. In Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture (Duke UP, 2023), Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of printers, whose materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s.Ferguson shows how printers—whether working at presses in homes, offices, or community centers—arranged text, ink, images, graphic markers, and blank space within the architecture of the pa...2023-02-1555 minNew Books in CommunicationsKathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)While the stock image of the anarchist as a masked bomber or brick thrower prevails in the public eye, a more representative figure should be a printer at a printing press. In Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture (Duke UP, 2023), Kathy E. Ferguson explores the importance of printers, whose materials galvanized anarchist movements across the United States and Great Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s.Ferguson shows how printers—whether working at presses in homes, offices, or community centers—arranged text, ink, images, graphic markers, and blank space within the architecture of the pa...2023-02-1555 min
New Books in Eastern European StudiesGalina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal names? Grounded in ethnographic and archival research with Last Address and Memorial, one of the oldest independent archives of Soviet political repressions in Moscow and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is produced when a si...2023-02-021h 16Scholarly CommunicationGalina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal names? Grounded in ethnographic and archival research with Last Address and Memorial, one of the oldest independent archives of Soviet political repressions in Moscow and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is produced when a si...2023-02-021h 16
New Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesGalina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal names? Grounded in ethnographic and archival research with Last Address and Memorial, one of the oldest independent archives of Soviet political repressions in Moscow and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is produced when a si...2023-02-021h 14
New Books in Human RightsGalina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal names? Grounded in ethnographic and archival research with Last Address and Memorial, one of the oldest independent archives of Soviet political repressions in Moscow and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is produced when a si...2023-02-021h 14New Books in AnthropologyGalina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal names? Grounded in ethnographic and archival research with Last Address and Memorial, one of the oldest independent archives of Soviet political repressions in Moscow and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is produced when a si...2023-02-021h 16
New Books in Genocide StudiesGalina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, "Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow" (Routledge, 2022)Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal names? Grounded in ethnographic and archival research with Last Address and Memorial, one of the oldest independent archives of Soviet political repressions in Moscow and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic examines a version of archival activism that is centred on various practices of documentation and commemoration of many dead victims of historical violence in Russia to understand what kind of historicity is produced when a si...2023-02-021h 14New Books in Literary StudiesLois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. Unsaid: Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences (U California Press, 2022) is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid—whether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what go...2023-01-2442 minNew Books in AnthropologyLois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. Unsaid: Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences (U California Press, 2022) is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid—whether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what go...2023-01-2442 minScholarly CommunicationLois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences (U California Press, 2022) is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid—whether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what goes w...2023-01-2442 minNew Books in CommunicationsLois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. Unsaid: Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences (U California Press, 2022) is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid—whether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what go...2023-01-2442 min
New Books in LanguageLois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)Harm takes shape in and through what is suppressed, left out, or taken for granted. Unsaid: Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences (U California Press, 2022) is a guide to understanding and uncovering what is left unsaid—whether concealed or silenced, presupposed or excluded. Drawing on a variety of real-world examples, narrative criminologist Lois Presser outlines how to determine what or who is excluded from textual materials. With strategies that can be added to the tool kits of social researchers and activists alike, Unsaid provides a richly layered approach to analyzing and dismantling the power structures that both create and arise from what go...2023-01-2442 min
Fact Check with Bill FeehanLa Crosse County Board Supervisor, Kevin Hoyer on the Police Ovesight Board.La Crosse County Board Supervisor, Kevin Hoyer joins Fact Check with Bill Feehan to discuss the issues facing La Crosse County. Kevin is currently a Town of Hamilton supervisor and La Crosse County Board supervisor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2021-08-0326 min
The Analytics Power Hour#142: Analytics Tribe of Mentors with Jen YacendaA hallmark of the analytics community is the generosity with which ideas and wisdom are shared. One of the largest analytics conferences each year is Adobe Summit. One of the most followed Tims on the planet wrote a book called Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World. Jen Yacenda and Eric Matisoff mixed all three of these truths together in preparation for an hour-long presentation chock full of excellent career advice. And then Adobe Summit went virtual, and their session got drastically shortened. On this episode, Jen joined the gang to talk through (some...2020-06-021h 03
Audio InterferenceAudio Interference 63: Radical Access 2We’re back to continue our series on radical, community libraries! In this episode, we chat with Ola Ronke Akinmowo of the Free Black Women’s Library, Dev Aujla of Sorted Library, and Jen Hoyer and Daniel Pecoraro from our own Interference Archive library.
To learn more about the Free Black Women’s Library, stay up to date about future pop ups, and find out where to donate books, visit her site, follow the library on social media @thefreeblackwomenslibrary, and consider supporting the project via Patreon.
Here’s a short list of reading recommendations from Ola Ronke: Audre Lorde, Gloria Naylor...2019-03-3125 min
Audio InterferenceAudio Interference 63: Radical Access 2We’re back to continue our series on radical, community libraries! In this episode, we chat with Ola Ronke Akinmowo of the Free Black Women’s Library, Dev Aujla of Sorted Library, and Jen Hoyer and Daniel Pecoraro from our own Interference Archive library.
To learn more about the Free Black Women’s Library, stay up to date about future pop ups, and find out where to donate books, visit her site, follow the library on social media @thefreeblackwomenslibrary, and consider supporting the project via Patreon.
Here’s a short list of reading recommendations from Ola Ronke: Audre Lorde, Gloria Naylor...2019-03-3125 min
Motorcycle MenEpisode 45 - Interview with Jen Hoyer from Harley Davidson
Hello Boys and Girls of the motorcycle World!!This was a very special episode as I had the opportunity to speak with Jen Hoyer, the Public Relations Manager with Harley Davidson. We had the time to talk about the new Harley Davidson Roadster, The Livewire Project and the new Flat Track project. We also talked about her ride, the Low Rider S and a little about Sturgis. Jen was very very interesting and articulate, very insightful and a pleasure to interview. If you are a Harley Davidson fan like I am, you will love this interview.In ot...2016-06-2941 min