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Feb 7, 2023 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
Looking for your next great read? Look no further than these new titles, hot off the presses! 👇
📕 The Limit of the Useful
✍️ Georges Bataille
💭 The first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher's later thought. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047333/…
Jun 29, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Recently, one of our marketers discovered that Amazon does not allow "queer theory" to be included as a keyword in enhanced product descriptions (the fancy graphics you sometimes see at the bottom of a book page on Amazon).
She was uploading content for our new book by @alex_monea, The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight.
The content was flagged automatically by an algorithm because using the word "queer" is--apparently--considered "a violation of community guidelines."
Jun 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Tuesday? More like NEWsday!
...because we have new books to share. Get it? 😅
Northern Sparks by Michael Century explores an “episode of light” in Canada sparked by Expo 67 when new art forms, innovative technologies, and novel institutional and policy frameworks emerged together.
