Review: Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History (University of Chicago Press, 2026). Reading Friedrich Nietzsche in good faith is a little like gambling for charity—it’s arguably a betrayal of the art form. If you want a good-faith reading of how one of Nietzsche’s various metaphors for his technique of roguishly insightful but maliciously suspicious reading—his “genealogy”—was transmuted into a default methodology for so-called “poststructuralist” cultural studies by acolytes of Michel Foucault, I recommend Michael Mahon’s 1992…

“Theory and philosophy of history” is a contested label for a loosely connected set of research agendas about history (in the sense of our more or less systematic ways of studying the huma...

A talk presented to the North Texas Philosophical Association conference (at the University of Texas at Dallas, 27 March, 2026) Today I would like to think about art-objects (poems, images, et cetera) generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in terms of Plato’s model of mimēsis. In so doing, I do not want to argue for or against a mimetic criterion for art; rather, I am trying to account for a feature of the…

A talk presented to the North Texas Philosophical Association conference (at the University of Texas at Dallas, 27 March, 2026) Today I would like to think about art-objects (poems, images, et cetera) generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in terms of Plato’s model of mimēsis. In so doing, I do not want to argue for or against a mimetic criterion for art; rather, I am trying to account for a feature of the…

A paper presented that the South Carolina Society for Philosophy & North Carolina Philosophical Society Joint Conference (Furman University, 13-14 March, 2026) As the “existentialist wave” gradually faded into the popular memory of the world wars as a thing of the past, many literarily-inclined philosophers went into eclipse along with the term that publishers had used to market them. One such was Gabriel Marcel, a philosopher-playwright who (according to Simone de Beauvoir) had applied the word “existentialism”—to her thinking and to Jean-Paul Sartre’s.