Corbin Hiday @chiday.bsky.social · 29/06/2026You might be thinking of beginning of Moretti's *The Way of the World*? 130
Corbin Hiday @chiday.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This is great! Reminds me of this section from his “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture” (1979, pg 140) 182
Corbin Hiday @chiday.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Thinking, for no particular reason, of Michael Tondre's excellent account of Victorian/Energy Studies, ruminating on relation between the founding of *Victorian Studies* journal and Suez Crisis 030
Corbin Hiday @chiday.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Delayed news and feels weird to share but my book, Probable Exhaustion: Progress Fictions in the Era of Fossil Capitalism, is under contract at Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social. I’ve been buried in revision work and hoping to land stable job but book will be out soon-ish 061
Corbin Hiday @chiday.bsky.social · 21/01/2025On the fascistic rot within the contradictions of liberal democracy. This whole piece worth a read! @charlotteerosen.bsky.social proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t... 091
![Quote from Moretti, *The Way of the World*: "The Bildungsroman as the 'symbolic form' of modernity: for Cassirer, and Panofsky, through such a form 'a particular spiritual content [here, a specific image of modernity] is connected to a specific material sign [here, youth] and intimately identified with it. 'A specific image of modernity': the image conveyed precisely by the 'youthful' attributes of mobility and inner restlessness.
Modernity as a bewitching and risky process full of 'great expectations' and 'lost illusions'. Modernity as - in Marx's words - a 'permanent revolution' that perceives the experience piled up in tradition as a useless dead-weight, and therefore can no longer feel represented by maturity, and still less by old age" (5).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ve52b77kukibul7vhb67wjuf/bafkreieipahjz36zg76c7fvaydjvpuvizd5vi2sqyjwww3vg4mdlknhplq)
