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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm

@profstorm.bsky.social
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Professor, author, former rocker. My books: "The Invention of Religion in Japan," "The Myth of Disenchantment," "Metamodernism" and "The Genealogy of Genealogy," sites.williams.edu/jaj1

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case you missed it when it came out my piece in Muftah had been posted without the paywall. www.muftah.org/p/prospects-...
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Prospects of the Metamodern [Free to Read, Paywall Removed]
What elements of postmodernism should we preserve, and what must we discard? What defines the metamodern—what it is and what it is not—and why does it matter?
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wrote a very small research note on Foucault’s reading of Borges. One writer finds his face at the end of the labyrinth; the other writes in order to conceal his. Check it here: absolute-disruption.com/2026/09/27/t...
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The Labyrinth & the Face or Foucault & Borges: A Very Short Research Note
Last week, while (virtually) attending The Foucault Century conference at Penn, I was watching Donovan Schaefer’s most excellent talk, which he kicked off with this super-famous passage from …
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case you missed it when it came out my piece in Muftah had been posted without the paywall. www.muftah.org/p/prospects-...
muftah.org
Prospects of the Metamodern [Free to Read, Paywall Removed]
What elements of postmodernism should we preserve, and what must we discard? What defines the metamodern—what it is and what it is not—and why does it matter?
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here is my debate w/ Hilary Lawson & Linda Martín Alcoff on “The Metamodernist Turn.” Caution: I remember gesturing like a madman which is what happens when I get excited about ideas. But I had a lot of fun! So if that sounds like your idea of fun too, free access link's here: iai.tv/video/the-me...
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The metamodernist turn
Realism promised an objective view of the world, while postmodernism taught us to distrust objective truth and all grand narratives. Today, however, there is a growing sense that neither realism nor p...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here is my debate w/ Hilary Lawson & Linda Martín Alcoff on “The Metamodernist Turn.” Caution: I remember gesturing like a madman which is what happens when I get excited about ideas. But I had a lot of fun! So if that sounds like your idea of fun too, free access link's here: iai.tv/video/the-me...
iai.tv
The metamodernist turn
Realism promised an objective view of the world, while postmodernism taught us to distrust objective truth and all grand narratives. Today, however, there is a growing sense that neither realism nor p...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The second interview that dropped yesterday! A conversation with Hermitix. It was actually my first podcast interview about the new book. So you can hear me figuring out how to talk about it in real time. On youtube or wherever you get your podcasts. #critical-theory youtu.be/ilX3T5v_EpA?...
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The Genealogy of Genealogy with Jason Josephson Storm
YouTube video by Hermitix Podcast
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Three interviews/debates dropped today,entirely unplanned! I'll share them gradually rather than flood your feeds. First: a long interview for the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory on cognitive warfare, critical theory, magic, propaganda & more. Keynote spoilers! jcrt.org/religiousthe...
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Genealogy, Enchantment, and the War for the Mind
Carl Raschke interviews Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm on genealogy after genealogy, the myth of disenchantment, and the long history behind the militarization of the mind.
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The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory @jcrt.org · 23/09/2026
Genealogy, Enchantment, and the War for the Mind Carl Raschke interviews Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm on genealogy after genealogy, the myth of disenchantment, and the long history behind the militarization of the mind.
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Genealogy, Enchantment, and the War for the Mind
Carl Raschke interviews Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm on genealogy after genealogy, the myth of disenchantment, and the long history behind the militarization of the mind.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If a generative AI CEO is telling you something, take it with a grain of salt the size of an iceberg. So if they want regulation now, it is more likely something to do with finances than an immediate existential threat. These dipshits do not care about existential threats other than going bankrupt.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And I assume that it does, though it’s still scarcely AI at all. So this is a familiar future, yet stupid. And in so many other ways as well.
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The college is nuking our individual academic pages in favor of standardized templates. So I've made a new professional page. Trying to be minimal, all on a single page (for now). Take a gander and let me know if there is any other content you'd like to see from me there: sites.williams.edu/jaj1/
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Professor Storm's Bibliotheca Abscondita | History | Philosophy | Religion | Science | Magic
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
So this is happing (soon)! Getting myself psyched up now. If you are curious please attend and also check out the later session with Greg and Tim details. Opening interview with me starts at 17:20 GMT. (12:20 for us on the east coast). iai.tv/live/iai-liv...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Aug. 3 (17:20 BST/12:20 EDT), I'll be joining the IAI for a live event on Metamodernism. I'll be interviewed on "Moving Beyond Postmodernism," then debate Hilary Lawson (whose "Reflexivity" I clearly need to reread). Greg Dember & Tim Vermeulen close the event. Should be fun! iai.tv/live/iai-liv...
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IAI Live August: The Metamodernist Turn
Realism promised an objective view of the world. While postmodernism taught us to distrust objective truth and all grand narratives. Today however, there is a growing sense that neither realism nor po...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Virtual reading group on my new book with folks from the Genealogies of Modernity project. I'll even pop in for the last session. Limited number of books for participants. Register by July 20. Shaping up to be a great conversation! Details: genealogiesofmodernity.org/journal/genm...
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Genealogies of Modernity — Virtual Reading Group: The Genealogy of Genealogy
Genealogies of Modernity hosts a reading group on Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm’s The Genealogy of Genealogy
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Me alegra ver la primera de una serie de charlas en español sobre mi manifiesto metamodernista. ¡Échenle un vistazo! #metamodernism : www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0gh...
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Un Manifiesto Metamodernista (Josephson Storm) │ Introducción │ Libro Análisis 1
YouTube video by Dani Montenegro
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Nice to wake up to a new, very positive review of The Genealogy book. Some points of disagreement as to be expected, but really grateful to see that the reviewer praised my "impeccable historical research" and described the book as "an intellectual tour de force"!
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Really nice to read these generous comments on The Genealogy of Genealogy from Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social ! Esp. since one of the original sparks for my project was his observation that Dumézil’s influence was “a topic that requires further investigation.” Thanks for the thoughtful read!
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hey folks, I'll be giving a keynote at this most excellent online conference on "Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare." The call for papers is open until July 15. So I thought I'd post just in case any of you are working on relevant topics. jcrt.org/blog/2026-04...
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CFP: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT
This call for papers invites work on religion, politics, and cognitive warfare, exploring how belief, media, conspiracy, identity, and power shape struggles over reality, interpretation, and life in a...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"The God in the Mirror" a very short research reflection, I wrote for the CSWR at Harvard about a Japanese countertradition of self-deification as part of a broader piece on Apotheosis in Japan. A quick read: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/03...
A mirror in a Shinto shrine. Sources wikicommons.
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Williamstown locals might dig listening to me read from the new book this afternoon (4pm May 7) at the Williams College Bookstore. It may sound dry, but I promise Nietzsche, Foucault, & just enough goth-punk intellectual menace to keep things lively: #philosophy: events.williams.edu/event/an-eve...
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An Evening With Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
The genealogical method—a mode of historical analysis that shows that what looks timeless is in fact contingent, bound to shifting relations of meaning, knowledge, and power—has become the dominant pa...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The Page 99 Test folks invited me to put The Genealogy of Genealogy through its paces. Here’s the result: page99test.blogspot.com/2026/05/jaso...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm's "The Genealogy of Genealogy"
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm is Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Religion and chair of science and technology studies ...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I'm honored to be giving the keynote at this conference which has now opened a call "for proposals on religion, politics, and cognitive warfare, exploring conspiracy, interpretation, AI, and struggles over truth and reality today." It'd be great to see some of you there! jcrt.org/blog/2026-04...
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CFP: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare | The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory | JCRT
Call for proposals on religion, politics, and cognitive warfare, exploring conspiracy, interpretation, AI, and struggles over truth and reality today.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Got my hands on @profstorm.bsky.social’s new book and I’m very excited to start it!
Cover of Jason Josephson Storm’s “The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History.”
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“The Genealogy of Genealogy” has finally arrived in my mailbox! I will resist tediously promoting on here. But if anyone would like to host a Book talk, discuss it in a Reading Group or Podcast, or Teach it, I’d be happy to travel to pretty anywhere on the East Coast or Zoom in from afar.
Jason Storm with "The Genealogy of Genealogy"
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"The God in the Mirror" a very short research reflection, I wrote for the CSWR at Harvard about a Japanese countertradition of self-deification as part of a broader piece on Apotheosis in Japan. A quick read: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/03...
A mirror in a Shinto shrine. Sources wikicommons.
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Pleasure talking with PJ on "Chasing Leviathan" about the Metamodernism book, the nature of flourishing, and the future of the human sciences. Episode out now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohuj...
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Metamodernism: The Future of Theory | Dr. Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
YouTube video by The Chasing Leviathan Podcast
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Last summer in Vilnius, I had a blast doing a fun and in depth interview with Augustas Pinkevičius of Vytautas Magnus University. If you are curious, read it here #PhilSky #AcademicSky: ejournals.vdu.lt/index.php/Di...
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Metamodernism and the future of theory: an interview with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm | Deeds and Days / Darbai ir Dienos
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“The Genealogy of Genealogy” has finally arrived in my mailbox! I will resist tediously promoting on here. But if anyone would like to host a Book talk, discuss it in a Reading Group or Podcast, or Teach it, I’d be happy to travel to pretty anywhere on the East Coast or Zoom in from afar.
Jason Storm with "The Genealogy of Genealogy"
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Just back from Montreal where I launched “The Genealogy of Genealogy” at McGill University. The physical copies were delayed, but the conversation more than compensated! The press reports that advance copies are now shipping and at least one has already been delivered.
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I have a new article out in Cultural Science "Metamodern Theory for the Study of More-than-Human Cultures" trying to make the case for the value of hylosemiotics for studying more-than-human (esp non-human animal) "cultures." Check it out. reference-global.com/article/10.2...
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Metamodern Theory for the Study of More-than-Human Cultures
This article develops a metamodern framework for the study of more-than-human cultures by integrating a materialist semiotics (hylosemiotics), with...
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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Seriously, this is a great episode and I'm going to liberally borrow -- with attribution! -- from it for the introductory lecture next time I teach History of Magic. (Also, if you are not already listening to the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast, you should be.)
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I never get tired of talking about “The Myth of Disenchantment.” If you too are up for more, I had a great convo with Khalid Khatri on his Incisive Thoughts podcast. Give it a listen! : youtu.be/7gKeqOmL4bo
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Science’s Hidden History of Magic and Spirits w/ Dr. Jason Josephson Storm
YouTube video by Incisive Thoughts
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I never get tired of talking about “The Myth of Disenchantment.” If you too are up for more, I had a great convo with Khalid Khatri on his Incisive Thoughts podcast. Give it a listen! : youtu.be/7gKeqOmL4bo
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Science’s Hidden History of Magic and Spirits w/ Dr. Jason Josephson Storm
YouTube video by Incisive Thoughts
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Back in Boston for AAR. Two talks this year: on decolonizing Buddhist studies & on Foucault’s influences (details in comments). I’ll be hitting multiple receptions. Always psyched to meet new folks & reconnect with old friends and colleagues, so if you see me, come say hi. #AARSBL2025
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2026 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Genealogy of Genealogy
A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities—and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing history. ​ The genealogical method—a mode of historical analysis that shows tha...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Back on one of my favorite podcasts, SHWEP, for a fascinating conversation about "The Golden Bough”’s uncanny afterlife in the history of Western Esotericism, and whether Frazer—long cast as a great debunker of magic—might actually belong among the occultists.Check it out! shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm on James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Western Esotericism – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Back on one of my favorite podcasts, SHWEP, for a fascinating conversation about "The Golden Bough”’s uncanny afterlife in the history of Western Esotericism, and whether Frazer—long cast as a great debunker of magic—might actually belong among the occultists.Check it out! shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...
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Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm on James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Western Esotericism – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
My article "The Hegemony of Genealogy" is out in one my fav journals, "boundary 2." Basically an early draft of the 1st chapter of "The Genealogy of Genealogy," but with special attention to the role boundary 2 itself played in the rise of genealogy. Enjoy! read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
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The Hegemony of Genealogy | boundary 2 | Duke University Press
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
My article "The Hegemony of Genealogy" is out in one my fav journals, "boundary 2." Basically an early draft of the 1st chapter of "The Genealogy of Genealogy," but with special attention to the role boundary 2 itself played in the rise of genealogy. Enjoy! read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
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The Hegemony of Genealogy | boundary 2 | Duke University Press
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
On a related note, there are plans a foot at the University of Oregon to possibly eliminate multiple humanities departments, including Religious Studies. Please read this and consider signing the petition in the comments: aarweb.org/news/an-appe...
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An Appeal from the Department of Religious Studies at University of Oregon - AAR
A Note from the RSN Editor Religion scholars are currently facing numerous challenges, including issues of academic freedom and censorship, diminished budgets, department mergers and closures, job los...
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?
Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
one last thing, hopefully not for you, but nevertheless: keep doing the work, humanists. keep writing the stuff that pisses all the right people off, keep teaching your students to imagine better futures, keep learning all kinds of nerdy stuff. we’ll need that knowledge. and that heart. 💜
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Look here for more details as they materialize.
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The Genealogy of Genealogy
The book The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, Jason Ananda Josephson Storm is published by University of Chicago Press.
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Look here for more details as they materialize.
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The Genealogy of Genealogy
The book The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, Jason Ananda Josephson Storm is published by University of Chicago Press.
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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Echoes of Vilém Flusser, up front from @profstorm.bsky.social - "Postmodern doubt can be made to doubt itself ... show us the way toward humble, emancipatory knowledge" - a rich book: #doubt
The cover of 'Metamodernism' by Jason Ânanda Josephson Storm', a young man, of Viennese times past, calmy removes his face - to reveal computer circuitry of today.
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
It didn't arrive in time for my recent Baltic speaking tour, but now that I'm back I'm looking forward to digging into @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social 's new book, "Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples." Looks like a fascinating read.
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Thrilled to see the Vietnamese edition of "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" now out (published as THUYẾT SIÊU-HIỆN ĐẠI: Tương lai của Lý thuyết). It is a real joy to see the ideas finding new life and new readers. Grateful to the translators who brought it across. www.ired.edu.vn/xuat-ban/thu...
Cover of the Vietnamese translation of Metamodernism: The Future of Theory/THUYẾT SIÊU-HIỆN ĐẠI : Tương lai của Lý thuyết
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
My article “Sex, Magic, & Rockets or the Implications of the Babalon Working for Theories of Belief and Rationality” is out now in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. One of my more amusing titles. DM me for a PDF if you're paywalled. Enjoy! brill.com/view/journal...
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