i posted an academic article i had written and someone got upset that it was too specialized to understand

7: you don’t look very good when you don’t have a beard

Volume 52 of the Lessing Yearbook edited by myself, Hannes Kerber, and Joe Haydt is now available for download and hardback preorders from @wallsteinverlag.bsky.social!

it’s really unfair that the account rage tweeting about perfidious brown professors hasn’t tweeted anything about me

this is the only thing i’ve achieved this year

Wife: You make me sound like such as ditz. Like I don’t even know critical theory. Me: Is that what it means to be a ditz? Wife: In your world.

Fascists: How dare you ridicule my favorite fascist! He’s a special boy!!

sometimes you read a text and you feel an overwhelming urge to do theory to it

one month until my wife’s birthday, which i like to think of as the start of the six week period when i get to tell her every day how much i love being with an older woman

Wife: You don’t do deep enough close readings of your own work

wife says i can be ceo of the family but she’s chair of the board

Will no one rid me of this meddlesome professor?

Spoke with @gregscaduto.bsky.social about this over the summer, and one thing I’ve noticed about my newest students, whose time in high school wasn’t interrupted by Covid, is that the Covid effects are starting to wane.

some days i get to teach my students things that really matter, things like how to say wanker in german

on blue sky i hold the things i post on twitter in utter contempt

discount on quarter zips at costco. it’s a big day for me.

perhaps i would feel worse about just ridiculing something instead of engaging substantively if my decision to just ridicule weren’t repeatedly vindicated

you can’t show people on BlueSky the sort of things i post on twitter. it’s a secret.

i stopped writing in cursive as soon as my teachers stopped making me write in cursive, but i very much appreciate my students who still do so

7: I want to watch you fail

I’m at the Neapolitan pizzeria. I’m at the ramen joint. I’m at the combination Neapolitan pizzeria ramen joint.

in retrospect a missed opportunity to ask butler what they thought about my application for the german/comp lit job at cal a decade ago

Humanities vs. STEM

invited to my kid’s class to talk about my job, and if these first graders don’t work on their ironic trolling there’s no way they’re going to make it as shitposters

This is the second time I listed to this episode and it is freaking me out even more (thank you very much). There are many Schmittheads in charge of our government and it is disturbing. Remember Joh Eastman? I can't help but hear some nasty Schmitt in the things he wrote in 2000 as well as 2020.

TODAY ON TGS: the man, the myth, the legend @jonathanbfine.bsky.social in our first ever unlocked episode, talking about your least favorite politician’s favorite philosopher - Carl Schmitt.

talking about my favorite nazi with @ceaubin.bsky.social for @thisguysucked.com spotify.link/hOrxQTSgTXb

THIS THURSDAY ON TGS: In honor of @jonathanbfine.bsky.social 17th anniversary we are unlocking a remastered version of his 'wtf is up with Carl Schmitt' deep dive for non-Patreon listeners. The world has gotten unfathomably worse in the months since its release, for reasons discussed in the episode.

6: someone has to win, and that has to be the little kid

yes

i would never join a group chat that would accept me as a member

@jonathanbfine.bsky.social a couple of german customers came through the shop them the one german phrase i know (oh nein ein horizontal rotierendes Pferd) and they asked me if i knew prof fine

my kid told my mom i’m the best teacher in the world

I wouldn’t say that I bought something at the Theory outlet just so I could get a Theory tote bag to carry books of theory, but I also wouldn’t not say that I did exactly that.

Discovered today that Maia Mindel has unblocked me. I wish I could have advised her against making such a terrible decision.

eww gross

Germans: Wouldn’t your tweet be better if it weren’t funny?

select all that apply

leaving a gap in the literature is real loser behavior and something i would just never do

when your career never advances, you’re always early career faculty, which is neat

I’d never tell people to join the Lessing Society just because I designed the new website, but I also would never discourage people from joining purely on that basis.

Wife: The kids told me the house ate you and you were talking to me from in the walls

6: you look like a little kid in this

foreign languages are irrelevant gobbledeygoop. got it. thanks.

Jonathan Fine stuns in new academic journal article

I have not earned this title, but I never complain when I’m mistakenly granted it

i’m too shallow of a reader to tell if this tweet is about me

fascinating things are happening on twitter dot com

Overheard at the coffee shop this morning: Who needs a philosophical thing about Goethe? The research we do is important.

might go as hamlet for halloween