I'll never not be thrilled at being part of CALIBANO, the (incredibly stylish) magazine of the Opera of Rome. I only wish I could read all the other articles!

“Off With the Pixels: How Social Media Manifests Mass Presencelessness”

Normal guys: "Send nudes" Agamben: ". . . dispatch a visual trace of your unclothed impersonal form: a formthat is nevertheless singular in its own relation to the theological event of our banishment from Eden, and thus our ongoing Fall away from the Open of an ever-foreclosed humanimality."

know your chanteuse

Sex, Lies, and Server Space

Perhaps we can save the liberal arts, the humanities, and the social sciences by simply rebranding all such programs as "Dark Academia."

"Content Collapse: On the Sloppification of Enshittification"

When the internet goes down we will brave bullets and brigands to share memes drawn by hand

After the internet collapses we will brave brigands and bullets to share memes drawn by hand

It's almost like television's obsession with, and anachronistic understanding of, the liberal arts milieu - The Chair, Lucky Hank, Vladimir, Rooster - is a part of the subconscious cultural mourning process around the swift extinction of that same world.

So sorry to hear about Hampshire College. Despite the diversity of characters involved, I know at least a dozen people who went and/or worked there, and they all seem to share certain brilliant, wry, committed, capacious spirit. Tragic . . .

Weep not for those things you cut, but became distracted before pasting. And thus confine to oblivion.

I'll be talking with Naomi Waltham-Smith and some environmental humanities folks next month in Oxford. Come along if you're in the environs! www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/vox-mu...

Every NYT headline is like: "Some employees express reservations about bull chosen to manage new China shop."

I'm still amazed and delighted that the full-text, interactive version of IN DIVISIBLE CITIES is still up and functional, on the @punctumbooks.bsky.social website. indivisiblecities.punctumbooks.com

Coming soon, from those irrepressible folks at @everydayanalysis.bsky.social.

Still making myself smile with this one . . .

It's a shame that there are no clips online of that time Krishnamurti hosted Saturday Night Live.

Today I learned that the first mention of Nietzsche in English literature was from the pen of a Melbourne-born feminist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...

Power-tool-being

Cheesemaxxing

Next week, in NYC. (Opening keynote by Stacy Alaimo) www.multispecieslab.net/festival

These two, from DTF St Louis, should have their own show.

A bit more ectoplasm . . . publicseminar.org/2026/03/ghos...

Since we’re living in a brave new world, I’m going to stop asking friends and colleagues, “how are you?” Instead I’m going to ask, “How are your levels?”

My new book Currency of Nihilism is officially out today! In it, I develop a history and theory of financial nihilism that speaks directly to the ongoing merger of digital technology with finance. Use the code SAMMAN20 for 20% off: www.sup.org/books/politi... mngbookshop.co.uk/978150364586...

Maybe we should rebrand the humanities as "soulmaxxing."

Godard: “All you need to make a film is a girl and a gun.” Rohmer: “Actually, all you need is a girl.”

I just woke from a dream in which NYC was plunged into darkness, due to a sudden black out. My first response was to shout out to the anxious crowd, "It's Dante time!"

Would like to do more / but life is scary Got no time / like Jonathan Crary

"You come to me . . . on the day of Miss Piggy's wedding . . ."

I contain multivitamins.

Rare photograph of Jacques Derrida

Today I learned that when William Whewell coined the term “scientist,” in 1833, he offered an alternative term that, sadly, wasn’t adopted by the culture: “Nature peeper.”

NYT Lifestyle, next month (probably): "The latest trend is called 'unconversation.' Sitting alone for a while without talking. Maybe staring at a wall. And it's taking downtown by storm!"

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 darksky.org/news/two-sat...

I miss the pre-social media version of the Internet where weird random pages like this could become a thing. www.thisman.org

"'Veselka kind of sucks now': an East Village Memoir"

Pretty much all emails I receive from students are now generic, formal, and highly-structured. Almost makes me miss the days of "Yo Teech."

Microghosting – all those little parcels of neglect with which people pepper their day: not responding to a pressing text till after the matter has been settled, failing to send a follow up thank you message when someone fulfils a request you made to them, and so on.

the forgetting of being (awesome)

Today I learned that Sarah McLachlan was first discovered, and signed by, the main guy from Skinny Puppy.

Someone should write about traveling theater troupes on screen: from Naruse to Bergman to SHAKESPEARE-WALLAH to STATION ELEVEN.

Who wants to join my new doo-wop band, Anxious Frank and the Self Soothers?

"Dear colleague. I look forward to responding to your email as soon as you have rephrased it more respectfully."

Happy User Agreement Update season to all!