@colsonwhitehead.com: "Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it.”

Who at the @newyorker.com thought this headline was a good idea?

Let’s go, UCLA!

I’m working on an essay about listening and politics and I’m quite new to the subject. Any suggestions for must-reads on listening in general? #poltheory

Why is it still impossible to change time zones in iCal without screwing everything up?

Human remains found in a church in the Netherlands could be those of d'Artagnan, one of the legendary French swordsmen who inspired the novel The Three Musketeers. n.pr/47xN0dL

for my phellow bibliophiles

Finished "The House of Dudley" last week and just starting “Thomas More: A Life,” both by @drjoannepaul.bsky.social and both highly recommended!

Oooooooooof.

a really lovely and touching essay by @blairbraverman.bsky.social about saying goodbye to her sled dogs #uglydogs (iykyk)

Durba Mitra returns to the In Theory podcast to talk with Disha Karnad Jani about her new book, "The Future That Was." They discuss canon formation, post-colonial yearning, and "Third World" feminism in the late 20th century. @durba.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

So as Paddy’s Festival here in Ireland is now days long, surely we can find an extra day to celebrate her? No, course I’m not angling to another day off. Story here open.substack.com/pub/medieval...

Some many Habermas hot takes, so little need.

“When does decoration make the sublime step from craft to art? In Italy, with its endless layers of meaning, it all depends. It always depends.” —Ingrid D. Rowland

In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

Jürgen Habermas ist tot. Der Philosoph und Soziologe starb heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg.

Jürgen Habermas, the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, has died at the age of 96. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

This, by @mirandayaver.bsky.social, is well worth a read!

I keep coming back to this passage by @adapalmer.bsky.social. I'm teaching a class on utopianism in the fall and I've decided to leave dystopias off the syllabus altogether. There's enough of that shit in the air we breathe.

Political theorists! The deadline to apply to October's @associationpt.bsky.social meeting in Ann Arbor is tomorrow, February 10 at 11:59pm EST! Details at the link.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

I won’t be awake at 2:30 this morning (I hope) but fingers crossed!

"It's fruit wine, what's not to like?"

Now that all of the pieces in our symposium in honor of Kirstie McClure are available online from Philosophy and Global Affairs, here's a little thread with each of the pieces. (1/8)

I'll be working on an entry on #Montesquieu for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in the coming months. If you have any recommendations about secondary readings the biblio absolutely must include (especially French language ones), I'm all ears! #poltheory

The final piece of our symposium dedicated to Kirstie McClure, Vicki Hsueh's "On Narrative and Unruly Readers," is out! #poltheory

Credit where it's due!

Might have helped to include the link! www.pdcnet.org/pga/content/...

The date for the next @associationpt.bsky.social meeting has been set for October 8-10 at the University of Michigan (it's not a home game weekend, we checked!). Paper proposals are due February 10. Come hang out in Ann Arbor before it gets frigid! #poltheory

I'll be working on an entry on #Montesquieu for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy in the coming months. If you have any recommendations about secondary readings the biblio absolutely must include (especially French language ones), I'm all ears! #poltheory

Dvora Yanow's contribution to our symposium on Kirstie McClure in 'Philosophy and Global Affairs' is now available! #poltheory

The introduction to our symposium on Kirstie McClure is up. It was such a pleasure working with @arashdavar.bsky.social, @fredleept.bsky.social, and @kyebarker.bsky.social on this. #poltheory

Matthew Crow's contribution to our symposium on Kirstie McClure, "Historical Writing, Material Text, and Political Theory," is now available from Philosophy & Public Affairs. #poltheory www.pdcnet.org/pga/content/...

One of the funnier academic typos (malapropisms?) that I've seen. From David Harvey's "Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction."

What a peculiar visual callback.

I'm trying to figure out what the closest contemporary media analogue to Wollstonecraft's Vindications - especially the first one - might be. Blogs are dead. TikTok is too compressed and too visual. A Substack post? A newspaper editorial? Any thoughts?

The first piece of our symposium in honor of Kirstie McClure is available from Philosophy and Global Affairs. Thank you to Patchen Markell for his lovely essay and to Jane Anna Gordon for shepherding it through the publication process. #poltheory

Wendy Brown's comments at a memorial for Kirstie McClure, organized by Davide Panagia back in 2024, are now available. #poltheory www.pdcnet.org/pga/content/...

Wendy Brown's comments at a memorial for Kirstie McClure, organized by Davide Panagia back in 2024, are now available. #poltheory www.pdcnet.org/pga/content/...

The first piece of our symposium in honor of Kirstie McClure is available from Philosophy and Global Affairs. Thank you to Patchen Markell for his lovely essay and to Jane Anna Gordon for shepherding it through the publication process. #poltheory

So glad I didn’t try to fit this in my suitcase - it’s ginormous. Even more glad I bought it.

I'm about a third of the way through the new translation of Chaim Grade's (unfinished) "Sons and Daughters" and I already know it'll be one of the best things I read this year.

It was a delight to revisit the work of my mentor, Nancy Rosenblum -- and an honor to be allowed to do so for an audience, thanks to Juliette Marchant at the terrific @herplacepod.bsky.social podcast (which you should all follow!) open.spotify.com/episode/76UJ...

The week I spent in Reykjavik was nowhere near long enough.

a compelling argument

Writing a book is so much more of a joint venture than most us realize. Or at least, more than I realized. Revising chapter 1 of my manuscript now in light of in-depth comments from four different colleagues.

It's just satisfying to say aloud.

How is it already time to put together next year's @apsa.bsky.social proposals?

a wonderful essay about the power, politics, and possibilities of close reading, via @bonniehonig.bsky.social

Planning on starting this later.