I'm thrilled to be co-editing this collection, Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin, an outgrowth of the conference we did last year, bringing historians and philosophers of biology and evolutionary biologists to reflect on these influences in their own work

Adrian Johnston's Infinite Greed provides a novel theory of Capital and the psychoanalytic subject by bringing together Lacan and Marx's drive theories: olrsupplement.com/2026/05/14/t...

Hey, Rebecca, do you know where I can get a copy of little known up-and-comer Friedrich Hölderlin's complete correspondence in English? SO GLAD YOU ASKED. Now out in paperback from @sunypress.bsky.social. 750 pages of translated epistolary awesomeness. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

Absolutely delighted with this brilliant reading!!!! Thanks so much to Niall Gildea, Jonathan Basile, and the OLR!!!!

Niall Gildea reviews @jeremystewart.bsky.social's I, Daniel as a creative-critical reading of The Post Card focused on parallels between Stewart's family tree and Derrida's, a Derridean rejoinder to autotheory and post-critique olrsupplement.com/2026/05/08/i...

The release date is approaching for my new book, Natural Lection: Cultures of Evolution (www.upress.umn.edu/978151791998...). On cultural evolution as emblematic of instabilities that pass between the sciences and the humanities or nature and culture. Here's a discount code:

this article expresses appropriate skepticism about the claims of polygenic score prediction, but this is not a good description of why they fail. It sounds as if any outcome must be attributable to gene sequences with deterministic outcomes—in fact, the very model of gene agency may be flawed

Worth a read. Yeesh.

"Harden asegura que se opone a la eugenesia: no obstante, está ignorando lo que significa ese término para la mayoría de historiadores del tema, quienes ven su más reciente iteración en esta individualización ascendente y neoliberal del cribado y aborto de embriones supuestamente disgénicos."

Given that Harden has a new book out that is largely a repeat of her first book, The Genetic Lottery, here's a list of critical reviews of that book. 1. Lottery, Luck, or Legacy: gcbias.org/wp-content/u...

“Indeed, every political project implicated in the rise of fascism in the United States today… can be understood as an emanation of, among other things, this ideological investment in eugenics.” exactlyyyyyy

If you ever did 23AndMe or the UK Biobank your data was used by this vile eugenicist to claim people are racially predisposed to being sinful, and therefore punishable. In light of the final blow to the Voting Rights Act it's important to know how these arguments look, where they come from.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig... I have several very serious takes about these human behavioral genetics research and one of them is that they tend to publish too much in "Nature" journals. That's a hard red flag.

Just in case anyone is dosing Blanchot and Bataille... drive.google.com/file/d/1ccM0...

I'm so happy that someone has finally described the game plan of this little cottage industry so clearly. It's one more example of the scam economy we all live under now.

"Original Sin features a series of anecdotes about Harden’s [life], and becoming a geneticist only to realize she was still obsessed with the same questions of sin and redemption she had learned in church....The book reads like an Eat Pray Love of biotech grifting." - @jonothingeb.bsky.social

I implore everyone to read this brilliant book review of Kathryn Paige Harden new book on the genetics of criminality. It cuts right through the bullshit to state plainly what Harden's project really is: eugenics bullshit and grifting lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig...

This is quite a review. lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig...

A key point from @jonothingeb.bsky.social here is that, as with AI, when liberals say, "Oh no this all powerful technology will doom us!", in this case, "The rich will use GWAS embryo selection to create a master race!", it's just $ in the bank for industries who want us to believe their shit works

"None of this deepens our understanding of the scientific or religious questions posed, and again, that may not be the point. The book reads like an Eat Pray Love of biotech grifting" - @jonothingeb.bsky.social demonstrating criticism is an art form.

“This tactic mirrors a broadly adopted political strategy: appealing to liberals to argue that their political aims can only be realized by embracing the current obsessions of conservatives.” - @jonothingeb.bsky.social A clear-eyed summary of a trap so many people fall into. We must do better!

This book review by @jonothingeb.bsky.social is a must-read. Not to toot my own horn, but back in 2018 I stumbled on Basile’s work on Borges and convinced him to publish an excerpt in a small outlet I was working at. His skill was immediately apparent even then lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig...

"“Sir, what ye’re telling us is nothing but Scientific Calvinism.” [...] that life was genetically preordained resembled the doctrine of predestination: [...] the privilege of “the Elect” was mirrored in the inequality of these genetic predispositions." 🤡 lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig...

Brutal review, wow... "The book reads like an Eat Pray Love of biotech grifting, designed to make her into a public figure based on her personal journey, now presented as the living impetus for her advocacy."

That's what I was going for

It’s useful to practice identifying when purported liberal/progressive academics are doing fascists-are-in-power-we-gotta-get-right-with-em.

Get their ass, Jonathan!

I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about Kathryn Paige Harden's new book, an attempt to popularize the eugenics of criminality. I read it as a gambit to build liberal support for the project animating far right politics today, inspired by Replacement theory.

Markus Hodec reviews a new book by Alzbeta Kuchtova, on phenomenology and deconstruction beyond humanism: olrsupplement.com/2026/04/21/g...

New episode of AV out this morning.

An interview between Timothy Clark and Phil Lynes on the latter's new book Dearth, on speculative realism and (eco-)deconstruction: olrsupplement.com/2026/04/02/n...

Just in time for the close reading craze, a conversation between Nicholas Royle and Garrett Stewart: olrsupplement.com/2026/03/12/w...

If you're in the Toronto area, I'll be speaking about themes related to Virality Vitality at McMaster on March 12th (full info in the flier below). An enormous thank you to Derek Woods for organizing, and to David Clark and Zachary Gan for being in conversation with me. I hope to see you there!

Oh hiiiii @jonothingeb.bsky.social

I'm excited about the seminar we've put together for the ACLA (www.acla.org/conference/s...) - I hope I see some of you there, and let me know when you're presenting if you'll be there

New in OLR: Misha Stekl's review of Foucault's Les hermaphrodites! This posthumous publication transforms our understanding of Foucault's research on sexuallity as well as challenging views in contemporary queer theory and intersex studies olrsupplement.com/2026/02/23/l...

Really appreciate Justin Joque's review of Emily Bender and Alex Hanna's book "The AI Con" @harpercollins.bsky.social And for me it is this paragraph that is the money shot. olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...

An excellent reflection from @jjoque.bsky.social that draws out some fine, but crucial distinctions that I believe will be essential for political fights for a better world.

It's genuinely disturbing to see people still mobilizing against the very principle of public health protections. The logical outcome of moves like these will be that it is difficult or impossible to protect us at all next time (the response to the last pandemic already being in fact insufficient)

Joque comes at this from a Marxist and deconstructionist/poststructuralist angle but IMO existential phenomenology also gets you there - what if there's no 'ground truth' just the fact that we are stuck here together on this rock olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...

this review of The AI Con from @jjoque is everything that i would want to say and everything that needs to be said to prevent "left/liberal" and "skeptic/intentionalist" from being conflated olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...

For a complementary piece on AI, critiquing it without relying on the humanist subject to do so, check out Víctor Betriu Yáñez's "Is a Derridean Critique of Generative AI Possible? Writing Machines and Logocentrism without Subject": olrsupplement.com/2026/01/15/i...

Signed back in for a hot second to share my most recent writing: a short critical review of the recent Bender and Hanna AI book. Please enjoy and share!

Justin Joque offers a more radical critique of AI in this review, questioning both the intentional model of language and the liberal politics of Bender and Hanna's the AI Con: olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...

Joe Larios on Michael Naas's Threshold Phenomena, exploring Derrida's recently published seminars on Hospitality, and their implications for everything from Ancient Greek literature and philosophy to contemporary politics: olrsupplement.com/2026/02/09/t...

There’s mountains of it on the internet and it’s already written in chatgpt quality prose—this has got to be the most imitable genre

Whomst among us

Are there any classic illustrations, drawings, paintings, etc. of Exodus 33:22-23 (Moses in the cleft of the rock)?

I'm particularly interested in the analysis of the bullroarer as representing "male anal power" - so I'd be interested in anything on anal birth/rebirth

Can anyone recommend any recent anthropological or other writing on the bullroarer?