Brian Connolly
@brianconnolly.bsky.social
Fast and Furious expert
Book: Situation Critical (https://www.dukeupress.edu/situation-critical)
Book: Domestic Intimacies (https://www.pennpress.org/9780812209853/domestic-intimacies/)
Journal: History of the Present (https://read.dukeupress.edu/history-o
Book: Situation Critical (https://www.dukeupress.edu/situation-critical)
Book: Domestic Intimacies (https://www.pennpress.org/9780812209853/domestic-intimacies/)
Journal: History of the Present (https://read.dukeupress.edu/history-o
My overlooked masterpiece - you're loss if you missed it but you can rectify that...(link to amazon since it is half the price there)
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November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
My overlooked masterpiece - you're loss if you missed it but you can rectify that...(link to amazon since it is half the price there)
www.amazon.com/Domestic-Int...
www.amazon.com/Domestic-Int...
This is exactly right. 2021, faced with a purported $100 million deficit entirely the creation of bonkers admin vision and solution was going to be closing departments and firing faculty. Miraculously faculty won the fight and all cuts rescinded. But their certainty they were right was astounding
The part in my book where French officers decided their programs worked despite all evidence to the contrary and it was actually just their subordinates' fault if thing didn't turn out right really only started to make sense to me when I began working more closely with the university administration
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is exactly right. 2021, faced with a purported $100 million deficit entirely the creation of bonkers admin vision and solution was going to be closing departments and firing faculty. Miraculously faculty won the fight and all cuts rescinded. But their certainty they were right was astounding
what we could use, not particularly urgently, is a theory of the seminar organized around need-demand-desire
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
what we could use, not particularly urgently, is a theory of the seminar organized around need-demand-desire
A Variety of Academic Style: Sanctimonious Stupidity
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
A Variety of Academic Style: Sanctimonious Stupidity
Also worth noting that it’s impossible to imagine there is anything to learn from fucking Larry Summers
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Also worth noting that it’s impossible to imagine there is anything to learn from fucking Larry Summers
Awful - there is hardly an administrator in the US who should be allowed to retain their job
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Awful - there is hardly an administrator in the US who should be allowed to retain their job
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Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
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Love to see it.
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Love to see it.
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The student as the petty sovereign—this is what initiated this iteration of intensification around content control wrt race and gender at Texas A&M and what happened at IU. This is the new flow of institutional authority.
The second image is a quote from Toscano’s Late Fascism
The second image is a quote from Toscano’s Late Fascism
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The student as the petty sovereign—this is what initiated this iteration of intensification around content control wrt race and gender at Texas A&M and what happened at IU. This is the new flow of institutional authority.
The second image is a quote from Toscano’s Late Fascism
The second image is a quote from Toscano’s Late Fascism
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"Our hope is that this forum will point in an opposite direction...toward an exploration...of fantasy and its libidinal pleasure that is at once coincident with, supplemental to, and athwart...preoccupations with material and political causality." -- me
Whole Theweleit forum is open access
Whole Theweleit forum is open access
Introduction | History of the Present | Duke University Press
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November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"Our hope is that this forum will point in an opposite direction...toward an exploration...of fantasy and its libidinal pleasure that is at once coincident with, supplemental to, and athwart...preoccupations with material and political causality." -- me
Whole Theweleit forum is open access
Whole Theweleit forum is open access
The Epstein files reveal/exposure seem to function like a fetish in the Freudian sense, which is to say they avow and disavow and the big reveal will be a let down because we already know
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The Epstein files reveal/exposure seem to function like a fetish in the Freudian sense, which is to say they avow and disavow and the big reveal will be a let down because we already know
"Our hope is that this forum will point in an opposite direction...toward an exploration...of fantasy and its libidinal pleasure that is at once coincident with, supplemental to, and athwart...preoccupations with material and political causality." -- me
Whole Theweleit forum is open access
Whole Theweleit forum is open access
Introduction | History of the Present | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"Our hope is that this forum will point in an opposite direction...toward an exploration...of fantasy and its libidinal pleasure that is at once coincident with, supplemental to, and athwart...preoccupations with material and political causality." -- me
Whole Theweleit forum is open access
Whole Theweleit forum is open access
I don't think it's quite right to see Cornell, UVa etc etc in terms of capitulation to the Trump regime. Rather, they are consolidating the university they have been creating for decades, one in which faculty and students are just unfortunate necessary components to the machine
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I don't think it's quite right to see Cornell, UVa etc etc in terms of capitulation to the Trump regime. Rather, they are consolidating the university they have been creating for decades, one in which faculty and students are just unfortunate necessary components to the machine
Great essay from Pete Coviello on inane Mamdani-Bowdoin-Africana Studies story in the Times and the disingenuous discourses that engulf us.
"An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003."
"An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003."
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Great essay from Pete Coviello on inane Mamdani-Bowdoin-Africana Studies story in the Times and the disingenuous discourses that engulf us.
"An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003."
"An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003."
A few days left - maybe you want one of our History of the Present special issues - on the German Peasants' War, or Psychoanalysis and History, or Reproductive Racial Capitalism, or Pandemic Histories?
Or get Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies?
Or get Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies?
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November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A few days left - maybe you want one of our History of the Present special issues - on the German Peasants' War, or Psychoanalysis and History, or Reproductive Racial Capitalism, or Pandemic Histories?
Or get Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies?
Or get Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies?
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At a time when a journal committed to history as a form of critique is more necessary than ever, History of the Present encourages critical examination of both history’s influence on politics and the politics of history as a discipline. Issue 15:2 is now available: buff.ly/zGvYNDW
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
At a time when a journal committed to history as a form of critique is more necessary than ever, History of the Present encourages critical examination of both history’s influence on politics and the politics of history as a discipline. Issue 15:2 is now available: buff.ly/zGvYNDW
can't believe people are screenshotting posts from BHL - it's ok to ignore him, seriously
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
can't believe people are screenshotting posts from BHL - it's ok to ignore him, seriously
Bad news about humanities majors:
JD Vance - Philosophy
Ron DeSantis - History
Stephen Miller - Philosophy
JD Vance - Philosophy
Ron DeSantis - History
Stephen Miller - Philosophy
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Bad news about humanities majors:
JD Vance - Philosophy
Ron DeSantis - History
Stephen Miller - Philosophy
JD Vance - Philosophy
Ron DeSantis - History
Stephen Miller - Philosophy
Very fun/exciting to be in a bar in Brooklyn when Mamdani won and everyone cheered
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Very fun/exciting to be in a bar in Brooklyn when Mamdani won and everyone cheered
You should pre-order since this will surely be terrific like all the other issues. And you can read me going on about “positive incest,” MILF Manor, hot toddler, and incest porn among other family romances
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wer...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wer...
We’re Not Fucking Around — Parapraxis
The editors
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November 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
You should pre-order since this will surely be terrific like all the other issues. And you can read me going on about “positive incest,” MILF Manor, hot toddler, and incest porn among other family romances
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wer...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wer...
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"The potential for fascism can no more be consigned to the completed historical past than we can justify exempting ourselves from its psychical residues. " - Tim Dean, "It's the Libidinal Economy, Stupid"
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It’s the Libidinal Economy, Stupid | History of the Present | Duke University Press
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November 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"The potential for fascism can no more be consigned to the completed historical past than we can justify exempting ourselves from its psychical residues. " - Tim Dean, "It's the Libidinal Economy, Stupid"
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
"The potential for fascism can no more be consigned to the completed historical past than we can justify exempting ourselves from its psychical residues. " - Tim Dean, "It's the Libidinal Economy, Stupid"
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
It’s the Libidinal Economy, Stupid | History of the Present | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"The potential for fascism can no more be consigned to the completed historical past than we can justify exempting ourselves from its psychical residues. " - Tim Dean, "It's the Libidinal Economy, Stupid"
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
Reposting for those who may have missed it - the Theweleit forum is open access
New issue! Gramsci in France(Anthony Crezegut), postcolonial sovereignty(Swati Birla), slavery and contract(Jason Alhenius), neoliberal revolution(Wendy Brown), and a forum on Klaus Theweleit and the present(me, Tim Dean, Hannah Zeavin, Eli Payne, AO Scott)
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Volume 15 Issue 2 | History of the Present | Duke University Press
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October 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reposting for those who may have missed it - the Theweleit forum is open access
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New issue! Gramsci in France(Anthony Crezegut), postcolonial sovereignty(Swati Birla), slavery and contract(Jason Alhenius), neoliberal revolution(Wendy Brown), and a forum on Klaus Theweleit and the present(me, Tim Dean, Hannah Zeavin, Eli Payne, AO Scott)
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
Volume 15 Issue 2 | History of the Present | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
New issue! Gramsci in France(Anthony Crezegut), postcolonial sovereignty(Swati Birla), slavery and contract(Jason Alhenius), neoliberal revolution(Wendy Brown), and a forum on Klaus Theweleit and the present(me, Tim Dean, Hannah Zeavin, Eli Payne, AO Scott)
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
New issue! Gramsci in France(Anthony Crezegut), postcolonial sovereignty(Swati Birla), slavery and contract(Jason Alhenius), neoliberal revolution(Wendy Brown), and a forum on Klaus Theweleit and the present(me, Tim Dean, Hannah Zeavin, Eli Payne, AO Scott)
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
Volume 15 Issue 2 | History of the Present | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
October 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
New issue! Gramsci in France(Anthony Crezegut), postcolonial sovereignty(Swati Birla), slavery and contract(Jason Alhenius), neoliberal revolution(Wendy Brown), and a forum on Klaus Theweleit and the present(me, Tim Dean, Hannah Zeavin, Eli Payne, AO Scott)
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...
read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...