Jacob Henry Leveton
@jacobhleveton.bsky.social
Scholar of visual culture, sound, political aesthetics.
Philosophy of literature, Post-Romantic media.
Anti-obscurantist.
Editor, the Non-Standard 📰
a weekly paper for experimentation in the materialisms of the present
Philosophy of literature, Post-Romantic media.
Anti-obscurantist.
Editor, the Non-Standard 📰
a weekly paper for experimentation in the materialisms of the present
And this is why the disinvestment from tenure-track lines (at best) is such a tendentious way to balance institutional budgets.
What students are paying for, they can only sometimes—and only on a good day, for everyone involved—access.
There has to be a better way. 4/4
What students are paying for, they can only sometimes—and only on a good day, for everyone involved—access.
There has to be a better way. 4/4
October 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
And this is why the disinvestment from tenure-track lines (at best) is such a tendentious way to balance institutional budgets.
What students are paying for, they can only sometimes—and only on a good day, for everyone involved—access.
There has to be a better way. 4/4
What students are paying for, they can only sometimes—and only on a good day, for everyone involved—access.
There has to be a better way. 4/4
This is precisely the quiet tragedy of the contemporary university:
Adjunct faculty have so few opportunities—and so little protected time—for the very kind of deep, transformative exchange students invest their lives (and life savings) to find. 3/
Adjunct faculty have so few opportunities—and so little protected time—for the very kind of deep, transformative exchange students invest their lives (and life savings) to find. 3/
October 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is precisely the quiet tragedy of the contemporary university:
Adjunct faculty have so few opportunities—and so little protected time—for the very kind of deep, transformative exchange students invest their lives (and life savings) to find. 3/
Adjunct faculty have so few opportunities—and so little protected time—for the very kind of deep, transformative exchange students invest their lives (and life savings) to find. 3/
Moments like this are why the university should exist: for thinking and making that bridges history, faith, and form.
And yet—it’s pure chance that this conversation even happened. I had a spare hour. I wasn’t too exhausted. 2/
And yet—it’s pure chance that this conversation even happened. I had a spare hour. I wasn’t too exhausted. 2/
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Moments like this are why the university should exist: for thinking and making that bridges history, faith, and form.
And yet—it’s pure chance that this conversation even happened. I had a spare hour. I wasn’t too exhausted. 2/
And yet—it’s pure chance that this conversation even happened. I had a spare hour. I wasn’t too exhausted. 2/
Feel better Manu!
October 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Feel better Manu!
That’s what we’re seeing now:
limits of control revealed by the scale of refusal.
The machinery of fear can still grind—and destroy—but it can only grow so much.
And this to me is a reason for some optimism today 6/6
limits of control revealed by the scale of refusal.
The machinery of fear can still grind—and destroy—but it can only grow so much.
And this to me is a reason for some optimism today 6/6
October 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
That’s what we’re seeing now:
limits of control revealed by the scale of refusal.
The machinery of fear can still grind—and destroy—but it can only grow so much.
And this to me is a reason for some optimism today 6/6
limits of control revealed by the scale of refusal.
The machinery of fear can still grind—and destroy—but it can only grow so much.
And this to me is a reason for some optimism today 6/6
Every protest, and this is where #NoKings is particularly good, exposes these limits.
Authoritarianism depends on endless staffing & perfect coordination;
Dissent needs only presence.
When millions march, there's hope for larger horizon of constraint for the Trump administration's depredations/5
Authoritarianism depends on endless staffing & perfect coordination;
Dissent needs only presence.
When millions march, there's hope for larger horizon of constraint for the Trump administration's depredations/5
October 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Every protest, and this is where #NoKings is particularly good, exposes these limits.
Authoritarianism depends on endless staffing & perfect coordination;
Dissent needs only presence.
When millions march, there's hope for larger horizon of constraint for the Trump administration's depredations/5
Authoritarianism depends on endless staffing & perfect coordination;
Dissent needs only presence.
When millions march, there's hope for larger horizon of constraint for the Trump administration's depredations/5
This is Late Fascism's probable limit: a nascent system trying to scale beyond its own capacity.
Pandemic management, global war, mass deportation—each repeats the 20th century’s scripts, but none can reach their old magnitude.
The contemporary world itself resists this scaling. /4
Pandemic management, global war, mass deportation—each repeats the 20th century’s scripts, but none can reach their old magnitude.
The contemporary world itself resists this scaling. /4
October 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is Late Fascism's probable limit: a nascent system trying to scale beyond its own capacity.
Pandemic management, global war, mass deportation—each repeats the 20th century’s scripts, but none can reach their old magnitude.
The contemporary world itself resists this scaling. /4
Pandemic management, global war, mass deportation—each repeats the 20th century’s scripts, but none can reach their old magnitude.
The contemporary world itself resists this scaling. /4
And here lies the limit.
To fully silence a population this large—to police every street, feed, & voice—would demand an expansion of labor it's very unlikely the state could ever supply.
There aren’t enough workers (esp ideologically committed to do the hard work) for repression at a full scale.
To fully silence a population this large—to police every street, feed, & voice—would demand an expansion of labor it's very unlikely the state could ever supply.
There aren’t enough workers (esp ideologically committed to do the hard work) for repression at a full scale.
October 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
And here lies the limit.
To fully silence a population this large—to police every street, feed, & voice—would demand an expansion of labor it's very unlikely the state could ever supply.
There aren’t enough workers (esp ideologically committed to do the hard work) for repression at a full scale.
To fully silence a population this large—to police every street, feed, & voice—would demand an expansion of labor it's very unlikely the state could ever supply.
There aren’t enough workers (esp ideologically committed to do the hard work) for repression at a full scale.
This is where late fascism differs from its 20th-century forms.
Old fascisms centralized power through spectacle.
Late Fascism distributes it through networks—outsourcing control to private platforms, police foundations, and data infrastructures.
But the machinery still runs on people. 2/
Old fascisms centralized power through spectacle.
Late Fascism distributes it through networks—outsourcing control to private platforms, police foundations, and data infrastructures.
But the machinery still runs on people. 2/
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is where late fascism differs from its 20th-century forms.
Old fascisms centralized power through spectacle.
Late Fascism distributes it through networks—outsourcing control to private platforms, police foundations, and data infrastructures.
But the machinery still runs on people. 2/
Old fascisms centralized power through spectacle.
Late Fascism distributes it through networks—outsourcing control to private platforms, police foundations, and data infrastructures.
But the machinery still runs on people. 2/