Jonathon Catlin
@joncatlin.bsky.social
Intellectual history, German & Jewish studies, climate catastrophe | Postdoc at the University of Rochester Humanities Center | PhD from Princeton | Edits @jhideas.bsky.social | Rochester • NYC • Berlin 🏳️🌈
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
Grateful for late capitalism
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Grateful for late capitalism
Thanksgiving proofs 🤗 🦃 👨🏻🏫
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Thanksgiving proofs 🤗 🦃 👨🏻🏫
The special issue of New German Critique on "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads," which I co-edited with Andreas Huyssen and the late Anson Rabinbach, is finally starting to look real! It will be out in February 2026.
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The special issue of New German Critique on "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads," which I co-edited with Andreas Huyssen and the late Anson Rabinbach, is finally starting to look real! It will be out in February 2026.
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
So you call yourself an eco-Marxist? @alybatt.bsky.social and her dream team of respondents would love to know why, if capitalism is so good at commodifying everything, it‘s failed to put a price on nature to protect it from destruction. Excited to read her book! @princetonupress.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
So you call yourself an eco-Marxist? @alybatt.bsky.social and her dream team of respondents would love to know why, if capitalism is so good at commodifying everything, it‘s failed to put a price on nature to protect it from destruction. Excited to read her book! @princetonupress.bsky.social
Still reeling from the intellectual richness and political urgency of Dagmar Herzog's talks this week at @urochester.bsky.social! We have a final event on 11/25: A hybrid Zoom event with Kathryn Brackney on her history of Holocaust representation. Register here:
events.rochester.edu/event/surrea...
events.rochester.edu/event/surrea...
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Still reeling from the intellectual richness and political urgency of Dagmar Herzog's talks this week at @urochester.bsky.social! We have a final event on 11/25: A hybrid Zoom event with Kathryn Brackney on her history of Holocaust representation. Register here:
events.rochester.edu/event/surrea...
events.rochester.edu/event/surrea...
Thrilled to be hosting the brilliant historian Dagmar Herzog in Rochester this week for events on her two (!) new books, which explore sexuality, racism, and anti-disability politics in 20th century Germany and on the far right today. Details here:
events.rochester.edu/search/event...
events.rochester.edu/search/event...
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Thrilled to be hosting the brilliant historian Dagmar Herzog in Rochester this week for events on her two (!) new books, which explore sexuality, racism, and anti-disability politics in 20th century Germany and on the far right today. Details here:
events.rochester.edu/search/event...
events.rochester.edu/search/event...
Fantastic virtual event going on right now (I believe it’s being recorded). Valentina Pisanty: In official, institutionalized Holocaust memory in the West, “Never Again” has become code for “There Is No Alternative” to (failing) capitalist liberal democracy.
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Fantastic virtual event going on right now (I believe it’s being recorded). Valentina Pisanty: In official, institutionalized Holocaust memory in the West, “Never Again” has become code for “There Is No Alternative” to (failing) capitalist liberal democracy.
At Smith College for the annual Critical Theory Roundtable. My paper, “‘Nichts Ähnliches’: The Uses and Abuses of Adorno in a Time of Genocide,” attempts to map the growing divide between (German) particularist vs. universalist readings of Adorno's "after Auschwitz" after the devastation of Gaza
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
At Smith College for the annual Critical Theory Roundtable. My paper, “‘Nichts Ähnliches’: The Uses and Abuses of Adorno in a Time of Genocide,” attempts to map the growing divide between (German) particularist vs. universalist readings of Adorno's "after Auschwitz" after the devastation of Gaza
Jonathan Boyarin:
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November 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Jonathan Boyarin:
www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/...
www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/...
Excited to be hosting historian Doris Bergen at the @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center on Oct. 29 for a lecture on the collapse of German democracy in the Nazi era. Could there be any parallels to today, I wonder? 🤔
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Excited to be hosting historian Doris Bergen at the @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center on Oct. 29 for a lecture on the collapse of German democracy in the Nazi era. Could there be any parallels to today, I wonder? 🤔
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
They're here! In just a few weeks I'll be hosting the brilliant Dagmar Herzog to explore the "sexy racism" of the contemporary far right. Those in Rochester, if you'd like a copy of this book and commit to attending the workshop, write me and I'll give you one!
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
October 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
They're here! In just a few weeks I'll be hosting the brilliant Dagmar Herzog to explore the "sexy racism" of the contemporary far right. Those in Rochester, if you'd like a copy of this book and commit to attending the workshop, write me and I'll give you one!
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
Throwback to when I was an insufferable theory bro humanities grad student living in Bushwick
October 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Throwback to when I was an insufferable theory bro humanities grad student living in Bushwick
Drove past this evangelical church today outside Chicago and was blinded by a dozen giant Israeli flags
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ingrace.us/about/
October 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Drove past this evangelical church today outside Chicago and was blinded by a dozen giant Israeli flags
ingrace.us/about/
ingrace.us/about/
Please join me for a virtual conversation with Dan Stone on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 12:15pm Eastern, about his many new publications on the Holocaust in Romania, the International Tracing Service, and volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust. Register here:
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ho...
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ho...
October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Please join me for a virtual conversation with Dan Stone on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 12:15pm Eastern, about his many new publications on the Holocaust in Romania, the International Tracing Service, and volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust. Register here:
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ho...
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ho...
Me when university admin suggests I tone down the wokeness
September 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Me when university admin suggests I tone down the wokeness
New York friends and colleagues: I'm presenting my work on the failures of German Holocaust memory culture at Columbia in two weeks! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
New York friends and colleagues: I'm presenting my work on the failures of German Holocaust memory culture at Columbia in two weeks! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Overseen at Berlin’s 100,000 strong demonstration in solidarity with Gaza
September 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Overseen at Berlin’s 100,000 strong demonstration in solidarity with Gaza
From Moira Wegel’s talk this morning at the GSA: Andrew Breitbart on his hatred of the Frankfurt School (aka “Berlin Franklin School”)
September 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
From Moira Wegel’s talk this morning at the GSA: Andrew Breitbart on his hatred of the Frankfurt School (aka “Berlin Franklin School”)
"A question of intent: Is what's happening in Gaza genocide?"
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September 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"A question of intent: Is what's happening in Gaza genocide?"
www.npr.org/2025/09/25/g...
www.npr.org/2025/09/25/g...
Catastrophe for sale once again in Deutschland.
www.the-berliner.com/politics/is-...
www.the-berliner.com/politics/is-...
September 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Catastrophe for sale once again in Deutschland.
www.the-berliner.com/politics/is-...
www.the-berliner.com/politics/is-...
Happy Birthday, Theodor W. Adorno. You (still) would have hated it here!
September 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Happy Birthday, Theodor W. Adorno. You (still) would have hated it here!
“The novel is always an attempt to reconcile the consciousness of writer and reader with the objective world at large; so it is that the judgments we make on the great novelists fall not on them, but on the moment of history which they reflect…” – Fredric Jameson glossing Adorno in Marxism and Form
September 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“The novel is always an attempt to reconcile the consciousness of writer and reader with the objective world at large; so it is that the judgments we make on the great novelists fall not on them, but on the moment of history which they reflect…” – Fredric Jameson glossing Adorno in Marxism and Form