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 🏳️🌈
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The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
Examining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis—and where it might take us. We live in an age where Hitler and the Nazis dominate our cult...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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In a 2014 interview, he said the following words, which still haunt us today in our time of technofascism and accelerating climate emergency: “Does one need catastrophe to happen in order to admit its coming? A chilling thought, indeed.”
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Disconnecting Acts: An Interview with Zygmunt Bauman Part II | Los Angeles Review of Books
Part II of a two-part interview with one of Europe’s foremost thinkers, Zygmunt Bauman.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In a 2014 interview, he said the following words, which still haunt us today in our time of technofascism and accelerating climate emergency: “Does one need catastrophe to happen in order to admit its coming? A chilling thought, indeed.”
lareviewofbooks.org/article/disc...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/disc...
Bauman also figures prominently in my dissertation as a theorist or “the permanent possibility of catastrophe” insofar as the society that enabled the Holocaust is in many respects the same society we live in today.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Bauman also figures prominently in my dissertation as a theorist or “the permanent possibility of catastrophe” insofar as the society that enabled the Holocaust is in many respects the same society we live in today.
I wrote here about Bauman’s identification as a “student of Adorno” from their correspondence in 1968 to Bauman receiving the Adorno Prize in 1998, with a laudatio by Claus Offe: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Bauman, the Frankfurt School, and the tradition of enlightened catastr
Receiving the Adorn Prize in Frankfurt in 1998, Zygmunt Bauman called himself a ‘student’ of its namesake, the German-Jewish theorist Theodor W. Adorn, and
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November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I wrote here about Bauman’s identification as a “student of Adorno” from their correspondence in 1968 to Bauman receiving the Adorno Prize in 1998, with a laudatio by Claus Offe: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...