Nathan Taylor
@nathantaylor.bsky.social
Director of research at Frankfurt Humanities Center. Literature and economy, critical theory, cultural logistics. Fugitive Logistics, forthcoming with Cornell UP.
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Nathan Taylor
@nathantaylor.bsky.social
· Dec 16
Nathan Taylor–Literature isn’t Invaluable—But It Can be Redundant
This article is part of the b2o: an online journal special issue “The Question of Literary Value”, edited by Alexander Dunst and Pieter Vermeulen. Literature isn’t Invaluable—But It Can be Redundant N...
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Some thoughts on literary value, redundancy, and residual effects of German romanticism (with thanks to the fantastic editors!) in a great dossier at b2o - check out the other essays as well!
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Kulturtechnik-studies reaches new heights!
February 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Kulturtechnik-studies reaches new heights!
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I have a big new essay out that argues that Erich Auerbach is the crucial figure for historicist reading in lit studies today + argues that the epistemology of such reading depends on the profoundly humanist criterion "sufficient passion" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I have a big new essay out that argues that Erich Auerbach is the crucial figure for historicist reading in lit studies today + argues that the epistemology of such reading depends on the profoundly humanist criterion "sufficient passion" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
At some point, theorists of culture industry began to see rhythm as tool of domination, leading to some infamous misprisions about syncopated jazz. I wrote about why they came to link rhythm to the social violence of coercion - and how it began with a footnote on a cardiac episode in the Odyssey.
February 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
At some point, theorists of culture industry began to see rhythm as tool of domination, leading to some infamous misprisions about syncopated jazz. I wrote about why they came to link rhythm to the social violence of coercion - and how it began with a footnote on a cardiac episode in the Odyssey.
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“I don’t understand why so many people have conceded that the university is a left space. Can someone show me a Marxist university president?”
Defending the Possibility of the University: A Roundtable on “University Keywords” - Public Books
“What would it look like for faculty unions and graduate student unions to collaborate or work together with K-12 teachers’ unions to push back against anti-DEI legislation or book bans?”
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February 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
“I don’t understand why so many people have conceded that the university is a left space. Can someone show me a Marxist university president?”
Some thoughts on literary value, redundancy, and residual effects of German romanticism (with thanks to the fantastic editors!) in a great dossier at b2o - check out the other essays as well!
www.boundary2.org/2025/12/nath...
www.boundary2.org/2025/12/nath...
Nathan Taylor–Literature isn’t Invaluable—But It Can be Redundant
This article is part of the b2o: an online journal special issue “The Question of Literary Value”, edited by Alexander Dunst and Pieter Vermeulen. Literature isn’t Invaluable—But It Can be Redundant N...
www.boundary2.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Some thoughts on literary value, redundancy, and residual effects of German romanticism (with thanks to the fantastic editors!) in a great dossier at b2o - check out the other essays as well!
www.boundary2.org/2025/12/nath...
www.boundary2.org/2025/12/nath...
Reposted by Nathan Taylor
❗️AM FZHG❗️
HEUTE, Book-Talk mit Florian Sprenger: "Von hier aus sprechen, zu Ihnen. Florian Sprenger spricht über sein Buch 'Ich-Sagen: Eine Genealogie der Situiertheit' (August Verlag, 2025)."
🗓️&📍26.11., 18 Uhr, Campus Westend, IG 1.314 (Eisenhower-Saal)
HEUTE, Book-Talk mit Florian Sprenger: "Von hier aus sprechen, zu Ihnen. Florian Sprenger spricht über sein Buch 'Ich-Sagen: Eine Genealogie der Situiertheit' (August Verlag, 2025)."
🗓️&📍26.11., 18 Uhr, Campus Westend, IG 1.314 (Eisenhower-Saal)
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
❗️AM FZHG❗️
HEUTE, Book-Talk mit Florian Sprenger: "Von hier aus sprechen, zu Ihnen. Florian Sprenger spricht über sein Buch 'Ich-Sagen: Eine Genealogie der Situiertheit' (August Verlag, 2025)."
🗓️&📍26.11., 18 Uhr, Campus Westend, IG 1.314 (Eisenhower-Saal)
HEUTE, Book-Talk mit Florian Sprenger: "Von hier aus sprechen, zu Ihnen. Florian Sprenger spricht über sein Buch 'Ich-Sagen: Eine Genealogie der Situiertheit' (August Verlag, 2025)."
🗓️&📍26.11., 18 Uhr, Campus Westend, IG 1.314 (Eisenhower-Saal)
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❗️AT THE FZHG❗️
TODAY, our first #Mittwochskonferenz of the summer semester with Jonathan Culler (Cornell University): "Sound and Rhythm in Contemporary American Poetry".
🗓️&📍30.04., 6 p.m., Campus Westend, CAS 1.812
TODAY, our first #Mittwochskonferenz of the summer semester with Jonathan Culler (Cornell University): "Sound and Rhythm in Contemporary American Poetry".
🗓️&📍30.04., 6 p.m., Campus Westend, CAS 1.812
April 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
❗️AT THE FZHG❗️
TODAY, our first #Mittwochskonferenz of the summer semester with Jonathan Culler (Cornell University): "Sound and Rhythm in Contemporary American Poetry".
🗓️&📍30.04., 6 p.m., Campus Westend, CAS 1.812
TODAY, our first #Mittwochskonferenz of the summer semester with Jonathan Culler (Cornell University): "Sound and Rhythm in Contemporary American Poetry".
🗓️&📍30.04., 6 p.m., Campus Westend, CAS 1.812
I learned immense amounts from Joshua since walking into his capital poetics seminar in 2010. Such a crushing loss. He'd likely console us with di Prima: 'we die/a million times a day... get up, put on your shoes, get/ started, someone will finish'- and then point out the line remains unpunctuated.
We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. He is irreplaceable; We will miss him forever.
April 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I learned immense amounts from Joshua since walking into his capital poetics seminar in 2010. Such a crushing loss. He'd likely console us with di Prima: 'we die/a million times a day... get up, put on your shoes, get/ started, someone will finish'- and then point out the line remains unpunctuated.