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
the Silicon Valley-White House connection is just an utter contempt for humans and has been ruling over us for the last few decades
January 25, 2026 at 3:59 PM
the Silicon Valley-White House connection is just an utter contempt for humans and has been ruling over us for the last few decades
i know it's not on the table but it really should be down with the nation-state abolish borders, not "they are even taking legal immigrants"
January 23, 2026 at 9:04 PM
i know it's not on the table but it really should be down with the nation-state abolish borders, not "they are even taking legal immigrants"
There will never not be an opportunity for me to repost this: lareviewofbooks.org/article/our-...
January 21, 2026 at 3:19 PM
There will never not be an opportunity for me to repost this: lareviewofbooks.org/article/our-...
one of my children just said this to me: "on the outside you are pretty manly you drink black coffee, like a firm mattress, wear tapered jeans, have a big dog...but you also read about Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the philosophical ideas of penises. It's confusing"
January 20, 2026 at 1:43 AM
one of my children just said this to me: "on the outside you are pretty manly you drink black coffee, like a firm mattress, wear tapered jeans, have a big dog...but you also read about Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the philosophical ideas of penises. It's confusing"
I think there should be a moratorium on the phrase “the past is never past”
January 19, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I think there should be a moratorium on the phrase “the past is never past”
one way to track the difference between Bluesky and Twitter is that here like 10 people have liked this whereas on Twitter hundreds did and some people said awful things about me - Twitter is Big Incest
New Parapraxis arrived….terrific essays including my most recent musings on incest
January 17, 2026 at 6:35 PM
one way to track the difference between Bluesky and Twitter is that here like 10 people have liked this whereas on Twitter hundreds did and some people said awful things about me - Twitter is Big Incest
“Incest as a liberation from repressive and outdated inhibitions…sustained by the precarious circuits of financialized capital…is captured effectively in what is, in most other regards, one of the least compelling commentaries on late modern wealth,The White Lotus.”
New Parapraxis arrived….terrific essays including my most recent musings on incest
January 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM
“Incest as a liberation from repressive and outdated inhibitions…sustained by the precarious circuits of financialized capital…is captured effectively in what is, in most other regards, one of the least compelling commentaries on late modern wealth,The White Lotus.”
New Parapraxis arrived….terrific essays including my most recent musings on incest
January 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
New Parapraxis arrived….terrific essays including my most recent musings on incest
Reposted by Brian Connolly
We will win because history and the majority of historian are on our side. The Palestinian Historians Group respond to the @historians.org latest veto
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47115
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47115
We Refuse to be Silenced: The Palestinian Historians Group Responds to the AHA Council Vetoes
We, the Palestinian Historians Group, are outraged by the American Historical Association Council’s decision to veto two resolutions that members passed by 78 and 79 percent at the AHA Annual Business...
www.jadaliyya.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:49 PM
We will win because history and the majority of historian are on our side. The Palestinian Historians Group respond to the @historians.org latest veto
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47115
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47115
Reposted by Brian Connolly
The first essays won't appear until March, but here is Critical Noise, the new open access forum for History of the Present. It has sections on the geopolitics of historiography with emphasis on the Global South; keywords for critical history; and reviews and occasional essays
criticalnoise.org
criticalnoise.org
History of the Present – Critical Noise
New vernaculars of the geohistorical refusing the insistent march of capital, authoritarianism, and empire.
criticalnoise.org
January 13, 2026 at 1:32 PM
The first essays won't appear until March, but here is Critical Noise, the new open access forum for History of the Present. It has sections on the geopolitics of historiography with emphasis on the Global South; keywords for critical history; and reviews and occasional essays
criticalnoise.org
criticalnoise.org
The first essays won't appear until March, but here is Critical Noise, the new open access forum for History of the Present. It has sections on the geopolitics of historiography with emphasis on the Global South; keywords for critical history; and reviews and occasional essays
criticalnoise.org
criticalnoise.org
History of the Present – Critical Noise
New vernaculars of the geohistorical refusing the insistent march of capital, authoritarianism, and empire.
criticalnoise.org
January 13, 2026 at 1:32 PM
The first essays won't appear until March, but here is Critical Noise, the new open access forum for History of the Present. It has sections on the geopolitics of historiography with emphasis on the Global South; keywords for critical history; and reviews and occasional essays
criticalnoise.org
criticalnoise.org
Imagine being like really into the United States….totally bizarre affect
January 10, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Imagine being like really into the United States….totally bizarre affect
This has been the case since at least 2015 and in the end, specific issues aside, this is the single thing that his supporters find appealing about him - his pretense to being the primal father, not to bending the world to his will but to acting as if it has already been bent.
‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority
Donald Trump has said ‘I don’t need international law” and that his power is limited only by his “own morality”.
In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:05 PM
This has been the case since at least 2015 and in the end, specific issues aside, this is the single thing that his supporters find appealing about him - his pretense to being the primal father, not to bending the world to his will but to acting as if it has already been bent.
Classic great book
January 9, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Classic great book
Just from an interpretive line of thinking we need something like Michael Rogin’s Ronald Reagan, The Movie for this moment
Trump to Fox & Friends on the raid that captured Maduro: "I mean, I watched it literally l like I was watching a television show. If you would've seen the speed, the violence -- it was an amazing thing."
January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Just from an interpretive line of thinking we need something like Michael Rogin’s Ronald Reagan, The Movie for this moment
The thing with “Critical Theory was CIA”
is that it is just one more instance of moralistic denunciation, which makes it of a piece with lots of contemporary work that purports to be political critique but is instead a kind of anti-politics
is that it is just one more instance of moralistic denunciation, which makes it of a piece with lots of contemporary work that purports to be political critique but is instead a kind of anti-politics
December 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The thing with “Critical Theory was CIA”
is that it is just one more instance of moralistic denunciation, which makes it of a piece with lots of contemporary work that purports to be political critique but is instead a kind of anti-politics
is that it is just one more instance of moralistic denunciation, which makes it of a piece with lots of contemporary work that purports to be political critique but is instead a kind of anti-politics
Does anyone want me to write an essay about Taylor Sheridan’s TV shows? I’ve just discovered them, they are terrible, I can’t look away, and Billy Bob Thornton’s boner was too much
December 31, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Does anyone want me to write an essay about Taylor Sheridan’s TV shows? I’ve just discovered them, they are terrible, I can’t look away, and Billy Bob Thornton’s boner was too much
What do you think is the best album title of all time? (Fortunately there is a right answer to this)
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
What do you think is the best album title of all time? (Fortunately there is a right answer to this)
just learned that Suzan-Lori Parks did some work on the Fast and Furious 9 (F9: The Fast Saga) script - this enormous ridiculous franchise never disappoints
December 29, 2025 at 11:58 PM
just learned that Suzan-Lori Parks did some work on the Fast and Furious 9 (F9: The Fast Saga) script - this enormous ridiculous franchise never disappoints
Yesterday I was sitting across from one of the actors from The Leftovers but didn’t figure it out until I got home…anyway still think it’s the best television show and here is this from a year ago
post45.org/2025/01/fami...
post45.org/2025/01/fami...
Family, Unbearable and Otherwise – Post45
Seven years after the Sudden Departure, erstwhile sitcom star Mark Linn-Baker, having faked his own departure after being left behind when his three Perfect Strangers co-stars departed, contacts Nora ...
post45.org
December 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Yesterday I was sitting across from one of the actors from The Leftovers but didn’t figure it out until I got home…anyway still think it’s the best television show and here is this from a year ago
post45.org/2025/01/fami...
post45.org/2025/01/fami...
Dear historians -
You honestly don’t need to respond to a guy called Roman Helmet Guy
You honestly don’t need to respond to a guy called Roman Helmet Guy
December 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Dear historians -
You honestly don’t need to respond to a guy called Roman Helmet Guy
You honestly don’t need to respond to a guy called Roman Helmet Guy
Saw Sentimental Value last night and I thought it was great - i am a sucker for anything staging a family in great psychic crisis
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Saw Sentimental Value last night and I thought it was great - i am a sucker for anything staging a family in great psychic crisis
Reading Bruce Fink’s Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis and there is a paragraph in there that describes almost every relationship I’ve ever had. Will not be sharing the paragraph….
December 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Reading Bruce Fink’s Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis and there is a paragraph in there that describes almost every relationship I’ve ever had. Will not be sharing the paragraph….
Anything out there on the overlap between speculation in the humanities (supposedly good!) and financial speculation (bad!)?
December 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Anything out there on the overlap between speculation in the humanities (supposedly good!) and financial speculation (bad!)?
Reading this made me think how pathetic one’s ideological investments are when you are moving between Heritage and Mike Pence.
Also both organizations have legal centers named for Edwin Meese?!
Anyway, here’s a great 80s political poster made by Jeff Nelson of Minor Threat/Dischord Records
Also both organizations have legal centers named for Edwin Meese?!
Anyway, here’s a great 80s political poster made by Jeff Nelson of Minor Threat/Dischord Records
December 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Reading this made me think how pathetic one’s ideological investments are when you are moving between Heritage and Mike Pence.
Also both organizations have legal centers named for Edwin Meese?!
Anyway, here’s a great 80s political poster made by Jeff Nelson of Minor Threat/Dischord Records
Also both organizations have legal centers named for Edwin Meese?!
Anyway, here’s a great 80s political poster made by Jeff Nelson of Minor Threat/Dischord Records