Eric Brandom
@ebrandom.bsky.social
Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
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Eric Brandom
@ebrandom.bsky.social
· Feb 22
"the common ruin of the contending classes"
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Question re: accreditation site visits for departments. Are your institutions doing these online now? In person again? Curious what these are looking like these days. (Also welcoming answers from those who serve on eval teams.)
February 10, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Question re: accreditation site visits for departments. Are your institutions doing these online now? In person again? Curious what these are looking like these days. (Also welcoming answers from those who serve on eval teams.)
Have just now learned that the 8yo not only knows that it is possible to gamble in Stardew but also that green is a better bet than orange.
February 10, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Have just now learned that the 8yo not only knows that it is possible to gamble in Stardew but also that green is a better bet than orange.
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CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
CALL FOR PITCHES
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.
We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.
Details below!
Guy with a ponytail and a trumpet busking on the corner downtown, don't think I've seen that here before. It's the weather, driven everyone crazy in a good way.
February 9, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Guy with a ponytail and a trumpet busking on the corner downtown, don't think I've seen that here before. It's the weather, driven everyone crazy in a good way.
A blush-colored Cadillac SUV and the license plate is "r1se up"
February 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM
A blush-colored Cadillac SUV and the license plate is "r1se up"
"Bourgeois fanatics for order are shot down on their balconies by mobs of drunken soldiers, their domestic sanctuaries profaned, their houses bombarded for amusement--in the name of property, of family, of religion and of order."
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
"Bourgeois fanatics for order are shot down on their balconies by mobs of drunken soldiers, their domestic sanctuaries profaned, their houses bombarded for amusement--in the name of property, of family, of religion and of order."
The Paris proletariat after June 1848
February 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The Paris proletariat after June 1848
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the not-meeting of deadlines as a sign of transgressing death, so avowal of life (so i tell myself)
February 9, 2026 at 5:03 PM
the not-meeting of deadlines as a sign of transgressing death, so avowal of life (so i tell myself)
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Et vous, c’est quoi votre période préférée chez Michel Foucault ? Sa période néolibérale, sa période khomeiniste ou sa période avec des cheveux ? 🤔
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Et vous, c’est quoi votre période préférée chez Michel Foucault ? Sa période néolibérale, sa période khomeiniste ou sa période avec des cheveux ? 🤔
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Our edited collection is officially in press!
Look for
Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History
Spring 2027
From the University of Pennsylvania Press
Look for
Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History
Spring 2027
From the University of Pennsylvania Press
a gorilla is standing in the woods surrounded by trees .
Alt: a gorilla is standing in the woods surrounded by trees looking interested
media.tenor.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Our edited collection is officially in press!
Look for
Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History
Spring 2027
From the University of Pennsylvania Press
Look for
Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History
Spring 2027
From the University of Pennsylvania Press
The ease with which the middleschooler uses "temu" as a prefix to mean "worse" -- and yet!
February 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
The ease with which the middleschooler uses "temu" as a prefix to mean "worse" -- and yet!
What the dachshund loves, really, deeply, more than anything else, is an electric blanket
February 8, 2026 at 3:32 AM
What the dachshund loves, really, deeply, more than anything else, is an electric blanket
"The border is a factory for making racism and racist violence."
Since there's been some conversation about historical analogies for the present stuff with ICE, I figured I'd share this. In it I argue the similarity between (opposition to) border enforcement and (the effort to abolish) slavery.
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
Against The Border Power
As I’ve mentioned while back I wrote a letter to Little Village saying deportation as such is wrong, that we should think of it as something like slavery and...
buttondown.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:44 AM
"The border is a factory for making racism and racist violence."
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On my semi-regular quest to see if anyone else remembers a TV show from the 90s where a girl befriends a talking banana-shaped pencil topper which takes her on various historical adventures. A girl who went to my primary school was the lead, so we were forced to watch it.
February 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
On my semi-regular quest to see if anyone else remembers a TV show from the 90s where a girl befriends a talking banana-shaped pencil topper which takes her on various historical adventures. A girl who went to my primary school was the lead, so we were forced to watch it.
"J'ai peur des polémiques, c'est sans doute une marque de sénilité." Durkheim to Bouglé in 1912 www.jstor.org/stable/3321242
February 7, 2026 at 4:25 PM
"J'ai peur des polémiques, c'est sans doute une marque de sénilité." Durkheim to Bouglé in 1912 www.jstor.org/stable/3321242
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Lefty, he can't sing the blues
All night long like he used to
The dust that Pancho bit down south
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
All night long like he used to
The dust that Pancho bit down south
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
February 7, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Lefty, he can't sing the blues
All night long like he used to
The dust that Pancho bit down south
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
All night long like he used to
The dust that Pancho bit down south
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
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“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.”
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
![I am all at a loose end since you left; I feel as if I haven't seen you for ten years. Every conversation that I have with my mother is about you. Everyone here loves you dearly.
Under what constellation were you born then, to be blessed with such qualities, so diverse and so rare?
I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone. We got on well together, didn't we? It was very agreeable.
It was so good that I do not want to share the pleasure with anyone else. If you happen to use Croisset in one of your books, do disguise it so that nobody recognizes it. I would appreciate it. The memory of your visit is just for the two of us, for me. That is how selfish I am.
I particularly missed you last night, at ten o'clock. There was a fire, over at my wood-merchant's. The sky was pink and the Seine was the colour of red-currant syrup. I worked at the pumps for three hours and I came home as weary as the Turk with the giraffe? [...]
One of the Rouen newspapers (Le Nouvelliste) reported your visit to Rouen, so that on Saturday after I had left you I met several bourgeois in a state of indignation over the fact that I had not put you on display. A former magistrate took the prize: 'If we had known that she was here... we would have... we would have ..? - five-minute pause, he's looking for the word - We would have... smiled at her.' That would have been rather meagre, don't you think?
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To love you 'more' is difficult for me. But I do embrace you most tenderly.
Your letter this morning, so melancholy, stirred me. We parted company just at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words. All of the doors between the two of us are not yet open. You inspire a great respect in me and I do not have the courage to ask you questions, Farewell, I kiss your sweet and lovely countenance, and I am
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February 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.”
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
ICE seems to have grabbed several people early Thursday morning at a few spots in my town. News spread quickly but hours after the fact. Lots of rumors. Also looks to be genuinely galvanizing local action.
February 7, 2026 at 1:58 AM
ICE seems to have grabbed several people early Thursday morning at a few spots in my town. News spread quickly but hours after the fact. Lots of rumors. Also looks to be genuinely galvanizing local action.
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I cannot explain why, but I find curling remarkably soothing to watch. I understand neither the strategies nor the physics of the sport, but watching these figures and the stone gliding across the ice puts me in a very meditative state.
February 6, 2026 at 11:39 PM
I cannot explain why, but I find curling remarkably soothing to watch. I understand neither the strategies nor the physics of the sport, but watching these figures and the stone gliding across the ice puts me in a very meditative state.
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i made some desk job affirmations to get me through the day
April 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
i made some desk job affirmations to get me through the day
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February 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Hadestown
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Cranach, always a perfect freak
February 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Cranach, always a perfect freak
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I just got a copy of my cover for my forthcoming book! It features a postcard from Fez by the Moroccan Jewish photographer Joseph Bouhsira. Bouhsira was the first Moroccan to establish his own commercial photography studio, and many of his images featured the Jewish community in Fez.
February 6, 2026 at 4:18 AM
I just got a copy of my cover for my forthcoming book! It features a postcard from Fez by the Moroccan Jewish photographer Joseph Bouhsira. Bouhsira was the first Moroccan to establish his own commercial photography studio, and many of his images featured the Jewish community in Fez.
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Since there's been some conversation about historical analogies for the present stuff with ICE, I figured I'd share this. In it I argue the similarity between (opposition to) border enforcement and (the effort to abolish) slavery.
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
Against The Border Power
As I’ve mentioned while back I wrote a letter to Little Village saying deportation as such is wrong, that we should think of it as something like slavery and...
buttondown.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Since there's been some conversation about historical analogies for the present stuff with ICE, I figured I'd share this. In it I argue the similarity between (opposition to) border enforcement and (the effort to abolish) slavery.
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...
buttondown.com/nateholdren/...