Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
@profstorm.bsky.social
Professor, author, former rocker.
My books: "The Invention of Religion in Japan," "The Myth of Disenchantment," and "Metamodernism" http://bit.ly/3dzW6ux
My books: "The Invention of Religion in Japan," "The Myth of Disenchantment," and "Metamodernism" http://bit.ly/3dzW6ux
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I'm psyched to announce a Major Milestone: "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" has won an American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence! I am truly honored & thrilled by the recognition. Thanks to all for your support !
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Seriously, this is a great episode and I'm going to liberally borrow -- with attribution! -- from it for the introductory lecture next time I teach History of Magic.
(Also, if you are not already listening to the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast, you should be.)
(Also, if you are not already listening to the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast, you should be.)
Back on one of my favorite podcasts, SHWEP, for a fascinating conversation about "The Golden Bough”’s uncanny afterlife in the history of Western Esotericism, and whether Frazer—long cast as a great debunker of magic—might actually belong among the occultists.Check it out! shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...
Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm on James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Western Esotericism – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
shwep.net
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Seriously, this is a great episode and I'm going to liberally borrow -- with attribution! -- from it for the introductory lecture next time I teach History of Magic.
(Also, if you are not already listening to the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast, you should be.)
(Also, if you are not already listening to the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast, you should be.)
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If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...
December 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...
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I never get tired of talking about “The Myth of Disenchantment.” If you too are up for more, I had a great convo with Khalid Khatri on his Incisive Thoughts podcast. Give it a listen! : youtu.be/7gKeqOmL4bo
Science’s Hidden History of Magic and Spirits w/ Dr. Jason Josephson Storm
YouTube video by Incisive Thoughts
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December 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I never get tired of talking about “The Myth of Disenchantment.” If you too are up for more, I had a great convo with Khalid Khatri on his Incisive Thoughts podcast. Give it a listen! : youtu.be/7gKeqOmL4bo
I never get tired of talking about “The Myth of Disenchantment.” If you too are up for more, I had a great convo with Khalid Khatri on his Incisive Thoughts podcast. Give it a listen! : youtu.be/7gKeqOmL4bo
Science’s Hidden History of Magic and Spirits w/ Dr. Jason Josephson Storm
YouTube video by Incisive Thoughts
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I never get tired of talking about “The Myth of Disenchantment.” If you too are up for more, I had a great convo with Khalid Khatri on his Incisive Thoughts podcast. Give it a listen! : youtu.be/7gKeqOmL4bo
Back in Boston for AAR. Two talks this year: on decolonizing Buddhist studies & on Foucault’s influences (details in comments). I’ll be hitting multiple receptions. Always psyched to meet new folks & reconnect with old friends and colleagues, so if you see me, come say hi. #AARSBL2025
November 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Back in Boston for AAR. Two talks this year: on decolonizing Buddhist studies & on Foucault’s influences (details in comments). I’ll be hitting multiple receptions. Always psyched to meet new folks & reconnect with old friends and colleagues, so if you see me, come say hi. #AARSBL2025
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Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2026
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The Genealogy of Genealogy
A daring reassessment of the critical method that reshaped the humanities—and an invitation to imagine new ways of doing history. The genealogical method—a mode of historical analysis that shows tha...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2026
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Back on one of my favorite podcasts, SHWEP, for a fascinating conversation about "The Golden Bough”’s uncanny afterlife in the history of Western Esotericism, and whether Frazer—long cast as a great debunker of magic—might actually belong among the occultists.Check it out! shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...
Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm on James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Western Esotericism – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
shwep.net
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Back on one of my favorite podcasts, SHWEP, for a fascinating conversation about "The Golden Bough”’s uncanny afterlife in the history of Western Esotericism, and whether Frazer—long cast as a great debunker of magic—might actually belong among the occultists.Check it out! shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...
Back on one of my favorite podcasts, SHWEP, for a fascinating conversation about "The Golden Bough”’s uncanny afterlife in the history of Western Esotericism, and whether Frazer—long cast as a great debunker of magic—might actually belong among the occultists.Check it out! shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...
Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm on James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, and Western Esotericism – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
shwep.net
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Back on one of my favorite podcasts, SHWEP, for a fascinating conversation about "The Golden Bough”’s uncanny afterlife in the history of Western Esotericism, and whether Frazer—long cast as a great debunker of magic—might actually belong among the occultists.Check it out! shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...
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My article "The Hegemony of Genealogy" is out in one my fav journals, "boundary 2." Basically an early draft of the 1st chapter of "The Genealogy of Genealogy," but with special attention to the role boundary 2 itself played in the rise of genealogy. Enjoy! read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
The Hegemony of Genealogy | boundary 2 | Duke University Press
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September 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My article "The Hegemony of Genealogy" is out in one my fav journals, "boundary 2." Basically an early draft of the 1st chapter of "The Genealogy of Genealogy," but with special attention to the role boundary 2 itself played in the rise of genealogy. Enjoy! read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
My article "The Hegemony of Genealogy" is out in one my fav journals, "boundary 2." Basically an early draft of the 1st chapter of "The Genealogy of Genealogy," but with special attention to the role boundary 2 itself played in the rise of genealogy. Enjoy! read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
The Hegemony of Genealogy | boundary 2 | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
September 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My article "The Hegemony of Genealogy" is out in one my fav journals, "boundary 2." Basically an early draft of the 1st chapter of "The Genealogy of Genealogy," but with special attention to the role boundary 2 itself played in the rise of genealogy. Enjoy! read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
On a related note, there are plans a foot at the University of Oregon to possibly eliminate multiple humanities departments, including Religious Studies. Please read this and consider signing the petition in the comments: aarweb.org/news/an-appe...
An Appeal from the Department of Religious Studies at University of Oregon - AAR
A Note from the RSN Editor Religion scholars are currently facing numerous challenges, including issues of academic freedom and censorship, diminished budgets, department mergers and closures, job los...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
On a related note, there are plans a foot at the University of Oregon to possibly eliminate multiple humanities departments, including Religious Studies. Please read this and consider signing the petition in the comments: aarweb.org/news/an-appe...
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“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?
Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages
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August 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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one last thing, hopefully not for you, but nevertheless:
keep doing the work, humanists. keep writing the stuff that pisses all the right people off, keep teaching your students to imagine better futures, keep learning all kinds of nerdy stuff.
we’ll need that knowledge. and that heart. 💜
keep doing the work, humanists. keep writing the stuff that pisses all the right people off, keep teaching your students to imagine better futures, keep learning all kinds of nerdy stuff.
we’ll need that knowledge. and that heart. 💜
August 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
one last thing, hopefully not for you, but nevertheless:
keep doing the work, humanists. keep writing the stuff that pisses all the right people off, keep teaching your students to imagine better futures, keep learning all kinds of nerdy stuff.
we’ll need that knowledge. and that heart. 💜
keep doing the work, humanists. keep writing the stuff that pisses all the right people off, keep teaching your students to imagine better futures, keep learning all kinds of nerdy stuff.
we’ll need that knowledge. and that heart. 💜
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My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Look here for more details as they materialize.
Look here for more details as they materialize.
The Genealogy of Genealogy
The book The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, Jason Ananda Josephson Storm is published by University of Chicago Press.
press.uchicago.edu
August 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Look here for more details as they materialize.
Look here for more details as they materialize.
My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Look here for more details as they materialize.
Look here for more details as they materialize.
The Genealogy of Genealogy
The book The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History, Jason Ananda Josephson Storm is published by University of Chicago Press.
press.uchicago.edu
August 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
My next book—The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History—has an official publication date: April 5, 2026! The publisher’s page is up with TOC & a preorder button (no cover yet): press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Look here for more details as they materialize.
Look here for more details as they materialize.
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Echoes of Vilém Flusser, up front from @profstorm.bsky.social - "Postmodern doubt can be made to doubt itself ... show us the way toward humble, emancipatory knowledge" - a rich book: #doubt
July 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Echoes of Vilém Flusser, up front from @profstorm.bsky.social - "Postmodern doubt can be made to doubt itself ... show us the way toward humble, emancipatory knowledge" - a rich book: #doubt
It didn't arrive in time for my recent Baltic speaking tour, but now that I'm back I'm looking forward to digging into @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social 's new book, "Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples." Looks like a fascinating read.
July 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It didn't arrive in time for my recent Baltic speaking tour, but now that I'm back I'm looking forward to digging into @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social 's new book, "Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples." Looks like a fascinating read.
Thrilled to see the Vietnamese edition of "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" now out (published as THUYẾT SIÊU-HIỆN ĐẠI: Tương lai của Lý thuyết). It is a real joy to see the ideas finding new life and new readers. Grateful to the translators who brought it across. www.ired.edu.vn/xuat-ban/thu...
July 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Thrilled to see the Vietnamese edition of "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" now out (published as THUYẾT SIÊU-HIỆN ĐẠI: Tương lai của Lý thuyết). It is a real joy to see the ideas finding new life and new readers. Grateful to the translators who brought it across. www.ired.edu.vn/xuat-ban/thu...
My article “Sex, Magic, & Rockets or the Implications of the Babalon Working for Theories of Belief and Rationality” is out now in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. One of my more amusing titles. DM me for a PDF if you're paywalled. Enjoy! brill.com/view/journal...
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July 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
My article “Sex, Magic, & Rockets or the Implications of the Babalon Working for Theories of Belief and Rationality” is out now in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. One of my more amusing titles. DM me for a PDF if you're paywalled. Enjoy! brill.com/view/journal...
After a late night, I rose early and slipped out of Vilnius through the Gates of Dawn, seemed fitting. Northward now, by train. The ESSWE conference was a real gift! Thought-provoking talks, generous colleagues, and the honor of delivering a keynote. I’ll carry this city with me a while.
June 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
After a late night, I rose early and slipped out of Vilnius through the Gates of Dawn, seemed fitting. Northward now, by train. The ESSWE conference was a real gift! Thought-provoking talks, generous colleagues, and the honor of delivering a keynote. I’ll carry this city with me a while.
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Acquisitions Editor Erika Mandarino at the DGB booth at ESSWE. Check out our books 👀 📚 like those edited by keynote speakers Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm and by Manon Hedenborg White
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#ESSWE10 #Esotericism #VilniusUniversity ##EsoteriSky #PhilSky #PhilHist
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#ESSWE10 #Esotericism #VilniusUniversity ##EsoteriSky #PhilSky #PhilHist
June 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Acquisitions Editor Erika Mandarino at the DGB booth at ESSWE. Check out our books 👀 📚 like those edited by keynote speakers Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm and by Manon Hedenborg White
@profstorm.bsky.social
#ESSWE10 #Esotericism #VilniusUniversity ##EsoteriSky #PhilSky #PhilHist
@profstorm.bsky.social
#ESSWE10 #Esotericism #VilniusUniversity ##EsoteriSky #PhilSky #PhilHist
Labas, Vilnius! I will be here all week for ESSWE. Looking forward to connecting with folks at the conference. If you’re in Vilnius already, I’m giving a talk tomorrow (Monday) on the forthcoming Genealogy book, it would be great to see some folks there. Details in link.
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June 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Labas, Vilnius! I will be here all week for ESSWE. Looking forward to connecting with folks at the conference. If you’re in Vilnius already, I’m giving a talk tomorrow (Monday) on the forthcoming Genealogy book, it would be great to see some folks there. Details in link.
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Some of you might get a kick out of this short research note I wrote for Harvard’s CSWR: “The Body is Never Just Flesh.” about rival medical epistemologies, spectral anatomies, & the contested meaning of dissection in Edo-Meiji Japan. Enjoy! cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/05...
The Body is Never Just Flesh | Center for the Study of World Religions
What actually severed modern clinical practice from older ways of knowing was state power. In 1873, German-trained Nagayo Sensai established the Bureau of Medical Affairs, launching a biopolitical, hy...
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May 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Some of you might get a kick out of this short research note I wrote for Harvard’s CSWR: “The Body is Never Just Flesh.” about rival medical epistemologies, spectral anatomies, & the contested meaning of dissection in Edo-Meiji Japan. Enjoy! cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/05...
Had a great time talking with Muftah for their new podcast series. Discussing the role of policing "superstition" and the secular, the history of magic-religion-science, my more recent work on critical history. If that sounds like your kind of thing, give it a listen: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...
Superstition and the Secular with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
Episode 8 of the Protean View podcast
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May 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Had a great time talking with Muftah for their new podcast series. Discussing the role of policing "superstition" and the secular, the history of magic-religion-science, my more recent work on critical history. If that sounds like your kind of thing, give it a listen: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...
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Very excited to share our latest episode of @proteanview.muftah.org, in which we interview Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm on Superstition and the Secular.
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...
Superstition and the Secular with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
Episode 8 of the Protean View podcast
www.muftah.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Very excited to share our latest episode of @proteanview.muftah.org, in which we interview Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm on Superstition and the Secular.
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...
On @muftah.org: www.muftah.org/p/superstiti...