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
NBA Season started yesterday and I was contemplating purchasing the league pass....I'm not sure if this is a reasonable price for one season....
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
NBA Season started yesterday and I was contemplating purchasing the league pass....I'm not sure if this is a reasonable price for one season....
always loved this from the acknowledgements to the great cultural historian Warren Susman's Culture and Commitment
October 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
always loved this from the acknowledgements to the great cultural historian Warren Susman's Culture and Commitment
laughable and absurd
October 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
laughable and absurd
over the past few years I have been compiling the uses of "history of the present" for an article i don't and probably wil not have time to write. This one, from Timothy Garton Ash, made me laugh for a number of reasons - egotistical, inaccurate, self-deprecating but also self-centering
October 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
over the past few years I have been compiling the uses of "history of the present" for an article i don't and probably wil not have time to write. This one, from Timothy Garton Ash, made me laugh for a number of reasons - egotistical, inaccurate, self-deprecating but also self-centering
this review is evidence that many scholars should read more structuralism to understand a structure like "racial capitalism" - like most things, there are critiques to be made of it as a concept, but most of the ones historians make are some iteration of "who has agency?" 🙄
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August 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
this review is evidence that many scholars should read more structuralism to understand a structure like "racial capitalism" - like most things, there are critiques to be made of it as a concept, but most of the ones historians make are some iteration of "who has agency?" 🙄
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relieved that i am on leave this year because in addition to every other disaster in higher ed, it seems temporality itself is in crisis at USF
August 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
relieved that i am on leave this year because in addition to every other disaster in higher ed, it seems temporality itself is in crisis at USF
apropos this, here's the fake blurb from Keynes on Andrei Platonov's "Anti-Sexus," his brilliant satire about a masturbation machine
August 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
apropos this, here's the fake blurb from Keynes on Andrei Platonov's "Anti-Sexus," his brilliant satire about a masturbation machine
I've been writing about incest for the first time in a very long time and one thing that has happened is that I have learned that I apparently made an insane argument 🤯
August 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I've been writing about incest for the first time in a very long time and one thing that has happened is that I have learned that I apparently made an insane argument 🤯
just edited a whole forum on Theweleit's Male Fantasies that will be out in the Fall in History of the Present (with essays from Tim Dean, Hannah Zeavin, Eli Mandel, and AO Scott) - I guess it's more timely than I would like.....
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
just edited a whole forum on Theweleit's Male Fantasies that will be out in the Fall in History of the Present (with essays from Tim Dean, Hannah Zeavin, Eli Mandel, and AO Scott) - I guess it's more timely than I would like.....
Getting some book research done today
June 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Getting some book research done today
ever since starting to think, research, and write about incest I have wanted to do something with this absurd article Haidt wrote 25 years ago. Finally figured out something to do with it....
June 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ever since starting to think, research, and write about incest I have wanted to do something with this absurd article Haidt wrote 25 years ago. Finally figured out something to do with it....
not going outside - was hoping i left this misery behind in tampa but climate change has other plans
June 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
not going outside - was hoping i left this misery behind in tampa but climate change has other plans
Caught between a cat and a dog obsessed with me - it’s too much!
June 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Caught between a cat and a dog obsessed with me - it’s too much!
Someone borrowed this from me about a decade ago and never returned it (whoever you are I hate you). Found it yesterday in a used bookstore. Small victories are all I got these days.
May 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Someone borrowed this from me about a decade ago and never returned it (whoever you are I hate you). Found it yesterday in a used bookstore. Small victories are all I got these days.
On our way to Brooklyn
May 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
On our way to Brooklyn
the 1970s were not fucking around (or, rather, i guess everyone was)
May 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
the 1970s were not fucking around (or, rather, i guess everyone was)
a little too on the nose.....
May 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
a little too on the nose.....
in the midst of everything with higher ed, especially in florida, really hoping my reimbursement request for this is successfully processed (it is for research!)
April 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
in the midst of everything with higher ed, especially in florida, really hoping my reimbursement request for this is successfully processed (it is for research!)
This New Yorker article celebrating AI/humanities seems to miss that what the author and his student find so appealing is that AI is understood here as the triumph of a very specific and attenuated therapeutic.
(It's also a deeply melancholy essay even if the author is unaware)
(It's also a deeply melancholy essay even if the author is unaware)
April 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This New Yorker article celebrating AI/humanities seems to miss that what the author and his student find so appealing is that AI is understood here as the triumph of a very specific and attenuated therapeutic.
(It's also a deeply melancholy essay even if the author is unaware)
(It's also a deeply melancholy essay even if the author is unaware)
Preparing to sell a house is not all that fun
April 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Preparing to sell a house is not all that fun
