Jacob Henry Leveton
@jacobhleveton.bsky.social
Scholar of visual culture, sound, political aesthetics.
Philosophy of literature, Post-Romantic media.
Anti-obscurantist.
Editor, the Non-Standard 📰
a weekly paper for experimentation in the materialisms of the present
Philosophy of literature, Post-Romantic media.
Anti-obscurantist.
Editor, the Non-Standard 📰
a weekly paper for experimentation in the materialisms of the present
Reposted by Jacob Henry Leveton
your moment of calm: huddled least sandpipers on a floating log
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
your moment of calm: huddled least sandpipers on a floating log
This line in today’s @theguardian.com hit hard:
“They used the Lord’s Prayer in a propaganda video for the new Department of War… Every evangelical should’ve heard alarms. This is sacrilegious.”
Faith isn’t meant to sanctify power.
It is meant to restrain it.
#PublicTheology
“They used the Lord’s Prayer in a propaganda video for the new Department of War… Every evangelical should’ve heard alarms. This is sacrilegious.”
Faith isn’t meant to sanctify power.
It is meant to restrain it.
#PublicTheology
‘Trump is inconsistent with Christian principles’: why the Democratic party is seeing a rise of white clergy candidates
From Texas and Iowa to Arkansas, faith leaders are wading into politics to counter the rise of Christian nationalism
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This line in today’s @theguardian.com hit hard:
“They used the Lord’s Prayer in a propaganda video for the new Department of War… Every evangelical should’ve heard alarms. This is sacrilegious.”
Faith isn’t meant to sanctify power.
It is meant to restrain it.
#PublicTheology
“They used the Lord’s Prayer in a propaganda video for the new Department of War… Every evangelical should’ve heard alarms. This is sacrilegious.”
Faith isn’t meant to sanctify power.
It is meant to restrain it.
#PublicTheology
Wow, I didn't really expect Interpol to be such a hit with my (brilliant) Gen Z students.
And yet...they're locating Antics as a critcal zone to apply and revise Barthes's "Death of the Author." Go go go
And yet...they're locating Antics as a critcal zone to apply and revise Barthes's "Death of the Author." Go go go
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Wow, I didn't really expect Interpol to be such a hit with my (brilliant) Gen Z students.
And yet...they're locating Antics as a critcal zone to apply and revise Barthes's "Death of the Author." Go go go
And yet...they're locating Antics as a critcal zone to apply and revise Barthes's "Death of the Author." Go go go
Reposted by Jacob Henry Leveton
Mutual Aid Request
😮💨 Whew. Tired. Day 10 of begging for help to prepare for the SNAP shutdown. Standing at $345/$850. I have physical and mental health disabilities, I can't work. I would if I could. Please help. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts
😮💨 Whew. Tired. Day 10 of begging for help to prepare for the SNAP shutdown. Standing at $345/$850. I have physical and mental health disabilities, I can't work. I would if I could. Please help. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts
a black and white photo of a grandfather clock with the words tick-tock below it
Alt: a black and white photo of a grandfather clock with the words tick-tock below it
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Mutual Aid Request
😮💨 Whew. Tired. Day 10 of begging for help to prepare for the SNAP shutdown. Standing at $345/$850. I have physical and mental health disabilities, I can't work. I would if I could. Please help. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts
😮💨 Whew. Tired. Day 10 of begging for help to prepare for the SNAP shutdown. Standing at $345/$850. I have physical and mental health disabilities, I can't work. I would if I could. Please help. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts
Just finished one of my most amazing office hours conversations—mentoring a student on travel for an artistic project exploring religious imagery, and how such symbols can be metabolized into a connective, contemporary practice. 1/
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Just finished one of my most amazing office hours conversations—mentoring a student on travel for an artistic project exploring religious imagery, and how such symbols can be metabolized into a connective, contemporary practice. 1/
Not enough sports commentators are speaking to the fact that even in the NIL professionalization of college football era—
Both Vandy and Northwestern have an outside shot at the College Football Playoff.
Both Vandy and Northwestern have an outside shot at the College Football Playoff.
October 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Not enough sports commentators are speaking to the fact that even in the NIL professionalization of college football era—
Both Vandy and Northwestern have an outside shot at the College Football Playoff.
Both Vandy and Northwestern have an outside shot at the College Football Playoff.
To my mind, what #NoKings is revealing isn’t just dissent—it’s a problem of scale for any attempt at authoritarian control.
Every regime that governs through fear runs on labor:
officers, analysts, contractors, censors, and algorithms working nonstop to contain dissent. 1/
Every regime that governs through fear runs on labor:
officers, analysts, contractors, censors, and algorithms working nonstop to contain dissent. 1/
October 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
To my mind, what #NoKings is revealing isn’t just dissent—it’s a problem of scale for any attempt at authoritarian control.
Every regime that governs through fear runs on labor:
officers, analysts, contractors, censors, and algorithms working nonstop to contain dissent. 1/
Every regime that governs through fear runs on labor:
officers, analysts, contractors, censors, and algorithms working nonstop to contain dissent. 1/
To treat the poor not just as equal but greater than ourselves:
David Lantigua writing for Commonweal 🕯️
David Lantigua writing for Commonweal 🕯️
Leo’s Ode to Latin American Theology
Pope Leo XIV’s first exhortation, on love for the poor, is a tribute to Pope Francis and his predecessor’s namesake.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
To treat the poor not just as equal but greater than ourselves:
David Lantigua writing for Commonweal 🕯️
David Lantigua writing for Commonweal 🕯️
Reposted by Jacob Henry Leveton
AAUP holds a day of action this Friday Oct 17
nationwide teach in against the loyalty oaths us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
the original 9 persecuted campuses have in-person events
find your chapter www.aaup.org/chapters/fin...
nationwide teach in against the loyalty oaths us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
the original 9 persecuted campuses have in-person events
find your chapter www.aaup.org/chapters/fin...
Find a Chapter
A list of AAUP chapters, both unionized and nonunionized. (You can also see a list of just union chapters.)
www.aaup.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
AAUP holds a day of action this Friday Oct 17
nationwide teach in against the loyalty oaths us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
the original 9 persecuted campuses have in-person events
find your chapter www.aaup.org/chapters/fin...
nationwide teach in against the loyalty oaths us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
the original 9 persecuted campuses have in-person events
find your chapter www.aaup.org/chapters/fin...
Still vibing on Monday's conversation students from Art & Visual Culture had as part of the semester's virtual artist visit with the recording artist Theodore.
Turns out: "Breathe into Me" from his new album FIRE is less about romantic ❤️ than an invocation of the 9 Muses.
#VisualCulture #Pedagogy
Turns out: "Breathe into Me" from his new album FIRE is less about romantic ❤️ than an invocation of the 9 Muses.
#VisualCulture #Pedagogy
October 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Still vibing on Monday's conversation students from Art & Visual Culture had as part of the semester's virtual artist visit with the recording artist Theodore.
Turns out: "Breathe into Me" from his new album FIRE is less about romantic ❤️ than an invocation of the 9 Muses.
#VisualCulture #Pedagogy
Turns out: "Breathe into Me" from his new album FIRE is less about romantic ❤️ than an invocation of the 9 Muses.
#VisualCulture #Pedagogy
Brilliant piece by @bernardharcourt.bsky.social this morning on Critique & Praxis.
Throws down a gauntlet for an American progressive left that must reclaim revolutionary radicalism against the far right’s bourgeois counter-revolution.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Throws down a gauntlet for an American progressive left that must reclaim revolutionary radicalism against the far right’s bourgeois counter-revolution.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
What Is To Be Done about the Radical Far-Right?
Hegel, Lenin, Bannon, and the Trump Revolution: On the Dialectics of Smashing the State
substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Brilliant piece by @bernardharcourt.bsky.social this morning on Critique & Praxis.
Throws down a gauntlet for an American progressive left that must reclaim revolutionary radicalism against the far right’s bourgeois counter-revolution.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Throws down a gauntlet for an American progressive left that must reclaim revolutionary radicalism against the far right’s bourgeois counter-revolution.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
New on the Loyola AAUP Blog:
Loyola AAUP stands with SEIU Local 73 as negotiations stall.
Faculty working without contracts deserve solidarity, not silence.
#LoyolaChicago #AAUP #SEIULocal73 #AcademicFreedom #Solidarity
Loyola AAUP stands with SEIU Local 73 as negotiations stall.
Faculty working without contracts deserve solidarity, not silence.
#LoyolaChicago #AAUP #SEIULocal73 #AcademicFreedom #Solidarity
Loyola Chicago AAUP stands with SEIU Local 73 — The Loyola University Chicago Chapter of the American Association of University Professors
by LUC AAUP Executive Council Officers SEIU Local 73 represents non-tenure-track full- and part-time faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and the English Language Learning Program (ELL...
www.aaup-luc.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
New on the Loyola AAUP Blog:
Loyola AAUP stands with SEIU Local 73 as negotiations stall.
Faculty working without contracts deserve solidarity, not silence.
#LoyolaChicago #AAUP #SEIULocal73 #AcademicFreedom #Solidarity
Loyola AAUP stands with SEIU Local 73 as negotiations stall.
Faculty working without contracts deserve solidarity, not silence.
#LoyolaChicago #AAUP #SEIULocal73 #AcademicFreedom #Solidarity
Don't write for Substack while it platforms Neo-Nazis;
Write for the non-standard, instead.
Two months after launch, it is still Instagram's only weekly gazette newspaper 💅
www.instagram.com/the.nonstand...
Write for the non-standard, instead.
Two months after launch, it is still Instagram's only weekly gazette newspaper 💅
www.instagram.com/the.nonstand...
Login • Instagram
Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
www.instagram.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Don't write for Substack while it platforms Neo-Nazis;
Write for the non-standard, instead.
Two months after launch, it is still Instagram's only weekly gazette newspaper 💅
www.instagram.com/the.nonstand...
Write for the non-standard, instead.
Two months after launch, it is still Instagram's only weekly gazette newspaper 💅
www.instagram.com/the.nonstand...
Critical exhibition opening Oct. 16 at Contemporary Art Vilnius
www.e-flux.com/announcement...
#ContemporaryArt #Militarization
www.e-flux.com/announcement...
#ContemporaryArt #Militarization
Bells and Cannons - Announcements - e-flux
Bells and Cannons, Contemporary Art in the Face of Militarisation // October 16, 2025–March 1, 2026
www.e-flux.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Critical exhibition opening Oct. 16 at Contemporary Art Vilnius
www.e-flux.com/announcement...
#ContemporaryArt #Militarization
www.e-flux.com/announcement...
#ContemporaryArt #Militarization
Orca Whales 🤝 Me
"Coho salmon fishes are a delicious autumn treat"
"Coho salmon fishes are a delicious autumn treat"
October 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Orca Whales 🤝 Me
"Coho salmon fishes are a delicious autumn treat"
"Coho salmon fishes are a delicious autumn treat"
Doing good thinking & strong work today on how interdisciplinarity was absorbed into exchange value.
Truly readymade for Adorno-driven critique of the language of (research) administration.
The better way—interdisciplinarity as pure use value—is the only path forward for #HigherEd
Truly readymade for Adorno-driven critique of the language of (research) administration.
The better way—interdisciplinarity as pure use value—is the only path forward for #HigherEd
October 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Doing good thinking & strong work today on how interdisciplinarity was absorbed into exchange value.
Truly readymade for Adorno-driven critique of the language of (research) administration.
The better way—interdisciplinarity as pure use value—is the only path forward for #HigherEd
Truly readymade for Adorno-driven critique of the language of (research) administration.
The better way—interdisciplinarity as pure use value—is the only path forward for #HigherEd
Reposted by Jacob Henry Leveton
Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
New on the Loyola AAUP Blog: Suzanne Kaufman reflects on AAUP v. Rubio
www.aaup-luc.org/blog/reflect...
www.aaup-luc.org/blog/reflect...
Reflections on AAUP v. Rubio — The Loyola University Chicago Chapter of the American Association of University Professors
by Suzanne KAufman Today’s ruling in AAUP v. Rubio is a milestone for academic freedom and free speech. Brought forward by AAUP chapters at Harvard, NYU, and Columbia, along with the ...
www.aaup-luc.org
October 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
New on the Loyola AAUP Blog: Suzanne Kaufman reflects on AAUP v. Rubio
www.aaup-luc.org/blog/reflect...
www.aaup-luc.org/blog/reflect...
First blog post for Loyola's AAUP chapter just dropped on our new website! 💅
www.aaup-luc.org/blog/luc-aau...
www.aaup-luc.org/blog/luc-aau...
September 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
First blog post for Loyola's AAUP chapter just dropped on our new website! 💅
www.aaup-luc.org/blog/luc-aau...
www.aaup-luc.org/blog/luc-aau...
"Communion with one another is a pathway to communion with God. Particularly in a world so often at war, this gesture can be a radical, countercultural act."
Anthony Russo in America Magazine, this morning.
Anthony Russo in America Magazine, this morning.
www.americamagazine.org
September 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Communion with one another is a pathway to communion with God. Particularly in a world so often at war, this gesture can be a radical, countercultural act."
Anthony Russo in America Magazine, this morning.
Anthony Russo in America Magazine, this morning.
Reposted by Jacob Henry Leveton
This 👇
Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.
generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)
September 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This 👇
Thinking through the Shamanic Forms of Irish Catholicism today as part of the Fall Spiritual Exercise slate. Recognizing a significantly syncretic component of my Jesuit heritage on the Maryland side of my fam.
Ancestry do be with us in key ways; abstract psychopompestry for dark times.
Ancestry do be with us in key ways; abstract psychopompestry for dark times.
September 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Thinking through the Shamanic Forms of Irish Catholicism today as part of the Fall Spiritual Exercise slate. Recognizing a significantly syncretic component of my Jesuit heritage on the Maryland side of my fam.
Ancestry do be with us in key ways; abstract psychopompestry for dark times.
Ancestry do be with us in key ways; abstract psychopompestry for dark times.
Reposted by Jacob Henry Leveton
The Sublime Dreams of Piranesi, a new gallery + commentary at Romantic Circles, is up at romantic-circles.org/gallery/exhi...
September 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Sublime Dreams of Piranesi, a new gallery + commentary at Romantic Circles, is up at romantic-circles.org/gallery/exhi...
It's not great when faculty ghost conversation threads that are critical of administration to move on to something more
"positive."
The chances of anyone not getting tenure or promoted are so unlikely to be diminished by clear-eyed honesty in direct conversation with peers. Stay with the trouble.
"positive."
The chances of anyone not getting tenure or promoted are so unlikely to be diminished by clear-eyed honesty in direct conversation with peers. Stay with the trouble.
September 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It's not great when faculty ghost conversation threads that are critical of administration to move on to something more
"positive."
The chances of anyone not getting tenure or promoted are so unlikely to be diminished by clear-eyed honesty in direct conversation with peers. Stay with the trouble.
"positive."
The chances of anyone not getting tenure or promoted are so unlikely to be diminished by clear-eyed honesty in direct conversation with peers. Stay with the trouble.