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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Fight Cuts, Defend Higher Education at the University of Oregon

The University of Oregon is planning to lay off an undisclosed number of faculty—including many tenured faculty—and to close units based on a projected budget deficit that was discovered late spring term.

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Aug 27

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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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · Aug 27

“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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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · Aug 18

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. 💜

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

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.

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

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.

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Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

The cover of 'Metamodernism' by Jason Ânanda Josephson Storm', a young man, of Viennese times past, calmy removes his face - to reveal computer circuitry of today.

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Jul 11

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.

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Jul 7

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...

Cover of the Vietnamese translation of Metamodernism: The Future of Theory/THUYẾT SIÊU-HIỆN ĐẠI : Tương lai của Lý thuyết

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Jul 3

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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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Jun 29

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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De Gruyter Brill Philosophy @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social · Jun 27

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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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · Jun 22

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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Jason Storm standing in Gediminas tower overlooking Vilnius.

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · May 28

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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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · May 20

Thanks for your interest! I was referring to my article “Sex, Magic, & Rockets or the Implications of the Babalon Working for Theories of Belief and Rationality." It should be out any day now in the journal "Method and Theory in the Study of Religion". I'll aim tp let you know when it appears.

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · May 19

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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Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra || محمد السيّد بشرى @mesbushra.muftah.org · May 15

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...

Superstition and the Secular with Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm

Episode 8 of the Protean View podcast

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · May 15

In case you want to check out our previous conversation: www.homebrewedchristianty.com/2021/08/11/j...

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · May 15

Just did my second interview with Homebrewed Christianity—this time we talk "The Myth of Disenchantment" and how it ties into notions of metacrisis. Good stuff! (I completely forgot it was a video interview, so pardon the hair.)
#AcademicSky www.homebrewedchristianty.com/2025/04/28/j...

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · May 14

Recent Pew Survey "Beliefs in spirits, afterlife are popular across religiously diverse countries." I used to tag this kind of thing with #TheWorldofEnchantment on the old platform. Might be time to bring that back.
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Beliefs in spirits, afterlife are popular across religiously diverse countries, new study finds

(RNS) — The survey marks the first time Pew Research Center asked people outside the United States and Asian countries about practices related to Buddhism, Asian folk religions and New Age spiritualit...

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · May 12

Yeah that's kind of what I was thinking 😜

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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm @profstorm.bsky.social · May 12

Interesting moment: "New pope chose his name based on AI’s threats to “human dignity”" will have to think on it more. Posting mostly for my own future reference but you too might be curious arstechnica.com/information-...

New pope chose his name based on AI’s threats to “human dignity”

Pope Leo XIV warns AI could threaten workers as industrial revolution did in the 1800s.

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Forbidden Histories @forbiddenhistories.bsky.social · May 11

More gold from the FH archives: @profstorm.bsky.social on myths of disenchantment & Max Weber’s brushes with the occult.

Max Weber in the Realm of Enchantment. By Jason Josephson-Storm - Forbidden Histories

Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm (Twitter: @Ghost_Image_) is Chair & Associate Professor of Religion at Williams College. Josephson-Storm received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University in…

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