Jonathon Catlin
@joncatlin.bsky.social
Intellectual history, German & Jewish studies, climate catastrophe | Postdoc at the University of Rochester Humanities Center | PhD from Princeton | Edits @jhideas.bsky.social | Rochester • NYC • Berlin 🏳️🌈
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
While the US was defunding universities, China was synthesizing food from the air! Zhejiang University, which now tops Harvard in research output, only broke into the top 100 universities in 2017. Truly a meteoric rise. The 21st century does not belong to the U.S.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
While the US was defunding universities, China was synthesizing food from the air! Zhejiang University, which now tops Harvard in research output, only broke into the top 100 universities in 2017. Truly a meteoric rise. The 21st century does not belong to the U.S.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
These photos from New Year's Eve 1989 in Berlin, two months after the wall came down, capture the fashion of wearing Palestinian keffiyehs on parts of the German left in the '70s and '80s. A forgotten history, and perhaps also the origins of the Antideutsch critique? Source: The Berliner Magazine
December 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
These photos from New Year's Eve 1989 in Berlin, two months after the wall came down, capture the fashion of wearing Palestinian keffiyehs on parts of the German left in the '70s and '80s. A forgotten history, and perhaps also the origins of the Antideutsch critique? Source: The Berliner Magazine
Elad Lapidot in @blnreview.bsky.social: If "war is collective deconstruction" of conflictual worldviews, the moral catastrophe in Gaza marks a breakdown of conceptual foundations akin to other turning points in intellectual history.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Elad Lapidot in @blnreview.bsky.social: If "war is collective deconstruction" of conflictual worldviews, the moral catastrophe in Gaza marks a breakdown of conceptual foundations akin to other turning points in intellectual history.
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
Thrilled to see this out!
December 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Thrilled to see this out!
Do I start my nephew’s teen existential crisis off early by giving him this for Christmas?
December 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Do I start my nephew’s teen existential crisis off early by giving him this for Christmas?
Grateful for this gift from my wonderful colleague Lisa Cerami! She saw me use this New Yorker illustration in a presentation on my catastrophe project a few weeks ago and decided to blow it up into matching posters for our offices.
December 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Grateful for this gift from my wonderful colleague Lisa Cerami! She saw me use this New Yorker illustration in a presentation on my catastrophe project a few weeks ago and decided to blow it up into matching posters for our offices.
Those seeking to blame the global rise in antisemitism and despicable attack at Bondi Beach on the “genocide libel” of Palestine solidarity should first look to the dangerous conflation and co-optation of Judaism with Israel’s militarism and genocidal campaign by the Zionist right.
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Those seeking to blame the global rise in antisemitism and despicable attack at Bondi Beach on the “genocide libel” of Palestine solidarity should first look to the dangerous conflation and co-optation of Judaism with Israel’s militarism and genocidal campaign by the Zionist right.
I've arrived in DC for the @jewishstudies.bsky.social conference to speak on the breakdown of Holocaust memory after October 7 into universalist and particularist strands on the panel "Modern Jewish Thought in Question: Typologies, Legacies, and Political Stakes." Friends, say hello! #AJS2025
December 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I've arrived in DC for the @jewishstudies.bsky.social conference to speak on the breakdown of Holocaust memory after October 7 into universalist and particularist strands on the panel "Modern Jewish Thought in Question: Typologies, Legacies, and Political Stakes." Friends, say hello! #AJS2025
Two truths and a lie!
December 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Two truths and a lie!
Glad to be part of this symposium honoring the life and work of my Doktorvater Anson Rabinbach next week at NYU!
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December 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Glad to be part of this symposium honoring the life and work of my Doktorvater Anson Rabinbach next week at NYU!
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
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Grateful for late capitalism
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Grateful for late capitalism
Thanksgiving proofs 🤗 🦃 👨🏻🏫
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Thanksgiving proofs 🤗 🦃 👨🏻🏫
The special issue of New German Critique on "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads," which I co-edited with Andreas Huyssen and the late Anson Rabinbach, is finally starting to look real! It will be out in February 2026.
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The special issue of New German Critique on "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads," which I co-edited with Andreas Huyssen and the late Anson Rabinbach, is finally starting to look real! It will be out in February 2026.
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
ngc.arts.cornell.edu/forthcoming....
So you call yourself an eco-Marxist? @alybatt.bsky.social and her dream team of respondents would love to know why, if capitalism is so good at commodifying everything, it‘s failed to put a price on nature to protect it from destruction. Excited to read her book! @princetonupress.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
So you call yourself an eco-Marxist? @alybatt.bsky.social and her dream team of respondents would love to know why, if capitalism is so good at commodifying everything, it‘s failed to put a price on nature to protect it from destruction. Excited to read her book! @princetonupress.bsky.social
Still reeling from the intellectual richness and political urgency of Dagmar Herzog's talks this week at @urochester.bsky.social! We have a final event on 11/25: A hybrid Zoom event with Kathryn Brackney on her history of Holocaust representation. Register here:
events.rochester.edu/event/surrea...
events.rochester.edu/event/surrea...
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Still reeling from the intellectual richness and political urgency of Dagmar Herzog's talks this week at @urochester.bsky.social! We have a final event on 11/25: A hybrid Zoom event with Kathryn Brackney on her history of Holocaust representation. Register here:
events.rochester.edu/event/surrea...
events.rochester.edu/event/surrea...
Thrilled to be hosting the brilliant historian Dagmar Herzog in Rochester this week for events on her two (!) new books, which explore sexuality, racism, and anti-disability politics in 20th century Germany and on the far right today. Details here:
events.rochester.edu/search/event...
events.rochester.edu/search/event...
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Thrilled to be hosting the brilliant historian Dagmar Herzog in Rochester this week for events on her two (!) new books, which explore sexuality, racism, and anti-disability politics in 20th century Germany and on the far right today. Details here:
events.rochester.edu/search/event...
events.rochester.edu/search/event...
Fantastic virtual event going on right now (I believe it’s being recorded). Valentina Pisanty: In official, institutionalized Holocaust memory in the West, “Never Again” has become code for “There Is No Alternative” to (failing) capitalist liberal democracy.
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Fantastic virtual event going on right now (I believe it’s being recorded). Valentina Pisanty: In official, institutionalized Holocaust memory in the West, “Never Again” has become code for “There Is No Alternative” to (failing) capitalist liberal democracy.
At Smith College for the annual Critical Theory Roundtable. My paper, “‘Nichts Ähnliches’: The Uses and Abuses of Adorno in a Time of Genocide,” attempts to map the growing divide between (German) particularist vs. universalist readings of Adorno's "after Auschwitz" after the devastation of Gaza
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
At Smith College for the annual Critical Theory Roundtable. My paper, “‘Nichts Ähnliches’: The Uses and Abuses of Adorno in a Time of Genocide,” attempts to map the growing divide between (German) particularist vs. universalist readings of Adorno's "after Auschwitz" after the devastation of Gaza
Jonathan Boyarin:
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November 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Jonathan Boyarin:
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Excited to be hosting historian Doris Bergen at the @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center on Oct. 29 for a lecture on the collapse of German democracy in the Nazi era. Could there be any parallels to today, I wonder? 🤔
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Excited to be hosting historian Doris Bergen at the @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center on Oct. 29 for a lecture on the collapse of German democracy in the Nazi era. Could there be any parallels to today, I wonder? 🤔
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
events.rochester.edu/event/how-ea...
They're here! In just a few weeks I'll be hosting the brilliant Dagmar Herzog to explore the "sexy racism" of the contemporary far right. Those in Rochester, if you'd like a copy of this book and commit to attending the workshop, write me and I'll give you one!
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
October 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
They're here! In just a few weeks I'll be hosting the brilliant Dagmar Herzog to explore the "sexy racism" of the contemporary far right. Those in Rochester, if you'd like a copy of this book and commit to attending the workshop, write me and I'll give you one!
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
events.rochester.edu/event/the-ne...
Throwback to when I was an insufferable theory bro humanities grad student living in Bushwick
October 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Throwback to when I was an insufferable theory bro humanities grad student living in Bushwick
Drove past this evangelical church today outside Chicago and was blinded by a dozen giant Israeli flags
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ingrace.us/about/
October 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Drove past this evangelical church today outside Chicago and was blinded by a dozen giant Israeli flags
ingrace.us/about/
ingrace.us/about/