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Will Norman

@dr_willnorman

Academic, US literature, culture and thought. Views my own.

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Will Norman
Will Norman@dr_willnorman·
So this came out. Not been on here for a while but what better excuse? Complicity seems a more timely topic than when I started! Spoiler: Complicity is a liberal structure of feeling and it's part of a larger story about race and colonialism. Thanks @LeverhulmeTrust for funding!
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harryhalpin@harryhalpin·
Fredric Jameson has passed away. The most intelligent person I ever met, he let me take his Hegel course as a ragged homeless anarchist. The last of a great line of towering intellectuals, from Socrates to Auerbach, whose very sentences echo throughout history. A few anecdotes:
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Will Norman@dr_willnorman·
Like many others, I wouldn't be doing what I do now if I hadn't picked up Jameson as a grad student and had my mind blown clean off. The greatest humanities scholar of his era by a country mile. Even those who repudiate him live in his shadow.
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Chris Parr
Chris Parr@ChrisJParr·
Lord James Wharton has resigned as chair of the Office for Students. More to come.
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Will Norman@dr_willnorman·
If you want to understand how white supremacy and free market fundamentalism cohabit this is your article. Banger from Quinn Slobodian @zeithstoriker for JAS.
Journal of American Studies@jnlamstudies

Our first JAS highlight is Quinn Slobodian's crucial intellectual portrait of self-described "godfather of the Alt Right", Peter Brimelo. He argues that Brimelo makes the case for a racialized hierarchy of human capital: an ethno-economy. Read it here: tinyurl.com/jas-art

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Journal of American Studies
Journal of American Studies@jnlamstudies·
👋 Hi! We’re going to be updating our Twitter/X page more regularly moving forward.
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Michael Docherty
Michael Docherty@maybeavalon·
My first book, The Recursive Frontier, technically came out (from @SUNYPress) last week, but I delayed posting about until my author copies arrived so I could do an obligatory unboxing photo. It's (mostly) a multiethnic literary history of Los Angeles between the '30s and '50s.
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Will Norman@dr_willnorman·
@Anna_K_speaking Disagreement isn't acrimony and shouldn't be. But under the conditions I describe it is more likely to be perceived as a risk that might lead to acrimony. Or at least to put relations of fellow feeling, empathy or even professional solidarity at risk.
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Dr Anna Krzywoszynska
Dr Anna Krzywoszynska@Anna_K_speaking·
@dr_willnorman I do think it's interesting that you leap so fast from 'disagreement' to 'acrimony'. Does UK culture particularly struggle with plurality? (The odd two party system springs to mind). Just thinking out loud here.
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Dr Anna Krzywoszynska
Dr Anna Krzywoszynska@Anna_K_speaking·
This fact about UK academia may surprise you! I wonder if others feel the same way: UK academia is weirdly ani-intellectual. I had a good academic career in UK, and left 2 years ago, ended up, happily, in Finland . I did all my degrees in the UK, and got to SL. And yet....
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Tyler Austin Harper
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper·
This thread — which argues that it’s not simply the humanities that are under assault, but any fields that don’t lend themselves to industry or practical application — is right. Hence why math at WVU was cut alongside literature programs. All non-useful knowledge is under attack.
maybe: leif weatherby@leifweatherby

I don’t think there is a “humanities crisis” as such - there is instead a crisis of knowledge in general, in which the question of what counts as real knowledge has neither theory nor funding to back it, and focus lands on “applied research” 1/

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Alix Beeston
Alix Beeston@alixbeeston·
Literature/Film studies hive mind, any suggestions of novels or films in which a character loses an unfinished manuscript? Thanks x
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Federico Italiano
Federico Italiano@FedeItaliano76·
The gothic majesty of 1930s Chicago
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Jordan Brower
Jordan Brower@jordanrbrower·
Good morning to you and welcome to the world, CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD, AMERICAN MODERNISM: A LITERARY HISTORY OF THE STUDIO SYSTEM! Parents @CambridgeUP and yours truly are tired but happy cambridge.org/core/books/cla…
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Will Norman@dr_willnorman·
@LKonstan Surely Adorno's reading of the LA Times' astrology column in The Stars Down to Earth.
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Lee Konstantinou
Lee Konstantinou@LKonstan·
What are the best close readings of "bad" mass cultural objects, especially readings of objects that seem unable to sustain such virtuosic analysis—but do?
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Laura Rattray
Laura Rattray@drlaurarattray·
Proud and grateful to have been awarded a 12 month research fellowship from the wonderful @LeverhulmeTrust starting in May ♥️ For anyone looking, the post to cover my Am Lit teaching has just been advertised: 1930s, Hollywood novel, Fitzgerald, Wharton🔥🔥 gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/
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