Jason Storm with "The Genealogy of Genealogy"
“The Genealogy of Genealogy” has finally arrived in my mailbox! I will resist tediously promoting on here. But if anyone would like to host a Book talk, discuss it in a Reading Group or Podcast, or Teach it, I’d be happy to travel to pretty anywhere on the East Coast or Zoom in from afar.
A mirror in a Shinto shrine. Sources wikicommons.
"The God in the Mirror" a very short research reflection, I wrote for the CSWR at Harvard about a Japanese countertradition of self-deification as part of a broader piece on Apotheosis in Japan. A quick read: cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2026/03...
Pleasure talking with PJ on "Chasing Leviathan" about the Metamodernism book, the nature of flourishing, and the future of the human sciences. Episode out now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohuj...
Last summer in Vilnius, I had a blast doing a fun and in depth interview with Augustas Pinkevičius of Vytautas Magnus University. If you are curious, read it here #PhilSky #AcademicSky: ejournals.vdu.lt/index.php/Di...
Many thanks!
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Jason Storm with "The Genealogy of Genealogy"
“The Genealogy of Genealogy” has finally arrived in my mailbox! I will resist tediously promoting on here. But if anyone would like to host a Book talk, discuss it in a Reading Group or Podcast, or Teach it, I’d be happy to travel to pretty anywhere on the East Coast or Zoom in from afar.
Just back from Montreal where I launched “The Genealogy of Genealogy” at McGill University. The physical copies were delayed, but the conversation more than compensated! The press reports that advance copies are now shipping and at least one has already been delivered.
I have a new article out in Cultural Science "Metamodern Theory for the Study of More-than-Human Cultures" trying to make the case for the value of hylosemiotics for studying more-than-human (esp non-human animal) "cultures." Check it out. reference-global.com/article/10.2...
Seriously, this is a great episode and I'm going to liberally borrow -- with attribution! -- from it for the introductory lecture next time I teach History of Magic.
(Also, if you are not already listening to the Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast, you should be.)
Many thanks! Glad you found it useful!
If you have to read anything about the prospect of “automating scientific discovery,” “agents for science,” or integrating LLMs into scientific pipelines, please let it be this essay by Kevin T. Baker: artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-wi...
I never get tired of talking about “The Myth of Disenchantment.” If you too are up for more, I had a great convo with Khalid Khatri on his Incisive Thoughts podcast. Give it a listen! : youtu.be/7gKeqOmL4bo
I never get tired of talking about “The Myth of Disenchantment.” If you too are up for more, I had a great convo with Khalid Khatri on his Incisive Thoughts podcast. Give it a listen! : youtu.be/7gKeqOmL4bo
Panel two-- Sunday, 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM, Theme: "Revisiting Buddhist Studies and Postcolonial Theory Thirty Years After Donald Lopez’s Curators of the Buddha" Hosted by: Buddhism Unit. My paper: "Beyond Postcolonial Buddhist Studies" #AARSBL2025
Panel one-- Saturday, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Theme: "The Subject of Foucault" Hosted by: Foucault and the Study of Religion Seminar. My paper: "Genealogy’s Hidden Roots: The Forgotten French Debate That Shaped Foucault (1962–1971)." #AARSBL2025
Back in Boston for AAR. Two talks this year: on decolonizing Buddhist studies & on Foucault’s influences (details in comments). I’ll be hitting multiple receptions. Always psyched to meet new folks & reconnect with old friends and colleagues, so if you see me, come say hi. #AARSBL2025
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Coils of Critical History - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, April 2026
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Back on one of my favorite podcasts, SHWEP, for a fascinating conversation about "The Golden Bough”’s uncanny afterlife in the history of Western Esotericism, and whether Frazer—long cast as a great debunker of magic—might actually belong among the occultists.Check it out! shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...
Back on one of my favorite podcasts, SHWEP, for a fascinating conversation about "The Golden Bough”’s uncanny afterlife in the history of Western Esotericism, and whether Frazer—long cast as a great debunker of magic—might actually belong among the occultists.Check it out! shwep.net/oddcast/jaso...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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. 💜
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.
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 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.
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
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.
