"Benjamin conceptualized his thinking-in-images as the epistemological principle of modernity." From our Winter 2015 issue, read Sigrid Weigel's "The Flash of Knowledge and the Temporality of Images": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

From Occupied Paris to New York, 1943: Benjamin Fondane and the Partisan Review – Renaissance Animal share.google/TvTJQ699Lv43B4…

Ahead of a conference in Detroit, while hanging out in Windsor I came across Biblioasis, a particularly excellent bookstore. It's got a thoughtfully curated selection of new books as a front for a glorious chaos of used books on the back shelves

Good times at the Society for United States Intellectual History conference in Detroit. I'll be talking tomorrow about AI-generated/influenced documents in the historical archives of the future

November morning

It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.