Will Norman

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

[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!

[Harry Halpin - Nym @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:

[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.

[Chris Parr @ChrisJParr]

Lord James Wharton has resigned as chair of the Office for Students. More to come.

[Brian Ward @BrianWard222]

Congratulations to everyone involved in organising a terrific event!

[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: https://t.co/xw0LSUWFFN

[Journal of American Studies @jnlamstudies]

👋 Hi! We’re going to be updating our Twitter/X page more regularly moving forward.

[Will Norman @dr_willnorman]

Brilliant new book from @maybeavalon!

[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.

[Will Norman @dr_willnorman]

@maybeavalon @SUNYPress Amazing, congratulations Michael!!

[Will Norman @dr_willnorman]

@simon_price01 @chris_hawkins @BBC6Music @thecure @RobertSmith Simon you deserved your win! That fur coat story is in 10 Imaginary Years I think . . .

[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.

[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.

[Will Norman @dr_willnorman]

@alixbeeston Nabokov's Pale Fire

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

The gothic majesty of 1930s Chicago

[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 https://t.co/k7tD394kyL

[Will Norman @dr_willnorman]

@LKonstan Surely Adorno's reading of the LA Times' astrology column in The Stars Down to Earth.

[Will Norman @dr_willnorman]

@drlaurarattray @LeverhulmeTrust huge congratulations Laura!!

[Journal of American Studies @jnlamstudies]

Delighted @gandercat’s essay on Topographies of Disorientation in the Works of Carrie Mae Weems and Claudia Rankine in JAS 54:3 won the triennial IAWIS Max Nänny Prize for best essay in word & image studies! Here's free access until the end of the year: https://t.co/UxC7PMhE9y

[University English @UnivEnglish]

We are pleased to announce the opening of this year's University English Book Prize, a £200 prize awarded annually for the best scholarly book by an early-career academic in an English department affiliated to University English. https://t.co/STyKCjgTdv