Caleb Smith

Good morning! If you'd like to read smart things instead of all the stupid things, the new ELH is out, with essays from The English Institute. New work by Quashie, Post, Orlemanski, Yousef, CW Smith, Tongson, and yours truly, introduced by Fleissner and Enelow.

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"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric Jameson Listen now | Opening Lecture of 1977 Institute On Culture & Society

"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric
Jameson, Opening Lecture of 1977 Institute on Culture & Society (audio)
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Home | The Tidewater Initiative We are a multidisciplinary research group devoted to study, stewardship, and stories of working waterfronts, coastal infrastructures, and oceans under conditions of globalization and environmental ins...

We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/

The Jameson Tapes, Side B with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson

So happy with how this came out.

AND NOW the 2nd part! theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...

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The Jameson Tapes, Side A with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson

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1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence

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The Jameson Tapes, Side A with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson

Honored to be among the folks talking about Jameson on the new American Vandal podcast episode! theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...

Good to join The American Vandal for this conversation about Jameson, ideology, and methods of literary analysis!

PhilosophyPodcasts.Org: Caleb Smith. Distraction and discipline. Caleb Smith Thoreau's axe: Distraction and discipline in American culture   Today, we’re driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it—most of which emanate from ou...

A good, searching conversation with the hospitable August Baker of Philosophy Podcasts

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With the rise of AI, I've begun to wonder if future graders of expository essays will even be able to grasp the sheer brilliance of Mandy Berry's famous Student Essay Unplugged? We many never see this kind of essay again, folks.

Temporary cure for the oozing polycrisis blues: spend a couple hours chatting with @annakornbluh.bsky.social & @c-also.bsky.social about Fred Jameson.

Don’t forget to press record.

Really good to think and talk with y’all!

May 5th is Marx's birthday The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways – the point however is to change it. Karl Marx's contributions to the study of economics, politics, and philosophy are beyond measure. ...

Today is Karl Marx's birthday.

All books by and on Marx are on sale for up to 50% off as part of our Red May Sale.

Yale faculty urge administrators to defend academic freedom Around 900 faculty signed a letter to President Maurie McInnis and Provost Scott Strobel calling for “courageous leadership” in the face of attacks on higher education.

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I am so honored and FIRED UP to introduce the legendary Angela Davis on Yale’s campus tomorrow, for a two-day lecture series on Abolition. Let’s go!

Adam Shatz | Submission There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

A clarifying account of what is happening at Columbia and beyond.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction? From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.

Here’s a smart essay about media, distraction, and who decides what’s worth paying attention to:

What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Los Angeles, I love you! Some ways to help, via Mutual Aid LA:

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174: Beyond Ethical Reading: How Fiction Thinks about Motive, Will, and Desire. With Emily Ogden and Jennifer Fleissner. Thursday, 7pm, Camp.

13: Genres of Criticism, Genres in Criticism. With Stephen Best, Jane Hu, Lauren Michelle Jackson, Jeremy Rosen, and Ross Wilson. Thursday, noon, Canal.

Bound for New Orleans and the MLA. Catch me at the bar, or at one of these two killer sessions:

How Joe Brainard spent Christmas in 1961: played in the snow all morning, completely broke his glasses, worked on a self-portrait collage, went to a Chinese restaurant & had chow mein & 6 whiskey sours & then stayed up all night & wrote a 34-page story

Goodbye to the Greatest Marxist Critic of Our Time On Fredric Jameson’s last book.

"This relentless turning away from common sense, this flight from an ideologically ingrained worldview, is what Jameson means when he talks about theory as a liberation."

@c-also.bsky.social on Jameson's "The Years of Theory"

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Our Most Loved Pieces of 2024 - Boston Review The essays, reviews, forums, and interviews that readers turned to the most.

As the year comes to a close, we've gathered the 24 essays, reviews, forums, and interviews that readers turned to the most.

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My book, John Cale’s Paris 1919, for the 33 1/3 series. Pub date: Feb 6.

Well lookie there.

Here’s the AAUP statement on the insane full metal jacket crackdown on peaceful protestors asking for investment transparency and divestment from genocide in Gaza yesterday. I am one of the faculty members who was labeled persona non grata (PNG), banned from university buildings.