Jake Romm

For the newest issue of the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social, I reviewed two books by Kristin Ross (@versobooks.bsky.social): on the critique of everyday life, the commune form, and the social paysan as revolutionary subject

nyra.nyc/articles/to-...

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For the newest issue of the @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social, I reviewed two books by Kristin Ross (@versobooks.bsky.social): on the critique of everyday life, the commune form, and the social paysan as revolutionary subject

nyra.nyc/articles/to-...

Come study with me!

I'll be running a short course this fall with the
Psychosocial Foundation on Zionism as an Antisemitism--course description and registration link below👇

thepsychosocialfoundation.org/short-courses

Before the After • Protean Magazine Kate Wagner's essay in Protean: Issue V explores the art and life of the Yugoslavian painter France Micheli , who was an interpreter of nature, ritual, and, in many ways, an interrogator of death. His...

From Issue V: Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell.bsky.social) on the art and life of Yugoslavian painter France Michelič, known for his depictions of folk deity Kurent. Stamped by the 20th century's trials, he became a searching interpreter of nature, ritual, and death.

proteanmag.com/2025/07/25/b...

Elements of Anti-Semitism — Parapraxis The limits of Zionism Jake Romm

the course will build on this essay for
@parapraxismag.bsky.social—together we'll update/expand the analysis, always with an eye towards understanding both the continuities btw Zionism & exterminationisms past as well as what is frighteningly unique about the present

Here is the course description:

We'll cover texts by Adorno, Horkheimer, Sayegh, Bonefeld, Abu el-Haj, Amery, Diner, as well testimony from the genocidaires themselves (all subject to change as the needs or desires of the course evolve through discussion)

No—it’s a different thing.

Netanyahu et al are a symptom not a cause.

And what about Judaism?

not repressed, I hate zionism. it is a foregone conclusion: zionism as an ideology and regime must be stamped out. 101 stuff

What inherent hatred

Idée Fixe — Parapraxis Holocaust trauma and Zionist exterminationism Jake Romm

I wrote about this here:
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ide...

(also for the course there's scholarships available!)

Elements of Anti-Semitism — Parapraxis The limits of Zionism Jake Romm

the course will build on this essay for
@parapraxismag.bsky.social—together we'll update/expand the analysis, always with an eye towards understanding both the continuities btw Zionism & exterminationisms past as well as what is frighteningly unique about the present

Here is the course description:

We'll cover texts by Adorno, Horkheimer, Sayegh, Bonefeld, Abu el-Haj, Amery, Diner, as well testimony from the genocidaires themselves (all subject to change as the needs or desires of the course evolve through discussion)

Come study with me!

I'll be running a short course this fall with the
Psychosocial Foundation on Zionism as an Antisemitism--course description and registration link below👇

thepsychosocialfoundation.org/short-courses

Collection: The Critical Theorist as Enemy Alien (1942-1945) Adorno and Horkheimer's Critique of Racial Classification.

+ an intro on how reading their studies on anti-Semitism & racial prejudice in the 1940s must reckon with what Adorno calls their “Eiertanz” of the neither/nor to naive assimilationism & Zionism (w/ a shout out to @jakeromm.bsky.social at the end)

Link:
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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Reminder to read this stellar paper by @jakeromm.bsky.social on the ties between zionism and nazi ideology (amongst other things), easily one of the most insightful, carefully crafted and intellectually challenging thing I've read in the last few years.

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ele...

but only if they want to

they should touch penises

A Shattered Geometry: On Palestinian Painters Both the impotence of art and the complicity of the world in the face of atrocity have demonstrated that armed, decolonial struggle never lost its urgency or necessity, despite what the triumphalists ...

My piece from the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social winter print issue is now up online. On Palestinian painting, Levinas, the work of Mohammad Joha, and the ethics of seeing.

(also subscribe to the magazine, one of the best out there)

clereviewofbooks.com/a-shattered-...

Your death will serve as its own justification I have six new shorts and poems up at Flaming Hydra this week. Unforeseen DifficultiesFiction by Luke O’Neil The guilt He was in the garage jigsaw-puzzling the architecture of the bones. After some d...

it’s always two dumb guys telling each other “exactlyyyyy” etc.

(h/t @jakeromm.bsky.social and @lukeoneil47.bsky.social for this piece, which I think of often)

Blake Little’s Construction Nudes 1981-1985 | The Brooklyn Rail Black-and-white photographs of nude male figures posing in construction sites around urban Los Angeles. The book drips with death. The nude simultaneously exudes a sense of vitality and also finality:...

For the June issue of The Brooklyn Rail, I wrote about photographer Blake Little's beautiful "Construction Nudes 1981-1985", a rich mournful book which tackles both the AIDS crisis & LA construction boom and subsequent collapse.

brooklynrail.org/2025/06/art_...

Uncompromising Resistance: A Conversation With Andreas Malm • Protean Magazine Andreas Malm is interviewed by Bernardo Jurema and Elias König —about his recent book "Overshoot" (co-authored with Wim Carton), the "unique" case of Colombia, Freudo-Marxism, his forthcoming book "Th...

Full Interview: proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...

My friend Bernardo and I interviewed Andreas Malm for @proteanmag.com ~We spoke about his new book with Wim Carton, Overshoot, on his recent travels to Colombia, the dangers of geoengineering, Palestine in the context of fossil empire...

... om the desolate state of the (European) climate movement, on humor, style, and why the upcoming "The Long Heat" may be his last book on climate politics for now.
Very grateful to @jakeromm.bsky.social for making this happen

a few favorites from the book