Intellectual history, German & Jewish studies, climate catastrophe | Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester | PhD from Princeton | Edits @jhideas.bsky.social | Rochester • NYC • Berlin 🏳️🌈
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
Jonathon Catlin
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Highly recommend the new exhibition at Spore Berlin on colonial exploitation, genocide, environmental degradation, and ongoing extraction in the former German colony in Namibia—a collab between Forensic Architecture and indigenous artists, scholars, and activists
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The Columbia University settlement with the Trump administration included a $21 million fund for compensating Jewish faculty and staff for an allegedly hostile work environment. Now Jewish faculty who claim they were harassed for being pro-Palestine are applying. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Props to CNN’s chyron writer:
‘They are disturbing the dead’: reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century – my latest @theguardian.com
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‘If Marcel Duchamp rejected painting, it also rejected him: he was a poor painter, as the first gallery, dotted with splotchy landscapes and unlovely nudes in the manner of Monet and Degas, makes clear.’
Hal Foster on the Duchamp retrospective at MoMA.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions
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The star of the Deutsches Historisches Museum’s exhibition on "Nature in German History": die Kartoffel / der Erdapfel
Got to see the brilliant @triofrancos.bsky.social present her book *Extraction* in Berlin for the launch of the German edition from @suhrkamp.de
Excellent event in Berlin tonight launching the conference volume “Hijacking Memory,” ft. Emily Dische-Becker, Susan Neiman, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, & Gilbert Achcar, who all condemned the abuse of Holocaust memory for authoritarian ends from Germany, to the U.S., to Israel
Today @ktbberlin.bsky.social: "Crisis and Transformation" ft. Dipesh Chakrabarty et al. Rahel Jaeggi: “We are no longer in an age of crisis but an age of catastrophe.” The aim is to convert (1st order) catastrophes into (2nd order) crises amenable to collective problem-solving & learning processes.
"German Arrogance": State fails to secure a rotating seat on the UN Security Council, marking "a foreign policy catastrophe." Among the reasons: "Merz repeatedly managed to weaken Germany's commitment to international law in order to justify military interventions..."
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At least 3,000 Herero and Nama people died in a German concentration camp at Shark Island, Namibia. A new forensic exhibition in Berlin is using digital technology to unearth how colonisers scarred a ...
Deutschland verfehlt den Sitz im Sicherheitsrat. Eine Niederlage, die nicht nur an einer späten Kandidatur lag. Politische Positionen und Selbstverständnis stimmen nicht.
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In 1973, when a Marcel Duchamp retrospective was last staged in the United States, the critic Lucy Lippard declared...
