The Hammer Withdraws: Object-Oriented Ontology and the End of Human Privilege
A walk through Graham Harman’s withdrawn objects and Timothy Morton’s hyperobjects, and what both mean for anyone who studies institutions.
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Browse page 4 of Adam DJ Brett's blog archive with posts on web development, digital publishing, teaching, and project updates.
Continuity Plus Departure: What Braidotti and Gilroy Know About Innovation
A field renews itself by arguing with its own inheritance, which gives anyone proposing something new a test: name the tradition you honor, then name exactly where you break.
Build Anyway: Metamodernism and the Oscillation between Sincerity and Irony
Metamodernism names the swing between earnest commitment and ironic suspicion, and offers a working posture for people who have watched grand visions fail.
A Yardstick That Fits Nothing: Max Weber and the Study of Religion
Verstehen licenses interpretation as rigor and the ideal type turns it into an instrument, a deliberately unreal construct you hold real cases against to see how each one diverges.
Archaeology, Not Shopping: How to Map What Practitioners Actually Do
A method for reading a professional field: search past the databases, sort what you find into three bins, and name the silence precisely.
The Prayer Book That Stays Closed: Lived Religion and the Practice Nobody Wrote Down
Orsi, Hall, McGuire, and Ammerman moved the study of religion from the pulpit to the kitchen table, and left a method for seeing the practice your manual cannot describe.
Cards on the Factory Floor: Kanban for Dissertation and Journal Article Writing
How a signaling system from Toyota’s assembly lines became a workable method for finishing an 80,000-word dissertation one card at a time.
From Recognition to Jurisdiction: Indigenous Studies from Haudenosaunee Country to Aotearoa
Indigenous studies is not one canon but many place-based traditions, and its central question is not inclusion but who holds authority over land, law, and data.
In Praise of Zotero: The One Hill I Will Die On in Research Workflow
Why a free, open reference manager is the single tool most likely to save a doctoral project, and what its unpolished interface is quietly buying you.
There Is No Neutral Map: Humanities Theory as a Foundation for Method
Anderson and During recast theory as a set of reading practices rather than a doctrine, which turns the ordinary work of sorting a field into an argument you have to defend.
The Master Who Knew No Flemish: How Rancière’s Ignorant Schoolmaster Works
Joseph Jacotot taught French he could not explain, and Jacques Rancière turned the accident into an argument about what every explanation assumes before it begins.
The Unforced Force: Habermas and How Best Practice Gets Settled
Jürgen Habermas separates practice argued out among practitioners from practice handed down by money or command, and leaves behind a portable audit for telling the two apart.