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adam kotsko skip to content adam kotsko scroll down to content posts posted on august 21 2026 full text of agamben s coming philosophy available for free online about a year ago after receiving a royalty statement from a book whose sales had run their course i was inspired to ask the publishers of some of my older books to revert the rights to me so that i could make the texts freely available online those efforts mostly came to nothing but this morning i learned of one exception agamben s coming philosophy the essay collection i put together with colby dickinson it is more than ten years old and includes material older than that we have both written much more on agamben since that time and agamben himself has also written much more and yet on the off chance that someone might want to refer back to these essays the full text can be found here posted on july 31 2026 administration comes for us all starting this semester i will be serving as department chair of the shimer great books school at north central college we are all grateful to stuart patterson for his nine years of service during our sometimes difficult but ultimately successful transition to north central college stuart has generously offered to remain our primary point of contact with the alumni community as part of this transition for my part i look forward to sitting in meetings filling out forms and reveling in all the other glamorous privileges that come with the position of department chair posted on december 17 2025 full publication of papers from conference session on my work the oxford literary review supplement has now published all the papers from the session on my work at the association for philosophy and literature conference in frankfurt this fall peter gratton adam kotsko s political theology an introduction nils richber left over towards a post apocalyptic reading of political theology peter gratton a hell without end neoliberalism and the grift society jay martin every god has a devil for a father the disappearing of the devil in hegel adam kotsko what have i been doing all my life a response thanks again to peter for arranging the session and publication and serving as both presider introducer and presenter and to jonathan basile at the oxford literary review supplement for hosting the published roundtable posted on november 7 2025 review of star trek strange new worlds season 3 los angeles review of books has published a review of mine on star trek strange new worlds season 3 thank you to sean guynes for inviting me to do this readers can stay caught up on my reviews of all recent star trek material at my late star trek blog posted on september 29 2025 new article on rfk jr as the american faust my unexpected comparison is available here thank you to ed simon for inviting me to contribute to his new venture the pittsburgh review of books posted on september 25 2025 new article on franchise aesthetics i have a new piece out on entertainment franchises and their effects on artistic production at asia art archive entitled the franchise problem here is a preview there is a curious contradiction at the heart of contemporary american popular culture the most popular and commercially successful framework for artistic production is at the same time the most resented and even reviled i am speaking of the role of franchises such as star wars or the marvel cinematic universe which take pre existing characters and storyworlds and generate an open ended chain of new stories across multiple media usually some combination of television film video games novels comic books and toys supplemented by branded merchandise typically these new stories are not one off or self contained but purport to take place in the same narrative space as all the others so that they should all not only make sense together but actually clarify and enhance each other this attempt to flesh out the respective fictional worlds has led to a proliferation of prequels which are sequels to an existing story but set at an earlier time that purport to give crucial background for previously published stories and therefore recontextualise them once limited to nerdy genres like science fiction and superhero comic books franchise storytelling is now the dominant format for film and television thanks to paul fermin for commissioning the piece and to him and his colleagues for their perceptive comments and suggestion which pushed me to make the piece better posted on august 13 2025 august 13 2025 fall syllabi i have added this semester s syllabi to my teaching page this semester is a rare case where i am doing all repeats ethics and logic and critical thinking in the philosophy department and what is life in the shimer great books school the latter is the only one that i have significantly changed since last year by increasing the focus on darwin s origin of species as our indisputable great book and adding more material on human evolution posted on june 8 2025 june 8 2025 summer conference participation this summer i am participating in two conferences the first is the european academy of religion in july which is hosted by the university of vienna i will be giving a paper entitled agamben between pauline messianism and institutional christianity in the context of the session called agamben s theological political horizons reimaging judaism christianity and messianic potentiality then in august i will be heading to frankfurt for the association for philosophy and literature where peter gratton has generously organized a special session about my body of work thank you to nils richber jay martin and erica robles anderson for agreeing to be on the panel and to peter for both organizing and presenting this will be a real honor and career milestone for me posted on may 3 2025 seminary co op reminder plus reviews and podcasts this is a reminder that i will be discussing late star trek at the seminary co op in hyde park at 4 00pm on thursday may 8 in a slight change of plans mass markets series editor gerry canavan will be joining me as interlocutor i have also received some reviews and appeared on several podcasts since the book s release which you can find in a series of link posts from my star trek newsletter posted on march 25 2025 official release date for late star trek my book late star trek the final frontier in the franchise era is officially published as of today it is available for purchase directly from the press on bookshop org or from amazon this post on my related substack newsletter describes the book s key features readers may also be interested in a podcast interview i recently did for new books network posts pagination page 1 page 2 page 15 next page adam kotsko is on the faculty of the shimer great books school at north central college where he teaches widely in the humanities and social sciences his research focuses on political theology continental philosophy and the history of christian thought he is the author most 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