I haven’t been posting on this blog, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. I have a new book just out from University of Chicago Press (ORDER HERE). I started working on it shortly before Metamodernism came out. I thought I was writing the background chapter for a book on power, but it became something else entirely. It was a long labor of love, but on the surface it is much darker than my last book. Still I hope you enjoy it.

For more info about the book go here: https://absolute-disruption.com/genealogy-of-genealogy/

For readers of this blog (if any are still around), below is a bonus photo of me and the book taken in my basement where I did most of the writing. We took another photo outside, which I’ve been sharing around. The basement picture looks a bit angrier than I feel today, but it may give you the sense of the original tone of the thing. Writing is a long struggle. As Kafka once put it, “Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing.”

I will end on a constructive note. Sometimes, we have to travel in night before we can see the stars. Maybe that sounds better in French: Parfois, il faut traverser la nuit pour voir les étoiles.