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Jeremy Butman

Quarantine for Life

Quarantine has been especially transformative for me because at the very beginning of it, my father died. The causes were unrelated…

3 min readDec 11, 2020

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Jeremy Butman

Status?

An op-ed in the Times today rehashed the argument that what motivates Trump voters is status…

3 min readDec 9, 2020

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Jeremy Butman

Elephant Micah and Authentic Folk

Yikes. Going way back now to 2010, when I was still doing hacky, overwrought music journalism stuff. This is a sort of ‘consideration’ of…

8 min readMay 26, 2020

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Jeremy Butman

Interview with Bob Weisz

Again many years ago, probably 2013, I managed to successfully pitch a Believer editor a snake-oil story about a guy named Bob Weisz, a…

9 min readMay 26, 2020

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Jeremy Butman

DT Max on DF Wallace

Yet another review pulled from the vaults, unpublished — no memory of if or to whom I submitted it. Who cares about DFW anymore. Well…

6 min readMay 26, 2020

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Jeremy Butman

Symbiopsychotaxipasm

Yet another abandoned review from years ago, this one commissioned by a classy erotic periodical. It’s about the wild 1968 film, which…

11 min readMay 26, 2020

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Jeremy Butman

A few years ago I wrote the catalog review for a public art installation for The Art Guys —…

11 min readMay 20, 2020

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Jeremy Butman

This is an insane paper I wrote on Hamlet and mice for an advanced philosophy class during my PhD.

“The Mouse-trap” and Hamlet’s Interim

38 min readMay 20, 2020

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Jeremy Butman

Several years ago, when it was relevant, I wrote a review of Chris Andrew’s Roberto Bolaño’s…

A year after Roberto Bolaño won the prestigious Rómulo Gallegos prize in Spain, the poet and scholar Chris Andrews brought translations of…

14 min readMay 20, 2020

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Jeremy Butman

Review of “Eco-Deconstruction”

This review of Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (edited by Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes and David Wood) has…

23 min readMay 20, 2020

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Jeremy Butman

Jeremy Butman

Writer and teacher. PhD in philosophy, New School for Social Research. Bylines: New York Times, Atlantic, LARB, Kenyon Review. jeremybutman.squarespace.com

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