Publications

“After Postwar Technocratic Liberalism and the Harmony of the ‘Text’: Derrida’s “‘Positive’ Science in Anglo-American Literary Studies,” in The Sciences of Derrida (forthcoming 2026)

“’Well grubbed, old mole!’”: On Karl Marx in America by Andrew Hartman,” Thesis Eleven (2025, forthcoming)

“Erecting the Institutional Edifice of ‘Theory’: The Mediums of Diacritics and Critical Inquiry, 1970-1990,” History of Humanities 10:2 (2025), 427-458

“Remote Controlled: On Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico,” Cleveland Review of Books, September 15, 2025

“Ruins and Racists: The multicultural rise and far-right fall of ‘The Forgotten Tolkien,’” The Baffler, September 11, 2025

“Karl Marx’s American Boom,” Review essay of Karl Marx in America, Foreign Policy: the Global Magazine for News and Ideas (June 1, 2025)

“Über die Kulturrevolution in Amerika,” WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, 22:2 (2025), 25-46

“Packaging Theory in America: The Theory and History of Literature Series, 1978-1984,” in Geisteswissenschaften, popular: Westdeutsche Schreibweisen, Lektürepraktiken, Verlagspolitiken um 1970 (Wolfenbütteler Schriften zur Geschichte des Buchwesens), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, Hg. mit Jörg Döring, 201-219

“Die Fantasie ist ein Schlachtfeld: Elon Musk, Technofaschismus und Dungeons & Dragons,” in Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken,” 79:7 (2025), 32-41

“’New World’ Ghosts,” in American Literary History 37:2 (2025): 507-521

“An Odyssey of the Geist after the End of History: A Conversation with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht,” Rethinking History (2025)

“Jenseits des Kompromisses in rheinhessischen Dörfern,” in Gunther Hellmann (ed.), Der Kompromiss als soziales Bindemitte (Bielefeld: transcript, 2025), 121-127

“What Cancel Was and Wasn’t: How a moral panic went global—and then began to go away,” Review essay of The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global, Foreign Policy: the Global Magazine for News and Ideas (January 10, 2025)

“The World Still Needs French Theory,” Review essay of Years of Theory by Fredric Jameson, Foreign Policy: the Global Magazine for News and Ideas (October 5, 2024)

“Immediacy Ruined Our Politics,” Review essay of Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy, or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism, Foreign Policy: the Global Magazine of News and Ideas (May 26, 2024)

“Review of Richard Wolin’s Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology,” George L. Mosse Program in History Blog. 30 April 2024. (https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/2024/04/30/jones-katz/)

“Transfers and Transformations of American Theory: The Chinese Example,” Magazin für UNIKATE: Berichte aus Forschung und Lehre 61 (2024): 54-61

“The Euphoria of Theory,” the minnesota review: a journal of creative and critical writing, 102:1 (2024): 85-107 (https://read.dukeupress.edu/the-minnesota-review/article-abstract/2024/102/85/387811/The-Euphoria-of-Theory?redirectedFrom=fulltext)

“Bildungskapitalismus in China,” Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, 77:7 (2023): 5-15

“The Capitalist Imperatives of Chinese Education,” Raritan: A Quarterly Review 42:2 (2023): 166-179

“Truth Lies in the Unsayable,” Schweizer Monat: Die Autorenzeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur (1103) February 2023 (https://schweizermonat.ch/geruechte-als-informationstraeger/?fbclid=IwAR2vTU7nqa6aCuP2UsifIDwwFAc-6d8fgAYM2yytqM_PV4XypgrI8CbiNRU)

“Rasender Stillstand: Flucht aus Shenzhen,” Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, 76:5 (2022): 32-41.

“Challenging Humanism: Jews, Theory, and Yale During the Last Three Decades of the Twentieth Century,” Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society, 27.3 (2022): 189-222

“Harbors of Resonance: The Peripatetic Scholar At-Home.” In: KWI-BLOG, [https://blog.kulturwissenschaften.de/harbors-of-resonance/], 20.06.2022

“Well Protected in the Surveillance State/Wohlbehütet im Überwachungsstaat,” Schweizer Monat: Die Autorenzeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur (1094) March 2022, 10-13 (https://schweizermonat.ch/wohlbehuetet-im-ueberwachungsstaat/)

“Theorizing and Practicing History as the Metabolization of the World: A Conversation with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht,” History and Theory, 61:1 (2022): 124-139 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hith.12248)

“Schwindel der Gegenwart: Leben in Shenzhen,” Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, 75:5 (2021): 41-52

“American Theory,” Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, 75:3 (2021): 29-41

“Where is Deconstruction Today?; On Jacques Derrida’s Theory and Practice and Byung-Chul Han’s Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese,” Los Angeles Review of Books (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/where-is-deconstruction-today-on-jacques-derridas-theory-and-practice-and-byung-chul-hans-shanzhai-deconstruction-in-chinese/)

“Kicking the Philosophy Habit: Richard Rorty’s Clarion Call and the Cultural Politics of the Academic Left,” Special Issue: Rorty and Paradigm Change in Philosophy, Analyse & Kritik: Zeitschrift für Sozialtheorie, 41:1 (2019): 71-95 (http://www.analyse-und-kritik.net/aktuell.php)

“(An Illustration of) Jacques Derrida at the Limits of the Historicist Chronotype,” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642529.2019.1673589)

“’The Brides of Deconstruction and Criticism’ and the Transformation of Feminism in the North American Academy,” Modern Intellectual History (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-intellectual-history/article/brides-of-deconstruction-and-criticism-and-the-transformation-of-feminism-in-the-north-american-academy/11A7C2AF65782FFBFB77F40DE280AEF5)

“Derrida’s Answers to Heidegger’s Question,” review of Heidegger: The Question of Being and History (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida), by Jacques Derrida, H-France Review Vol. 17 (March 2017), No. 59 (http://h-france.net/vol17reviews/vol17no59jones-katz.pdf)

“’I am two distinct beings’: Paul de Man’s Authenticating Project,” Special Issue: Authenticity, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 21:2 (2017): 213-234 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19388160.2017.1299971) (reprinted as “’I am two distinct beings’: Paul de Man’s Authenticating Project.” In Authenticity: Reading, Remembering, Performing. Edited by Patrick Finney. Routledge, 2018 [https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138312401]).

“XYZ, or, the ABCs of Deconstruction,” Raritan: A Quarterly Review 36:3 (2017): 54-70 (http://raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/raritan/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=att_download&link_id=1989&cf_id=333)

“Deconstruction: An American Tale,” Boston Review, September 30, 2016 (http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/gregory-jones-katz-deconstruction-america)

“Our Wasted Humanities: When Higher Education Valued Discovery,” The Chronicle Review, B4-B5, April 18, 2016 (http://www.chronicle.com/article/When-Higher-Education-Valued/236098)

“Hexed Text: How Should We Study Deconstruction?,” The Chronicle Review, B17, January 29, 2016 (http://www.chronicle.com/article/Derrida-de-ManCompany/234987)

“Constantly Contingent: An Interview with J. Hillis Miller,” Special Issue: Reading Hillis Miller Reading Derrida, Derrida Today 8:1 (2015): 41-76 (http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/drt.2015.0101)

“The Riddle of Paul de Man,” Intellectual History Review 20:2 (2010): 253-271 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17496971003783781?journalCode=rihr20)