Publications

“The Neoliberal Animation of Theory in America as a ‘Cognitive Good,’” Amerikastudien / American Studies (forthcoming, 2023)

“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)