Adam DJ Brett

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This post lives on Public Theology.

This post lives on Public Theology.

This post lives on Public Theology.

This post lives on Public Theology, a new publication I edit.

Last week I started a second place to write.

The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and the University of Denver are hosting an online conference this week, and registration is open.

Back in August I wrote about TIDEL.

I have a new essay that reads Jason Ānanda Josephson-Storm's three books side by side: The Myth of Disenchantment (2017), Metamodernism (2021), and this year's The Genealogy of Genealogy.

Betty Hill (Lyons) and I have a new article out in Religions: "Sacralizing Dominion: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and the Religious Nationalist Imagination."

This post lives on The Postmodern Terminal, my Gemini capsule.

This post lives on The Postmodern Terminal, my Gemini capsule.

This post lives on The Postmodern Terminal, my Gemini capsule.

This post lives on The Postmodern Terminal, my Gemini capsule.

This post lives on The Postmodern Terminal, my Gemini capsule.

American pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that emerged in the United States in the 1870s, first among the members of the Cambridge Metaphysical Club (Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Chauncey Wright, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.) and then develo…

I keep trying and failing to code, write and learn in public but after doing the development, I'm often too tired to do the write-up so future Adam, this essay is for you.

Abstract # Pragmatism is the philosophical tradition graduate students are most likely to have absorbed without being taught, since it stands behind a good deal of what the humanities and social sciences now take for granted: that concepts earn their keep…

Ken Hawkins builds web and analytics infrastructure for large organizations, EMBL and UNDRR among them, and writes about it on a personal site built with Eleventy.

I'm honored to be presenting alongside Dean Teresa Smallwood at the Technology, Innovation & Digital Engagement Lab (TIDEL) Symposium in New York City on October 1, 2026.

Before lacrosse was a varsity sport, before it was an Olympic event, before it was anything you could buy tickets to, it was a gift.

There is a very particular kind of joy that comes from solving a web problem whose final answer is smaller than the problem felt.

In Praise of Zotero # Every writer's toolkit has to pick one hill to die on.

The Kanban Method for Dissertation and Journal Article Writing # Kanban is a visual work-management method that started on Toyota's factory floor in the 1940s, where cards, kanban in Japanese, signaled when a workstation needed more material.

Apps and Tools for Research and Writing # These tools cover the three jobs your writing workflow needs done: keeping track of sources, giving you a quiet place to write, and holding your notes and outlines together as your project grows.

Writing Support Resources # These resources support the writing process itself: the language you use, the community that holds you accountable, and the institutional tools already available to you at no extra cost.