# Keanu M. Heydari
> I am a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Michigan. I also help scholars and educators with their research and writing.
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## Pages
- [About me](https://www.keanuheydari.com/about.md) - Keanu M. Heydari, Ph.D.
- [Contact](https://www.keanuheydari.com/contact.md) - Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments. I'm always happy to help! Use the form, too, to request my CV or résumé.
- [Recommendations](https://www.keanuheydari.com/recommendations.md) - A curated list of valuable resources/tools and blogs that I personally recommend.
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## Posts
- [Resemblance Is Not Structure](https://www.keanuheydari.com/writings/resemblance-is-not-structure.md) - Historians routinely flatten analogy and homology into near-synonymy, but the two concepts make claims of fundamentally different kinds, and recovering the distinction changes what a historical argument can demonstrate and how far it can travel beyond the case at hand.
- [Learning to Think Slowly: An Intellectual Memoir of Early Graduate School](https://www.keanuheydari.com/writings/learning-to-think-slowly-an-intellectual-memoir-of-early-graduate-school.md) - I reconstruct my early graduate training as an uneven education in subordinating theory to evidence.
- [The Politics of Sartre’s Grabuge](https://www.keanuheydari.com/writings/the-politics-of-grabuge.md) - Sartre’s 1961 anecdote about rejecting Le Grabuge as a title for Les Temps modernes is no incidental aside but a compact demonstration of retotalization, showing how class position crystallizes in an act of naming and how refusing that name remade disposition into disciplined engagement.
- [Foucault’s Radical Historicism](https://www.keanuheydari.com/writings/foucaults-radical-historicism-limits-tensions-and-the-specter-of-the-transcendental.md) - Leonard D’Cruz asks whether Foucault’s radical historicism truly escapes transcendental philosophy or smuggles it back in through the historical a priori, omnipresent power, and subjectivation, arguing that naming this tension strengthens historicist critique rather than defeating it.
- [Power and the Limits of Critique: Engaging Cronin on Foucault and Bourdieu](https://www.keanuheydari.com/writings/power-and-the-limits-of-critique.md) - Ciaran Cronin argues that Bourdieu offers a more actionable account of power than Foucault, but his critique demands a normative framework neither thinker claims to provide and misreads Foucault as foreclosing resistance; the two are better combined than opposed.
- [Iranian Neo-Monarchism and the Politics of Diasporic Longing](https://www.keanuheydari.com/writings/iranian-neo-monarchism.md) - Royalist nostalgia in the Iranian diaspora and hawkish U.S. Iran policy operate as mutually reinforcing formations, each lending the other moral warrant and institutional durability; a genealogical reading exposes the contingency and silences that sustain this co-produced longing.
- [Temporal Multiplicity in E. P. Thompson and Reinhart Koselleck](https://www.keanuheydari.com/writings/temporal-multiplicity-in-e-p-thompson-and-reinhart-koselleck.md) - Thompson and Koselleck offer mirror-image narratives of temporal modernity: Thompson traces a compression of plural premodern rhythms into disciplinary clock time, Koselleck a proliferation of horizons as eschatology dissolves. The divergence is methodological.
- [Recent Work on Colonial Violence in French Algeria](https://www.keanuheydari.com/writings/recent-work-on-colonial-violence-in-french-algeria.md) - Surveying four monographs on colonial violence in French Algeria (Brower, Sessions, Surkis, Cole), this essay shows how each abandons the colonizer/colonized binary for a view of violence as plural in logic, and treats metropole and colony as a single analytic field.
- [Exteriorizing Subjectivity: Snapchat and Pharmacopornographic Biocapitalism](https://www.keanuheydari.com/writings/exteriorizing-subjectivity.md) - Reading Snapchat through Preciado’s pharmacopornographic regime and Steyerl’s critique of linear perspective, this essay argues that the app’s ephemeral, haptic architecture works as a biopolitical dispositif, exteriorizing subjectivity and folding self-produced erotic imagery into biocapital.

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