https://nightrule.com Jacob Potash Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:20:28 +0000 https://nightrule.com en https://nightrule.com/Jacob-Potash Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:20:28 +0000 Jacob Potash https://nightrule.com/Jacob-Potash <img width="1807" height="1807" width_o="1807" height_o="1807" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c92160c3a861f1ebf06cdd1a3568a14cd9e2c272389120d016c42437295fc129/IMG_3012-copy.jpg" data-mid="249653590" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c92160c3a861f1ebf06cdd1a3568a14cd9e2c272389120d016c42437295fc129/IMG_3012-copy.jpg" /> About My writing on religion, culture, and technology has appeared in Comment, The Hedgehog Review, Skeptic, Blind Field, Rhizomes, Hobart, and elsewhere. I wrote and produced the feature film The Philosophy of Dress and the short film Tiger Tiger, which screened at Rooftop Films and New/Next and won Best Short Film ex aequo at the Amsterdam New Cinema Film Festival. I study Classics at Columbia University.Write to jop2108 [at] columbia [dot] edu Films The Philosophy of Dress A troubled designer and her magnetic influencer-muse collaborate on a single dress, but their artistic bond unravels into toxic obsession. Wrote and produced. Feature film starring Sydney Lemmon, Romy Reiner, Jake Weary, Clara McGregor, Eric Roberts. (Completed november 2026; pursuing festivals) TIGER TIGER A couple takes an interest in a strange new neighbor, only to find out he's already taken an interest in them. Surreal short film about babies, tigers, rap and Connecticut starring Sydney Lemmon and Jonathan Higginbotham. I co-wrote and produced. (SCREENED at Rooftop Films AND New/Next FestivaL) (2023) SELECTED WRITING Meanings of Melancholy A history of depression before the antidepressant (humoral, monastic, mystical, Freudian) and what the chemical settlement displaced. (Published in Comment) (2026) On Prompting and Prompts How language models shape curiosity and attention. (Published in Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry) (2026) Clive and Worm in Winter Memoir reflecting a year of crisis abroad. Isolation, transgression, unlikely paths to self-discovery. (Published in Hobart) (2026) An Anatomy of AI Criticism The promise—and revealing glitches—of ‘large language models’, based on a collaborative book-writing experiment with an AI. (Published in Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge) (2026) Rap and the American Religion American evangelicalism as key to understanding the persona, contradictions and power of a major female rapper. (Published in Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry) (2025) No Special Place: on having a famous brother Memory, digital celebrity and political idealism, framed by the experience of having a brother who becomes an influencer. (Published in Blind Field: a Journal of Cultural Inquiry) (2025) Group: an anthology Editor. Anthology of writing and images by seven friends. Originally published in weekly volumes throughout 2020. (Published by Nachleben, 2022) The Pop Reformation How three popstars leveraged streaming releases to assert economic and creative autonomy, echoing the disruptive power of the printing press. (YALE HERALD, 2016) Included in American Music (Vol. 35, No. 4) for its value in teaching public musicology. Full archive