Unemployed Negativity

  Wolves, even werewolves it seems, travel in packs. One hardly gets just one werewolf movie. In nineteen eighty one the pack included   Wol...

I wrote this review of Jacques Bidet's Foucault with Marx a few years ago for an online review called Contrivers (a fter having review...

  One of Althusser's fundamental lessons, and one that remains beyond the controversies about epistemic breaks, the young Marx, and the ...

  I was slow to get to Severance. Partly this has to do with conditions of contemporary cultural consumption. The shift from movies to telev...

  Recently in a bit of odd exhaustion and insomnia I watched, or rather rewatched, the movie Blue Thunder. In case you have not seen it I wi...

  What follows is a draft of the translation of the introduction to Franck Fischbach's La Production des hommes: Marx avec Spinoza which...

  This post is more or less a sequel to this one , and like that first one it is in some sense a commentary on Macherey's A Theory of Li...

In his conversations with François Truffaut Alfred Hitchcock insisted that the birds in the film of the same name had to be ordinary birds, ...

  Let us start with a general question: why should someone interest in philosophy also be interested in film? Granted there are probably as ...

  This summer I have a book coming out from the Historical Materialism Book series. You can read more about it here (as well as freak out a...