Unemployed Negativity

Lately, I have been considering a hopelessly naive question, namely: What is popular culture for? Or, more to the point how does it function...

Jacques-Louis Lantoine's L'Intelligence de la pratique: Le Concept de disposition chez Spinoza is a contribution to what I have call...

Hollywood B pictures often come in twos. Somehow, almost inexplicably, we get two movies about undersea monsters, Leviathan and Deepstar Six...

For Ted Stolze A few weeks into the pandemic lockdown I went through a brief noir phase. It was somehow easier to watch films from a very di...

One of the common criticism of Marx is that his thought is dominated by production. Philosophers from Jean Baudrillard to Hannah Arendt have...

I had the chance to respond to Jodi Dean's Communism or Neo-Feudalism at Red May. The following are are a revised version of my response. 

Anyone who has read this blog knows that I am influenced by the work of Etienne Balibar. His work has profoundly shaped my published wo...

Breaking Bad  and its spinoff/prequel Better Call Saul  began with a premise that is familiar to nearly everyone. A mild mannered chemistry ...

I had played with the concept of idea of what I called "right workerism," the way in which work, and the value of work, becam...

From Retro-Scifi arts instagram page Yves Citton and Jacopo Rasmi's book Générations Collapsonautes: Naviguer par temps d'effo...