Unemployed Negativity

I teach a philosophy of film class, and have for years now. It is a fun class, I get a lot of students, and I like talking about movies and ...

This is a draft translation of an early review by Yves Citton  Published in Multitudes  Picture from The Brain from Planet Arous In his late...

Having spent a lot of time thinking about, and thinking with, the concept of " negative solidarity ," it sometimes occurs to me th...

E.T. The Extraterrestrial  Can set design make or break a film? In general, probably not, but it made one film for me. I remember seeing E.T...

The Double Shift had its moment on Brooklyn Coffee Shop    My first job, my first real job, was barista . Before that I had babysat, and do...

  A detourned Calivn and Hobbes cartoon going viral When I was a kid we received a chain letter. It was sent to our house. It promised unto...

  War and Money is Part of the Pile of Books that I am working on Philosophy is filled with famous breaks. The break between the young and m...

  Marx wrote, "The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," but he neglected to add...

  As I mentioned when I first reviewed it here, Frédéric Lordon's Figures du Communisme is an oddly titled book. It is not about some c...

  Something is amiss in society. Many people have noticed a seemingly recent tendency of people acting in such a way in public as to disrega...