Unemployed Negativity

Sunday, June 15, 2025

The Miasma of Science and Ideology: A Postscript on the New Episteme

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  Of all of the various regressions under Trump 2.0 the anti-vaxx aspect seems to be the most perplexing. As disturbing as Trump's raci...
Monday, June 09, 2025

Under New Management: Capitalism from Utopia to Dystopia

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Inspired by this image, I am going with a giant donut theme for this post. While I do not use the phrase much myself I have always been intr...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Do Your Own Damn Research: The New Episteme of Trump 2.0

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I have been thinking a lot about the resonance between the current moment and this book I am going to state this as clearly and as succinctl...
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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Faking it and Making it: On Leigh Claire La Berge's Fake Work

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  This past week I was fortunate to be on a panel at Red May about Leigh Claire La Berge's book Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capita...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Logic of Alternation: Spinoza’s Prehistory of Ideology (and its Marxist History)

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  Of all of the different trajectories and intersections that frame the relation of Marx to Spinoza, one recurring motif posits Spinoza as a...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

The World is a Vampire: On Sinners

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I love this picture so much and have always wanted to use it.   I am going to get to Sinners but before I get there I need to say a little a...
Saturday, April 05, 2025

The Spectacle Goes to the Movies: The Pop Life of Debord

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  As someone who teaches philosophy at a regional public university, which is to say a school without a lot of students who could ever imagi...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Workers of the World, Divide! Work and the Constitution of the People

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  Pictures from Princeton (where this paper was presented) This might be the worst place to begin, but in February Marjorie Taylor-Greene st...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

The Work of Philosophy: Spinoza, Hegel, and Macherey on Theoretical Practice

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  I wanted to illustrate this post with images of simple machines, but couldn't find any I liked. I then remembered the great collection...
Monday, March 10, 2025

It's the Economy (of) Stupid: Or, Destroying the Economy to Save its Image

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  Cops in Chicago, defending private property while devaluing the brand.  In some of the most rhetorically dense passages of Capital, passag...
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