Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Which Way Marxist-Spinozist? On Diefenbach's Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy

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  I have a lot of books from the Spinoza Studies series  One of the best pieces of advice I got in graduate school came from Warren Montag. ...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

Untimely Dystopias: On The Long Walk and The Running Man

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  2025 will probably go down in history as a pivotal year in the US's decline into a particular kind of media driven twenty-first centur...
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

The Insomnia of Nostalgia: On Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon

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  As it has often been said, movies teach you how to watch them. This pedagogy can take on almost Pavlovian forms as in the case of horror m...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

The State of Bias: Universality and Particularity in Politics

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  A few weeks ago I was trying to formulate a pithy little formulation for social media. It went something like this, "Political theory...
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Thursday, January 22, 2026

The Tensions of Ideology: Marx and Machiavelli, Althusser and Gramsci

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From a presentation I gave at Space Gallery  on one of the best scenes of ideology in contemporary film As I said before on this blog, ideol...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

A Plague of Toadies: An Other End of History

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  One of my favorite Toadies from popular culture  There is a rather influential thesis that comes down to us from Hegel as read by Kojève ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Living in Uncanny Valley: On the Forces and Relations of Production of AI

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  One common refrain one hears about AI is that it is inevitable. It is nothing other than the progressive development of the possibilities ...
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Monday, December 08, 2025

From Baruch to Benedictus and Back Again: On Gilah Kletenik's Sovereignty Disrupted

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  Oleksander Roitburd, Spinoza in Tuscany from The Gallant Age of Enlightenment Michael Hardt's Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Phi...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Being Singular Plural: Between the Ingenium of the state and the Ingenia of Individuals in Spinoza

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  Mysterious Island When I was in undergrad at Hampshire College one of my professors, Meredith Michaels would refer to certain books as ...
Saturday, November 08, 2025

The Becoming Real of Abstractions: In Memory of Paolo Virno

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I just learned this morning that Paolo Virno has died. Virno's work has been a huge influence on both my writing and my teaching. In my ...