Unemployed Negativity
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Discontinuity and Continuity: On Reading (and Rereading) Lazzarato
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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...
Monday, May 11, 2026
Through A Google Glass Darkly: On The Draw
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Marx wrote, "The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," but he neglected to add...
Sunday, May 03, 2026
Structured and Structuring: Lordon and Éwanjé-Épée on Race and Class
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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...
Monday, April 20, 2026
Society Effects: Living in a Society from Marx to Spinoza (and back)
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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...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Irreplaceable: The End of Hampshire College and Reproductive-Rift
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Picture of me being handed my diploma by Greg Prince, then President of Hampshire College The slogan "You will not replace us" ...
Friday, April 03, 2026
Sentences that Make Books: On Du Bois and Hall
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In the past few months I have been thinking more about "racial capitalism," or, more to the point, one I alluded to, but did not...
Sunday, March 22, 2026
Revolutions in the Revolution: On Jaquet's Révolution Transclasses
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Chantal Jaquet's first book on what she called "transclasses" took up the subject of non-reproduction, of people who move fro...
Sunday, March 08, 2026
The Affective Constitution of Knowledge: Or, What Bias Feels Like
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We are told again and again that institutions like medicine, journalism, and the university have lost the trust of Americans, and must work ...
Tuesday, March 03, 2026
Help Yourself: Work and Recognition in Send Help
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As has often been mentioned, on this blog and elsewhere , Hegel's famous section on Lordship and Bondage begins with the assertion tha...
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. ...
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