Unemployed Negativity

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

  Apple's famous 1984 ad Etienne Balibar titled one of his first essays on Spinoza to appear in English, " Spinoza, The Anti-Orwell...

From the comic Undiscovered Country If one looks at the Executive Orders passed by Trump in the first week of his second presidency, and man...

  There is no small irony in the fact that the Communist Manifesto, as text that, as the title suggests, is meant as a political program is ...

  We all know Spinoza's famous line, "A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation on life, not ...

In loving memory of Debbie Arntz April 6, 1945-December 21, 2024 The two phrases you hear when you lose someone, at least in the US, are ...

  The one two punch of Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink are probably peak Coen brothers for me. They have other films that are consider...

Every election generates its questions. Generally these questions are an attempt to answer the question, what happened? The way this questio...

Machiavelli argued that a prince must appear to be of the people, must seem to have the same values and morals that they do . For him, writi...

A collection of posts from this blog will be published as a book soon from Mayfly books .  I am posting the introduction as well as the tabl...