Unemployed Negativity

  I am a huge fan of It Follows , so when I heard that the writer and director of that film, David Robert Mitchell was making a dinosaur mov...

  I have often found Charles Mills' distinction between de jure and de facto racism to be heuristically useful if not not explanatory. I...

Dinosaur left over from a miniature golf course in Florida. I find myself coming back to one central question, that is at once political and...

Pierre Macherey and Etienne Balibar via Décalages  Sometimes I waste time by thinking of classes that I will never get a chance to teach, cl...

The merit of Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right lie less in its solutions, constitutional monarchy, than in the way it grasps t...

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...