Unemployed Negativity

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 ...

 The following is the text from a presentation at the Radical Philosophy Hour. It also takes up a question that I posted about years ago. 

I had the opportunity to respond to Jacques Lezra's book Defective Institutions: A Protocol for the Republic at SPEP's virtual confe...

 At first glance, the only thing that Pierre Macherey and Paolo Virno have in common is that they are, in my opinion, underrated as philosop...

 In the US every presidential election is treated as a transformation of the nation, of the zeitgeist, like Brecht's line about the gove...

I remember a friend in graduate school saying that our task, at least when it came to writing dissertations, was to write something that a d...

There was a moment in the beginning of the COVID pandemic when I thought to myself that surely this would be the end of the anti-vaccination...

  The titles of Zach Cregger's films are more riddles and interpretations than descriptions. One could conclude that the "barbarian...

Watching Superman at the drive-in with Bento (below) I took my dog to the drive-in, something he loves, and this got me thinking about the s...

I am going with images of conflict for this one  As I have remarked here earlier , and in a published piec e, one of the things that it is s...