Unemployed Negativity

  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 ...

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

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

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

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...