Unemployed Negativity

 There is an odd temporality to academic work. If you are lucky, if someone finds anything you say interesting, or relevant, people will ask...

  Me demonstrating ude kime nage  I was an unapologetic "theory head" in my later years of college and first years of graduate sch...

  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...