Unemployed Negativity

Friday, September 29, 2023

Differences and Differends: One More Note on the Politics of Education

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  I know that I should not even bother to engage with such things, but I saw someone retweet this from Christopher Rufo on X-Twitter. I thin...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

Return to Doppelgängerland: Naomi Klein's Mirror World

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  Enter the Dragon When I first read that Naomi Klein wrote a book about being confused for her doppelgänger, Naomi Wolf, I was initially am...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Nostalgic for Nothing: Industry and Affect

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  this is not a picture of me The dominance of intellectual property in film is driven by one central affect, or affective composition, nost...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Year Three: Four Ideological Conditions for the Covid Crisis

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  Picture of me practicing aikido in a mask  (seemed appropriate) As we look at another surge, another variant, and another school year of...
Monday, August 14, 2023

Other Scenes: The Ideology of the Economy/The Economy of Ideology

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One of the most pernicious effects of the Marxist schema of base and superstructure is that it posits the economy and ideology as two separa...
Sunday, August 06, 2023

Barbies Amongst Themselves: Or, What Happens When You Make a Film about a Commodity

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  Watching Barbie reminded me of two essays that I had not read in a long time, Luce Irigaray's " Women on the Market  " and &...
Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Fallen Kingdom: Living in the Anthropocene with Spinoza and Marx

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  Bento in the Anthropocene  Humanism, and the debates for and against it, is less a perennial philosophical question, returned to again and...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

A Useful Tool: Trolling History

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  Troll is a fairly entertaining movie (but that is not what this post is about) To repeat something I have said before, if,  as it has ofte...
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Sunday, July 16, 2023

Who Can Criticize Capitalism: Or, When Can We Eat Salmon Mayonnaise?

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  Given that Bob Iger is in the news (and maybe the executive named below) I thought that I would use this image from the Disney Strike of 1...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Which Marx/Which Spinoza: On Althusser and Fischbach

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How it started/how it is going Louis Althusser is most known for his argument regarding an epistemic break between the young and mature Marx...
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