Friday, April 03, 2026

Sentences that Make Books: On Du Bois and Hall

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  In the past few months I have been thinking more about "racial capitalism," or, more to the point, one I alluded to, but did not...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Revolutions in the Revolution: On Jaquet's Révolution Transclasses

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Chantal Jaquet's first book on what she called "transclasses" took up the subject of non-reproduction, of people who move fro...
Sunday, March 08, 2026

The Affective Constitution of Knowledge: Or, What Bias Feels Like

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We are told again and again that institutions like medicine, journalism, and the university have lost the trust of Americans, and must work ...
Tuesday, March 03, 2026

Help Yourself: Work and Recognition in Send Help

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  As has often been mentioned, on this blog and elsewhere , Hegel's famous section on Lordship and Bondage begins with the assertion tha...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Which Way Marxist-Spinozist? On Diefenbach's Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy

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  I have a lot of books from the Spinoza Studies series  One of the best pieces of advice I got in graduate school came from Warren Montag. ...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

Untimely Dystopias: On The Long Walk and The Running Man

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  2025 will probably go down in history as a pivotal year in the US's decline into a particular kind of media driven twenty-first centur...
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

The Insomnia of Nostalgia: On Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon

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  As it has often been said, movies teach you how to watch them. This pedagogy can take on almost Pavlovian forms as in the case of horror m...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

The State of Bias: Universality and Particularity in Politics

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  A few weeks ago I was trying to formulate a pithy little formulation for social media. It went something like this, "Political theory...
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Thursday, January 22, 2026

The Tensions of Ideology: Marx and Machiavelli, Althusser and Gramsci

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From a presentation I gave at Space Gallery  on one of the best scenes of ideology in contemporary film As I said before on this blog, ideol...
Sunday, December 28, 2025

A Plague of Toadies: An Other End of History

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  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 ...