Unemployed Negativity

When I was in graduate school "the imaginary" was one of those words that circulated all the more often because it was untethered ...

  Sometime awhile ago I came up with the idea of doing a trilogy of posts on conspiracy theory, or modern conspiracy thought, read through S...

Plekhanov/Labriola  As a bit of an experiment, coupling my interest in André Tosel and my work on translation , I have decided to try my ha...

  Translation is the closest that I have ever come to demonic possession. Let me explain, I used to think that there were books I read, book...

  Every mention of the film Barbarian carries with it the warning to not spoil anything, to experience it completely ignorant so as to be b...

The ending of the original The Blob  I have a distinct memory of watching the original The Blob on a Saturday afternoon movie. I watched a l...

Halloween in Houston  The Following is a response to Vardoulakis book Spinoza, The Epicurean that I gave at SPEP. I previously blogged about...

To wear a mask in a store, bus, classroom, or other public space is now to be in a small, and dwindling minority, as much as this might vary...

Every adaptation mining the vast troves of memory that we recall as our lives as readers of books and comics and watchers of film and televi...

What follows is not a review of the entirety of Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production , something that is hard to do with coll...