Unemployed Negativity

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...

 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...

  Elizabeth Anderson is always an interesting author for me to read because as much as we are both concerned with the same issues, namely,  ...

  I have more copies of Reading Capital than any other book One of the most damming things anyone has ever said to me, at least about academ...

Monster come in cycles. Werewolves wax and wane in and out of cultural visibility, and even vampires disappear and return.   There migh...

I decided to illustrate this post with images from the Bowdoin College Museum's show on Soviet Art Reading Elizabeth A...

In a great little text on the "Fragment on Machines" Paolo Virno makes a comparison between Marx's text and the versus of...