Unemployed Negativity

Having spent a lot of time thinking about, and thinking with, the concept of " negative solidarity ," it sometimes occurs to me th...

  As I mentioned when I first reviewed it here, Frédéric Lordon's Figures du Communisme is an oddly titled book. It is not about some c...

  Something is amiss in society. Many people have noticed a seemingly recent tendency of people acting in such a way in public as to disrega...

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...

  One common refrain one hears about AI is that it is inevitable. It is nothing other than the progressive development of the possibilities ...

I had the opportunity to respond to Jacques Lezra's book Defective Institutions: A Protocol for the Republic at SPEP's virtual confe...

Photos from Galarie de Paléontologie et d'Anatomie comparée in Paris I am going with these pictures in honor of Macherey's Histoires...

  Of all of the different trajectories and intersections that frame the relation of Marx to Spinoza, one recurring motif posits Spinoza as a...

  I wanted to illustrate this post with images of simple machines, but couldn't find any I liked. I then remembered the great collection...

Machiavelli argued that a prince must appear to be of the people, must seem to have the same values and morals that they do . For him, writi...

  Illustrated with a few pictures of enjoying the weather As many readers of this blog probably know, there is a new translation of Capital ...

  Anyone interested in the politics of affect or the connection of affect and politics has to confront the fact that affects are not just a ...

  The pile that I am working through I think that it is safe to say that Foucault never really got that interested in the revival of Spinoza...

  P erhaps it is time to have fun with Hegel. In the past year I have now read two books that have taken up a relation to Hegel that could b...

  Draft Translation: Not for Citation What follows is another attempt at a translation of an important text by André Tosel on the Marx/Spin...

  This post is illustrated by some of the promo work  I have done for the book I have commented before, more than once even, that the inters...

Bento and books With all of my writing and translating about Spinoza and Marx as of late I am embarrassed to admit that there is a moment of...

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...

  Photos from the Ameriguns by Gabriele Galimberti If one wanted to find a text to confirm Louis Althusser's thesis that the writings of...

In the last year or so there have been two books published on Althusser and Spinoza. Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop's Althusser et Spinoza: ...