Unemployed Negativity

Pierre Macherey and Etienne Balibar via Décalages  Sometimes I waste time by thinking of classes that I will never get a chance to teach, cl...

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...

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

  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...

  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. ...

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

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...

There was a moment in the beginning of the COVID pandemic when I thought to myself that surely this would be the end of the anti-vaccination...

For the past fifteen years I have been teaching a class on work. This class has undergone many changes throughout the years. Readings have c...

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

  Pictures from Princeton (where this paper was presented) This might be the worst place to begin, but in February Marjorie Taylor-Greene st...

  Apple's famous 1984 ad Etienne Balibar titled one of his first essays on Spinoza to appear in English, " Spinoza, The Anti-Orwell...

A collection of posts from this blog will be published as a book soon from Mayfly books .  I am posting the introduction as well as the tabl...

  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...

  There are many different answers to the question of what Marx and Spinoza have in common, theories of ideology , materialism , naturalism ...

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

Balibar print from All Grim Prints  An ongoing albeit sporadic project of mine is trying to understand the systematic nature underlying the ...

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

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

  One of Althusser's fundamental lessons, and one that remains beyond the controversies about epistemic breaks, the young Marx, and the ...