Unemployed Negativity

  I was asked to speak at an AI and Ethics panel at my university. What follows is the outline that I am using for my talk.

Portrait of the author as a Hampshire Student I graduated from Hampshire College. Not only that, but I credit Hampshire for much of my...

Image from The Onion The events are both all too familiar, all too common, a mass shooting at some university, school, or public plac...

Joseph Gordon Levitt's first film, Don Jon  is a surprisingly perplexing film. On the one hand it is one of the first mainstream fil...

Neoliberalism has become an increasingly popular word in contemporary critical thought and philosophy. Its popularity has come at a cost...

Steven Soderbergh is a somewhat mercurial director. He more or less started "independent film" with Sex, Lies, and Videotape  ...

"The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied ...

Debates about alienation with respect to Marx tend to focus on its philosophical underpinning, its humanism and essentialism. This is perha...

Photo from Maximum RocknRoll's Facebook feed  Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s After the Future opens with a question, a question that de...

Paolo Virno writes the following: “What is involved here is the conceptualization of the field of immediate coincidence between producti...

The phrase “ j ump the shark ” has come and gone as a snarky fundamental term of television criticism. Initially, it was used to refer t...