Showing posts with label Machiavelli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Machiavelli. Show all posts
Thursday, January 22, 2026

The Tensions of Ideology: Marx and Machiavelli, Althusser and Gramsci

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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...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

You Would Make a Great Cop: On Lezra's Defective Institutions

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I had the opportunity to respond to Jacques Lezra's book Defective Institutions: A Protocol for the Republic at SPEP's virtual confe...
Saturday, November 02, 2024

Working Politics: The Divisions and Unity of Labor

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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...
Monday, August 19, 2024

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland: The Mad Max Films as an Introduction to Political Philosophy

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  Years ago I was teaching political philosophy and decided to do something interesting with social contract theory. I made the point that t...
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Friday, February 23, 2024

Master and Commander: Or, Must Love Dogs II

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  Commander  In undergrad I got really into theory, all of it, reading Baudrillard, Deleuze, Debord, Foucault, etc., most definitely etc, al...
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Saturday, October 10, 2020

Ideological Tendencies: Machiavelli, Spinoza, Marx

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Graphic by Joelle Glidden  It is perhaps because my first real philosophical love was Gilles Deleuze that I have been drawn to the idea that...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

God's Fortune: Reading Machiavelli in Spinoza

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  Posing with Machiavelli and Spinoza Since Vittorio Morfino's The Spinoza-Machiavelli Encounter: Time and Occasion  is out in paperback...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Writing Rifts: On Balibar's Écrits I and II

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Anyone who has read this blog knows that I am influenced by the work of Etienne Balibar. His work has profoundly shaped my published wo...