Unemployed Negativity

 At the end of a summer with at least a little time to read books not directly connected to teaching or writing I picked up Melinda Cooper...

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

Moose and Lon Chaney Jr. on the set of The Wolfman I could justify this by the way I have written about werewolves and capital, but t...

As much as people love to cite that ubiquitous remark by Fredric Jameson about the end of the world and the end of capitalism. You kn...

Perhaps the best way to make sense of the present order is to consider first the disorder, the contestation of the old order. This co...

Whilst in ordinary life every shopkeeper is very well able to distinguish between what somebody professes to be and what he really is, o...

Full disclosure: I met Jeremy Gilbert at a Deleuze conference in Wales in the summer of 2008. He gave an interesting paper on Deleuze, ...

Do not demand of politics that it restore the “rights” of the individual, as philosophy has defined them. The individual is the prod...

Even though it is not a recent post, I was struck by this post on "negative solidarity" on the blog splintering bone ashes. ...

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

Day and Night, by Occuprint To consider what Occupy Wall Street has to do with philosophy, to Occupy Philosophy, is already to depa...

In a recent episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, in a quip that is smarter than he knows, referred to Arizona as “the methlab of de...

For the past week I have been preoccupied, perhaps even obsessed, with Middlesex University’s decision to close its internationally recog...

In Multitude Hardt and Negri write that “Each [historical] period is characterized by one or several forms that structure the various e...

Loïc Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity is a book that had been recommended to me by many peo...

I realize that I have been neglecting this blog as of late, and, to be honest, that is not going to change in the next few weeks. I am a...

This is something of a follow up to a previous post . It is actually awkwardly framed between reflections on “the current crisis” and som...

Two quick points: First, it is utterly surprising to me how quickly the language around the economy and politics has changed. For years, e...

I have been following the news of the economic collapse and the stimulus bill with some interest. Although I have to admit that I am of two ...

Christian Marazzi’s Capital and Language was written well before the current crisis, but that does not mean that it does not offer some ter...