Unemployed Negativity

  Me demonstrating ude kime nage  I was an unapologetic "theory head" in my later years of college and first years of graduate sch...

  I have often found Charles Mills' distinction between de jure and de facto racism to be heuristically useful if not not explanatory. I...

Dinosaur left over from a miniature golf course in Florida. I find myself coming back to one central question, that is at once political and...

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...

The Double Shift had its moment on Brooklyn Coffee Shop    My first job, my first real job, was barista . Before that I had babysat, and do...

  A detourned Calivn and Hobbes cartoon going viral When I was a kid we received a chain letter. It was sent to our house. It promised unto...

  Marx wrote, "The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," but he neglected to add...

We are told again and again that institutions like medicine, journalism, and the university have lost the trust of Americans, and must work ...

  2025 will probably go down in history as a pivotal year in the US's decline into a particular kind of media driven twenty-first centur...

  One of my favorite Toadies from popular culture  There is a rather influential thesis that comes down to us from Hegel as read by Kojève ...

 In the US every presidential election is treated as a transformation of the nation, of the zeitgeist, like Brecht's line about the gove...

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...

  The titles of Zach Cregger's films are more riddles and interpretations than descriptions. One could conclude that the "barbarian...

  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.

  Of all of the various regressions under Trump 2.0 the anti-vaxx aspect seems to be the most perplexing. As disturbing as Trump's raci...

Inspired by this image, I am going with a giant donut theme for this post. While I do not use the phrase much myself I have always been intr...

I have been thinking a lot about the resonance between the current moment and this book I am going to state this as clearly and as succinctl...

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

  Cops in Chicago, defending private property while devaluing the brand.  In some of the most rhetorically dense passages of Capital, passag...

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