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 even if I have doubts abo...

  As I mentioned when I first reviewed it here, Frédéric Lordon's Figures du Communisme is an oddly titled book. It is not about some c...

  Something is amiss in society. Many people have noticed a seemingly recent tendency of people acting in such a way in public as to disrega...

  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...

  As it has often been said, movies teach you how to watch them. This pedagogy can take on almost Pavlovian forms as in the case of horror m...

I am going to get to Sinners but before I get there I need to say a little about my own particular history with the music known as the blues...

  As someone who teaches philosophy at a regional public university, which is to say a school without a lot of students who could ever imagi...

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...

  In Kathi Weeks' The Problem with Work she makes an argument about the way in which work produces and reproduces gender. As Weeks writ...

  The Best Joke in Barbie   Years ago I remember encountering Félix Guattari's little essay, "Everybody Wants to be a Fascist....

  Because actual history is rarely linear, let alone teleological, I read the repudiation of Hegel before I ever read Hegel. I had read argu...

  Enter the Dragon When I first read that Naomi Klein wrote a book about being confused for her doppelgänger, Naomi Wolf, I was initially am...

  Troll is a fairly entertaining movie (but that is not what this post is about) To repeat something I have said before, if,  as it has ofte...

  One fact stands out in the recent Supreme Court Decision 303 Creative LLC vs. Elenis  and that is that the web hosting company in question...

This is a follow up to last month's post on the attack on education, but rather than use images  of people protesting CRT I decided to ...

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 ...

For Ted Stolze A few weeks into the pandemic lockdown I went through a brief noir phase. It was somehow easier to watch films from a very di...

Trump is not a dog person, or, for that matter, a cat person. He is supposedly the first president in a century to not have a pet. Past...