Unemployed Negativity

Frédéric Lordon's latest book, Vivre Sans? Institutions, Police, Travail, Argent. .. is a conversation with Félix Boggio Éwanjé-Épée...

Two quick capsule reviews/analyses: The Mission: Impossible films come closest to realizing the ideal of a film franchise. They are bare...

“…the American cinema constantly shoots and re-shoots a single fundamental film, which is the birth of a nation-civilization…” –Gilles De...

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...

The following is what happens when you combine teaching Plato’s Republic with reflecting on the current election, specifically the Republic...

The idea that neoliberalism is a kind of Marxism in reverse has taken on a great deal of currency in academic, popular, and activist circles...

Jacques Rancière’s contribution to Lire le Capital has been unfortunately maligned. Even Rancière himself quickly repudiated it. The essay,...

This is something of a follow up to my earlier post on Badiou and Negri. This is not actually more personal, I just think that the second ...

This is going to be one of those posts where I stitch together a few quotes, make a few comments that are somewhere between banal and provo...

In Book IV of the Politics , after classifying all of the various types of political constitution monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, etc., ...

I recently stumbled across this article in the New York Times titled " If Hollywood is a Game, this Player Says that it is Over."...

Lately I have been rereading some of Ranciere's The Philosopher and his Poor , specifically the interpretation of Plato's Republic. ...