Unemployed Negativity

I just learned this morning that Paolo Virno has died. Virno's work has been a huge influence on both my writing and my teaching. In my ...

  Jeremy Gilbert and I sometimes joke about TOP, the Transindividual Oriented Philosophy. The reference is obviously to the phenomenon of OO...

In his conversations with François Truffaut Alfred Hitchcock insisted that the birds in the film of the same name had to be ordinary birds, ...

Academia functions by specialization. We are all divided into our respective fields, philosophy, sociology, economics, political scienc...

Paper Presented at the above conference.  Since publication plans have fallen through  I am posting a draft of it here One of...

Paper Presented at the Affect Theory Conference One of the many theoretical and practical promises of the so-called “affective turn...

I have not had much time for blogging as of late as I complete the finishing touches, indexing, proofreading, etc., of The Politics of Tr...

Paolo Virno's philosophical trajectory is an interesting and strange one. He first became known to the English speaking world...

I am going to refrain from beginning this review by pointing out the similarities between Aspe's Simondon, Politique du transindividu...

Presented at Deleuze and the Passions Erasmus University Rotterdam The thought of Gilles Deleuze (and Félix Guattari) bears on a...

Theories of affect tend to articulate the term affect in relation to some idea of emotion. Perhaps the locus classicus of this distinctio...

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

I was introduced to David Lean's A Brief Encounter by Slavoj Zizek and Sophie Fiennes A Pervert's Guide to Ideology.  The film ...

The revival of interest in Simondon's term transindividuality to thematize social relations has raised the question of what a politic...

Spinoza and Stiegler are both transindividual thinkers. In the first case this is avant la lettre, Spinoza innovative conceptualizati...

Perhaps one of the most striking aspects of the French and Italian turn to Spinoza over the past forty years is the sheer volume of the tex...

The long philosophical cold war has almost completely evacuated any conception of collectivity from political and social thought. On the on...

Two words, or concepts, stand out in Etienne Balibar’s recent philosophy. The first that comes to mind, although it is not the most cons...

Picture of Spinoza-Car from The Bijlmer Spinoza Festival. The idea for this post stems in part from Deleuze’s remark that encounters be...

This is a third in a series of posts on what I am calling, for lack of a better word, “Left-Simondonians”: A term that I define simply as p...