Unemployed Negativity

Like many fans of The Wire I have a fantasy of re-watching the entire series from beginning until the end. It is something that I wil...

What follows should perhaps have the subtitle "Scattered Speculations on Breaking Bad" because it started as a post a few epis...

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

Comparisons between Treme and The Wire are inevitable. Unlike Generation Kill , which seems more and more like a side project, Treme has...

I decided to post the audio of a talk that I recently gave on The Wire and Marx here: The talk covers some of the same territory as a few...

As something of a preliminary observation it is curious that three of the cable networks known for their high end shows (the sort that end ...

  This is not exactly the Bunny Colvin scene from The Wire I was looking for, but it will have to do for now. The scene that I...

The following scene from The Wire is in my estimation brilliant, not just because it reveals the functioning of the drug trade, but more im...

What follows are some reflections on the final season of The Wire so Spoiler Alert. The fifth season of The Wire is best understood a...

Much of what David Simon says in this lecture I agree with. I was so excited when he said "Capitalism is our God," but then was ...

When I started this blog almost two years ago, one of the many ideas behind it was to have it function as a kind of outlet for my various m...

Just when I was losing all patience with Battlestar Galactica, the show springs a plot with a general strike. There is nothing like the prom...