Unemployed Negativity

Attending conferences and grading have kept me from the blog as of late. Last weekend I attended the intermittently held "Rethinking Ma...

I guess that this qualifies as more post-SPEP musings, since SPEP is, as many have noted, ruled by the tyranny of the proper name, in which ...

My goal of writing a post-SPEP post has been stalled for two reasons: One, I could not find a picture of the Jellybean Children, and Two, no...

Gilles Deleuze writes, "Concretely if you define bodies and thoughts as capacities for affecting and being affected many things change....

It is no secret that I am a fan of the work of Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, etc.). Since there is no Whedon show on now I occasional...

There is a quote from Adorno that I have been thinking about as of late. It reads as follows: "The theorist who intervenes in pract...

Most of the time I carry a small notebook with me. Usually it is one of those ubiquitous moleskin notebooks (that word unsettles me, who wou...

This is one of the half formed thoughts that I came up with in the middle of teaching my Spinoza Seminar. The sort the leaves me thinking, a...

Perhaps nothing separates me from the kids of today (by which I mean college students) than the concept of "selling-out." It is ut...

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

There are so many other things that I should be writing now, but a post (or two) on dialectics necessitates a post on "bad infinities...

Once again working off of an idea from Badiou ( Theorie du Sujet ). Badiou writes that there are two contradictions in Marx’s understanding ...

As I mentioned earlier I have been reading Badiou's Theorie du Sujet. In many ways I find it be comparable to Althusser's For Marx...

I have spending some time at the local animal shelter, my volunteer work/occasional summer job. When I am not playing with do...

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

Perhaps it is because I grew up on a steady diet of In Search Of..., campfire stories, and made for TV movies about Bigfoot, but I have a...

N. A specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular group: thieves' argot. Incidentally, it also used to be the name of ...

Of all of the reasons to write a post this has to be the most infantile. I just realized that I threw out three pages of the review of Althu...

For well over the past year I have been studying Aikido. I like it, somedays I even love it, but I cannot say that I am good at it. Of cou...

I am still trying to get the hang of this "blogging" thing. (The scare quotes are a mark of age. As in, "You kids and your ...