Unemployed Negativity

The following quote from Fred Jameson has been discussed a great deal on the internets as of late, "It seems to be easier for us toda...

The northeast is currently experiencing unseasonably warm weather. It is delightful if you do not think of polar bears drowning, and the ec...

The figure of the worker has disappeared from politics. It has disappeared from the left, which has replaced it with an increasingly fragmen...

It has been over two weeks since my last confession...er...post. There are external reasons for this, the last few weeks have pretty much co...

After having spent the weekend in London, I found this article in The New York Times on the connotations of the English Accent. It was an o...

Thanks to s0metim3s for posting a link to this great little essay by Etienne Balibar, cleverly titled " Sub specie universitatis ....

I just got back from spending Thanksgiving in Houston. In the weeks before my trip, whenever I would tell people where I was going, they wo...

Milton Friedman died the other day. Now I cannot say that I am all torn up by that, but it does provide an opportunity to tell this little ...

I end up teaching Marx, a lot. Sometimes I try to avoid it, but it is hard to teach classes on political philosophy, nineteenth century phi...

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."...