Unemployed Negativity

The university where I work recently redesigned its main dinning commons. The design includes a new café called "The Bleecker St. Cafe...

OK, so the first thesis on Feuerbach is not as punchy as some of the others, and it is not going to fit on anyone’s tombstone, no matter how...

It is perhaps one of the many ironies of history that the two of the lastest intellectuals from Europe to be discussed and debated in “t...

On Friday I finally got a chance to see Half Nelson . I had high hopes for the film, which is usually the perfect set up for a let down. ...

The New York times did a piece on "Designer Dogs,"the labradoodles , puggles , and other crossbreeds that are popping up everywher...

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 ...