Unemployed Negativity

This is going to be one of those posts where I stitch together a few quotes, make a few comments that are somewhere between banal and provo...

I have been trying to write something in honor of Kurt Vonnegut for some time now. While it has been awhile since I read his books, I poure...

Recently, I picked up Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy by Stephen Duncombe. I am not really sure why, it is n...

Wendy Brown’s “American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization” ( Political Theory 34/6) is a great article, par...

It starts out a bit slow, but Michael Hardt's discussion of Spinoza's concept of love and political organization reminds me of why I...

In Book IV of the Politics , after classifying all of the various types of political constitution monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, etc., ...

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...

I just got home from going to see Little Children . Not a perfect movie, not by a long shot. For one thing the voice over sounded a little...

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 ....