Unemployed Negativity

This semester I am co-teaching a class on “consumer society,” a class which is designed to inspire and provoke students to critically thin...

Jacques Rancière’s contribution to Lire le Capital has been unfortunately maligned. Even Rancière himself quickly repudiated it. The essay,...

Classes start on Tuesday. Given that I am teaching two new classes in the semester as well as making several conference presentations and i...

In many ways this post is a follow up to “ No Admittance Except on Business ,” in that it deals with relation, or non-relation, between pro...

My last post on The Stranger was originally intended to make a connection to the relatively restricted visual economy of "classic films...

As of late my movie rentals have tended to the old, the noir, and the works of Welles. Watching several movies from a different period (or ...

I have been tagged by Nate to come up with eight things about myself. So here goes: 1. I had a pet turtle for twenty-years. Well, it s...

Lately, I have been reading some Gilbert Simondon. The particular book I have is L’individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d’inf...

Subcultures are defined not so much by their particular kind of commodities, music, clothes, etc., but by a particular relation to commoditi...

Anyone who has been around philosophy for even a little bit of time is familiar with its cyclical nature, old ideas and philosophers are con...

While there has been a great deal of writing about Marx’s idea of the “general intellect” in circles of post-operaismo, little has been sai...

So I have made at least one mention of The Evens on this blog before, making a link to their song about vowels . However, I have not reall...

I had heard about this six hour film about the Paris Commune, but for some reason I was under the mistaken impression that it was a film b...

If I were Slavoj Zizek, I would begin this post with something to the effect that each period in history gets the monsters it deserves. T...

If you have the glasses I believe this picture will be in 3-D. I would have made the entire post in 3D, but who really wants a buch of word...

It is no secret that I consider Marx and Spinoza to be “two great tastes that taste great together.” I also really like Reese's pean...

This is something of a follow up to my earlier post on Badiou and Negri. This is not actually more personal, I just think that the second ...

[blägkapsel] noun. 1. A blog which was regularly updated for a period of time, but has since fallen into neglect. It remains on the web as a...

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...