Unemployed Negativity

Image from Hugo Gellert " Karl Marx's Capital in Lithographs" For brevity’s sake, I am not going to go through the myriad pr...

In a few seconds of idly cruising the web I found out that Lance Hahn died. I have not listened to J Church or Cringer for a long while, a...

As I have mentioned earlier, I used to work in an animal shelter and continue to volunteer at one. It is because of this, and a long and ve...

Spinoza tells us that there is a kind of joy associated with thought, a joy based on the affirmation of our own power to think. For me this ...

I caught the tail end of a show on Weekend America (npr) about Deadmalls. I then went online to follow the rest of the show and it turned ou...

The idea that neoliberalism is a kind of Marxism in reverse has taken on a great deal of currency in academic, popular, and activist circles...

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...