Unemployed Negativity

This post is in many ways a follow up to the previous post on good and evil . The title however is a tribute to the late great Nation of Uly...

Much of what David Simon says in this lecture I agree with. I was so excited when he said "Capitalism is our God," but then was ...

I have been working through two different problems lately, well longer, for the last few years. The first problem is a critique of neolibe...

When I started this blog almost two years ago, one of the many ideas behind it was to have it function as a kind of outlet for my various m...

If one wanted to be generous to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull one could say that it tries to continue the self-reflex...

I will admit from the beginning that I am not a Lacanian. I am minimally competent in Lacan. I have read him, sure, the selections from Ecri...

For the past few summers it seems that every blockbuster film has made some kind of oblique and often lazy reference to the "war on te...

In honor of the recent disruptions, almost a month since the last entry, I have decided to write some remarks on Love and Other Technologie...

Last week I happened to see two (relatively mainstream) movies that referenced Marx in some way. The first was the delirious Southland Tales...

I am currently teaching a class on the introduction to political and social theory. One of themes that I have been focusing on as of late i...

The last few entries on this blog have been notebook entries, the half formulated conceptual connections that used to belong in my little n...

There are several lines from Hegel that are not only cited often, but also modified to become the basis for new statements. I am thinking of...

For a bit of irony I should start with a confession; as I have indicated in my discussion of Lazzarato below, I have little or no patience f...

The following quote from Althusser is one that I am quite fond of, and have cited, or at least referred to, more than once: I claimed tha...

Every philosophical library, public or private, has to deal with the unstable division between “primary” and “secondary” literature. At what...

For Christmas this year I got a t-shirt that reads: “Movies: Ruining the Book Since 1920.” I am not sure if always agree with the sent...

Roland Barthes supposedly wrote “Those who do not reread are doomed to read the same thing over and over again.” I have always liked this ...