Unemployed Negativity

A few weeks ago I happened to catch Bill O’Reilly on The Daily Show . The topic of the interview was the “politics of fear” that the Fox Net...

I was thoroughly amused and delighted by the events recounted in today's New York Times. First, one has to admire the sheer discipline ...

Materialism is a paradoxical philosophy, for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that on some fundamental level it diverges fro...

It perhaps goes without saying that at any given moment I am ruminating over some quote from Marx. As of late it has been this one from th...

The following scene from The Wire is in my estimation brilliant, not just because it reveals the functioning of the drug trade, but more im...

The following is what happens when you combine teaching Plato’s Republic with reflecting on the current election, specifically the Republic...

As something of a follow up to the recent post on Negri it makes sense to write a short review of sorts of Richard Sennett’s The Culture of ...

Two of my favorite blogs ( The Pinocchio Theory and What in the Hell… ) have written about Negri’s recent books, namely The Porcelain Fact...

In Bernard Stiegler’s Technics and Time 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (a book which will require a more thorough review at another time), S...

Image from "that book by derrida" on Flickr The movies construct subjectivity. This is true in at least two senses. Taken to it...

What follows are some reflections on the final season of The Wire so Spoiler Alert. The fifth season of The Wire is best understood a...

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...