Unemployed Negativity

Materialism has always been the bastard stepson of philosophy. Its very position is paradoxical, if not impossible. It must use concepts an...

A casual reader of Adorno, and I am afraid that is all that I am, cannot help but notice his repeated use (or at least a translators repe...

I realize that I have been neglecting this blog as of late, and, to be honest, that is not going to change in the next few weeks. I am a...

It has been said that every generation invents its own Marx: colonialism, alienation, commodity fetishism, and living labor have all at...

Shelton has been doing a great job with this season of Mad Men over at his blog . I do not want to intrude, but I had a few thoughts abo...

One could argue that the three classic monsters of American culture are the vampire, zombie, and the werewolf, each handed down by folk...

Years ago I purchased a used copy of André Leroi-Gourhan's Gesture and Speech . My purchase at the time was motivated by a vague me...

Last summer, and perhaps even the summer before, I did a series of blog entries on the summer blockbusters, viewing them for their subtle a...

Mad Men is perhaps unique among American Television and even popular culture in that its subject matter is history. By history I do no...

Daniel J. Martinez’s 2006 billboard for LAXART, with quote from Horkheimer & Adorno’s 1944 Dialectic of Enlightenment It would seem t...

Picture of Spinoza-Car from The Bijlmer Spinoza Festival. The idea for this post stems in part from Deleuze’s remark that encounters be...

As something of a preliminary observation it is curious that three of the cable networks known for their high end shows (the sort that end ...