Unemployed Negativity

I decided to post the audio of a talk that I recently gave on The Wire and Marx here: The talk covers some of the same territory as a few...

The phrase “ j ump the shark ” has come and gone as a snarky fundamental term of television criticism. Initially, it was used to refer t...

Loïc Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity is a book that had been recommended to me by many peo...

Anyone who teaches feminism or Marxism to undergraduates invariably encounters certain resistances on the part of students. There are mult...

In the film Up in the Air the term Fauxmey, a combination of faux and homey, is coined to describe the little touches of hominess used ...

It was perhaps Foucault who first cast Hegel in the light of a horror movie, who argued that for all of his generation’s attempts to esca...

Fredric Jameson’s Valences of the Dialectic is a book that is very similar to A rcheologies of the Future . They are both massive tomes,...

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...