Unemployed Negativity

The little books of Semiotexte ’s Foreign Agent Series played an absolutely formative role in my intellectual and political development. Th...

The standard nomenclature for superheroes takes the form of “[blank]-man”, in which the blank, the variable, defines the qualities, power...

For the past week I have been preoccupied, perhaps even obsessed, with Middlesex University’s decision to close its internationally recog...

In Multitude Hardt and Negri write that “Each [historical] period is characterized by one or several forms that structure the various e...

When I started this blog almost four years ago the advice I received from nearly everyone was to keep it anonymous. I was told that as a non...

Paolo Virno writes the following: “What is involved here is the conceptualization of the field of immediate coincidence between producti...

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,...