Unemployed Negativity

Jonathan Lethem’s little book on They Live ( part of a relatively new series on films by Soft Skull Press, a cinematic equivalent of ...

The recent news that Michel Gondry planned to make a film based on Ubik convinced me to look at this again. It is an old piece, and one t...

I am teaching Capital, or at least parts of Volume One. This is not the first time that I have done this, I have taught selections of it in ...

In the history of philosophy there are some texts that are difficult to say anything new about. These texts are so dominated by one influent...

Ben Noys’ The Persistence of the Negative is interesting to me for at least two reasons. 1) As someone whose introduction to philosophy...

“…the American cinema constantly shoots and re-shoots a single fundamental film, which is the birth of a nation-civilization…” –Gilles De...

Frédéric Lordon’s Capitalisme, désir et servitude: Marx et Spinoza is not so much a book on Marx and Spinoza, on the influences and aff...

Every year, at least since sometime in the middle of the last century, the President of the United States pardons a turkey. The ceremony,...

The long philosophical cold war has almost completely evacuated any conception of collectivity from political and social thought. On the on...

The following statement from Fredric Jameson is well known and often cited, becoming something like a pithy formulation of the contempora...

Several years ago, I taught at a small liberal arts college. The college was over an hour away from where I lived. Not an especially long d...

Several months ago, I wrote that I was struck by the fact that three different corruptions of the common offered by Commonwealth , family,...

Of the five who participated in the original edition of Lire le Capital, Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Mac...