Unemployed Negativity

Friday morning, as the local and national media went on a feeding frenzy of sorts over Hurricane Irene,  complete with radar maps and rain-...

Aliens have made it the news at least three times in the last week. This is fairly impressive considering the fact that there have been no...

I have not written anything about the riots/insurrection/looting in the UK for the simple reason that I do not know enough about the context...

The Hollywood tendency towards repetition, towards reproduction of the same, which reaches its culmination in recent reboots and remake...

It is possible to understand the interest in Marxist Spinozism, Spinozist Marxism, or, as Alberto Toscano once put it, Red Spinozism, as a ...

After two seasons  Treme still does not elicit the passion and dedication that can be found among fans of  The Wire. One common complaint ...

With the publication in English of This is Not a Program , Tiqqun brings to light a certain insurrectionist critique of Negri (and Hard...

A quick glance at this year’s slew of summer blockbusters suggests a noticeable turn to other historical moments: Captain America , Pirates...

It is impossible not to compare Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One  with last year’s The Hegel Variations : in each case it ...

The socio-political, or the social, has been out of favor for some time now. Perhaps this started with Hannah Arendt’s influential crit...

Of all the various concepts, innovations, and interventions of “autonomist Marxism,” perhaps the most well known is the so-called autono...

It is perhaps true that every generation treats the revered thinkers of the previous generation as a “dead dog,” to quote Marx’s famous phra...

Comparisons between Treme and The Wire are inevitable. Unlike Generation Kill , which seems more and more like a side project, Treme has...

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari have remarked that for Spinoza the central question is “Why do people fight for their servitude as if it ...

Duncan Jones’ Source Code has all the telltale signs of a second movie, it has bigger stars, bigger explosions, and the requisite romantic...

Perhaps one of the most striking aspects of the French and Italian turn to Spinoza over the past forty years is the sheer volume of the tex...

I am sure that you have seen the bumper stickers before. They say things like “Keep Working Millions on Welfare Depend on You” and, mor...

This is a continuation of the reading of Capital I begun earlier, and a return to a passage in Capital that I have written on several t...

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...