Unemployed Negativity

Any philosophical consideration of the politics of debt must perhaps begin with the fact that the entire rhetoric of debt, owing and pa...

I do not have much to say about this, but I had to share it far and wide. It is a clip from Finally Got the News , a film about the League...

One of the first texts that introduced me to the Italian political traditions of Operaismo and Autonomia was Italy: Autonomia, Post-Politica...

This is the video of a talk I gave at Utah Valley University in September. It was aimed at an audience of undergraduates, so it is very pe...

Signs I made for my local Occupation The potentials and contradictions of the OccupyWallStreet movement are far too many to enumerate...

Photo from Maximum RocknRoll's Facebook feed  Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s After the Future opens with a question, a question that de...

Let us begin with a few often repeated arguments about horror films. These are not so much theories, but things that "everyone say...

  The story of so-called primitive accumulation is well known to readers of Marx. This story was political economy’s way of understanding th...

Up until now I have avoided the trend of adults reading young adult fiction. I have never read a single Harry Potter book, but I have s...

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...