Unemployed Negativity

The films Alien, Aliens, Bladerunner, Terminator, They Live   and Robocop  were, in varying degrees, all formative films for me. This...

We must be living in a renaissance of Spinoza studies. The “dead dog” of past generations has becoming a thriving pack. I refer not ju...

Spinoza and Stiegler are both transindividual thinkers. In the first case this is avant la lettre, Spinoza innovative conceptualizati...

I did not think that I was going to write anything about The Avengers. This is partly because I am too busy writing, book writing, to re...

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Image from Artnet It is easy to imagine Hardt and Negri's Declaration  as something like a revolu...

OK. first and foremost, Spoiler alert. You've been warned. 

Once, years ago, I happened to read a science fiction novel called Kampus  by James Gunn. I am not sure why, other than the fact that I...

Debates about alienation with respect to Marx tend to focus on its philosophical underpinning, its humanism and essentialism. This is perha...

Lets begin with a story, I decided to read Yves Citton's Mythocratie  because I was interested in his reading of Spinoza that I enco...

Hegel famously proclaimed that the owl of Minerva flies at dusk, that an age could only be comprehended in thought as it fades. Any a...

Day and Night, by Occuprint To consider what Occupy Wall Street has to do with philosophy, to Occupy Philosophy, is already to depa...

As I have noted elsewhere, Balibar includes Hegel in his list of transindividual thinkers, but as such he is something of an exception to...

Two quick capsule reviews/analyses: The Mission: Impossible films come closest to realizing the ideal of a film franchise. They are bare...

Before approaching the idea of “storytelling” that is at the center of Citton’s book, Mythocratie: Storytelling et Imaginaire de Gauche...

This is not intended as a review of Communization and its Discontents . If I were to write a review of the book it would simply be:...

"Horror consists in its always remaining the same—the persistence of 'pre-history'—but is realized as constantly different, un...

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...