Unemployed Negativity

"The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied ...

Crappy image of a Foucault Loves Marx T-Shirt "La nécessité dans la liberté : c’est la grande invention du capitalisme....

In Book Two of  the  Politics Aristotle famously criticizes those who pursue wealth without limit, those who fail to understand that wea...

The arc of Breaking Bad has been described by its creator, Vince Gilligan as going from "Mr. Chips to Scarface" as Walter Whi...

In nineteen seventy-five Louis Althusser presented one of his best, and underrated essays, titled “Est-il simple d’étre marxiste en phil...

All illustrations of this post from 4 Color Process.   This review begins with a thesis, which is not a hypothesis since it is not m...

It is perhaps a matter of common knowledge that the humanities, philosophy, literature, classics, art history, as well as history and the...

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...