Unemployed Negativity

The revival of interest in Simondon's term transindividuality to thematize social relations has raised the question of what a politic...

Season Three of Treme is perhaps the season in which the show final came into its own, developing its own particular narrative structu...

The encounter between Marx and Spinoza that ran through late twentieth century Marxist thought was primarily organized around three axe...

During my last few years of High School I worked at coffee shop, part time during the school year and full time during the summers. This...

If you have heard about Compliance , you have probably heard one or more of three things about it, that it is based on a true ...

"Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature." Democritus ...

"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...