Unemployed Negativity

Steven Soderbergh is a somewhat mercurial director. He more or less started "independent film" with Sex, Lies, and Videotape  ...

Lately I have been interested in the question of gesture. This interest is framed by two different lines of inquiry. The first, and do...

Hegel wrote that all events in history occur twice, he forgot to add: the first time as theory, the second as reality. This is of course...

Illustration from Sean Howe's tumblr A combination of vacation travel reading and gifts made it so I read Dan Hassler-Forest'...

If the predictions of the handicappers and insiders are correct, then 2012 will prove to be a strange year at the Oscars. It will includ...

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...