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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Figures of the Common: Species Being, Transindividuality, Virtual Action

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Paper was originally presented at the Futures of the Common conference at the University of Minnesota in 2009. Some of this has been ...
Sunday, April 07, 2013

Contradictions at Work: The Task for a Philosophy of Labor (with Hegel, Marx, and Spinoza)

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Draft of Paper Presented at University of Memphis The current economic crisis has returned the economy to the center of politics. The...
Friday, March 29, 2013

We Other Cannibals: Viveiros de Castro and Deleuze and Guattari

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I have always been more on Team Anti-Oedipus than Team A Thousand Plateaus. Partly this is autobiographical. I read Anti - Oedipus at a...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

A Brief Encounter: Between Analysis and Affect

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I was introduced to David Lean's A Brief Encounter by Slavoj Zizek and Sophie Fiennes A Pervert's Guide to Ideology.  The film ...
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Monday, February 18, 2013

Hitchcock in the Age of Psychopharmacology and Finance: On Side Effects

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Steven Soderbergh is a somewhat mercurial director. He more or less started "independent film" with Sex, Lies, and Videotape  ...
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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Deviant Gesture Catalog: Between Mechanization and Spectacle

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Lately I have been interested in the question of gesture. This interest is framed by two different lines of inquiry. The first, and do...
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Tuesday, February 05, 2013

The Imaginary Institution of Realpolitik: Or, When Theory Becomes Practice

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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...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Captain Contingent Versus Doctor Necessity: The Rise of The Superhero Genre

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Illustration from Sean Howe's tumblr A combination of vacation travel reading and gifts made it so I read Dan Hassler-Forest'...
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Sunday, January 06, 2013

What Remains of an Emancipation: Lincoln and Django Unchained

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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...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Politics of Transindividuality: Some Preliminary Remarks on Citton's Renverser l'insoutenable

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The revival of interest in Simondon's term transindividuality to thematize social relations has raised the question of what a politic...
Monday, December 03, 2012

Insiders and Outsiders: Season Three of Treme

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Season Three of Treme is perhaps the season in which the show final came into its own, developing its own particular narrative structu...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

Towards a Spinozist Critique of Political Economy

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The encounter between Marx and Spinoza that ran through late twentieth century Marxist thought was primarily organized around three axe...
Friday, November 02, 2012

Negative Prefiguration: Flexibility, Capitalism, Imagination

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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...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Screening Responsibility: On Compliance

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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 ...
Monday, October 08, 2012

Our Nature is to Change Our Nature: Bertrand Ogilvie and Political Anthropology

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"Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature." Democritus ...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

After the Future(s): On Looper

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"The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied ...
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

"Be More Productive": Marx, Foucault, Macherey

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Crappy image of a Foucault Loves Marx T-Shirt "La nécessité dans la liberté : c’est la grande invention du capitalisme....
Friday, September 07, 2012

The Previous Post Continued: Parting Thoughts on Breaking Bad's Fifth Season

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In Book Two of  the  Politics Aristotle famously criticizes those who pursue wealth without limit, those who fail to understand that wea...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Be Your Own Boss: Breaking Bad and the Entrepreneur

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The arc of Breaking Bad has been described by its creator, Vince Gilligan as going from "Mr. Chips to Scarface" as Walter Whi...
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Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Is it Simple to be a Philosopher in Marxism?

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