Unemployed Negativity

My approach to William James is necessarily oblique and eccentric. I am not a scholar of James or Pragmatism. My entire approach to Jam...

Frédéric Lordon's La Société des Affects : Pour un Structuralism des Passions is comprised of a series of essays which develop and ...

Joseph Gordon Levitt's first film, Don Jon  is a surprisingly perplexing film. On the one hand it is one of the first mainstream fil...

What follows should perhaps have the subtitle "Scattered Speculations on Breaking Bad" because it started as a post a few epis...

When I first heard of the publication of the book, Manhunts: A Philosophical History  it immediately occurred to me that it was the kind...

Image from The Private Eye by Brian K. Vaughn and Marcos Martin There are two basic models of affective orientation towards popular c...

In an instance of "first time as protest, second time as product" Elysium has been described as a movie of the 99%, a film t...

Even though it is not a recent post, I was struck by this post on "negative solidarity" on the blog splintering bone ashes. ...

Dear friends, readers, and people who ended up here by poorly formulated search terms: In order to complete a long overdue book pro...

Neoliberalism has become an increasingly popular word in contemporary critical thought and philosophy. Its popularity has come at a cost...

Having written something about the first two Iron Man films on this blog in the past I felt obligated to write at least something abou...

Paper was originally presented at the Futures of the Common conference at the University of Minnesota in 2009. Some of this has been ...

Draft of Paper Presented at University of Memphis The current economic crisis has returned the economy to the center of politics. The...

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

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

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...