Unemployed Negativity

First, a note about teaching. Teaching undergraduates, especially teaching introductory classes or classes that fulfill general education...

Image from Kanye and Comics Tumblr  "Last week I was in my other other Benz"--Kanye West While I would never want to reduc...

The translation of Vittorio Morfino's Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and the Aleatory Between Spinoza and Althusser   deserv...

There is by now a predictable seasonable distribution of Hollywood films. Not only are special effects blockbusters released in the summ...

I scrupulously avoided reading any reviews of Snowpiercer once I became intrigued by the basic premise. Despite this, and not reading an...

This post is an attempt to draw together two different philosophical precursors to Balibar's philosophical anthropology. That Spino...

In a great little text on the "Fragment on Machines" Paolo Virno makes a comparison between Marx's text and the versus of...

I am going to refrain from beginning this review by pointing out the similarities between Aspe's Simondon, Politique du transindividu...

A few weeks ago I saw the film Under the Skin , a film that was better than I expected. The film unnerved me in a way that made it diff...

Presented at Deleuze and the Passions Erasmus University Rotterdam The thought of Gilles Deleuze (and Félix Guattari) bears on a...

This is the longer version of an old conference paper.  It never quite became publishable; it is left here to the gnawing criticism of d...

Theories of affect tend to articulate the term affect in relation to some idea of emotion. Perhaps the locus classicus of this distinctio...

I was initially surprised to learn that FX had developed a show about KGB sleeper agents, more so when I learned it is something of a hi...

Pierre Macherey’s De L’Utopie! follows a pattern similar to his other books that have come out of his " philosophie au sense l...

It seems fair to begin this review with a confession as to why I love the original Robocop.  It has as much to do with how I saw it as w...

If there was a column listing the what is hot and what is not of contemporary Marxism (and why shouldn't there be?), then the divisi...

Full disclosure: I met Jeremy Gilbert at a Deleuze conference in Wales in the summer of 2008. He gave an interesting paper on Deleuze, ...

The fundamental structure of Macherey’s book on the university is familiar to readers of his recent publications on “everyday life” and...

Brian Vaughn and Marcos Martin's The Private Eye  is a web only comic that has a critical view of the internet. Set in the not too d...

Do not demand of politics that it restore the “rights” of the individual, as philosophy has defined them. The individual is the prod...