Unemployed Negativity

Art by Fernando Vicente Upon rereading and teaching Lordon's Capitalisme, Désir, et Servitude (or, as it is called in English, ...

The Working Class Goes to Heaven Years ago, during my final year of graduate school, I taught a class at SUNY Cortland called "R...

I tried to avoid commenting on current events in this blog, blockbuster films, new books, new television shows, but not current events....

Image from Sleep Dealer  Drones are having their cultural moment right now. They have appeared in such films from Interstellar  to C...

American Sniper: Starring Bradley Cooper and a really fake baby It seems wrong to call American Sniper ideological in the traditional ...

For reasons that are as much historical as they are philosophical the relation between the thought of Foucault and Marx has become a t...

Perhaps the best way to approach Chantal Jaquet's Les Transclasses: ou la non-reproduction is by situating it between two caricature...

What does it mean to be subjected to norms, or, more to the point, to be a subject whose very existence is constituted in and through n...

Yves Citton's Pour une Écologie de l'Attention is something of a companion volume to L’Économie de l’attention. Nouvel horizo...

OK. I am going to make this quick. I saw two films this weekend, Nightcrawler  and Interstellar,  and since I am me, many people expecte...

Like many fans of The Wire I have a fantasy of re-watching the entire series from beginning until the end. It is something that I wil...

Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval's Marx, Prénom: Karl  is yet another attempt to take stock of the work of Marx. As the title sugge...

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...