Unemployed Negativity

Top: Terminator, Bottom Terminator Genysis The repetition that defines Hollywood is not without its difference. It constantly mutates ...

This post will be illustrated by pictures of my  dog, Bento. * (This picture was not staged. He stole this book) "The conc...

At first glance it is possible to consider It Follows to be a kind of meta-horror, a film which makes the rules of the genre explicit to...

I have not had much time for blogging as of late as I complete the finishing touches, indexing, proofreading, etc., of The Politics of Tr...

Let me begin with an observation that is perhaps obvious and an analysis that is a bit pedestrian (even more so than usual). The cu...

Paolo Virno's philosophical trajectory is an interesting and strange one. He first became known to the English speaking world...

Mad Max perhaps invented the reboot. One of the most interesting things about the Mad Max films is the way in which the backstory has c...

"Spinoff! Is there any word more thrilling to the human soul?" Troy McClure, The Simpsons Better Call Saul confronts a se...

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...