Unemployed Negativity

Franck Fischbach's Le Sens du Social: Les Puissances de la Coopération  continues two of the threads of his recent writings. First,...

Image courtesy of Mitch O'Connell Pitch for a sequel to They Live.  The "ghouls" (as they are referred to in the script)...

What follows is unauthorized and semi-competent translation of the introduction of Yves Citton's Mythocratie: Storytelling et Imag...

After having published a book on the economic dimension of affects , followed by a book on the social nature of affects , it makes sens...

Image from The Onion The events are both all too familiar, all too common, a mass shooting at some university, school, or public plac...

Paper Presented at the Affect Theory Conference One of the many theoretical and practical promises of the so-called “affective turn...

Whilst in ordinary life every shopkeeper is very well able to distinguish between what somebody professes to be and what he really is, o...

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 ...