Unemployed Negativity

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Necessity Passing As Contingency (and Vice Versa): On the Spinozist Distinction of the Economic and Political

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Lordon speaking as part of the "Nuit Debout" protests to France's Labor Law Earlier, when writing a brief blog review of...
Thursday, April 07, 2016

The Work Image: Montage in Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad

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Gilles Deleuze stated that montage is an "indirect image of time," in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Hobbes Versus Spinoza: This Time It's Anthropological

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This morning I received an email that had the following sentence in it:  "A demographic note for this week is that we have almost t...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2016

The Power of the False: On Fargo

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Fargo opens with a claim that the story the film tells is based on a true story. As is well know by anyone who has looked into the story...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Be Social: Fischbach's Le Sense du Social

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Franck Fischbach's Le Sens du Social: Les Puissances de la Coopération  continues two of the threads of his recent writings. First,...
Monday, February 01, 2016

Trumped: The Ecology of Attention and Affects

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Image courtesy of Mitch O'Connell Pitch for a sequel to They Live.  The "ghouls" (as they are referred to in the script)...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Mythocracy II: This Time It's Personal

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What follows is unauthorized and semi-competent translation of the introduction of Yves Citton's Mythocratie: Storytelling et Imag...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

L'Etat C'est Nous: Lordon on the Politics of Affects

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After having published a book on the economic dimension of affects , followed by a book on the social nature of affects , it makes sens...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

Not Even Gun Control Will Save Us Now: Notes on the Psycho-Sociology of Mass Killing

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Image from The Onion The events are both all too familiar, all too common, a mass shooting at some university, school, or public plac...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Affective Reproduction: Thinking Transindividuality in an Age of Individualism

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Paper Presented at the Affect Theory Conference One of the many theoretical and practical promises of the so-called “affective turn...
Saturday, October 03, 2015

What the Shopkeeper Knows: Reading Contemporary Capitalism

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Whilst in ordinary life every shopkeeper is very well able to distinguish between what somebody professes to be and what he really is, o...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Genysis of a New Film Form: Reflections after Watching Several Hollywood Films on a Long Flight

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Top: Terminator, Bottom Terminator Genysis The repetition that defines Hollywood is not without its difference. It constantly mutates ...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Conceptually Barking Dogs: Between Spinoza and the Frankfurt School

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This post will be illustrated by pictures of my  dog, Bento. * (This picture was not staged. He stole this book) "The conc...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Liminal For Life: On It Follows

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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...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Coming Soon: The Politics of Transindividuality

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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...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

The Stories We Tell: Event and Mythocracy

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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...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Naturally Historical: On Paolo Virno's When the Word Becomes Flesh and Déjà Vu and the End of History

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Paolo Virno's philosophical trajectory is an interesting and strange one. He first became known to the English speaking world...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Tales of Post-Apocalyptic Madness: On Subjectivity and Society in Mad Max

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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...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2015

First Time as Tragedy, Second Time as Tragicomedy: On Better Call Saul

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"Spinoff! Is there any word more thrilling to the human soul?" Troy McClure, The Simpsons Better Call Saul confronts a se...
Thursday, April 09, 2015

From Desiring Production to Producing Desire: Between Anti-Oedipus and Lordon

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