Unemployed Negativity

Image from The Crowd, King Vidor  Jodi Dean's Crowds and Party can be understood to have two objects, each identified by the word...

In a remarkable interview published in 2012, but which I happened to discover recently, Balibar credits Foucault for the concept of wha...

The reference in the title Riot. Strike. Riot  will be abundantly clear to readers of Marx. It is reference to the formulas that open v...

Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc's Politique et État chez Deleuze et Guattari: Essai sur le matérialism historico-machinic has be...

One could describe the trajectory of Marxist/Spinozism in the twentieth century as a trajectory that passes from epistemology through on...

When I first wrote about The Americans  I saw its premise as yet another variant on the sociopathic anti-hero that has become the mains...

Image from George Souvlis' Facebook  Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's Cannibal Metaphysics has, a s one of its many charms , on...

Back in the days when people actually read blogs I used to get requests for guest posts, some bad, some good--all of which I declined...

There is a certain similarity in criticism of Sanders and Trump. I am not referring to the symmetry posited by pundits of the radical c...

At this point the observation that the contemporary superhero film is an allegory for the war on terror, like pointing out that Godzill...

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

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

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...

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...

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...