Unemployed Negativity

Red May Seattle A bit of context: last weekend I was asked to participate in Red May Seattle , contributing to both its Marx-a-tho...

Me at PAF talking about Spinoza and Transindividuality  (I am running out of Spinoza/Marx graphics) In a recently published pie...

The Owl of Minerva might fly at dusk, but her eagle works the day shift  Let us begin with negation. You did not want to read this, y...

That Hitchcock's Vertigo  has been imitated multiple times is not surprising, but it is slightly curious that the same tree appears ...

In Max Horkheimer's critically underrated (and out of print) Dawn and Decline we find the following aphorism:

As most people reading this already know, the central story of  Get Out  begins when Rose Armitage (Allison Williams) brings her boyfr...

An afternoon reading in San Francisco If it is possible to learn one thing from the various invocations of the "white working cl...

Several stories have reported that 1984 is being read, or at least bought, again, becoming an unlikely best seller. This is ambiguous ne...

Nothing could be more foolish, further from the letter and spirit of Spinoza's writing than to proclaim that a given proposition is...

Trump's election was met with an insistent demand on the part of those who opposed him, a demand not to "normalize" his e...

The problem with thinking in terms of best movies of the year is not only that it imposes an arbitrary dividing line, a line made more ...

Requisite wine stain  “ What Hegel calls consciousness, or, more to the point, consciousness of the universal, Marx calls "ideol...

Since the election of Trump there seems to be a consensus that his surprising victory stemmed from anger and frustration on the part of...

I did not really have an image for this post, so I thought I would just plug the Spanish translation of my first book. This...

In Agamben's The Use of Bodies we find the following passage: The anthropology that we have inherited from classical philosophy is...

Illustration of The Penal Colony In the recently published Dans la Disruption Bernard Stiegler writes, "An epoch is alwa...

G illes Deleuze writes of the western  “…the American cinema constantly shoots and re-shoots a single fundamental film, which is the bir...

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...