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Monday, October 23, 2017

Macabre Goes Mainstream: A Halloween Story

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Painting by Jon Read I will begin with the personal story. At some point in my awkward adolescent years when I was too old to tric...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Scenes of Violence: Between Ultraobjective and Ultrasubjective Forms of Violence

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How to make sense of the daily brutality that seems to surround us? Balibar's Violence and Civility can be seen as offering a sort o...
Saturday, October 07, 2017

How Can It Not Know What It Is? On Blade Runner 2049

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I think that I may have grown up watching Blade Runner. I do not mean that I watched the film several times growing up, although that is...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Said and Unsaid: From the Critique of Hypocrisy to Symptomatic Reading

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The critique of hypocrisy did not begin with Trump, but it has been fueled by his campaign and presidency. It is hard not to see signs o...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Knock-off Soviet Kitsch: On Comrade Detective

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Has Slavoj Zizek written about Comrade Detective yet? It seems to be the perfect show for him, not just for its setting behind the iro...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Beyond Enslavement and Subjection: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari

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Paper Presented at the above conference.  Since publication plans have fallen through  I am posting a draft of it here One of...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Pop Nazi: History and Repetition

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In The Atlantic  Ta-Nehisi Coates writes the following  about HBO's plans to create a show called Confederate about an alternate rea...
Monday, August 07, 2017

Three Interpretations In Search of a Proposition: A Sketch of Spinozist Materialism

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Possibly a Portrait of Spinoza  As I have stated on this  blog, and elsewhere , a materialist reading of Spinoza perhaps begins with E...
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Monday, July 31, 2017

Putting the Living Back into Living Labor, Part One: Dejours and the Psychodynamics of Work

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In the introduction to T ravail Vivant et Théorie Critique: Affects, Pouvoir, et Critique du Travail Alexis Cukier argues that the crit...
Monday, July 17, 2017

The Role of Revolution in the Transition from Man to Ape (and back again): On War For The Planet of the Apes

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Perhaps the new ape films should be considered as one long remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes . Initially, this seemed to be l...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

A Universal History of Villainy: A Brief Remark on Spider-Man: Homecoming

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In Jameson's essay on The Wire there is an interesting digression (and in Jameson it is mainly the digressions which are interesti...
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Tuesday, July 04, 2017

The Golden Pig: Okja and the limits of Satire

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Critics of Okja  have been quick to point out its jarring tonalities, one part satire of the world of corporations and branding event...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Old Time Religion: On American Gods the book and TV show

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The following passage from Marx's Grundrisse could serve as a fairly accurate pitch meeting for American Gods: Let us take e.g. the...
Thursday, June 08, 2017

In Space No One Can Hear You Struggle: On The Expanse

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I am not sure if this going to be much more than a long exhortation to watch The Expanse. 
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Thursday, May 25, 2017

The Original Sin of Accumulation: Trying to Say Something Original About Ursprüngliche Akkumulation

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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...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Yet Another Effort, Spinozists, If You Would Become Marxists: Marxist Spinozism Against Enlightenment Spinozism

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Me at PAF talking about Spinoza and Transindividuality  (I am running out of Spinoza/Marx graphics) In a recently published pie...
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Saturday, May 06, 2017

Dialectic of the Donald: Or, Not Trump Again

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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...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Triptych of a Tree: Memoirs of a Film Goer

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That Hitchcock's Vertigo  has been imitated multiple times is not surprising, but it is slightly curious that the same tree appears ...
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Sidekick No More: Horkheimer on Work

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In Max Horkheimer's critically underrated (and out of print) Dawn and Decline we find the following aphorism:
Monday, February 27, 2017

"You'd be a Beast": Get Out and Race

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