Unemployed Negativity

I started reading Malcolm Harris' Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of  Millennials  in probably the ideal location and ...

Matt Damon has the odd distinction of staring in two science fiction dystopias, one bleak action movie the other farce, that are absolu...

Presented in Santiago, Chile  Of all the various provocations in Lire le Capital there is perhaps none more provocative than structu...

A Bento/Marx image In Des Universels Etienne Balibar writes, “Conscientia sive ideologia” (Consciousness, that is ideology). Balibar...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

I am not sure if this going to be much more than a long exhortation to watch The Expanse. 

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...