Unemployed Negativity

Nothing in the title or the structure of Franck Fischbach's Philosophies de Marx suggests a return to the Marx/Spinoza relation expl...

When I was in college I took a class on Contemporary Political Thought with Dana Villa . He would introduce every thinker, from Nie...

Images by Jacques Villeglé  In the essay publishes as the conclusion to La Montée des Incertitudes: Travail, Protections, statu...

Much to my surprise I am going to begin this post with a citation of Ross Douthat. In a recent column titled " Woke Capital ...

  Images from the short lived Black Panther and the Crew In all of the various attempts to produce and reproduce Spinozism, creat...

Once in class a student said, "Bernie Sanders wants to give free tuition to everyone: I can't pay for everyone else's tuit...

On first glance nothing much connects  American Beauty, Fight Club, and Office Space except the fact that they came out in the same y...

Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water  is an odd and improbable creature, a monster movie that is a critical darling. The critica...

I decided to illustrate this post with images from the Bowdoin College Museum's show on Soviet Art Reading Elizabeth A...

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...