Unemployed Negativity

Years ago I wrote what I jokingly consider my contribution to " Wolfen Studies ."The other contributions to the field being Ev...

Image from They Live  Sometimes students ask me if I think that Marx was wrong about anything. Marxists are supposedly not known for i...

This is probably the worst way to begin a blog post, but I can't shake the figure of the paid protester. I am less interested in the...

Presented at McGill September 2018 This is a longer version of something I posted here , presented for a discussion of Chantal Jaquet...

In some sense this is a belated response to André Tosel's passing last year. When Tosel died I was only vaguely aware of his name, ...

Image from the Simpsons and Frinkiac.  Two thoughts immediately come to mind when considering Yves Schwartz's Experience et Conna...

Blackkklansman has come under criticism for twisting its true story into the shape of a cop film, warping any criticism of the struct...

Presented in Rome in May 2018 Conference Draft  Buried in the back of Volume Three of Capital , Marx puts forward a thesis of de...

There is no film this year that I have anticipated more than Sorry to Bother You. I have been a fan of Boots Riley since I first learned...

I have always been fairly comfortable with Deleuze and Guattari's assertion of the fundamental political question, drawing a line ...

As a kid I was obsessed with dinosaurs. I know that there is nothing unique about this and that is precisely why I relate it. My obsess...

Graeber's book Bullshit Jobs  is the kind of book I generally avoid. I t is an expanded version of an essay originally published in...

Kathi Week's book The Problem with Work opens with a paradox of sorts: political theorist should be interested in work, work make...

What follows is neither the presentation I gave in Milan (in the picture above), nor the one from Rome (indicated in the picture below)...

I was asked to write a longer review of  The Young Marx to be published in Italian. I am posting the English here .

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...