Unemployed Negativity

From Zazzle  As I have said elsewhere, I consider the theory of capitalism put forward in Capitalism and Schizophrenia (especially An...

The concept of Interpellation is perhaps one of the few concepts of Althusser's to make it outside the orbit of his circle to bec...

Monster come in cycles. Werewolves wax and wane in and out of cultural visibility, and even vampires disappear and return.   There migh...

Academia functions by specialization. We are all divided into our respective fields, philosophy, sociology, economics, political scienc...

Moose and Lon Chaney Jr. on the set of The Wolfman I could justify this by the way I have written about werewolves and capital, but t...

Film has a strange status in Deleuze and Guattari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia. There is nothing like a theory of film in the two ...

In the end of Cinema, Volume One: The Movement Image writes the following about the demise of the movement image: Certainly people c...

Us is a strange title for a horror film. "Them" and "It" are often the go to pronouns for horror, suggesting other...

It is impossible to overstate how much a fan I was of The Twilight Zone.   I watched every episode of the old show, it was the reason th...

Portrait of the author as a Hampshire Student I graduated from Hampshire College. Not only that, but I credit Hampshire for much of my...

Simone Weil's "Sketch of Contemporary Social Life" is a text that seems oddly prescient at every turn, making Weil appear...

The rise of "prestige television" could also be told as a story of the decline of the American dream. From Tony Soprano's...

Lately, I have been thinking of Bizarro World. This is odd since I never really read many Superman comics growing up. I was mostly into ...

As much as people love to cite that ubiquitous remark by Fredric Jameson about the end of the world and the end of capitalism. You kn...

With all of the attention on Spinoza by Marxists is is surprising how little is written about Spinoza and work. Spinoza has provided th...

A glimpse of the cover, title, and timing of Lordon's latest book, La Condition Anarchique might lead one to suspect that the anarchi...

Perhaps the best way to make sense of the present order is to consider first the disorder, the contestation of the old order. This co...

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...