Unemployed Negativity

Sunday, September 01, 2019

Modes of Materialism: Spinoza and Marx (Again)

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Spinoza and Bento The different Marxist approaches to Spinoza can be viewed through the different aspects of Spinoza's thought the...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

What I am Working On: Two Quotes on Marx and Work

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This  post is more on the spirit than the letter of Tronti but I thought that I would use the image of this french translation now that...
Friday, August 02, 2019

Alternate Ending: On Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood

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Susan Willis argues that post 9/11 America is haunted by its own contingency. The instillation of Bush into power via the Supreme Court...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

What Deleuze and Guattari Get Wrong (About Capitalism).

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From Zazzle  As I have said elsewhere, I consider the theory of capitalism put forward in Capitalism and Schizophrenia (especially An...
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Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Interpellated Strategically: on Jean-Jacques Lecercle's De l'interpellation and Isabelle Garo's Communisme et Stratégie

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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...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Doppelgängerland: The New Monster is Us

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Monster come in cycles. Werewolves wax and wane in and out of cultural visibility, and even vampires disappear and return.   There migh...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Unwritten: On Richard Seymour's The Twittering Machine

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Academia functions by specialization. We are all divided into our respective fields, philosophy, sociology, economics, political scienc...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Breaking the Curse: On Three Recent Attempts to Theorize Neoliberalism

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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...
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Sunday, April 28, 2019

Memories of a Ratman: Becoming Animal in Film, Literature, and Philosophy

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Film has a strange status in Deleuze and Guattari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia. There is nothing like a theory of film in the two ...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Becoming Spider-Man: Deleuze and the Superhero Film

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In the end of Cinema, Volume One: The Movement Image writes the following about the demise of the movement image: Certainly people c...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

You Will Not Replace Us: On Jordan Peele's Latest

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Us is a strange title for a horror film. "Them" and "It" are often the go to pronouns for horror, suggesting other...
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Saturday, March 16, 2019

The Devil is in the Details: Twilight Zone's Demonology of Capital

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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...
Monday, March 04, 2019

Boiling Frogbooks: Education's Past and Future

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Portrait of the author as a Hampshire Student I graduated from Hampshire College. Not only that, but I credit Hampshire for much of my...
Sunday, February 03, 2019

Class Monsters, Or Monsters of Class: Simone Weil's Contribution to a Bestiary of the Present

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Simone Weil's "Sketch of Contemporary Social Life" is a text that seems oddly prescient at every turn, making Weil appear...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Working Alone in America: On Lodge 49

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The rise of "prestige television" could also be told as a story of the decline of the American dream. From Tony Soprano's...
Thursday, January 03, 2019

Welcome to Bizarro World: Part One

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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 ...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

It's Competition All the Way Down: On the Spontaneous Anthropology of Contemporary Capitalism

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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...
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Monday, December 03, 2018

Lensgrinding: Spinoza on Work

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With all of the attention on Spinoza by Marxists is is surprising how little is written about Spinoza and work. Spinoza has provided th...
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Monday, November 26, 2018

Transvaluation of Values: On Lordon's La Condition Anarchique

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A glimpse of the cover, title, and timing of Lordon's latest book, La Condition Anarchique might lead one to suspect that the anarchi...
Monday, November 05, 2018

We Once Were Ungovernable: On Chamayou's La Société Ingouvernable

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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...
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