Unemployed Negativity

A common thread connects Parasite and Knives Out,  two of the best films of the year. That thread is not just the representation of clas...

Trump is not a dog person, or, for that matter, a cat person. He is supposedly the first president in a century to not have a pet. Past...

An Earlier Draft of this paper was presented at the Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times Conference Spinoza’s question of politica...

The number of popular books on work, books aimed beyond the narrow confines of specific disciplines, outnumbers the numbers of academic...

Spinoza and Bento The different Marxist approaches to Spinoza can be viewed through the different aspects of Spinoza's thought the...

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...

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

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 ...