Unemployed Negativity

I give blood regularly, platelets actually. I started giving blood in high school when it could get you out of class. Sometime ago I wa...

Image from here One of the many merits Martin Hägglund 's This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom is that it makes a conne...

The question of the relation between the individual psyche and social relations is a perennial question. This is largely due to the fac...

I am eventually going to get to a point about obedience  and posses (multitudes) The recently published Sagesse ou ignorance? La Qu...

Frédéric Lordon's latest book, Vivre Sans? Institutions, Police, Travail, Argent. .. is a conversation with Félix Boggio Éwanjé-Épée...

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...