Unemployed Negativity

From Retro-Scifi arts instagram page Yves Citton and Jacopo Rasmi's book Générations Collapsonautes: Naviguer par temps d'effo...

What Follows is heavily indebted to a conversation about zombies and vampires at Red May Seattle in 2017, and is in some sense written a...

The young Lucien Sève looking a lot like Jon Hamm In graduate school I only knew one thing about Lucien Sève and I do not even think I...

1. The television (and the internet) will always be on, filling up time. That is their job. It doesn't mean that you have to watch, ...

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...