Unemployed Negativity

  from facebook This post could be considered a follow up to my previous post on The Communist Manifesto.   In each case it is a matter of w...

  More than once I have made the joke that if philosophy really wanted to go back to its Platonic (or Socratic roots) then it most recognizi...

  I do not remember who made this meme, but I love it. Dimitris Vardoulakis' Spinoza, the Epicurean: Authority and Utility in Materialis...

All images from Starstream In the last month or so two remarkably similar books appeared, Aaron Benanav's Automation and the Future of W...

All panels and art from Tim Truman Scout, Eclipse comics During the odd grifter's interregnum of the last few weeks a particular image c...

  As I write this the COVID-19 pandemic is returning to rates of infection and death in the US that exceed even the peak of last spring. The...

Of the three werewolf films that were released in 1981 An American Werewolf in London  is that one that I have the strongest memory of even ...

  Horkheimer and Adorno had to invent the neologism the "culture industry" to criticize the subordination of culture to commerce, ...

Graphic by Joelle Glidden  It is perhaps because my first real philosophical love was Gilles Deleuze that I have been drawn to the idea that...

  Posing with Machiavelli and Spinoza Since Vittorio Morfino's The Spinoza-Machiavelli Encounter: Time and Occasion  is out in paperback...

Mr. Block He Meets Others I am aware, but only vaguely aware, that there is a schism of sorts between so called "class reductionists...

  Kitty Green's The Assistant was immediately greeted as the film of the #metoo movement. It is hard not to see it that way. The film, r...

In memory of Bernard Stiegler I thought that I would post the following excerpt from The Politics of Transindividuality.    As an introducti...

Lately, I have been considering a hopelessly naive question, namely: What is popular culture for? Or, more to the point how does it function...

Jacques-Louis Lantoine's L'Intelligence de la pratique: Le Concept de disposition chez Spinoza is a contribution to what I have call...

Hollywood B pictures often come in twos. Somehow, almost inexplicably, we get two movies about undersea monsters, Leviathan and Deepstar Six...

For Ted Stolze A few weeks into the pandemic lockdown I went through a brief noir phase. It was somehow easier to watch films from a very di...

One of the common criticism of Marx is that his thought is dominated by production. Philosophers from Jean Baudrillard to Hannah Arendt have...

I had the chance to respond to Jodi Dean's Communism or Neo-Feudalism at Red May. The following are are a revised version of my respons...

Anyone who has read this blog knows that I am influenced by the work of Etienne Balibar. His work has profoundly shaped my published wo...