Unemployed Negativity

  I never really knew what to do with this meme, but it fits the topic.  Also sorry.  At the beginning of his trajectory of criticism Marx w...

  Top Image The Road Warrior, bottom image people in the US putting gasoline in plastic bags I am going to assume that most readers of a blo...

Not a good episode, but a great observation There are those that claim that Marx’s criticism of capitalism is ultimately grounded in a mora...

  For anyone who has any historical memory whatsoever the controversies around woke seem like just a remake, or possible a reboot, of the pa...

  Frédéric Lordon has published four books since Capitalisme, désire, et Servitude in 2010, not counting collections of essays, edited volu...

  From The Department of Truth by James Tynion and Martin Simmonds I have not been to my local comic book shop in a year. I went once in the...

  I have more copies of Reading Capital than any other book One of the most damming things anyone has ever said to me, at least about academ...

Yesterday, two things happened, one I spent a better portion of the day preparing a lecture on James Boggs' The American Revolution   ; ...

I was obsessed with conspiracy theories at some point in my adolescence. I listened to late night radio shows dedicated to alien abductions,...

For the past ten years I have been teaching a class called The Politics and Philosophy of Work . At least once a semester someone mentions t...

  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...