Unemployed Negativity

  The Matrix is a film about work. Long before Neo escapes the matrix he has to break out of a much more mundane space of confinement, the o...

My Spinoza and Marx finger puppets   This is a follow up to a few previous posts, most importantly my previous post on alienation in Marxist...

  Because I regularly teach a class on work, and have my own book on work coming out, I make it a habit to keep up on all of the writing on ...

  Danny Lloyd rocking the same haircut I had as a kid Of all of the various concepts and neologisms that populate A Thousand Plateaus that o...

Intersection of base and superstructure    One of the pressing issues of recent years has been the relationship between class struggle, or t...

  Don't worry I will explain why I picked this image This post is an immediate follow up or even sequel to an earlier post on Spinoza an...

  I have submitted the (hopefully) final changes of the manuscript of my third book* to Verso. As an answer to the question, What is your bo...

  Images from Property is No Longer Theft  There is a line that I used to attribute to Roland Barthes, "those who do not reread are doo...

  I am illustrating this post with images of the Punisher as a symbol of authority as rebellion As I have already indicated on this blog mor...

I give twitter credit for making this joke,  but if you ask me the movie did not do enough with this great title What follows are a few refl...

  Of all of the zoom events, conferences, and presentations that I have attended (zoomed?) this year the one dedicated to Spinoza after Marx...

Posted in memory of Lauren Berlant who once took time out of her busy schedule to debate a previous post about Soderbergh.    After a mercur...

  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   ; ...