Unemployed Negativity

  Wolves, even werewolves it seems, travel in packs. One hardly gets just one werewolf movie. In nineteen eighty one the pack included   Wol...

I wrote this review of Jacques Bidet's Foucault with Marx a few years ago for an online review called Contrivers (a fter having review...

  One of Althusser's fundamental lessons, and one that remains beyond the controversies about epistemic breaks, the young Marx, and the ...

  I was slow to get to Severance. Partly this has to do with conditions of contemporary cultural consumption. The shift from movies to telev...

  Recently in a bit of odd exhaustion and insomnia I watched, or rather rewatched, the movie Blue Thunder. In case you have not seen it I wi...

  What follows is a draft of the translation of the introduction to Franck Fischbach's La Production des hommes: Marx avec Spinoza which...

  This post is more or less a sequel to this one , and like that first one it is in some sense a commentary on Macherey's A Theory of Li...

In his conversations with François Truffaut Alfred Hitchcock insisted that the birds in the film of the same name had to be ordinary birds, ...

  Let us start with a general question: why should someone interest in philosophy also be interested in film? Granted there are probably as ...

  This summer I have a book coming out from the Historical Materialism Book series. You can read more about it here (as well as freak out a...

 The last thing anyone needs is another hot take on Covid. At least that is how things appear, in the early months of the pandemic there wer...

  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...