Unemployed Negativity

Balibar print from All Grim Prints  An ongoing albeit sporadic project of mine is trying to understand the systematic nature underlying the ...

  Detail of Rapture by Jon Read Since it was published I have taught Kathi Weeks' book The Problem with Work in my Politics and Philosop...

Since this is a post about class, family, and returns I thought that I would illustrate it with pictures illustrating the fact that I now li...

  Jeremy Gilbert and I sometimes joke about TOP, the Transindividual Oriented Philosophy. The reference is obviously to the phenomenon of OO...

  I was invited to write a piece for the APA's blog about film. I decided to write about Nope a movie that has become one of my favorite...

When I was in graduate school "the imaginary" was one of those words that circulated all the more often because it was untethered ...

  Sometime awhile ago I came up with the idea of doing a trilogy of posts on conspiracy theory, or modern conspiracy thought, read through S...

Plekhanov/Labriola  As a bit of an experiment, coupling my interest in André Tosel and my work on translation , I have decided to try my ha...

  Translation is the closest that I have ever come to demonic possession. Let me explain, I used to think that there were books I read, book...

  Every mention of the film Barbarian carries with it the warning to not spoil anything, to experience it completely ignorant so as to be b...

The ending of the original The Blob  I have a distinct memory of watching the original The Blob on a Saturday afternoon movie. I watched a l...

Halloween in Houston  The Following is a response to Vardoulakis book Spinoza, The Epicurean that I gave at SPEP. I previously blogged about...

To wear a mask in a store, bus, classroom, or other public space is now to be in a small, and dwindling minority, as much as this might vary...

Every adaptation mining the vast troves of memory that we recall as our lives as readers of books and comics and watchers of film and televi...

What follows is not a review of the entirety of Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production , something that is hard to do with coll...

  It has taken me a long time to write a follow up to my first post on Bizarro World.  That is because once you begin to think about the str...

  How it Started/How it is going The final episode of Better Call Saul is not just a finale to the series but to the entire Breaking Bad mul...

Seeing Nope at the Bridgton Twin Drive In  Movie critics, even amateur ones, love puns, love working the title into their reviews in some so...

  In the past few months I have done quite a few video lectures and guest spots on podcasts. I decided to post them here for anyone who migh...

  The prequel is defined by a particular kind of paradox. As much as it aspires to reach the point from which original story began, connecti...