Unemployed Negativity

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

A Useful Tool: Trolling History

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  Troll is a fairly entertaining movie (but that is not what this post is about) To repeat something I have said before, if,  as it has ofte...
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Sunday, July 16, 2023

Who Can Criticize Capitalism: Or, When Can We Eat Salmon Mayonnaise?

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  Given that Bob Iger is in the news (and maybe the executive named below) I thought that I would use this image from the Disney Strike of 1...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Which Marx/Which Spinoza: On Althusser and Fischbach

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How it started/how it is going Louis Althusser is most known for his argument regarding an epistemic break between the young and mature Marx...
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Thursday, July 06, 2023

The Franchise Lives On: Scream and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

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I will begin with a story. When I was in graduate school I returned to Hampshire twice to teach as part of the Jan Plan. The college was in...
Sunday, July 02, 2023

Making Up a Guy to Get Mad At: The (Completely) Imaginary Institution of Society

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  One fact stands out in the recent Supreme Court Decision 303 Creative LLC vs. Elenis  and that is that the web hosting company in question...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Florida, Man! Part II: What is So Critical about Critical Race Theory

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This is a follow up to last month's post on the attack on education, but rather than use images  of people protesting CRT I decided to ...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Florida, Man! The War Against Higher Education

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  Alligator has to be the best University Mascot “What is happening in Florida will not stay in Florida." From the AAUP's Report on...
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

One Amendment to Rule them All: Symptomatically Reading the Bill of Rights

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  Photos from the Ameriguns by Gabriele Galimberti If one wanted to find a text to confirm Louis Althusser's thesis that the writings of...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

The Spinoza Effect: on Matthys' Althusser Lecteur de Spinoza

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In the last year or so there have been two books published on Althusser and Spinoza. Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop's Althusser et Spinoza: ...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Broken Brains: On an Etiology of the Present

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  Image from Fiend Without A Face  I am not sure when I first heard the phrase "broke their brain" but I know that I have heard it...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Inalienable: Hobbes, Spinoza, and Locke on Self-Defense

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  Since I am discussing Dorlin's Self-Defense  I thought that I would use some pictures from old self defense manuals including this var...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

The Order and Connection of Racism: Balibar on Racist Knowledge and Belonging

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Balibar print from All Grim Prints  An ongoing albeit sporadic project of mine is trying to understand the systematic nature underlying the ...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Between Micro-Politics and Mute Compulsion: Reflections on a Problem

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  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...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Translating Transclass: Or Teaching Eribon in America

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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...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Team Transindividuality: on Vittorio Morfino and Bernard Aspe

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  Jeremy Gilbert and I sometimes joke about TOP, the Transindividual Oriented Philosophy. The reference is obviously to the phenomenon of OO...
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Monday, January 30, 2023

Go West, Young Man: A Lingering Postscript on Nope

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  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...
Sunday, January 08, 2023

The Imaginary Institution of Society: Spinoza's Version

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When I was in graduate school "the imaginary" was one of those words that circulated all the more often because it was untethered ...
Friday, December 23, 2022

The Spontaneous Ideology of Conspiracy: This One on Marx

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  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...
Wednesday, December 07, 2022

A Translation Exercise: The Marxists Uses of Spinoza: Lessons of Method by André Tosel

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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...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Strange Bedfellows: On Vaysse's Totalité et Finitude: Spinoza et Heidegger

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  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...
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