Unemployed Negativity

Sunday, October 01, 2023

The Prison House of Emotional Labor: On Red Eye

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Red Eye is destined to always be something of a footnote. Everyone involved in the film will always be known for something else, Wes Craven ...
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Friday, September 29, 2023

Differences and Differends: One More Note on the Politics of Education

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  I know that I should not even bother to engage with such things, but I saw someone retweet this from Christopher Rufo on X-Twitter. I thin...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

Return to Doppelgängerland: Naomi Klein's Mirror World

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  Enter the Dragon When I first read that Naomi Klein wrote a book about being confused for her doppelgänger, Naomi Wolf, I was initially am...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Nostalgic for Nothing: Industry and Affect

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  this is not a picture of me The dominance of intellectual property in film is driven by one central affect, or affective composition, nost...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Year Three: Four Ideological Conditions for the Covid Crisis

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  Picture of me practicing aikido in a mask  (seemed appropriate) As we look at another surge, another variant, and another school year of...
Monday, August 14, 2023

Other Scenes: The Ideology of the Economy/The Economy of Ideology

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One of the most pernicious effects of the Marxist schema of base and superstructure is that it posits the economy and ideology as two separa...
Sunday, August 06, 2023

Barbies Amongst Themselves: Or, What Happens When You Make a Film about a Commodity

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  Watching Barbie reminded me of two essays that I had not read in a long time, Luce Irigaray's " Women on the Market  " and ...
Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Fallen Kingdom: Living in the Anthropocene with Spinoza and Marx

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  Bento in the Anthropocene  Humanism, and the debates for and against it, is less a perennial philosophical question, returned to again and...
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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 ...
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