Unemployed Negativity

  Like so many I was saddened to learn of the death of Toni Negri. I never really knew him as a person, only very awkwardly meeting him once...

  There are many different answers to the question of what Marx and Spinoza have in common, theories of ideology , materialism , naturalism ...

  I am a follower of Chantal Jaquet's work. I have read her works on Spinoza with great interest, and have also been a big fan of her w...

  Elizabeth Anderson is always an interesting author for me to read because as much as we are both concerned with the same issues, namely,  ...

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 ...

  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...

  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...

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

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

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...

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

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

  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...

  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...

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...

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...

  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...

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 ...

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

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