Unemployed Negativity

  Sometimes I find myself thinking about the sequence, zine, blog, and podcast. I think about this in part because at one time or another I ...

  Draft Translation: Not for Citation What follows is another attempt at a translation of an important text by André Tosel on the Marx/Spin...

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and I Saw the TV Glow When one looks out at another summer of sequels, reboots, and prequels it is possible to resor...

  The recent Planet of the Apes films can be defined by two questions: one internal to the films themselves, to their own universe, albeit w...

  "They would not agree with one another any more than do the dog that is a heavenly  constellation and the dog that is a barking anima...

  I once contemplated getting my favorite Spinoza proposition  as a Vanity Plate  In the past few months, longer even, but before the recent...

  This post is illustrated by some of the promo work  I have done for the book I have commented before, more than once even, that the inters...

Something has changed in watching post-apocalyptic films in recent years. It is hard to pinpoint exactly when, and what exactly the cause m...

  In Kathi Weeks' The Problem with Work she makes an argument about the way in which work produces and reproduces gender. As Weeks writ...

The other day, out of a combination of nostalgia, insomnia, and tribute to Carl Weathers I decide to watch Rocky III. I am not sure why I pi...

Bento and books With all of my writing and translating about Spinoza and Marx as of late I am embarrassed to admit that there is a moment of...

  Commander  In undergrad I got really into theory, all of it, reading Baudrillard, Deleuze, Debord, Foucault, etc., most definitely etc, al...

  Clockwatchers is an underrated film. Perhaps it came out too early, missing the slew of films critical of work and cubicles by at least a ...

  The Best Joke in Barbie   Years ago I remember encountering Félix Guattari's little essay, "Everybody Wants to be a Fascist....

  Because actual history is rarely linear, let alone teleological, I read the repudiation of Hegel before I ever read Hegel. I had read argu...

Thanks to Ron Schmidt for this image  In John Maynard Keynes essay " Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren " one can find t...

  Anyone who has ever taken or taught a philosophy class is familiar with the claim "[Blank] is subjective" in which the [Blank] i...

  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...