Unemployed Negativity

Every election generates its questions. Generally these questions are an attempt to answer the question, what happened? The way this questio...

Machiavelli argued that a prince must appear to be of the people, must seem to have the same values and morals that they do . For him, writi...

A collection of posts from this blog will be published as a book soon from Mayfly books .  I am posting the introduction as well as the tabl...

Over the summer I posted a rant online (below after the jump), which was circulated enough that I was invited by my university to take the c...

 At the end of a summer with at least a little time to read books not directly connected to teaching or writing I picked up Melinda Cooper...

  Illustrated with a few pictures of enjoying the weather As many readers of this blog probably know, there is a new translation of Capital ...

  I once heard someone remark about Alien that during the Reagan era the capitalist hegemony against workers was so complete that the only w...

  Years ago I was teaching political philosophy and decided to do something interesting with social contract theory. I made the point that t...

  Anyone interested in the politics of affect or the connection of affect and politics has to confront the fact that affects are not just a ...

  The pile that I am working through I think that it is safe to say that Foucault never really got that interested in the revival of Spinoza...

  P erhaps it is time to have fun with Hegel. In the past year I have now read two books that have taken up a relation to Hegel that could b...

  I used to listen to a film podcast, I forget the name of it, the worked on the premise that there were certain films, that should be outsi...

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  Draft Translation: Not for Citation What follows is another attempt at a translation of an important text by André Tosel on the Marx/Spin...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