Unemployed Negativity

I recently gave a short presentation at the ACLA on the idea of the work image, a concept that I wrote about on this blog and in my book, Th...

  I was asked to speak at an AI and Ethics panel at my university. What follows is the outline that I am using for my talk.

  Of all of the various regressions under Trump 2.0 the anti-vaxx aspect seems to be the most perplexing. As disturbing as Trump's raci...

Inspired by this image, I am going with a giant donut theme for this post. While I do not use the phrase much myself I have always been intr...

I have been thinking a lot about the resonance between the current moment and this book I am going to state this as clearly and as succinctl...

  This past week I was fortunate to be on a panel at Red May about Leigh Claire La Berge's book Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capita...

  Of all of the different trajectories and intersections that frame the relation of Marx to Spinoza, one recurring motif posits Spinoza as a...

I am going to get to Sinners but before I get there I need to say a little about my own particular history with the music known as the blues...

  As someone who teaches philosophy at a regional public university, which is to say a school without a lot of students who could ever imagi...

  Pictures from Princeton (where this paper was presented) This might be the worst place to begin, but in February Marjorie Taylor-Greene st...

  I wanted to illustrate this post with images of simple machines, but couldn't find any I liked. I then remembered the great collection...

  Cops in Chicago, defending private property while devaluing the brand.  In some of the most rhetorically dense passages of Capital, passag...

  Apple's famous 1984 ad Etienne Balibar titled one of his first essays on Spinoza to appear in English, " Spinoza, The Anti-Orwell...

From the comic Undiscovered Country If one looks at the Executive Orders passed by Trump in the first week of his second presidency, and man...

  There is no small irony in the fact that the Communist Manifesto, a text that, as the title suggests, is meant as a political progra, is r...

  We all know Spinoza's famous line, "A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation on life, not ...

In loving memory of Debbie Arntz April 6, 1945-December 21, 2024 The two phrases you hear when you lose someone, at least in the US, are ...

  The one two punch of Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink are probably peak Coen brothers for me. They have other films that are consider...

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...