Unemployed Negativity

 The following is the text from a presentation at the Radical Philosophy Hour. It also takes up a question that I posted about years ago. 

I had the opportunity to respond to Jacques Lezra's book Defective Institutions: A Protocol for the Republic at SPEP's virtual confe...

 At first glance, the only thing that Pierre Macherey and Paolo Virno have in common is that they are, in my opinion, underrated as philosop...

 In the US every presidential election is treated as a transformation of the nation, of the zeitgeist, like Brecht's line about the gove...

I remember a friend in graduate school saying that our task, at least when it came to writing dissertations, was to write something that a d...

There was a moment in the beginning of the COVID pandemic when I thought to myself that surely this would be the end of the anti-vaccination...

  The titles of Zach Cregger's films are more riddles and interpretations than descriptions. One could conclude that the "barbarian...

Watching Superman at the drive-in with Bento (below) I took my dog to the drive-in, something he loves, and this got me thinking about the s...

I am going with images of conflict for this one  As I have remarked here earlier , and in a published piec e, one of the things that it is s...

  This summer, well at least July, is the summer of the requel, to use the term coined by the Scream films . Jurassic World: Rebirth, Superm...

For the past fifteen years I have been teaching a class on work. This class has undergone many changes throughout the years. Readings have c...

    In the past few weeks I have rewatched two of my favorite movies on the Criterion Channel, Odds Against Tomorrow and Bad Day at Black Ro...

Photos from Galarie de Paléontologie et d'Anatomie comparée in Paris I am going with these pictures in honor of Macherey's Histoires...

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...