Unemployed Negativity

There is an odd temporality to academic work.

Me demonstrating ude kime nage I was an unapologetic "theory head" in my later years of college and first years of graduate school.

I am a huge fan of It Follows, so when I heard that the writer and director of that film, David Robert Mitchell was making a dinosaur movie I knew that I had to see it.

I have often found Charles Mills' distinction between de jure and de facto racism to be heuristically useful if not not explanatory.

Dinosaur left over from a miniature golf course in Florida.

Pierre Macherey and Etienne Balibar via Décalages Sometimes I waste time by thinking of classes that I will never get a chance to teach, classes that would be for graduate students (which we do not have at USM), or entail books which have yet to be transl…

The merit of Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right lie less in its solutions, constitutional monarchy, than in the way it grasps the fundamental problem of modern politics.

I teach a philosophy of film class, and have for years now.

This is a draft translation of an early review by Yves Citton Published in Multitudes Picture from The Brain from Planet Arous In his latest work, Maurizio Lazzarato proposed designating as "noo-politics" the "new power relations that take memory—and its…

Having spent a lot of time thinking about, and thinking with, the concept of "negative solidarity," it sometimes occurs to me that I should think about its opposite, about solidarity, as the necessary condition for collective action.

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The Double Shift had its moment on Brooklyn Coffee Shop My first job, my first real job, was barista.

A detourned Calivn and Hobbes cartoon going viral When I was a kid we received a chain letter.

War and Money is Part of the Pile of Books that I am working on Philosophy is filled with famous breaks.

Marx wrote, "The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," but he neglected to add that it is the nightmare of traditions that weighs the heaviest in moments of crisis.

As I mentioned when I first reviewed it here, Frédéric Lordon's Figures du Communisme is an oddly titled book.

Something is amiss in society.

Picture of me being handed my diploma by Greg Prince, then President of Hampshire College The slogan "You will not replace us" gained broad recognition after the infamous "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville.

In the past few months I have been thinking more about "racial capitalism," or, more to the point, one I alluded to, but did not develop in The Double Shift, and have posted about here, about the intersection between the hierarchies produced in the labor…

Chantal Jaquet's first book on what she called "transclasses" took up the subject of non-reproduction, of people who move from the dominated to the dominant class, in part because she argued that such transformations were perhaps the only way to grasp the…

We are told again and again that institutions like medicine, journalism, and the university have lost the trust of Americans, and must work to regain that trust.

As has often been mentioned, on this blog and elsewhere, Hegel's famous section on Lordship and Bondage begins with the assertion that "Self-consciousness achieves its satisfaction only in another self-consciousness."

I have a lot of books from the Spinoza Studies series One of the best pieces of advice I got in graduate school came from Warren Montag.

2025 will probably go down in history as a pivotal year in the US's decline into a particular kind of media driven twenty-first century fascism.

As it has often been said, movies teach you how to watch them.

A few weeks ago I was trying to formulate a pithy little formulation for social media.