Unemployed Negativity
Monday, June 09, 2025
Under New Management: Capitalism from Utopia to Dystopia
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Do Your Own Damn Research: The New Episteme of Trump 2.0
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Faking it and Making it: On Leigh Claire La Berge's Fake Work
Friday, May 23, 2025
Logic of Alternation: Spinoza’s Prehistory of Ideology (and its Marxist History)
Saturday, April 26, 2025
The World is a Vampire: On Sinners
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.
Saturday, April 05, 2025
The Spectacle Goes to the Movies: The Pop Life of Debord
As someone who teaches philosophy at a regional public university, which is to say a school without a lot of students who could ever imagine majoring in philosophy, I have never found a pop culture reference to philosophy I did not like. I have talked about Breaking Bad and work, Fight Club and alienation, and Get Out and W.E.B. Dubois to name a few. I have never done anything with The Matrix though. I have never shown it or screened it.
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Workers of the World, Divide! Work and the Constitution of the People
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
The Work of Philosophy: Spinoza, Hegel, and Macherey on Theoretical Practice
Monday, March 10, 2025
It's the Economy (of) Stupid: Or, Destroying the Economy to Save its Image
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Post-Orwellian: From 1984 to Project 2025
Etienne Balibar titled one of his first essays on Spinoza to appear in English, "Spinoza, The Anti-Orwell." George Orwell is not really discussed in the essay, and the title is only referenced once in the final paragraphs. Balibar writes,