Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, Author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift More here: http://www.unemployednegativity.com
And who published this piece of reactionary garbage? The New York Times.
no_tag_errorThe same playbook as the free child care centers. * Well off people don't deserve them because they're well off * The poor are cheating to get benefits they don't deserve. This is how every reactionary since time immemorial has attacked public goods. @whstancil.bsky.social isn't an innovator
Yes, I don’t really pay that much attention to him anymore. He is not that much of a philosopher, a worse public intellectual, but these films are fun. I always pick up a few film recommendations, like A Brief Encounter www.unemployednegativity.com/2013/03/a-br...
A Brief Encounter: Between Analysis and Affectwww.unemployednegativity.comSlavoj Zizek has another movie coming out with Sophie Fiennes, the third in a series. Zizek's discussion of movies are always the best part of his books, and Fiennes ability to edit them together with the films themselves is always fun. fieldofvision.org/features/the...
The Pervert’s Guide to UtopiasThe end of the 20th Century was considered the end of history, even the end of utopias. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, liberal-democratic capitalism was finally accepted as the preferred socio-poli...fieldofvision.org
People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.
Adam Sawyer“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
The goal is to satisfy the *emotions* behind every information need without providing real information.
Matt SeyboldThe cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.
an accelerating breakdown of norms as norms pet theory but I think that progressively accepting CCTV everywhere from the late ‘90s onward plus social media making private public from about the same time helped set the stage for surveillance as something that has to be argued against rather than for
Mar HicksFor many years, people didn’t randomly film others in public—not because we didn’t have the technology, but because the social contract said you didn’t do that. That’s why Meta is going full court press on their PR and celebrity endorsements. They remember how people ran google glass outta town.
The extruding-plagiarism machine is based on the premise that the talentless can buy talent, because that’s the entire philosophy of VC tech bros - talentless, resentful sociopaths. Pro tip: You are not a writer. You are a thief, a fraud, a talentless hack.
Damon YoungNope. No, you haven’t.
David Jonsson being the next Black Panther is probably the only news that would make me curious about a Marvel movie. He is good even in lesser films like The Long Walk and Alien: Romulus www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/02/unti... www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/08/inde...
Untimely Dystopias: On The Long Walk and The Running Manwww.unemployednegativity.com
