# the wire (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover the wire. Page: Feed: --- ## [‘Outstanding Refugee’ Award Winner Charged With Medicaid Fraud](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/outstanding-refugee-award-winner-charged-with-medicaid-fraud/) _2026-08-20 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ Five years after Minnesota officials honored Salman Ahmed Elmi with an award for refugee entrepreneurship, the St. Paul man is facing eight felony charges in an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme involving more than $1 million. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office announced the charges Monday, accusing Elmi of participating in a scheme centered on Reva \[…\] The post ‘Outstanding Refugee’… ## [Look Who The White House Is Courting](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/look-who-the-white-house-is-courting/) _2026-08-20 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ CNN commentator Scott Jennings could soon move from analyzing the White House on television to speaking for it. Jennings, 48, is being pushed by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to replace outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, according to a new report from the Daily Mail. “It’s his if he wants it,” \[…\] The post Look Who The White House Is Courting appeared first on Patriot… ## [Here’s What Trump Revealed About the Keystone XL Pipeline](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/heres-what-trump-revealed-about-the-keystone-xl-pipeline/) _2026-08-20 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ President Donald Trump says the long-dead Keystone XL pipeline could be headed for an unexpected revival as the United States and Canada work to finalize a new trade agreement. Trump announced Tuesday night that he was temporarily suspending a 50 percent tariff on Canadian goods that had been scheduled to take effect Wednesday morning. The \[…\] The post Here’s What Trump Revealed About the Keystone… ## [Surge in Sexual Assaults Has Women Desperate to Flee](https://redrightdaily.com/surge-in-sexual-assaults-has-women-desperate-to-flee/) _2026-08-20 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ Ceuta, Spain, is still struggling with the aftermath of a massive influx of Moroccan migrants that began in July, with residents describing fear, disruption and a growing sense that authorities have failed to restore normal conditions. The Spanish autonomous city, located on the North African coast and bordering Morocco, received an estimated 72,000 migrants during \[…\] ## [Florida Primary Results Send Shockwaves Through Democratic Party](https://redrightdaily.com/florida-primary-results-send-shockwaves-through-democratic-party/) _2026-08-20 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ The divisions inside Florida’s Democratic Party were difficult to miss Tuesday, as two very different primary contests produced two very different verdicts on the party’s left wing. In South Florida’s 25th Congressional District, Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz easily defeated Barry Larkin, a challenger backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. Moskowitz won 63.5 percent of \[…\] ## [Squad Friendly GOP Rep Loses His Primary](https://redrightdaily.com/squad-friendly-gop-rep-loses-his-primary/) _2026-08-20 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills failed to secure his party’s nomination for another term Tuesday, suffering a primary defeat despite receiving a public endorsement from President Donald Trump. Mills, who was seeking a third term representing Florida’s 7th Congressional District, lost the Republican primary to Ryan Elijah. The result ends Mills’ bid for reelection following \[…\] ## [Harry and Meghan’s Movie Falls Short at Box Office](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/harry-and-meghans-movie-falls-short-at-box-office/) _2026-08-19 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have plenty of name recognition. Their latest film project suggests that getting people to recognize the names and getting them to buy tickets are two very different things. Archewell Productions released the documentary “Cookie Queens” over the weekend, following four Girl Scouts through the highly competitive world of \[…\] The post Harry and Meghan’s… ## [Democrat Candidate’s Comment Sparks Outrage](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/democrat-candidates-comment-sparks-outrage/) _2026-08-19 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed cited both the Quran and the teachings of Jesus while explaining the religious influences on his politics during a May podcast interview. Appearing on The Progressive Christians Podcast, El-Sayed rejected the idea that Muslim political participation necessarily involves an effort to impose Islamic beliefs or laws on \[…\] The… ## [Texas Democrats Put Out Controversial Call](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/texas-democrats-put-out-controversial-call/) _2026-08-19 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ Two Texas Democratic congressmen are calling on six municipalities in Bexar County to terminate agreements allowing local police officers to perform certain federal immigration enforcement functions, putting the lawmakers at odds with an enforcement program that has existed since the Clinton administration. Reps. Joaquin Castro and Greg Casar made their case Wednesday during a press \[…\] The post… ## [The Real Story Behind that Pivotal Poll for LA Mayor](https://redrightdaily.com/the-real-story-behind-that-pivotal-poll-for-la-mayor/) _2026-08-19 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appeared to have some welcome news for supporters last week: A new poll showed her holding a double-digit lead over City Council member Nithya Raman in the race for mayor. There was just one rather serious problem. The poll wasn’t real. Bass had promoted the survey on social media after \[…\] ## [Know before it drops (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ghX4Yt8wKO37) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a show, artist, genre or rocket and get notified before release ## [Trump Sends Out Election Day Warning](https://redrightdaily.com/trump-sends-out-election-day-warning/) _2026-08-19 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ With Alaska voters heading to the polls, President Donald Trump issued an unusually pointed warning to Republicans: Make sure the Dan Sullivan you vote for is the Dan Sullivan you intended to vote for. The warning comes as Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan seeks a third term while another candidate, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., appears \[…\] ## [ICE Nets Twice-Deported Criminal And a Mound of Drugs](https://redrightdaily.com/ice-nets-twice-deported-criminal-and-a-mound-of-drugs/) _2026-08-19 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ A Mexican national who had previously been deported from the United States twice is facing federal charges after authorities said they seized 126 kilograms of methamphetamine during a major drug investigation in Georgia. Pedro Guadarrama-Loza, 38, was arrested Aug. 13 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, according to the Department of Homeland Security. \[…\] ## [Mayor Accused of Theft Won’t Answer Media Questions](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/mayor-accused-of-theft-wont-answer-media-questions/) _2026-08-18 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ The mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts, is facing federal charges after prosecutors accused him of diverting pandemic-era small-business relief money into his political campaign, personal tax obligations and real estate debts. Mayor Brian DePena, 61, was arrested Friday following a federal investigation into his handling of Economic Injury Disaster Loan funds obtained through his tire business. \[…\]… ## [Coffee Shop Owner Sparks Debate After Incident With Customers](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/coffee-shop-owner-sparks-debate-after-incident-with-customers/) _2026-08-18 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ A gathering of pro-life activists at an Idaho coffee shop turned confrontational when the establishment’s owner told the group to leave, reportedly comparing its beliefs to those of the Ku Klux Klan. The incident occurred at a coffee shop in Driggs, Idaho, where members of the pro-life organization Students for Life had gathered after purchasing \[…\] The post Coffee Shop Owner Sparks Debate After… ## [State Looks To Regulate Tires](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/state-looks-to-regulate-tires/) _2026-08-18 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ California drivers already face an extensive list of regulations governing their vehicles, and now the state is adding another item: replacement tires. The California Energy Commission unanimously approved new efficiency standards that will eventually prevent certain replacement tires from being sold in the state if they fail to meet requirements involving rolling resistance. State officials \[…\]… ## [Trump Unhappy with SCOTUS Response to His Petition](https://redrightdaily.com/trump-unhappy-with-scotus-response-to-his-petition/) _2026-08-18 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ The Supreme Court has rejected President Donald Trump’s request to reconsider its refusal to hear his appeal in the E. Jean Carroll case, leaving intact the $5 million judgment awarded to the columnist after a New York jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. The latest order closes another avenue for Trump in \[…\] ## [Justice Department Drops Election Monitor Announcement](https://redrightdaily.com/justice-department-drops-election-monitor-announcement/) _2026-08-18 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ The Justice Department is preparing to send roughly 1,000 federal election monitors across the country for November’s midterm elections, a deployment that Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon says could reach a historic scale for a Republican administration. Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, discussed the plans in an interview with Bloomberg. She \[…\] ## [New Emails Detail Early Fauci Exchange on Side Effects](https://redrightdaily.com/new-emails-detail-early-fauci-exchange-on-side-effects/) _2026-08-18 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ Newly released government communications show that a top Food and Drug Administration official raised concerns with Dr. Anthony Fauci about reports of health problems following COVID-19 vaccination in May 2021, warning that existing surveillance systems might not be capable of detecting what was happening. Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky \[…\] ## [FBI Data Confirms Trump is Restoring Law & Order](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/fbi-data-confirms-trump-is-restoring-law-order/) _2026-08-17 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ Violent crime continued falling across many major American cities during the first half of 2026, with new data showing substantial declines in homicides, robberies and aggravated assaults compared with the same period last year. Data released by the Major Cities Chiefs Association covering 66 cities showed homicides falling 17.2% from 2025 to 2026, according to \[…\] The post FBI Data Confirms Trump… ## [New Study Examines Root Cause of LGBT Mental Health Issues](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/new-study-examines-root-cause-of-lgbt-mental-health-issues/) _2026-08-17 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ For years, one of the most common explanations for higher rates of mental-health problems among gay, lesbian and bisexual people has been minority stress: the idea that stigma, discrimination and other pressures associated with belonging to a sexual minority contribute substantially to poorer psychological outcomes. A new systematic meta-analysis published in Psychological Medicine challenges how… ## [Recipe PDFs Ready Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/thPhVr5yn8jQ) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Turn online or personal recipes into clean, printable PDFs in seconds. ## [Former Marine Freed in Rare Kremlin Compromise](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/former-marine-freed-in-rare-kremlin-compromise/) _2026-08-17 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ After more than four years in Russian custody and a severe deterioration in his health, former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman is coming home. President Donald Trump announced Gilman’s release, declaring on Truth Social, “American citizen Robert Gilman, a former United States Marine, is coming HOME!” Administration officials confirmed that Gilman, 32, had been placed aboard \[…\] The post Former Marine… ## [Chinese Company Under Scrutiny for Tainted Water, Tax Breaks](https://redrightdaily.com/chinese-company-under-scrutiny-for-tainted-water-tax-breaks/) _2026-08-17 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ In Sidney, Ohio, a Chinese battery-component manufacturer arrived with an attractive proposition: a major new factory, hundreds of millions of dollars in investment and eventually 1,199 full-time jobs. Four years later, the situation surrounding SEMCORP Manufacturing USA Inc. looks considerably different. Investigative materials reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation show Chinese nationals… ## [Nuns in New York Are Fighting to Protect Life](https://redrightdaily.com/nuns-in-new-york-are-fighting-to-protect-life/) _2026-08-17 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ New York’s new assisted-suicide law is set to take effect, but several Catholic religious orders and health care ministries have secured temporary protection from provisions they argued would force them to participate in conduct directly contrary to their faith. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty announced last week that four orders of Catholic nuns and \[…\] ## [What The Rise of Socialism Means Even If We Win in November](https://redrightdaily.com/what-the-rise-of-socialism-means-even-if-we-win-in-november/) _2026-08-17 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ Progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed won his Michigan Democratic primary Tuesday night, defeating a more moderate opponent and setting up a contest against Republican Mike Rogers. For Republicans hoping to capture the Senate seat, El-Sayed’s victory may look like a welcome development. But treating the growing strength of Democratic Socialists simply as an electoral gift could \[…\] ## [Capriciously Categorical: On Plagiarism](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/08/capriciously-categorical-on-plagiarism.html) _2026-08-16 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ I have often found Charles Mills' distinction between de jure and de facto racism to be heuristically useful if not not explanatory. It is one of the great merits of The Racial Contract to be an incredibly teachable book, it fits incredibly well in political theory class that has covered Hobbes, Locke, and/or Rousseau, with perhaps some Marx and Machiavelli, putting the very idea of a social… ## [How Tyler Robinson’s Attorneys Plan to Keep Him Off Death Row](https://patriotnewsfeed.com/how-tyler-robinsons-attorneys-plan-to-keep-him-off-death-row/) _2026-08-14 · Mark Stevens · Patriot Newsfeed_ Attorneys for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, are making a closely parsed legal argument in an effort to prevent prosecutors from seeking the death penalty if Robinson is ultimately convicted. Their position comes down to the trajectory of a single bullet. Robinson’s attorneys argued Tuesday that the \[…\] The post How Tyler Robinson’s… ## [‘House’ Star Takes Heat for Backing Sophie Cunningham](https://redrightdaily.com/house-star-takes-heat-for-backing-sophie-cunningham/) _2026-08-14 · Mark Stevens · Red Right Daily_ Hugh Laurie has spent decades proving he can handle comedy, drama and a famously convincing American accent. Now the British actor has wandered into one of the internet’s most combustible arguments: whether male athletes should compete in women’s sports. And Laurie didn’t leave much ambiguity about where he stands. Strange this whole broigus should happen \[…\] ## [We Think in Society: Notes on the Destruction of Colllective Intelligence](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/08/we-think-in-society-notes-on.html) _2026-08-13 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ Dinosaur left over from a miniature golf course in Florida. I find myself coming back to one central question, that is at once political and philosophical. Previously on this blog I referred to the political dimension of this transformation as the constitution of a new episteme, a new standard for what counts as truth. This new standard appears primarily as the destruction of the old standards, as… ## [Finite Dialectic, Part II: The Spinozist Dialectic Or, Remarks on a Comment by Macherey](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/08/finite-dialectic-part-ii-spinozist.html) _2026-08-01 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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 translated, or classes that are just too long. One class that meets all three would be a class on the dialectic and vicissitudes, this class would… ## [Live Más, Comrades: Hegel, Marx, and the Dialectics of Diarrhea](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/07/live-mas-comrades-hegel-marx-and.html) _2026-07-20 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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. Politics does not begin with individuals in some kind of pre-political state of nature, or as some kind of undifferentiated raw material. Politics, the state, comes after the institutions of the family and civil society,… ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/yL8cIFj4FTjU) _2026-07-20 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [The Uses of Horror: Obsession and Get Out](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/07/the-uses-of-horror-obsession-and-get-out.html) _2026-07-10 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ I teach a philosophy of film class, and have for years now. It is a fun class, I get a lot of students, and I like talking about movies and philosophy. However, every year I wonder if I am talking about an art form that has a future or even a present. Do people even go to movies. I have contemplated switching it, for a few years I thought of replacing film with television, with shows like The… ## [Translation: A Spinozist Noo-Politics: Reconsideration of two recent books on Spinoza by Lorenzo Vinciguerra and Pascal Sévérac by Yves Citton](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/07/translation-spinozist-noo-politics.html) _2026-07-10 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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 conatus (attention)—as their object." Noo-politics (as it is currently exercised through "wireless, audiovisual, and telematic networks, and… ## [Working Together: on Fischbach's Faire Ensemble (and the question of solidarity)](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/07/working-together-on-fischbachs-faire.html) _2026-07-01 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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. I have read on the topic from time to time, I read Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix's book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World Changing Idea as… ## [Phone Home: What Disclosure Day Discloses](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/06/phone-home-spielbergs-aliens-and-ours.html) _2026-06-15 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ E.T. The Extraterrestrial Can set design make or break a film? In general, probably not, but it made one film for me. I remember seeing E.T. The Extraterrestrial as a kid and seeing the image of a television set with an Atari 2600 stacked on top, and cartridges underneath. It was the first time that a movie looked like something I recognized, like it could have been my house, my television. This… ## [We're All Starbuck\*:The Barista as Worker and Cultural figure](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/06/were-all-starbuck-barista-as-worker-and.html) _2026-06-07 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ The Double Shift had its moment on Brooklyn Coffee Shop My first job, my first real job, was barista . Before that I had babysat, and done a bunch of odd jobs around the daycare center my mother ran, painting, assembling cots, making meals, which involved a lot of fish sticks and mac and cheese. It was my first real job in the sense that I had to apply for it, and received a paycheck (along with… ## [Society is a Scam: On the Proliferation of Cons in Contemporary Life](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/06/society-is-scam-on-proliferation-of.html) _2026-06-03 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ A detourned Calivn and Hobbes cartoon going viral When I was a kid we received a chain letter. It was sent to our house. It promised untold riches and bountiful luck if we sent money, I am a little unclear on the details, and warned of misfortune and calamity if we did not. I remember that it was adorned with all kinds of images from the world magic, strange symbols, evil eyes, and the like. It… ## [Discontinuity and Continuity: On Reading (and Rereading) Lazzarato](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/05/discontinuity-and-continuity-on-reading.html) _2026-05-21 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ War and Money is Part of the Pile of Books that I am working on Philosophy is filled with famous breaks. The break between the young and mature Marx, the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus and Logical Investigations, Heidegger's Kehre, Foucault's transition from archeology to genealogy. Sometimes such breaks are declared by the philosopher in question, other times they are discovered, or perhaps… ## [Through A Google Glass Darkly: On The Draw](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/05/through-google-glass-darkly-on-draw.html) _2026-05-11 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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. Ever since 2016, we have seen a revival of some of the darkest moments of the imagination, Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower has made the best sellers list, and 1984 has been… ## [Structured and Structuring: Lordon and Éwanjé-Épée on Race and Class](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/05/structured-and-structuring-lordon-and.html) _2026-05-03 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ As I mentioned when I first reviewed it here, Frédéric Lordon's Figures du Communisme is an oddly titled book. It is not about some communist past or event, about the Soviet Union or China, but what communism must mean if it is to be a force of transformation in the future. Its central topics, the environment, work, and the intersection of race and class, are not exactly topics that immediately… ## [Society Effects: Living in a Society from Marx to Spinoza (and back)](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/04/society-effects-living-in-society-from.html) _2026-04-20 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ Something is amiss in society. Many people have noticed a seemingly recent tendency of people acting in such a way in public as to disregard the very presence of other people, listening to music without headphones, having facetime conversations in coffee shops (also without headphones), and so on. Perhaps all of this started with Covid, which exasperated the already existing social distancing of… ## [Irreplaceable: The End of Hampshire College and Reproductive-Rift](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/04/irreplaceable-end-of-hampshire-college.html) _2026-04-14 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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. It was the distillation of what has come to be known as "Great Replacement Theory" one of the pillars of the modern white supremacist movement. The idea is that the well documented… ## [Sentences that Make Books: On Du Bois and Hall](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/04/sentences-that-make-books-on-du-bois.html) _2026-04-03 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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 relation and the hierarchies of racism. On what could be called the racial division of labor. I would like to thank Alex Taek-Gwang Lee for… ## [Revolutions in the Revolution: On Jaquet's Révolution Transclasses](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/03/revolutions-in-revolution-on-jaquets.html) _2026-03-22 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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 conditions and forces of social transformation in times that were bereft of revolutionary movements. "In the absence of change on a collective… ## [The Affective Constitution of Knowledge: Or, What Bias Feels Like](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/03/the-affective-constitution-of-knowledge.html) _2026-03-08 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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. Of course the pundits and politicians that tells us this are more often than not the very ones who have undermined this trust. This is definitely the case with RFK , and, more importantly, it allows me to use one of my favorite memes from… ## [Help Yourself: Work and Recognition in Send Help](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/03/help-yourself-work-and-recognition-in.html) _2026-03-03 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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." This has often been interpreted to mean that self-consciousness needs to find itself in being recognized by another. We know ourselves by being recognized by others. Despite this… ## [Which Way Marxist-Spinozist? On Diefenbach's Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/02/which-way-marxist-spinozist-on.html) _2026-02-11 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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. He was visiting Binghamton University. We were talking about Spinoza and he said to me to the effect of reading Alexandre Matheron, Pierre Macherey, Pierre François Moreau, etc. was absolutely necessary for understanding Spinoza scholarship, and those books would… ## [Untimely Dystopias: On The Long Walk and The Running Man](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/02/untimely-dystopias-on-long-walk-and.html) _2026-02-08 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ 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. It is the year that Trump got his paramilitary force, in ICE, it is also the year in which we saw the fourth estate capitulate to the administration, turning over CBS news to a bootlicking blogger, firing comedians, and gutting journalism to pour money… ## [The Insomnia of Nostalgia: On Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/02/the-insomnia-of-nostalgia-on-berry.html) _2026-02-04 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ As it has often been said, movies teach you how to watch them. This pedagogy can take on almost Pavlovian forms as in the case of horror movies such as Jaws, which teaches you to treat a few notes on a tuba as terrifying. However, every film instructs you how to view it, and a lot of the struggle with watching different kinds of films has to with learning how to see things differently. If you come… ## [The State of Bias: Universality and Particularity in Politics](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/01/the-state-of-bias-universality-and.html) _2026-01-29 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ A few weeks ago I was trying to formulate a pithy little formulation for social media. It went something like this, "Political theory is a matter of determining which principle a polity should follow; political practice is a matter of interpreting a principle differently for one's followers." It did not quite work as a post no matter how I reworked it, but what I was trying to get at is the… ## [The Tensions of Ideology: Marx and Machiavelli, Althusser and Gramsci](https://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/01/the-tensions-of-ideology-marx-and.html) _2026-01-23 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ From a presentation I gave at Space Gallery on one of the best scenes of ideology in contemporary film As I said before on this blog, ideology is perhaps better grasped as an intersecting field of problems and questions than a concept or theory. It is a way of thinking together the relation between the question of knowledge , the social order , and political power. Of course, these different…