While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too. If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole. apnews.com/article/pets...

Bento and his Octo-pal

Reposting in memory of Paolo Virno, the special issue of SAQ on Autonomia in the Anthropocene with my essay "Anthropocene and Anthropogenesis: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ends of Man" monoskop.org/images/a/a5/...

Reposted in Memory of Paolo Virno www.radicalphilosophy.com/interview/pa...

Paolo Virno 1952-2025

In memory of Paolo Virno who passed last night I have posted some excerpts from The Politics of Transindividuality www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/11/the-...

Reposted in memory of Paolo Virno who passed away last night. www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/10/inte...

My reflection

Making Ozempic cheaper while cutting SNAP benefits makes "let them eat cake" sound like a generous recommendation to throw caution to the wind and let the kids have leftover birthday cake for breakfast.

Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

A society that rejects vaccines but embraces Ozempic is not just "asking questions" about the risk of vaccines; it is refusing to do anything that would recognize the interconnectedness and interrelatedness of individual health, and discarding the most vulnerable out of the slightest inconvenience.

My father sent me this picture of The Double Shift at City Lights Books in San Francisco

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

This is the very best thing about jury nullification, and you have to read it BEFORE you get called to jury duty. beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.

Here is a question, I wonder if anyone I know knows of works, books, articles, even dissertations, that combine theories of racial capitalism with "worker's inquiry" investigations of the division of labor in contemporary workplaces. www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/03/the-...

“A viral video of the sandwich tossing made Sean Charles Dunn a symbol of resistance to Trump’s deployment of federal agents to combat crime in the nation’s capital.”

Feminism is when you let women be all girly and the more girly they are the more feminist the workplace is.

Big internal conflict between the "We're gonna pretend we love Jews as a tool to promote hatred of Muslims" crowd and the "Wait does that mean we have to actually stop hating Jews because we're not down with that" crowd, no telling how this will get resolved

I remember hearing about the class on Keanu Reeves when I was at Hampshire. That was back in the good old days when contempt for academia circulated primarily in articles mocking the titles of papers (and the fashion choices of) MLA panels. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

Ready for some football

This is my favorite part of my preface to Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop's Althusser and Spinoza edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...

The episode of Organic Filament Network that was interviewed for is now available on Spotify. open.spotify.com/episode/2LjV...

The Left: No one should have to decide between food and healthcare. The Right: Everyone should have to decide between food and healthcare. The Center: Some people should have to decide between food and healthcare, but they should not be people we know.

The quintessential aesthetic of fascism

I’m quite amazed that all the people concerned that Mamdani’s election is going to potentially lead to a spike in antisemitic incidents are completely ignoring the very real and frightening spike in antisemitic incidents that’s occurred ever since Trump was elected

How much to you want to bet that he also had a column titled "Why Mamdani's Defeat is a Decisive Repudiation of the Left Wing of Democratic Party" ready to go if Mamdani lost?

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

If I ever end up teaching journalism, this will be my first example for my students when we get to the unit on SERVICE JOURNALISM. 🙏

It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok

Humanities where the cool jobs at

t is Jim Steranko's birthday www.printmag.com/comics-anima...

A lovely morning in the woods

This goes double for anything any milk brained pundits think of last night’s elections. Their takes will be bad! We know they will be! Who cares what they think, they have been loudly and enthusiastically proven wrong in races literally everywhere.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

I have read Spinoza enough to know that we should not find joy in another's sadness, but some of the worst people in this country are pissed that their money did not buy them power this time and I can't help but take some joy in that. time.com/7331119/zohr...

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

Once they can do something like this anywhere they will do it everywhere.

Out now in English, request a copy for your library (and buy the paperback when it comes out next year) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-althuss...

Sundial dog

i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies

Contemporary politicians rehabilitate politicians from previous decades the same way that the Hostel films make the Texas Chain Saw Massacre seem like family friendly viewing.

Gilles Deleuze died thirty years ago today. www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/07/para...

The symbolic and political end of the post-9/11 era in two acts. Cheney's death and the NYC mayoral.