Jason Read

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Unemployed Negativity is a blog kept by Jason Read for over eighteen years. During that time, it has been a reflection on everything from the films of Jordan Peele to the relevance of Marxist criticism for contemporary society. It has reflected on such cultural transformations as the lasting legacy of Shark Week to the rise of conspiracy theories in contemporary politics. In doing so it has persisted in one central aim, to make philosophy a living reflection on the present rather than a contemplation of the past. This is a collection of its best posts, revised and expanded for publication.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK

“Jason Read has collected here what stands as a capacious, kaleidoscopic, and coruscating cultural chronicle of our late capitalist intermundium, in which his cinematic and televisual passions find their match in a unique ability to bring post-Althusserian French philosophy to (everyday) life.” – Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism.

“Everyone hungry for engaged philosophy as a practice that matters, as transformation of and through thought, as accessible yet nuanced political engagement with the culture we love, should read and enjoy these provocative and deeply entertaining writings by one of our era’s most important public intellectuals.” – Johanna Isaacson, author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminism in Contemporary Horror

“My favorite Marxian! Finally, the blog that I have been enthusiastically following and fanning over since 2006 has become a book. Not only a book, but an immense gift to those of us who are always endeavoring to bring philosophy, politics, and popular culture into our classrooms, into our own everyday practices (writing, organizing, arguing, living). This collection shows how it feels to think and muse aloud, to wrestle with the potencies and impotencies of the contemporary, to set theory loose in ways that illuminate, rearrange, and enlarge our sense of what we can do and undo.” – Gregory J. Seigworth, co-editor of The Affect Theory Reader

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jason Read is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and author of The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work.

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