Overview

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 bests posts, revised and expanded for publication.

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""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

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