•  7
    Editorial Note
    Radical Philosophy Review 26 (2): 3-3. 2023.
  •  11
    Editorial Note
    Radical Philosophy Review 25 (1): 3-4. 2022.
  •  16
    Money and the meaning of life: The fantasy of instant wealth
    Human Affairs 29 (4): 470-478. 2019.
    Is the meaning of life to get rich quick? That would certainly explain the way many people have lived under the spell of a constitutive fantasy: the fantasy of instant wealth. Drawing on Lacan’s Discourse of the Capitalist, the article explores the fantasy of instant wealth and its relationship to addiction, especially addiction to shopping. The article concludes with a meditation on how the fantasy of instant wealth supplants and in some ways contradicts another fantasy: the fantasy of labour.
  •  2
    Cashed Out (review)
    Radical Philosophy Review 18 (2): 359-362. 2015.
  •  21
    Turn Up the Heat
    Philosophy Today 61 (4): 1069-1081. 2017.
  •  3
    Crisis Theory and the False Desire of Home Ownership
    Philosophy Today 55 (2): 199-210. 2011.
  •  5
    Partial Liberations
    International Studies in Philosophy 34 (2): 169-185. 2002.
  •  5
    The Dignity of Labor?
    International Studies in Philosophy 38 (2): 179-194. 2006.
  •  9
    The concepts that organize our thinking wield, by virtue of this fact, a great deal of political power. This book looks at five concepts whose dominion has increased, steadily, during the bourgeois period of modernity: Labor, Time, Property, Value, and Crisis. These ruling ideas are central not only to many academic disciplines— from philosophy and law to the political, social, and economic sciences— but also to everyday life.
  •  139
    Partial Liberations
    International Studies in Philosophy 34 (2): 169-185. 2002.
    Examines Marx's account in Capital of a machine burned at the stake in a public square in 1685 as an emblem of modern attitudes to technology.
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    Crisis Theory and the False Desire of Home Ownership
    Philosophy Today 55 (2): 199-210. 2011.
    Marx claims that economic crisis is endemic to capitalism and will worsen as capitalism develops. The article situates Marx’s crisis theory within the discipline of political economy, explains its relationship to mainstream economics, charts economic crises that have happened since the 1840s, and explains Marx’s crisis theorem of the fall in the rate of profit. In conclusion, the 2008 economic crisis, and the notion of crisis in general, are speculatively considered. Special attention is give…Read more
  •  226
    Rough, Foul-Mouthed Boys: Women’s Monstrous Laboring Bodies
    Radical Philosophy Today 5 49-67. 2007.
    Karl Marx claims that alienation inheres in all wage labor. I raise questions about the applicability of this claim to subjects of patriarchy. In the first section, I discuss industrial wage labor and its allure for women who were trying to escape the norms of familial patriarchy. In the second section, I extend this criticism of Marx’s claim by considering the racially enslaved subjects of the Antebellum American South, for whom economicallyrecognized wage labor was still a bloody political bat…Read more
  •  86
    Karl Marx on technology and alienation
    Palgrave-Macmillan. 2009.
    Introduction -- Karl Marx's concept of alienation -- Objectification, alienation, and estrangement -- Other origins of alienation and objectification -- Marx's account of alienation : from early to late -- The alienated object of production : commodity fetishism -- The alienated means of production : machine fetishism -- Machines and the transformation of work -- Marx's energeticist turn -- The first law of thermodynamics -- From arbeit to arbeitskraft -- The second law of thermodynamics -- Mach…Read more
  •  39
    The Dignity of Labor?
    International Studies in Philosophy 38 (2): 179-194. 2006.
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    New Waves in Philosophy of Technology
    with Elizabeth M. Sokolowski
    Historical Materialism 18 (2): 195-207. 2010.
    Essay Review of New Waves in the Philosophy of Technology (Olsen/Selinger). Treats issue of difference of technology in Marx and Heidegger at some length.