Jason Read
HE | HIM | HIS
- Chair of Philosophy and Liberal Studies-Humanities
- Professor of Philosophy
Education
- PhD, Philosophy, Binghamton University - SUNY
- MA, Philosophy, Binghamton University - SUNY
- BA, Philosophy, Hampshire College
Jason Read completed his PhD at SUNY Binghamton in 2001 and has been a member of University of Southern Maine’s Philosophy Department since then. He is the author of several books on politics, popular culture and work, most recently The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work (Verso, 2024) and Unemployed Negativity: Fragments on Philosophy, Politics and Culture (Mayfly, 2024). He maintains a blog about politics and culture unemployednegativity.com and is a regular contributor to the culture, power, and politics seminars https://culturepowerpolitics.org/.
Selected Publications
The Double Shift: Marx and Spinoza on the Ideology and Politics of Work. (New York: Verso, 2023) The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy. (Leiden: Brill 2022/ Chicago: Haymarket, 2023)
The Politics of Transindividuality. (Leiden: Brill, 2015/ Chicago: Haymarket,2016)
The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present. (Albany: SUNY, 2003).
Education
- PhD, Philosophy, Binghamton University - SUNY
- MA, Philosophy, Binghamton University - SUNY
- BA, Philosophy, Hampshire College