Browsing: Spinoza

Ulus Baker connected sociology with affects, images, video, cinema, Spinoza, Deleuze, Tarde, social types, and a sustained critique of opinion-based social research.

Spinoza’s ontology of immanent power connects potentia with conatus, affects, adequate ideas, common notions, freedom, virtue, and collective capacity.

Living labour, multitude, constituent power, biopolitical production, Empire, potentia, and the common form the interconnected structure of Negri’s political philosophy.

Negri’s Spinoza connects immanence, multiplicity, imagination, collective power, anti-modernity, and democracy against sovereignty, transcendence, and political mediation.

A conceptual image accompanying an article on the ontological system of Spinoza’s Ethics. The composition associates Spinoza with geometrical forms representing definitions, axioms, propositions, and demonstrations. It evokes the unity of substance, Deus sive Natura, thought and extension, finite modes, causal necessity, conatus, the transformation of affects, and the intellectual love of God.