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[...] despite being individually experienced, there is nothing subjective about affects. They are objectively caused and they produce the movements of the conatus just as objectively. [...]

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[...] Common affects do not fall from the sky; one must still ask what prior common affection pro…

[...] the social landscape of capitalism has profoundly mutated. From the moment when, despite being ‘capital’s men’, top executives became employees, the original Marxian theory was in trouble. And this trouble kept on growing with what could be called the rise of management: the growing number of…

We could mention in this context the scholium on diet, in which Spinoza recommends supplying the body with all the varied elements that correspond to the complexity of its structure

thus bringing back the obverse figure of the norm

[...] For Spinoza there is no power that is not immediately and fully actual. In other terms, there is no reserve in the Spinozist ontology. There is no unfulfilled or uneffectuated power that stands back, available for activation. Even when it can do very little, the conatus is always exhausting w…