November 2010
2 posts
“Contemporary social and political theory is characterized by an opposition...”
– Levi Bryant on The Critique of Dialectical Reason. I find this dichotomy between Spinozans and Kantians in social/political theory very suggestive. I would link this comment with Jameson’s comment that the Sartre of the Critique is one of the very few philosophers (along with Fourier) who...
societies/affectivities
DeLanda is right to propose assemblages as opposed both to isolated individuals and to internally determined totalities. But he doesn’t say anything useful about the genesis of these assemblages. I think they need to be understood affectively, and the question of how they are able to endure needs to be posed instead of just assumed. I think that Whitehead’s much-criticized (or...