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• Massumi’s Cognitive Doubling, Spinoza’s Numerical Affectivity

  
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  I have to admit that the first essay that confronted me in Massumi’s book has really stymied me. The difficulty comes at several levels, not the least of which that I had read this essay before in other contexts, not realizing it, and the deep disappointment with it from the past echoes back up through time like ...
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• Two Vectors of Avatar’s Cinematic Achievement: Affect and Space Interface

  
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  There were two primary technological achievements that guided the transmutive possibilities that mark out what made James Cameron’s Avatar special… innovations organized around aesthetic problems, and here I just want to brush on them to give greater depth to my other thoughts about the film: Avatar: The ...
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• Avatarship and the New Man: Reading Ideology, Technology and Hope

  
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  Adrian over at the eco and vitalist friendly Immanence has posted some thoughts on Avatar worth directing our gaze over to, as they are in some consonance with my own which I am still mulling: Avatar: Panthea v. the Capitalist War Machine: Bambi Fights Back . Some of his response is in consideration of Russ ...
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• The Sewn Stitch of Logical Stoppage: Massumi on Terminus

  
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  The difference between actual stopping that occurs when a continuity exhausts itself and reaches a terminus and the logical stopping that goes over what then appears its path, in order to cut it into segments separated by plottable points, is not at great as it might seem at first. The retrospective ordering enables ...
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• Ontological Privilege: Massumi on the Priority of Change

  
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  Massumi here reshuffles his cards in the stacked deck, so that the aces will fall into his hand. Indeterminancy and determination, change and freeze-framing, go together. They are inseparable and always coincide while remaining disjunctive in their modes of reality. To say that passage and indeterminancy ”come ...
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• As Energy Is to Matter: Massumi on Indeterminancy

  
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  Massumi troubling on how to characterize the body such that it is dynamic enough, and roots itself in Deleuze’s concrete abstract: The charge of indeterminancy is inseparable from it. It strictly coincides with it, to the extent that the body is in passage or in process (to the extent that it is dynamic and ...
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• Spinoza Stock Up, Heidegger Riding High

  
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  UPDATE: As you can see from this site that philosophy stock prognosticator professor Harman references, Spinoza’s stock DID go up in 2009! (at least against Leibniz stock, which has been experiencing a trending downturn): The Obama bailout must be having a decided effect on Spinoza Corp, which is still ...
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• On Massumi’s Parables of the Virtual: Movement

  
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  Opening lines… When I think of my body and ask what it does to earn that name, two thing stand out. It moves. It feels . In fact, it does both at the same time. It moves as it feels, and it feels itself moving. Can we think of a body without this: an intrinsic connection between movement and sensation whereby ...
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• "Follow the child. And if you look youll find the child" - an Advent meditation on the Gospel of Mary

  
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  Whatever else Advent is about it surely concerns humanitys search for Divinity dwelling in the world. To use one of my favourite thoughts - it is about discovering the commingling of God and Nature - symbolised for us in the vulnerable Christ-child. Depending on the basic attitude of any given church the commingling ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Few Random Thoughts…Spinoza, Descartes, Latour

  
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  Descartes philosophized laying in bed, it is said, and Spinoza did so at the work bench where he ground lenses during the day. A difference in affects of philosophy. Genevieve Lloyd says in her “Male, Metaphor, and the Crisis of Reason” that female designates the undifferentiated, and that the male ...
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• Tim Minchin and Spinoza’s Love: If I Didn’t Have You

  
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    Spinoza: Love is an increase in perfection [power, pleasure, being] accompanied by the idea of an external cause. Josh W. in an informative comment chain in my positioning article on Spinoza: Is Spinoza a Cyberneticist, or a Chaocomplexicist? ,  offers the above hilarious love song by Australian comedian ...
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• On Žižek’s “What is Spinoza?”: Tarrying With a Negative

  
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  Where Spinoza Diverts From History Through some cursory discussion in which arose the comparison between Lacan’s analytic three realms of Imaginary, Symbolic, Real and Spinoza three knowledges (Imaginary, Rational and Intutional), a very important homology upon which their differences are perhaps best ...
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• More on the trading tax

  
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  Fellow collegiants Jay and the incomparable Cassandra carp in the comments of the previous post about, well, many things, but mainly about Baruch’s distrust of a trading tax. Their key points in favour of the tax are, I think: the financial sector is too big and needs to be shrunk and simplified, which ...
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• On the Eternity of the Mind and the Multiverse: 20 watts

  
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  There has been lingering dissatisfaction with Spinoza claim that some part of the mind is eternal and does not die, a diagnosis of his: EV29 – The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but there remains of it something which is eternal. Robert Lanza has a mediation on death and the ...
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• Compromising my values every day, for you.

  
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  Right now active investors and speculators are about as popular as genital herpes. This is unfortunate because I, Baruch, am one of them. Examples of this anti-speculator animus are everywhere. Paul Krugman has long had in mind the creation of a special level of hell for “Masters of the Universe”, as he calls us, ...
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• Scholars On Spinoza Now: Politics, Religion and Democracy

  
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  Pensum over at  However Fallible  alerted me to this nice overview article  in Eurozine  on some of the importances of Spinoza to contemporary questions in society. Spinoza scholars Gábor Boros , Herman De Dijn , Moira Gatens , Syliane Malinowski-Charles , Warren Montag , Teodor Münz , Steven B. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Laruelle, the Non-Euclidean and Spinoza

  
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    Tracing Out Laruelle’s Kantian Reduction of Spinoza I’ve been having a (very loose) discussion  of the relationship between Laruelle and Spinoza over at  An und für sich , where Anthony P. Smith is helping me understand where Spinoza and Laruelle diverge. In the last day I’ve been reading up ...
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• Celebrating Advent without misrepresentation, sentimentalism or parody (and a couple of recommended books)

  
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  Today we enter the season of Advent. The English word derives, of course, from the Latin adventus meaning coming which was itself a translation of the Greek word parousia a word commonly used in reference to what became called the Second Coming. Generally within the Christian tradition the season of Advent serves both ...
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• The “heart” of Neo-Liberalism, blah, blah, blah

  
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  While I try to shrug off all this Neo-liberalism this , and Neo-liberalism that, as other blogsters are using fancy acronyms for Neo-liberalism as if they are busy making entries in the Merck manual, this one passage of qualifications and analogies from the Neo-liberal hating Levi Bryant I find interesting ...
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• New Jerusalem: What is Your Thinking About God?

  
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  By CHARLES ISHERWOOD In recent years the playwright David Ives has become better known as a theatrical plastic surgeon. He’s the man primarily responsible for nipping and tucking the wayward books of the wheezier Broadway musicals for the City Center Encores! series. And this season he did his level best to ...
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