Subject(s): Philosophy, Ethics / Practical Philosophy Maps of Becoming: Emotions and Reason in Spinoza’s Ethics Author(s): Alice Simionato Werner, Charles T.Maps of Becoming: Emotions and Reason in Spinoza’s Ethics Contributors include Ina Blom, Arne De Boever, Pascal Gielen, Sanford Kwinter, Maurizio Lazzarato, Karl Lyden, Yann Moulier Boutang, Matteo Pasquinelli, Alexie Penzin, Patricia Reed, John Roberts, Liss C. It calls for the identification of the causative factors of these psychopathologies as well as attempting to invent the counter conditions with which to thwart their emergence. It is upon these and other similar conditions that this book concentrates. As such new dispositifs of normalization and governmentalization have arisen to, on the one hand, diffuse the attention necessary for multi-tasking, and on the other, to enhance the production of a hyper-attention. For example, as a result of the necessity for an efficient brain-mind to labor in the advanced and constantly accelerating conditions of the knowledge economy highly sophisticated and nuanced forms of attention have become compulsory well beyond what was considered essential in the older regimes of the modern. This leads to the second stream, referred to as “the cognitive turn” in cognitive capitalism. The first part of the book delineates the recent emergence of characteristic psychopathologies of cognitive capitalism, which have resulted from the unique concatenation of socialpolitical- psychological-economic relations that have produced distinct stresses and forms of derangement upon the factory of the brain. Finally, there are multiverses of desires (forces), deserts (horizons) and doubles (manifested couplings) as operations that reiterate the quote appropriated by Deleuze from Paul Valéry, which says “what is most deep is the skin”. Particularly, the animal in its presence of forces, the violence within the virtuosities, the voices before the speeches, are some of the resources found in compositions of performing war machines against the macro and micro fascisms. Then, reflecting on saturations, condensations, subtractions and annihilations that put things into movement, I focus on the complex assemblages built on performers’ bodies clarifying movements of creation that are always singular and at the same time collective and politic. As Deleuze has already noted, people of theatre are operators before their roles of actors, dancers, directors or authors. In a pendulous investigation between the social and the skin, it exposes the kinds of operations that are happening on the contemporary performing field. Hence, focused on the present moment and on the presence of violence (forces), swinging from the training to the stage, I illustrate impressions of claustrophobic events and how performers could find their ways of breathing.
Another source was a performing work that happened in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2017, which provided further material considering the expression on performers’ bodies. Along two years, it was possible to note how this alliance promoted potential variations on performers’ bodies and their creations. The analysis is based on case studies from classes on vocal and body expressions when the author taught these practical activities allied to the philosophies of difference.
#Spinoza affectus skin#
This research focus on the relevance of a work over the skin that enlarges possibilities of compositions on the flesh.
It would allow one to escape from patterns of representing and to create new modes of existence on scene. Exploring the practices of creation and expression in the field of performing arts, this study aims at catching a minor quality on performers’ bodies.
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