tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post1358003516260315816..comments2024-02-21T06:57:22.256-05:00Comments on Unemployed Negativity: Lensgrinding: Spinoza on Work unemployed negativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-41401731754069668312018-12-04T17:16:25.656-05:002018-12-04T17:16:25.656-05:00I think these three instances of Spinoza discussin...I think these three instances of Spinoza discussing work might be fruitful. They seem to belong to the three domains of perception (semiotics and habit), judgment (models vs. copies), and activity (freedom versus passivity) which correspond to the three syntheses of time (or "modes of perception" in Whitehead) found in process philosophy (Deleuze's Habit, Memory, and Empty Time; Whitehead's prehensions, eternal objects, and actual entities, etc). So as you show in this post, Spinoza is discussing how work shapes our perception by fixating our ideas on some capacities of a thing over others, how work is judged in terms of conformity to a model (rather than to the real essence of the thing, its singular power or capacity to be affected), and how work is ultimately a passive form of existence and thus not free, because it cannot be explained by our own essence.Jo Glidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17537995617381460013noreply@blogger.com