tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post1373432357410920918..comments2024-02-21T06:57:22.256-05:00Comments on Unemployed Negativity: Fighting for Subjection as if it was Rebellion: Spinoza and Servitude Todayunemployed negativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-3019604623386675732023-11-08T10:25:46.083-05:002023-11-08T10:25:46.083-05:00Hi Jason,
Insightful piece. I realize this is fro...Hi Jason,<br /><br />Insightful piece. I realize this is from 2021, but I wonder if you would apply this idea in the context of the so-called "Two-State Solution" between Palestine and Israel, that is, if the representation of "States" refers to stable, embodied concepts of order in which, "the true revolutionary indignation, which, in the contemporary context would be those who put the protection of individual and collective life and health above the return to normal." Of course one can consider the representative "state" solution as a simulated carrot concealing the world capital truncheon (an imperative to get back to work as normal). This seems ,in general, the presiding logic of certain world revolutionary emancipation narratives dealing with the "State" of Israel : that that state represents repressive world capital writ large in some respects, hence the vapors of antisemitic of hegemonic Jewish financial control haunting some recent political polemics on the subject. Within this dynamic Israel is not perceived as a "state" in the traditional sense but a symbolic cypher of world capital, an artificial, simulacra state if you will. And considering this, what then becomes of the "right of return" when there’s no there there, no “state” to return to? What logically follows is that neither Palestine nor Israel have a stake in real statehood but are simply proxy states of capitalist derangement of that “inalienability of power (that) hinges upon its material identity with body”. Faced with a polarity of “existential” crises, but given the fact that these “states” have logically risen out of abstract re-allocation of world capital (the spoils of war over millennia) how does the revolutionary spirit in this context retain contact with its embodied identity? One could posit, by extrapolating your assumptions raised in your post here, that the world outcry of existential crises on both ends of the Palestine-Israel divide has to do with a crisis for humanity, for sure, but also perhaps with anxiety over a larger crisis in the continuing possibility of embodied “states” at all. <br />Tom McGlynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495473937946634675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-29070976045499154672021-11-19T15:19:08.241-05:002021-11-19T15:19:08.241-05:00You're right that making even an oblique refer...You're right that making even an oblique reference to a concept from a philosopher means subscribing to everything they have ever said or done. That is exactly how philosophy works. unemployed negativityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-53189954107213560852021-11-19T10:26:53.672-05:002021-11-19T10:26:53.672-05:00You know, Foucault also had some antivax points in...You know, Foucault also had some antivax points in his career so I wouldn't be so sure in your thesis coherence.Ritmonauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07083411970781770140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-17373753955623315742021-09-07T00:14:07.735-04:002021-09-07T00:14:07.735-04:00Thank you for your thoughts. I think negative soli...Thank you for your thoughts. I think negative solidarity sums it up. People becoming cohesive in incoherence. They can never accomplish anything other than disruption, the disruption keeping any social movement of value from taking place. I am amazed at our time. People cling to individuality while completely misunderstanding their total dependence on the society in which they live. A rebellion of conformists. Jimmy Sixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07422139929531051581noreply@blogger.com