Governing between reason and affects: Spinoza and the politics of prophets

The Affects By Which We Are Torn: Four Essays on Government and Affect

“…To incite, provoke and produce (or any term drawn from analogous lists) constitute active affects, while to be incited or pro-voked, to be induced to produce, to have a "useful" effect, constitute reactive affects ' (1988a, 71, 76). The intricate encounter Deleuze stages between Foucault and Spinoza-or between bio-politics and governmentality, on the one hand, and Spinoza's theory of power and affect, on the other-has proven influential and grown to the point of constituting a new body of research (Harmat 2023). 1 Scholar concerned with affective governmentality observe that Foucault paid surprisingly little attention to affects in his investigation of governmentality and that Spinoza is completely absent from his history of governmentality (Penz and Sauer 2019, 47;Saar 2013, 265).…”

“…By way of conclusion, I gesture how transindividuality can contribute to our understanding of the growing migratory condition of work, which many contemporary organizations are faced with, and the affective adaptability new employees are compelled to exhibit.Putting Transindividuality to Work: Transclasses and ComplexionAgainst the grain of studies on social reproduction by luminaries such as Bourdieu and Passeron,Jaquet (2021;2023) has recently attempted to cast affective light on social mobility. Her query with reproduction theory is to explain why some individuals do not necessarily reproduce the practices of their social class but instead transition from one class to another, i.e., cases of social non-…”