Cesare Casarino makes a very convincing reading of conatus as resistance, prior to power & not caught in a dialectic with it (as some readings of Foucault & Marx put it). It's a chapter in Kordela & Vardoulakis Spinoza's Authority (vol.1): Resistance & Power in Ethics.
For Spinoza “to do all we can is our ethical task.” This does not mean the pursuit of power as strength, but the power to act. Against the forces that bind us, ethics is “the increase of this power to the point [where] we produce active affections.” (Deleuze 1968/1990, p. 269)pic.twitter.com/vdahkZfBIZ
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Thanks! Adding it to the list.
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What book/essay is this from
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Expressionism in Philosophy!
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Deleuze iterating on Nietzsche.
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this is very good, extremely actionable.
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