“It is this striving (conatus) that is short-circuited, leaving the feeling nowhere to go but circle in on itself, intensifying the feeling tone of the moment.
#polsky
#polphil
#reactivity
#brianmassumi
#spinoza
Identity is a simulacrum, mistaken for a property of the individual.
#BrianMassumi
#personalityofpower
essay by #brianmassumi - war play, boys, group-subjects and subjected groups. identify and opacity.
‘Logic is on the frontline of the war (play) against the all-too-human. A body is beholden, for its own affirmation, to make a practice of a different logic’.
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‘Our problem is not normativity taken to an extreme, it is that the extreme is normalized’. #philsky #psysky #brianmassumi
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…whiteness is being reimposed as the normative standard, with a vengeance
#brianmassumi #trump
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the figure - the singleton person and its life’s individualization, with one eye facing the relational micrologic of its own potential and one eye facing the macrologic of the socially roled usurpation of it’ #brianmassumi
#psysky
Under the effect of the general category’s subsumptive power, the person becomes a pale reflection of an empty order: a simulacrum #brianmassumi #philsky
Everything re-begins, in a very crowded, overpopulated world. Even one body alone is pre-populated— by instincts, by inclinations, by teeming feelings and masses of memories, conscious and nonconscious, with all manner of shadings in between #brianmassumi #infra #microperception #philsky
The mutual possession of persons in social discourse machines a collective thinking-feeling: a commind
#brianmassumi #philsky #C.S.Peirce
Character is the pattern of integration inherited from moment to moment, modulated by incoming influences from the outside peaking into a presiding feeling. The pattern’s continuity under variation is what we call our personality #brianmassumi #personalityofpower
It is necessary to rebuild the concept of the person on a new conceptual basis, outside the traditional personal/impersonal dichotomy, in order to arrive at an account that does justice to the mode of personhood that has made its appearance so dramatically with Trump, #brianmassumi #philsky
That affective dynamic is the regime of reaction #philsky #affect #machinic #brianmassumi
The problem of fascism is less what it is than its propensity to recur - #BrianMassumi #philsky
