CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE CERTA PRESENÇA SPINOZISTA NA CONTEMPORANEIDADE

Abstract

This paper intends to approach two contemporary contributions, by the theorists Mark Fisher and Laurent Bove, who, each in his own way, claim the actuality and effectiveness of certain concepts and notions of the seventeenth-century philosopher Benedictus Spinoza (1633-1677). In Laurent Bove, the foundation and dissemination of a political clinic, at the same time, singular and social, unfolds under the relation between conatus and freedom, always corresponding to the affective and intellectual rules of the autonomous project of the multitude, as formulated by the dutch thinker. In Mark Fisher, in turn, the conceptual articulation between gothic materialism and cyber-spinozism as a bet that aims to contribute to the creation of a collective body, immanent and antagonistic to the tyranny of financial capitalism, finds in the multitudinous tendency of the democratic practice defended by Spinoza a relevant elaboration. Finally, the paper aims to clarify what the two authors have in common, namely, their belief in the positivity of political action, and how this characteristic reaffirms the relevance of maintaining an ever attentive and vibrant dialogue with Spinoza’s philosophy.