Spinoza, Marx, and the Great Resignation: A Conversation with Jason Read and Acid Horizon
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On this episode of Acid Horizon we are joined by Jason Read, a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, to discuss one of his essays on Spinoza and Marx. The title is 'The Order and Connection of Ideology Is the Same as the Order and Connection of Exploitation', and will appear in his forthcoming book Double Shift. In it, Read assesses two contemporary French theorists, Frédéric Lordon and Yves Citton, who in their own writings explore the ways in which Spinoza can enrich our understanding of Capitalism. Along the way, we discuss the history of French Spinozism, COVID and the Great Resignation, capitalist myth-building, desire and ideology, and the legacy of Louis Althusser.
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Good stuff here. Jason is always interesting. And very happy to hear that his book on Spinoza / Marx / work will be with Verso, as more people will be able to afford it, rather than Brill.
Great stuff, as a psychiatrist I just wanted to add that YES:
Thinking, emotions and everything that goes in the realm of cognition and ideas is a GEOMETRY ; in fact its in our biology, the brain is comprised of a set of neurones interconnected and theses connections are not static they change sometimes they loosen up sometimes they strengthen sometimes they connect to other sets and more ( its similar to neural connections in AI and machine learning and stuff but way more complexe for the people who are knowledgable about that field)
Anyways theses neural connections they form when we learn stuff (input system: see /hear/feel/touch... even thinking: meaning they stem from our material reality + thinking [dialectical mechansim here] ) these change are called neural plasticity and it constitute our memory (the basis of judgement of all our actions, desire, speech and thinking ofc. because the parts of the brain responsable for the memory are always solicited before action. it judge wether we do the act or not. Based on a reward system also based on previous memory and so on) there is also an error signale in our brain which is triigered when the inputs from the current action or thought does not corrolate with previous memory which leads us to correction of the act. And also improvement of the previous circut to weather strengthen it or connect it with another circut
This explanation is very simplistic but it does the job. Its far more Complex and we still dont know much about the brain we only know what is 1% is doing the rest we still dont know just wanted to correct the misconception of the LUCY movie.
Anyways in conclusion :
Our ideas are a circut of neurones which are dynamically interconnected and they communicate through neurtotransmitter which are even activating other neurones or inhibiting them in a dialectical manner (similar also to circut boards but also faaaar more complex than 0 and 1 and NOR... )
I can go on and on but yes spinoza, was right and Marx was even more right because he added economy, history and sociology and more to the gemoteical equation.
Even Hegel, Decartes, Socrates and his descendants, Jung, Lacan as a freudian, even Niztche and more great philosophers and scientists they were all right each to some extent we just need to understand them better by understanding their historical materialism (the why) and connecting the dots between all of them. To construct this collective human geometrical network and keep enhancing it by a dialectical process until we correct all the Internal contradictions and the external contradictions (by external i mean the scientific physical external limitations and laws) only then we can achieve better conciousness and a better world.
Ce Guevara sums it all up in a very beautiful and simple manner " be realistic, demand the impossible"
Thank you for reading my mess xD
that was awesome and just the thing I needed to read! I am currently doing my undergrad in sociology and premed. I want to become a psychiatrist since I believe (as it seems you do too) the contectoms and intricate interrelated yet also semiautonomous biological and neural chemistry of thought, emotions, traumas, language, all forms of communication and symbolic meaning that we construct dictates and defines so much of how we interpret and understand new information around us as well as contextualizing the past. I am still an undergrad so excuse the rambling and undefined thought process. I feel like the field is designed to fit perfectly into a critical theory. I feel as though the field should be ripe to contextualize medicine and research into a critical perspective, but I have no idea hahaha. Do you have any book recommendations, my professors of sociology have guided me to Gramsci and Lacan, but would you have further recommendations? I appreciate the comment and please take care!
Excellent discussion. Thank you.
Cheers!
Well done and all the all the best for the future, from down under.
Thank you!
Thx from Sweden
You're welcome!
who is the French writer mentioned who wrote on hegel or Spinoza?
Frederic Lordon
Who is the Befo they are referring to?
Franco 'Bifo' Berardi