"Rather than positive representations [or recognition], Spinoza emphasizes the concrete coordination of powers, the linking of agencies, and the composition of enabling assemblages. Most important, his treatment of the affects suggests that preoccupation with experiencing satisfying representations in the social imagination, although to some degree inescapable, will be self-undermining as long as it involves a need to be seen [recognized] as a free, transcendent being: a man."
Hasana Sharp, ‘Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization’ (via aidsnegligee)
(via what-was-e-schatology)
