ANGELAKIHUMANITIES Pees Cova esis oy eet Serr ren An Haman pubes works which ables ad poe ompeling Wes the there human The serfs pat Feckng thoi, promotes ejay meds ad nes ih tblsedconceras It liwes othe possbiiy af bending io ‘Siapromie the othe welled, heise. The sens ‘Salts ht atin rine om ond em ‘Ais of he te amet Srp Gay Bodan tl Char at hath ean Bl Anite pny ‘wnat Joey 1 wing eco the agra the pc ancetaKmuvanmes SUBVERSIVE SPINOZA (un)contemporary variations antonio negri ste by mot murphy red omy smash hl ha td ce MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESSopr © Tay 8. Mh ar el Char FW 08 ‘Theo Tnaty Sup tbe i er i wk hb ‘Soe hm acre Con Ds a ast ley cts Une es vated acy th Ay Duarte hyn Cae UHC Fes ner oh oo, 0 We Ml a dry Cain tie ate Nob ecard ir ak ne en the Bi iay ery of mg ln btn Dt apd or pba 304 1 bite ban Cn CONTENTS ator peice mer Eliorssdaorlegments = Coens an sins = * Spica fie ress for i contempt 1 1 The lal Tate 0 he oan of mr democracy ° 1 lig desert contre fr tition othe coco ler inthe al Spon a "Bement and community: nts materia Spinone snd Lapa ws Spina anamenity » The return Spina he eta comin o 1 Democracy an tery in Spina wa FosteToconde Spins nd th postmaderns his Indes uo| EDITOR'S PREFACE In ation this renown ome woul ay infin split het snd stv Antonio Neg alo one ofthe world’s leading interes ofthe recone philosophy of Benedict de Spica (1632-7). He came ‘0 prominence in that ed with the 1981 plain of Laema sl cea Sago su pote «pena n Baruch Syncs [The Sacae Anon ‘ly: The Power of Spices Metaphysics and Pots’ which was writen log his fit fal year m prison. 7 Ape 1979 to 7 Api 1580, wating tn charges stemming rm the Kidnapping ad aesintion of ore alan pine minister Aldo Mor. Those charges were soon dropped for luck of evidence, butasucession of other, evesBimser es was ght that kept Neg in pret preventive detention util he was lected ‘he alan plament onthe Radial Ty thet 19K Fred as com scence of primary immunity Neg! attend the session ofthe legislature for several months unt 8 voted to reohe hs munity ad send him back to prison. Aha pot ee fo Fane. where he ved ale unt is 1997 return ot ‘Neg arisen France an nell eli at ony case a his sittin a plital psoer but also bess of te tema ‘he Sage Anomaly hud on the sty of moder pio, The bank sas immediately translated ato French and published with latory rete by kali Spinoza scholar ile Dele, Pave Macherey and Alene Matheron Two cements made Negi interpretation nt jst Invent bu truly revolotionay sty, be succeed in demonstrating that Spinoais anomalous metaphyseal work ws diets linked fo the hasta anomaly of is homeland, the Dutch Republic in he seve teenth cent was ner mature eaptalis mreteconcmy with an callghenedaligarchic goverment surrounded by» decompaning staetor pretice re-optist European monarchies, Seco as «consequence of ths snomaous hist postion, Spon phlsopy Hall divides thoh tot ina ear an dint manner) nto to pts oe perils wich Nee cals theirs founda’ andthe second Foundation his scapes, respectively. The fist foundation. manifested in the arly works up through the Second Prt ofthe Edie (published posta in hut bez considerably earls confirms ko the neo lati ie als that had domsnated rch of the Renan, It ves ie to a ‘ntlog ofthe rade namanence of beng foun which humun ras peas to emanate sa epiphenomenon ofertas em ‘ation lagi as inspired the many tal interpretations of Spies work. The eco fndtion. emerging rom the tension present in he Theologeal Pola! Treat (163) beeen the aleaton tne by the social contact and the dnet demerstic conto ofthe nude that only the final Parts ofthe Ethie andthe wise Pita Fate ‘ould roe, alundons eo-Platoni emunationten infor of ale cally constructive materialism offic and surfaces Spins ended ntl eas adel manent wasn ts tation, bat ow prasisconstructs nd eonstittes bean athe tha the reverse: bing ‘only isin is perpetual econstruction by human pass This econ foundation, eeodng to Neg, represents Spinonit tempt to exten and intent the historia and pita aol of Ue Duh Replicin metaphyseal terns The Savage Anomaly lf can sls be ed sltenivey as kind of ‘eon out of Nexon hot. Mest his writing fom the 1950 up to that point were ose the story header apt Ist stte, with special attention to the or af at metaphyseal ju cal lestimaton (as this manifests ite i the plowphies works of Descartes Kant and Heel inthe eal weting of Hate Kelaen, Norbert ‘Bobbio and Evgeny Pashakans, ann the political evn Jl ‘urd Kraes. among ters This Bet oat of News eat was fascial a negative one that whet generat extemcsagressne land efctive theoretia aslo these hegemonic iin forms fidelogy i ws nuble to presce snarl poweral models aie mative, that i evolutionary. allerativs to these farms. Neg hime ‘imple alnwledaes this hs pete to The Sara Ana ‘Wisco that pant tino singh oii of Nod ‘rnb nd he Mor istry Sa the tion ta ‘hans oe en at be al ling the rms Asolo he capt and Bout Ste, However ve hgh ths eet dd he ear a af ny aie ssn esa ‘Samples tet has ester fra, What rests na stor rece mah th ogi he art Stand i rs bt a thee ‘ere aerate nd he suspen rise by the ol. ‘This renewed interest the revlon prc isis pol of deur {ure in the work of Spinoza undertond not as meee sure of eam {ual toon the istry of philoso. but rather a detour nessa oe the efactive eoundation of revlationar they and peas. "Thi eens io... of Spins though ut also of terrain and «proposition hat esis toconstrct“besond”the atin of nso tho al his ‘ostttesan operation tht realy ete toad nota ao coostrcting a "bevon” fr the equally weary ae arth trait revoltonary thought sl” Neg aig of Spina the, sot oly the pivot pom af is work as histori of philosophy. bait casa ere ‘ial enabling element his political eis, ‘The most mpertant consequence and sign of is shi rom anezaive first foundation to an ffimatve and oncogenes the new perspectives opens upon the problem a tine The fi ton was almost exchsvely retrospective i ts tempi. while the secon oumstion i predominantly prospective. rented toward the de tints modalities fire ine. Thn News ists hat he ert of erame at [nt woth athe i ear ‘edhe eed pet the atom fee Ut Ths why want ace eet ace hs dso, the ade poner of Spi dco in ng Sins efi, one he ame. wal ea "eo mater wth mend of eine e pt h ements ht a ce nett a pen Tine-to-come isthe te of alleraties of lfimation the tne a which Spina early meen projet af Uberaion dntals with News pnt ‘modem one to ereutea pew nae or communism and acl demesne (hat Neg ells 'an-ederl”this book, kn explain thew Spi ca reounds his thought as a conructive matevlis, Nel silane ‘ous vefounds his wna sonstittv prs, From this second foundation spring mos ofthe works by which Neer {known in the Anglophone wold ht studies of eonsttuent power ie the comparative aahss of sucessve revlon theories and pea ies from Machiavell to Leni, elected in Invurgencies which he scloowledaes i's sort of extension ofthe sti dane In The Sara Anomaly) on the development of mederh politcal metaphysts" is lense metaphysical investigations ofthe ad collective sujeteters lace assembled in Tine for Retluton ato oars isallantl alabor ‘ion wth Mice! Hardt go the aris of lion he aterm, sd resistance tothe in Labor of Dionysus and Emp All ofthese ‘ers dra up the second Foundation in reaching for the “bye of ‘evolutionary thoht a a sting to eonsttate the tetas that [Neg et limped nis encounter with Spina ‘Subcersive Sposa i, sense, the dee sequel to The Sacage Anomaly al farther extension of Negi send funtion, come psd io lnge prt of reflections and analyses th ae sbuesyent and telly the main argument develged in Uh erier book. Thos "amines the istrcal and concept pals betwen Spinoza and he alan Romane poet Giacomo Leopard in evay TV) aa He adie slkemative that Spinoza afr to the metaphyseal ad pital hough of ‘ern an postmodern Gesu I ad the pte. alo, Inadferent sense, The Savage Anomaly version 20 awison ofthe ee ond oration by means ofa selina rewriting of sr of the ental theses ofthe ear ook in response to challenges fom other ‘cholasand histor of ploy Input, Neg acknowledges at sever points inthis hook hat is original serton af ear and dst ‘esta hetween the ist and soon funtion a Spiten as oer stated even thot he insite at his delineation of ther respective dete. mining characterises remain fadanentlls core He als elaborates smth more filly onthe later Spon radclly constitute conception af lerncracy tha he did in The Sarge tay essay, Ld and VT ae devoted ently tots sue. No matter which of thew sense we cone emphasize, however we readers man contaty Brin ind he ne Ueeableinermessingo Subeoree Spica with predecessor ‘Bul thisisnottoimply ht Subeesie Spinoza te merey wn wpendage to The Sarage Anomaly I possesses sou rst. sown ste so ‘sso tat should not be dismissed or verlonked. Perhaps the most owe andaeting manitesttion of this pears ight lhe ben Inthe ony esa cluded here that was writen the ere bok was Jnpeson. Here the mist of ida arent or Spin’ con ‘emporanety, New alr what isundoublely hit ova ren continent wonde whi I eine my lmao st nds ewig yeep el a I et Seen very dah names! diplomat ‘teak de neh nt relat bring Thr mgt le the: mt dled ary he ey fc mt I ie and ents it fete token eine Ueno rn fo repentance ma oe of th at of es an il poe aan hi ene pn ny eng ts one ors rece ‘et ough tren neste weighs ana the monet eal destruction ate tha al ag roa | atl fhe elle mation hat stabs ean erst Wt antigen meme eter the ‘presion of wht and a cat be rel lon “This stubiom evocation af the wonder fhe emesing fram deep within the bowels of « Ronan prin, esonates with th lingo ‘fle hat Spine elle joy Joy is an allt by which the ed's omer oe Ings need or aed. And 0 oy dietly goad 1 PAT ern Jon is the por fie ain ath, we fer of Michel Ro ‘ls dat Negs s mae hs oa oy Boner at. tis ‘ey ste oy that continuts to reo tahout al f Neg ne ‘gat works, right up tothe concading ies of Empire: ‘Once an _estmoderity we find ourseles posing inst the misery of pes {he joy of being This rvalation ato power will ont twee ipower and ommonii. cooperation and eon seman ate love, simplicity and also tnncence This ithe inepresle iene sad Jr ofbeingcommanst "That ao wes hens dy ng 1 Acai Ne Lnuma ss Ses ec oa Reh Si ‘Ml gr The Se Ay. oer of Soca on nd, Ml Map Uo Mets 2 Neh masa Pam ene Sos as, rah Mh ston Pit ese rede Pane Sh Nigh Sor smal pt Nip Seagal es ‘Newt Seep moat pt; tanned ce he ln to. 11 tutte i Napa tesa dogs areca rt nd cuanto ha pent set an Hogs ot Fam te Ou te Cr Hay amiss Weta {a Hana Livery Pres 203, Hod dan Ml W esis... whe eon yn rte ea ane thats Bja at ‘949. diet ita on Ser ttn ar a Mel mals lies Dees onset et Nr ns te ‘arte Nm Tf Recon Neh Case 2 8. Sec Cnet Pe oe Mor Ss Mai Th Mic ln Ncw Cun Tle Ivmtesayion tin realtone hettors proce ‘aly ied Home by neti 200 Stbvind Me ny Dap Cte of he Star Mie ‘rap nner Meso Pt Be an Herel Ca EDITOR'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS am se tft the aga at os Vase wk ae uh dbo cheer adel ate Meh atl rans wth et cae ad mae ray allt seers esi at Ive danas smprved hewquly.Th ss th esl sd ‘Ta, wane none pet tes ede cre hes ed ints bok Some ofthe eva wrk hs ppt andthe al fs Fly Enc Grant nthe Ueto anes Co ‘Sees nd vel fin the ery Ms esearch Come. Siz ve reson or hs contenant” wan ilps enh tale 14, Lacon onan tiny), 18-8 ar thee La Thee dees comme atin dn The beat te Janay fon eb “he Pil Tt ve he tn cr dora ils usa Fetch ie Fai Chit a Dana ds ies "Pat: Pres meres de rs 1985 de these Snr, Bah Tittle” pp 70-28. Relig desdratr cnt the np dewaay nthe al Spon na wig pied in nS Spinco sl 15S hsp of Sac pp.1SI-76-A Eh alto by el Stee an pls Ware Mt a ed Sle The Se Saar {Sepa Unser of Mines Pe 1997p. 219-4 Tat rato ‘epider by prin ha tes he {ater of inca Pre Tee ty rd cmt raion nSize ad es ss oly ple is Engh in Sui Speco te 980. 151-78 That walt, by Mad He, cin oe eel ar son af he rst so Sa Sins Spins nsdn rgd presented rg. nfm ‘nu Spi anh went cet tht ashe te Sree 3 Jators sdnowlagurent sy 180. rh din ean Le Tags ui Bo 53 I ph Eos y Crs Wate wp ished Pag Jara Ts 2085 yp Tat tml rept er neve yc ea iat By Pip oe ‘Dent ty Sanwa cg aed a ec wake he te Donerate Hn an Rel a Ht ik te Spit Pens tl ae i, 13-3 ha Sethe cals can enon of Ft Cat Toco Sp andthe pnt edb oh under the tle Une Pho de alton Magee CONVENTIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS ‘hoot is interpretation of Spank. New intinguns systema Inte the Lat tors teat son sce ha ‘are the enh poor fat rt cresyl athe Redan rar sd the Fehon Unrate bathers ay re Enaith word power wich adr bac th ieene mang ich Sears direst fers per ts aed ttn ote ‘wed hr, whe ont refers to pone i Bl dha eons erm nor abe thst ae vt ferrin tee ton vith backed Haan ten hve ct fl the pe te ‘ed by Michel Hare ran of Nets Saray ‘eld hosts Power. wet tied ome Toth volume the wah Spa ates yt oe sbbrevitos and en the owing eos mich we hn smtines aat tee ss beter tolet he pecs o Nor uses F ca: ae. Eb Cee ons Te Called Wika ‘Spina ol T ncn Prac Unies Ben. Se Teale nt of Crescent ye a sate at outer los EL tle Fase Seond ts Patol theft D Debio ° Popentonrer s Sci The eters, rane. Sane Shire ois Haske 15 hanes ler estan Vs La ge Sytem oembenag he tesTe Macau es otal Tin, en. Snel Shi Us ‘op Hache, 248, nan mers fy hater mers “Sh re noes er parse wn a TTP tay thls leas Pavia to Ta; a, Simo Sie ans Hacket To); nan mea eer ery he ic nls ler ge a is wnt Nes Samay Te a of Sr vp itn Ar cnt mpd ms nw ste ye Heston lyin neon Cote ea 1 ‘rast rc soe SPINOZA: FIVE REASONS FOR HIS CONTEMPORANEITY ‘he history of elective pratis,there are moments whe beg stented yond becoming. The eartemporancty of Spiraea fst fal hs: beng doesnot want woe subjected ka ecomin hat es "ot posses truth Trth is ad of beng rth oltre sleeady revoltion, We foo are Lig trough the very se historical rox, Becoming mans filsty when faced withthe rth of or revolutionary being smb hy chance tt, ty, Becoming seks estoy beng and suppress trth. Becoming seks to amaiiate the revolton ‘great ers precedes Spinoza. And rss aways «neat il tion oi seein ts power tension guint he plead ‘of expression accumulated in being by the bane and eerie af human. Cisiis alas ection, Spaz raps the eal carters athe vss snd he reaction: he responds by alfrin the serene pn ofcng ts efrtessness and eonequent the ier athe onto Joel tansformaton, of desi now Sed asthe orn of what exist yet stl within universe of catstroptes. the it makes both lf and ‘he dares plain, strat the standard both of elf ano the fs 11945 8. The disenchantment ofthe pllosop hers coming thee sm of the splot forte mediation of we andthe ports a ‘he lect thinkers thus tr against bing ot eth nts purty Spr tnt thought the solid weal strat of thes olin of fe dom, thus described a an anemia ~ in the onesie vison of te ‘vem the function of sophisti and reactionary becoming In opposition to Spinozan tat, wih the rath of revoation complished in conscious. the search forthe being ort of ‘this trough the malta an the dncnery fit tiv, hesestands tendency toward the vation al stration being the heart of dalecticalbecomin as the Bre ofthe thovsand ad one stations of the homology of Power Alter Spaz, the history pop ihe hs tory of dialectal ideology. Under «daleticl gis, te tation of theolgial eameencnce sd aliation ais its heal ag The prob lem of theo dominates philosophical thought oer the course af the thre centres tt allow Spin ~ which nothing tthe miserable ‘ransrption of human explatation constants renewed of enhappness constantly impose. Bt Spinom enna be lina. Aut every tet lop one can ay that tre to beak oto the ptr emo inwhic beings tipped, an fr that ri stant tea neces be eseribed a Spin then i pulled once again toward a necesito puter sort, dat ofthe mule and wge-slavery to present tal once ‘more as Subject to the rei of daetal eo, What eligi lust and boredom we fel efor this ued framework, before this repetition offourgeois ideology agunst elution wisdom! Whether ‘sealed sks o subversion, only mess ss the psopicr All mou tothe mad wsdom til pose i toe und onthe sie ‘fhe mad Thoth eee otra define Spinoza phos ax an ‘oma i ends and descends must onthe conta regi ‘Savage and iedble caracter (Otten, perhaps tao often the sick nd the made well, come te by lite wage-earners of eile and produce thet cade theses on thoy: thus alter Spaz there i Spina ~ but this they has caperienced als of power faa cl penal, has esbved ite nto Kin of negative acoeraton that the moe exten the more ly the lilosopy in question foreeytoubed o the tit of ing thal ‘result of havingonce een ws, ody ast sete pal an iason ofthe deta ells. The history of deta elo, which the history of Europea netaphisin the naxer al contemporary ea thas represents the path of lone ofthe power of being Thought 1 degra iereasngsualtera and empty creasingly deprived and formal eels inorder to sta senseless Becoming wait the pln sfbelng Tiss ea the opposite af the rot lowed bythe person ‘who knows tht the more hig thsi bein can think the ot eal or perfctn. we conceive tt conta (E IPS, Bu when we Bee Eden, as Masset showers, we canotexcpe the ing of Go. Once the thie oundaton has een diced, being ves way to loge ou