Part 3 of ‘Ethics’ by Spinoza is a key to understand the origin of this concept, because Negri with Hardt developed this idea precisely from Spinoza. For them contemporary world changes the very idea of labour shifting into immaterial, affective labour. Affects, according to Spinoza, are something that have corporeal nature, they are in a way modification of our bodies, something inseparable from us. We should remember that Spinoza distinguishes between positive (joy) affects that enlarge our power and negative effects (sadness) that make us slaves of our passions. In this sense, field of new form of affective labour consists really emancipatory potential in a sense that “The path of joy is constantly to open new possibilities, to expand our field of imagination, our abilities to feel and be affected, our capacities for action and passion. In Spinoza’s thought, in fact, there is a correspondence between our power to affect (our mind’s power to think and our body’s power to act) and our power to be affected. The greater our mind’s ability to think, the greater its capacity to be affected by the ideas of others; the greater our body’s ability to act, the greater its capacity to be affected by other bodies. And we have greater power to think and to act, Spinoza explains, the more we interact and create common relations with others. Joy, in other words, is really the result of joyful encounters with others, encounters that increase our powers, and the institution of these encounters such that they last and repeat” (Hardt and Negri “Commonwealth”, p. 379). So, affects, understood as something that leads to the cooperation between human beings, pave the way for the political emancipation.
Author: Jury Urso
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Virgile Novarina, Jean Seban, Tatiana Efrussi
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Anna Shcherbyna
sports interest,
affective labour,
practices of ourselves,
intimate interfaces,
joy acceleration,
extensions,
pharmachoreography,
sanatorium,
rhythm,
alienation,
repetition
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GRECHA
dispersed collectivity,
psychodata,
affective labour,
intimate interfaces,
outsourcing,
extractive capitalism,
quick knowledge,
digital proletariat,
extensions,
speculative synthesis,
tongue and teeth of creativity,
htp,
great stone,
alienation,
repetition
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Anastasia Kizilova
affective labour,
desire,
spontaneous grassroots alternative,
collection,
all to all,
contingency,
irla: an ideal rejection letter to an artist,
protocols of self-organisation,
self-destructing structures,
speculative synthesis,
tongue and teeth of creativity,
care virus
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0s+1s Collective and Masha Kotlyachkova
cyberfeminism,
intimate interfaces,
mother-machine,
dispersed collectivity,
affective labour,
practices of ourselves,
digital proletariat,
joy acceleration,
extensions,
pharmachoreography,
political dancefloor,
protocols of self-organisation,
speculative synthesis,
terror of relationship,
rhythm,
repetition,
care virus
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Alexandra Novozhenova
from the future at the present,
desire,
affective labour,
practices of ourselves,
production drama,
all to all,
joy acceleration,
protocols of self-organisation,
speculative synthesis,
rhythm,
repetition,
coincidance
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Tanja Setsko
path stop,
practices of ourselves,
affective labour,
left melancholy,
production drama,
dispersed collectivity,
contingency,
irla: an ideal rejection letter to an artist,
extensions,
pharmachoreography,
protocols of self-organisation,
sanatorium,
alienation,
weak disease,
intoxication,
care virus
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Postanatomical theatre Maailmanloppu
h o o o o o o w w w w w l,
corridor anomalies,
affective labour,
desire,
intimate interfaces,
mother-machine,
practices of ourselves,
dispersed collectivity,
extensions,
terror of relationship,
alienation,
rhythm
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Alisa Oleva
corridor anomalies,
affective labour,
intimate interfaces,
dispersed collectivity,
social choreography,
practice of small movements,
extensions,
places of transparency,
terror of relationship,
rhythm,
care virus,
alienation
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Anastasia Vepreva
irla: an ideal rejection letter to an artist,
corridor anomalies,
affective labour,
quick knowledge,
extractive capitalism,
desire,
digital proletariat,
practice of small movements,
tongue and teeth of creativity,
repetition,
great stone,
alienation,
weak disease
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Anya Scherbyna
corridor anomalies,
outsourcing,
affective labour,
quick knowledge,
all to all,
desire,
practices of ourselves,
production drama,
path stop,
spontaneous grassroots alternative,
exploitation of hidden motivation,
irla: an ideal rejection letter to an artist,
practice of small movements,
tongue and teeth of creativity,
care virus,
weak disease
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Apparatus 22 and Sergey Kantsedal
affective labour,
collection,
contingency,
dispersed collectivity,
exploitation of hidden motivation,
irla: an ideal rejection letter to an artist,
practices of ourselves,
protocols of self-organisation,
quick knowledge,
tongue and teeth of creativity,
yesterday's unalienated celebration
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Marina Russkikh and Helga Zinzyver
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Your mother’s maiden name
h o o o o o o w w w w w l,
affective labour,
yesterday's unalienated celebration,
desire,
practices of ourselves,
dispersed collectivity,
social choreography,
political dancefloor,
terror of relationship,
protocols of self-organisation,
rhythm,
care virus,
repetition
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Aleksei Borisionok
great stone,
rhythm,
alienation,
weak disease,
care virus,
affective labour,
contingency,
dispersed collectivity,
h o o o o o o w w w w w l,
intimate interfaces,
practice of small movements,
practices of ourselves
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Alisa Oleva
alienation,
weak disease,
intoxication,
care virus,
affective labour,
corridor anomalies,
extensions,
intimate interfaces,
object,
outsourcing,
pharmachoreography,
practice of small movements,
sanatorium,
terror of relationship
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Andrew Paterson and Anna Huana
alienation,
repetition,
care virus,
all to all,
affective labour,
collection,
corridor anomalies,
desire,
path stop,
practices of ourselves,
terror of relationship,
protocols of self-organisation
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Anna Kinbom, Choterina Freer and Rut Karin Zettergren
rhythm,
weak disease,
repetition,
care virus,
coincidance,
affective labour,
contingency,
cyberfeminism,
from the future at the present,
speculative synthesis,
left melancholy
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Anna Tereshkina, Helga Zinzyver
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Antonina Stebur
alienation,
repetition,
care virus,
affective labour,
corridor anomalies,
desire,
path stop,
practices of ourselves,
production drama,
psychodata,
quick knowledge,
terror of relationship
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Netzwerk für revolutionäre Ungeduld // FUTUR3 festival-crew
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Sasha Pistoletova and Yozhi Stolet
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