Locura en Argentina: If contemporary society has become difficult to think about, intellectual attempts that help put our “shared reality” into words are attempts that help make livable the society that runs through our bodies. For this reason, the writer Bernabé De Vinsenci draws on Spinoza’s joyful affects — without sweetening a bitter present — to offer an idea of the future that makes the present bearable.
It seems that the cogito — “I think, therefore I am” — has radicalized the black-or-white logic of the possible and impossible in our era: an uncertain future, emptied of utopias, reluctant even toward utopia, and marked by a luminous, supra-individual, entrepreneurial consciousness, yet one in which we have also retreated into becoming martyrs of a world that desires — at least collectively desires.
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