Sinossi
This book contains some texts I wrote on the psychic involvement of subjects in the power plots. Desire and government, feelings of superiority, difference, emotions of loss and lack, make up the varied interior landscape that unfolds in the social and political-institutional world. If the power is not realized through an external exercise of imposition but with the agreement and emotive adhesion of the subjects, you have a great opportunity for the creation of new worlds but also a risk of manipulation. Therefore, its action is more difficult to recognize and deconstruct. At stake, there are the level of awareness and freedom of the contemporary subjects.
Claudia Landolfi is the author of books and essays on modern and contemporary Western philosophy with a particular focus on the subjectivation processes in the neoliberal digital apparatuses which restructure the relation between nature and culture, desire and power. She is working out a theory on the subjectivity defining concepts as: ‘governamentalization of emotions’ in digital media, ‘digital shrift’, ‘psychic enclosure’,‘informational matter’, ‘legal principle of subjectivation’. Psychic enclosure is represented by the formulation of a judgmental internalized norm which regulates the emotions and which is activated by digital media’s apparatuses, thus producing the moralized-judgmental subject in digital media ‘court’ over the affective and informational matter which is the singularity in its desiring facets. The internalized judgment is an extension of the apparatus of control (as self-control), thus digital media’s function is understood not only as spectacularization and control but also as a court finalized to the inclusion of people adopting the dominant anthropological model (the judge who works for capitalist production) and to the exclusion of the unproductive differences. The difference is not in the multiplication of tastes and orientations as such but is the non-judgmental and evenimential multiplicity. Her research on the affect and affection tends to open the subjective potential subtracting it to the judgment. Her aim is to propose an Ethics of Affect on an Empiricist basis, stressing the concepts of imagination, indetermination and invention, criticizing the cause-effect law and the anthropological paradigm which she calls ‘the legal subject’.