Disintegrator LONGUE DURÉE II Pt. 2 (w/ Rosi Braidotti)
Feb 18, 2026
Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor Emerita known for posthumanism and nomadic subjectivity. She discusses nomadic subjectivity as a grounded materialist response to postmodernism. She traces Deleuzean radical materialism, maps contemporary neo‑fascist ideas, and outlines affirmative ethics, Spinozan inspirations, and tactical, decentralized ways to resist authoritarian tendencies.
01:09:30
Nomadic Subjectivity Reclaims Grounded Difference
- Nomadic subjectivity grounds difference in material territories and capacities rather than empty linguistic relativism.
- Rosi Braidotti developed nomadism as a Spinoza- and Deleuze-informed alternative to postmodern deconstruction that reasserts location and embodied agency.
Guattari Pointed To Trump As Media-Shaped Power
- Félix Guattari predicted media-saturated subjectivities and even pointed to Donald Trump as an archetype of future media-shaped power.
- Braidotti recounts Guattari's Atlantic City real estate tycoon example as an early accurate anticipation.
Deleuze Predicted Capitalism's Adaptive Schizophrenia
- Deleuze and Guattari foresaw capitalism's capacity to deterritorialize and adapt faster than opposition, creating a 'schizophrenic' capitalism without teleology.
- This diagnosis explains why Marxist-Hegelian strategies failed after 1972's financial shifts and the rise of neoliberalism.
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Intro
00:00 • 5min
Nomadic Subjectivity as Materialist Intervention
04:46 • 10min
Defining the Nomadic Subject's Material Ground
15:15 • 9min
Feminism, Embodiment, and Situated Knowledge
23:48 • 4min
Posthumanism's Shift Toward Nonhuman Factors
27:27 • 35sec
Authoritarian Thought and Viral Fascist Philosophies
28:02 • 1min
Fascism as Concept and the Right's Philosophical Work
29:25 • 13min
Affirmative Ethics as Anti-Fascist Praxis
42:24 • 49sec
Spinoza, Democracy, and the Nature–Culture Continuum
43:13 • 8min
Practical Steps: Immunity, Organizing, and Small Acts
50:48 • 6min
Self-Organizing Resistance and Tactical Disbanding
56:21 • 3min
Identity, Politics, and Making Qualitative Distinctions
59:00 • 4min
Scaling Affirmative Ethics: Technology and Institutions
01:03:25 • 3min
Planetary Imagination and Intergalactic Feminism
01:06:54 • 2min
Outro
01:09:15 • 9sec
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The Savage Anomaly
The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics
Antonio Negri
The Savage Anomaly is Antonio Negri's incisive reinterpretation of Spinoza, arguing that Spinoza's metaphysics offers tools for understanding collective power and democratic potential.
Negri frames Spinoza against Hobbesian and contractarian politics, highlighting notions of commonality and social creativity.
The book links philosophical analysis to practical political aims, emphasizing the role of collective imagination in resistance.
Negri's reading influenced post-Marxist and autonomist currents, stressing biopolitics and the commons.
The work remains a touchstone for scholars exploring Spinoza's political relevance.
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Part of nature
Genevieve Lloyd
Genevieve Lloyd's Part of Nature examines Spinoza's Ethics to show how self-knowledge is embedded in a naturalist ontology.
The book challenges Cartesian dualisms by demonstrating Spinoza's integrated view of mind, body, and world.
Lloyd's accessible scholarship highlights the ethical and epistemic implications of Spinoza's metaphysics for modern philosophy.
Her work has been influential in Spinoza studies and in broader discussions of the radical enlightenment.
It remains a key reference for scholars interested in Spinoza's theory of subjectivity.
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A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century
VNS Matrix
VNS Matrix's Cyberfeminist Manifesto emerged in the early 1990s as an artistic and theoretical intervention against male-dominated computing cultures.
Combining performance, visual art, and manifesto-style proclamations, it sought to reclaim technology as a site of feminist creativity and disruption.
The document influenced cyberfeminist networks and laid groundwork for feminist engagements with digital media, embodiment, and culture.
Its playful yet critical stance challenged technocratic narratives and proposed alternative imaginaries for women in cyberspace.
The manifesto remains a historical reference in feminist technology studies.
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Metamorphoses
Frank Justus Miller
Robert Squillace
Ovid
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Transpositions
On Nomadic Ethics
Rosi Braidotti
Transpositions explores the ethical implications of nomadic subjectivity, proposing affirmative ethics grounded in Spinozist ideas of immanence and capacity.
Braidotti addresses how subjects can assess relations by what they enable or exhaust and offers practices for sustaining transformative potentials.
The book situates ethics within material, embodied, and ecological registers rather than transcendent moralities.
By foregrounding endurance, transposition, and transformativity, Braidotti charts practical avenues for political and personal engagement.
The work contributes to feminist ethics and posthumanist political thought.
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Passions of Dissonance
Rosi Braidotti
Passions of Dissonance is Rosi Braidotti's doctoral work analyzing modern subjectivities through feminist and post-structuralist lenses.
The book critiques dominant tropes of identity and explores embodied differences, laying groundwork for her later nomadic subject and posthumanist projects.
It blends close readings of European theory with a commitment to political materialism and situated knowledges.
Braidotti later noted the early appearance of posthumanist themes in this text when preparing translations and reissues.
The work remains significant for understanding the development of her philosophical trajectory.
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Anti-Oedipus
Félix Guattari
Gilles Deleuze
In 'Anti-Oedipus,' Deleuze and Guattari critique the Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalytic model of the ego, particularly the Oedipus complex.
They argue that human desire is not rooted in familial relationships but in broader socio-political contexts.
The book introduces the concept of 'schizoanalysis,' a method aimed at freeing desire from capitalist and familial repression.
It delves into the relationship between capitalism and schizophrenia, suggesting that capitalism exploits and commodifies desires rather than repressing them.
The authors propose a radical analysis that synthesizes political economy and psychology, introducing concepts such as desiring-machines, deterritorialization, and the body-without-organs.
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Three Ecologies
Paul Sutton
Felix Guattari
Ian Pindar
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A Thousand Plateaus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Félix Guattari
Gilles Deleuze
A Thousand Plateaus is a key text in the 'Capitalism and Schizophrenia' series by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
It advances a unique philosophical approach that draws from but critiques both Freudian and Marxist theories.
The book is structured as a series of 'plateaus' that can be read in any order, each exploring different concepts such as rhizomes, stratification, and the distinction between smooth and striated space.
It is essential reading for those interested in critical theory, feminism, literary theory, and contemporary Western culture.
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Manifest von Ventotene
Spinelli, Colorni, Rossi
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The Post-Human
Rosie Braidotti
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Patterns of Dissonance
Rosi Braidotti
Patterns of Dissonance is Rosi Braidotti's early scholarly work exploring conflicts and shifts in modern thought, especially around subjectivity and feminist critique.
The book maps intellectual trajectories that inform later developments in post-structuralist and feminist philosophy.
It reflects Braidotti's engagement with materialist approaches and her developing interest in nomadic subjectivity.
The text contributes to understanding the genealogies of her later posthumanist positions.
It remains part of her foundational corpus.
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Nomadic Subjects
Rosi Braidotti
Nomadic Subjects develops Rosi Braidotti's concept of the nomadic subject to challenge essentialist and purely linguistic accounts of identity.
Drawing on feminist theory, Deleuze and Guattari, and materialist perspectives, the book situates subjectivity in embodied, political, and ecological processes.
It argues for situated, relational approaches to difference and agency, emphasizing movement, territorialization, and capacities.
The work shaped feminist philosophy and debates on posthumanism by offering a pragmatic, process-oriented ontology.
Its influence extends across cultural theory, political thought, and gender studies.
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The One Dimensional Man
Herbert Marcuse
'One-Dimensional Man' by Herbert Marcuse offers a critical analysis of advanced industrial society and its ability to suppress dissent and critical thinking.
Marcuse argues that modern capitalism creates a 'one-dimensional' world where individuals are integrated into the system through consumerism, technology, and mass media.
This integration leads to a loss of individual autonomy and the ability to imagine alternative social arrangements.
The book examines how technological rationality and the pursuit of efficiency serve to reinforce existing power structures.
Marcuse critiques the role of language and communication in perpetuating one-dimensional thought, arguing that critical concepts are flattened and co-opted by the dominant ideology.
Ultimately, 'One-Dimensional Man' is a call for radical social change and the development of new forms of critical consciousness.
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Descartes' error
Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Antonio R. Damasio MD PhD
Antonio Damasio
In this book, Damasio argues that emotions are essential to rational thinking and normal social behavior.
He challenges René Descartes' mind-body dualism by presenting case studies, particularly the famous case of Phineas Gage, to demonstrate how brain damage can affect decision-making and personality.
Damasio introduces the 'somatic marker hypothesis,' which posits that emotions guide behavior and decision-making, and that rationality requires emotional input.
The book is divided into three parts, exploring case studies, explanations for the effects of brain injuries, and testing the somatic marker hypothesis.
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A Cyborg Manifesto
Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Donna Haraway
In 'A Cyborg Manifesto,' Donna Haraway introduces the concept of the cyborg as a hybrid of machine and organism, challenging traditional dichotomies such as nature/culture, mind/body, and idealism/materialism.
The essay argues that the cyborg represents a new ontology that blurs these boundaries, offering a postmodern and posthuman perspective that rejects essentialism and promotes a non-essentialized, material-semiotic understanding.
Haraway sees the cyborg as a symbol of resistance and a tool for feminist and socialist politics, emphasizing the importance of partial, ironic, and intimate identities in a world where technology increasingly mediates human experience.
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Looking for Spinoza
Antonio Damasio
In 'Looking for Spinoza', Antonio Damasio explores the neurobiology of emotions and their role in human life, drawing on the philosophical insights of Baruch Spinoza.
The book delves into how emotions and feelings are rooted in the brain's perception of bodily states, and how this understanding aligns with Spinoza's views on the interconnectedness of mind and body.
Damasio's work combines scientific research with historical and philosophical perspectives to offer a comprehensive view of human emotions and their significance.
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Eros and Civilization
Herbert Marcuse
In this book, Herbert Marcuse integrates Freud's psychoanalytic theories with Marx's concepts of alienation and oppression to argue that modern capitalism prevents individuals from achieving true freedom.
Marcuse examines the dialectical conflict between the 'life instinct' (Eros) and the 'death instinct' (Thanatos), and he proposes the idea of a 'non-repressive civilization' where the pleasure principle and the reality principle are reconciled.
The book is a critical analysis of Western civilization, challenging the widespread repression of instincts and imagining a utopian society that emphasizes liberation and play.
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The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
In 'The Second Sex', Simone de Beauvoir delves into the concept of feminism by examining historical facts, biological differences, psychoanalytic theories, and societal myths that have led to the subjugation of women.
The book is divided into two volumes: 'Facts and Myths' and 'Lived Experience'.
Beauvoir argues that women are not inherently inferior but are made so by societal constructs and historical injustices.
She critiques the notion that women are defined as 'The Other' in relation to men, emphasizing that this distinction denies women their humanity and autonomy.
The book explores various stages of a woman's life, from childhood to old age, highlighting how societal forces condition women into accepting passive and dependent roles.
Beauvoir advocates for women's equality and autonomy, particularly through economic independence and the ability to support themselves through work.
We're joined by Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University and founding director of the Centre for the Humanities, for a wide-ranging conversation on posthumanism as both a philosophical project and a political orientation.
Braidotti's work has constructed one of the most sustained and consequential accounts of what comes after the collapse of Eurocentric 'humanism.' The conversation traces the long arc from her early intervention on nomadic subjectivity, a materialist corrective to postmodernism's drift into linguistic relativism, through the ethical and ontological turn that her posthumanist project represents. Where poststructuralism gave us the critique of the subject as origin, nomadism gave us a subject that is grounded, embodied, multiple, and in motion.
Central to the episode is the missing link in the American reception of French theory: the radical materialist tradition of Deleuze and Guattari, which diagnosed capitalism's schizophrenic logic (its ability to deterritorialize and adapt faster than any opposition) long before it became common sense. Braidotti traces the suppression of that critique through the French Communist Party's blacklists, the invention of "French theory" as an exportable product stripped of its political economy, and the consequences for a left that lost the ability to think technogenesis, cognitive capitalism, or the mutation of subjectivity under media saturation.
The conversation then turns to fascism as concept rather than historical event: the philosophical move that Deleuze and Guattari made and that Foucault named in his preface to Anti-Oedipus. This allows Braidotti to connect micro-fascism (the cult of negativity, the eroticization of power-as-humiliation, the viral spread of impotence) to the coherent neo-fascist philosophical tradition running from Alain de Benoit through the Heritage Foundation and Budapest to Peter Thiel's Yale dissertation on sacrifice. While the left blocked its own analytical capacities, the right was doing serious philosophical work.
Against all of this, Bradiotti proposes affirmative ethics: a Spinozist praxis of activating what a body can do. The episode ends thinking through scale, how affirmative ethics operates from the city to the planetary, and the urgency of the European federalist project as the only existing institutional attempt to participate in decisions about what we could possibly become.
Some references:
Rosi Braidotti
Altiero Spinelli
Julius Evola — philosopher of Italian fascism; cited alongside de Benoist as daily reference for Bannon
Peter Thiel — PhD dissertation on René Girard and the concept of sacrifice, Stanford / Yale; position papers on technological selection and extinction
Braidotti's work has constructed one of the most sustained and consequential accounts of what comes after the collapse of Eurocentric 'humanism.' The conversation traces the long arc from her early intervention on nomadic subjectivity, a materialist corrective to postmodernism's drift into linguistic relativism, through the ethical and ontological turn that her posthumanist project represents. Where poststructuralism gave us the critique of the subject as origin, nomadism gave us a subject that is grounded, embodied, multiple, and in motion.
Central to the episode is the missing link in the American reception of French theory: the radical materialist tradition of Deleuze and Guattari, which diagnosed capitalism's schizophrenic logic (its ability to deterritorialize and adapt faster than any opposition) long before it became common sense. Braidotti traces the suppression of that critique through the French Communist Party's blacklists, the invention of "French theory" as an exportable product stripped of its political economy, and the consequences for a left that lost the ability to think technogenesis, cognitive capitalism, or the mutation of subjectivity under media saturation.
The conversation then turns to fascism as concept rather than historical event: the philosophical move that Deleuze and Guattari made and that Foucault named in his preface to Anti-Oedipus. This allows Braidotti to connect micro-fascism (the cult of negativity, the eroticization of power-as-humiliation, the viral spread of impotence) to the coherent neo-fascist philosophical tradition running from Alain de Benoit through the Heritage Foundation and Budapest to Peter Thiel's Yale dissertation on sacrifice. While the left blocked its own analytical capacities, the right was doing serious philosophical work.
Against all of this, Bradiotti proposes affirmative ethics: a Spinozist praxis of activating what a body can do. The episode ends thinking through scale, how affirmative ethics operates from the city to the planetary, and the urgency of the European federalist project as the only existing institutional attempt to participate in decisions about what we could possibly become.
Some references:
Rosi Braidotti
- Patterns of Dissonance, Polity Press, 1991
- Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, Columbia University Press, 1994
- Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming, Polity Press, 2002
- Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics, Polity Press, 2006
- The Posthuman, Polity Press, 2013
- Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1972 (English trans. 1977, preface by Michel Foucault)
- A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1980
- The Three Ecologies, 1989 (English trans. 1991)
- Preface to the American edition of Anti-Oedipus, 1977
- Ethics
- Theological-Political Treatise
- The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics, 1981
- Part of Nature: Self-Knowledge in Spinoza's Ethics, University of Minnesota Press, 1994
- Spinoza and the Ethics, Routledge, 1996
- Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, 1994
- Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, 2003
- The Second Sex, 1949
- One-Dimensional Man, 1964
- Eros and Civilization, 1955
Altiero Spinelli
- The Ventotene Manifesto, 1941 — founding document of the European federalist project
- "A Cyborg Manifesto," 1985
- "A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century," 1991
Julius Evola — philosopher of Italian fascism; cited alongside de Benoist as daily reference for Bannon
Peter Thiel — PhD dissertation on René Girard and the concept of sacrifice, Stanford / Yale; position papers on technological selection and extinction