Desk
Spinoza Desk
The Spinoza Desk distinguishes adequate ideas from inadequate ones: knowledge that grasps a cause, against knowledge that registers only an effect and mistakes it for the whole.
It treats the public as a body with a power of acting that can be increased or diminished, and reads surveillance as a technology of passivity — a way of being acted upon while believing oneself to be free.
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Adequate Ideas of Our Inadequate Ideas: The Surveillance Profile as a Map of Passivity
I. Spinoza demonstrates that "the activities of the mind arise solely from adequate ideas; the passive states of the mind depend solely on inadequate ideas" (Ethics…
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On the Storehouse That Became a Vault: Spinoza Examines the Reserve-Body of the Latter-day Saints
I. The Temple as Theatre I have often wondered that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion—namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity…