Praktyka Teoretyczna (Jan 2013)
Atheology of multitude. Katechon, air pump and biopolitics
Abstract
This text is an attempt to conduct a historical-materialist analysis oftheological, political, and scientific concepts (e.g.,katechon, multitude and vacuum).Such studies carried out in detail on the discussions between Spinoza, Hobbesand Boyle held on the verge of the modern era are to show the crucial theoreticalconclusions fraught with consequences. It presents the shaping of the bourgeoisvision of science, theology, and the birth of the modern concept of private propertyon the one hand, and on the other - the forming of the first universalist classstruggles conducted both at the level of theology, politics, and the methodologyof science. A better understanding of these struggles and disputes, as well asa clarification of the specific stance taken by Spinoza in this conflict, shed newlight on the crisis described and diagnosed within the autonomist theories ofNegri, Hardt and Virno.
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