Organization as Joyful Practice

Abstract

This is the hardest pitch. The reader should be prepared for a steep ascent into Spinoza’s philosophy. The terminology is Scholastic and may be unfamiliar. The climb will, however, be rewarding as the view from Spinoza’s plateaus are unlike any others, so I encourage the reader to persevere, and not to give up.

It was on Spinoza that I worked the most seriously according to the norms of the history of philosophy — but it was Spinoza more than any other that gave me the feeling of a gust of air that pushes you on the back each time you read him, a witches broomstick that he mounts you atop. We have not yet begun to understand Spinoza, and I myself no more than others.

—Deleuze, Dialogues 15¹