In this episode, Joe and Taylor think about Spinoza: ethics as a weapon against negativity; the relation between power and desire; ethology and judgments about ways of life; freedom and the differential relation between actions and passions.

Theory Talk is a weird and wonderful philosophy podcast from Theoretical Media. Your hosts are Joseph Weissman (twitter.com/fractalontology) and Taylor Adkins (twitter.com/tadkins613), independent scholars in the humanities and founders of the theory weblog fractal ontology (http://ontology.io).

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