TESTI / 1 / Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey /
This essay explores the episode of Pasolini’s play Porcile in which the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, endorsing the protagonist Julian’s decision to follow his affects and have sex with pigs, recants from the Ethics and its celebration of reason. It proposes that in the play radical passivity not only appears as the only possibility not to be complicit with Power and Fascism, but also becomes a paradoxical form of activity that allows for a new form of freedom.
