“What is negative in ethics refers therefore less to a normative, moral injunction than to the effect of – moral and cognitive – paralysis and blockage that often comes as a result of a hurt, a shock, an act of violence, despair and disenchantment or just by intense tedium. Negative passions destroy the self’s capacity to act as they harm the self’s ability to interrelate to others – both human and non-human – and thus decrease one’s relationship to the world. On a larger ecological and social spectrum, negative affects diminish the capacity to express the high levels of interdependence of human beings on others of the same and of different species. This trans-species, vital reliance on others – human and non-human others – is the post-anthropocentric move that paves the way to an affirmative ethical disposition. It is an embedded and embodied, relational and affective ecosophy of belonging and becoming. What is positive in the ethics of affirmation, on the other hand, is the belief that negative relations and passions can be transformed through an engagement in collective practices of change. This implies a dynamic view of passions and affects, even those that freeze us in pain, horror or mourning. The ethical subject is the one with the force to grasp the freedom to depersonalise the event and transform its negative charge into a generative relational force. It is obvious therefore that this approach has nothing to do with the cruel optimism of advanced capitalism, and its ‘happiness industry’, which makes most of us miserable, and the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow extremely rich (Braidotti 2022). Affirmation is the force that endures and sustains, whereas sad passions bring about impotence and disaggregation. Affirmative ethics is the affect that binds together the heterogeneous components of the complex subject assemblages.”
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