Body and World in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze

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c To compe MereauPontys and Deeuzes phenomena bodies, Irst examine how for MereauPonty phenomena appear on he basis of hreeees of interation 1) beeen the pats of the world, 2) beeen the ptsof the body, and 3) beeen he body and its world I contest tat Deleuzesattacs on phenomenoogy c be seen as constructie critiques rather thas being expressions of an tiphenomenologic position. By building fromDeeuzes denition of he phenomenon and from his more phenomenoogi

cy reeant writings, we nd that phenomena for him e gien to the bodyunder exactly he opposite conditions as for MerleauPonty, namey at 1) theworlds dierences 2) appea to a disordered body hat 3) comes into shocking aectie contact with its surroundings I gue hat a Deleuzi heory ofbodiygien phenomena is better suited than MereauPonts model in thetask of accouning for e intensity of phenomena appeaingsK Deleuze, MereauPonty, Phenomenoogy, Body, Word

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May I ank Rol Breer, Ullric Melle, Nicolas e Warren of e Husser Arcivesin Leven for eir conribuions o his paper

2 J. Hges, Deleze and te Gene ofRreentaon, Lonon: Conin, 2008 p. 3 See, for ple, M. ocal, ''eaosop," D Boucar (e.), Lanage,

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H phenomenoogy not chacterized itsef throughout precisey as this abi

ity to become and eoe And is this not the historic esson of phenomenoogy that it is itsef a ow with unpredictabe bends d meanderings whichwhateer their intensity in the end ways reinent phenomenoogy . [ there is no etter of phenomenoogy no primord word no consecratedtext no originary truth that one coud betray ony an endess series of heresies whch is at et in phosophy the ony possibe form of deity that isthe deity in and through genuine questioning

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pp. 15-34;D Oki De and the n reso Berke: Uei of Cforess 1999;L or Tnkng throughch Phsop: TeBeng of theQo BoomngonInin nveirs 2003;D Okosi hosophy of Se hosophy of ven Dees Crue ofhenomenoo" ChInton13 (201) pp 19326; Monebeo De e iphnomnooe?" ChmIntol3 (2011) pp. 315-325

4 See rpe C Bo Trsors Inoucon: De mpcism he Sge for Subec" G Dee Empm andSuev sy onHume Teo Hun

Nr nglish s by C Bo Ne York: Coumbi Universiy rs 1991 pp -19;] no J. Roe Deee Meuon: mence Univociy henomenoo" jul the Bh So Phomo 373 (2006) pp 229-25;H SomersH De Mereuon Ahe of Dnce" C Bo (e Dee Te IntveRduo Lonon: Coninu 2009 pp 123-130; Hugh op t.] Wbcq Deph e Meuon Deee" ChInol13 (201) pp 327348; Wbc Mce Meuon G Dee Inereers ofHei Bergson" ATeneck() acennl Ove FromAbsolu Pow of Cooe unl the orc of CocAchn Hs 108) Dorech Sprnger 2011 pp 269-284; J Wbcq Murce Meuons Cicism on Bersos ofe Seen rou he Work ofG Dee" S Phomoca 11 (2011) pp 309-325

5 See for pe C Coebrook Glles Dee Lonon: Rouege 2002; L BnDerence and Gvenness: De anscenntl Empcsm and the Ontolo of Immnencevson: Norhesern Universiy ress 2008.

A Beeu lsDeluze et!phnomnoeMons: Ss Mri 2004 M e Beisegui To henomenoogy of Dierence?" serch n Phenomenolo

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We do not merely see his arm from us our perspectie we also see it if wewere looing from his right side a the gle of the light source, ecause theshadow we see from our perspectie presents to us the appeance of his mfrom the sun's perspectie.

Tis illustraon will help us grasp the sort of poptic ision we hae eenom our glance at one ieoint. Consider also when we stand eeen a setof ralroad tracs and loo down their straight extent into the distance Tey

seem to conerge very f o. But this tells us they must e still paalel all theway in the distce, ecause they would instead appear pallel om here onlyif they continually dierged they progressed. n a way, seeing the convergence is to indirectly std fa down the rac d ew them eing paallel

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MerleauPonty oers anoer llustration to help us grasp ust how thor

oughly dierent phenomena e horzonaly integrated He has us considerwhen we iew he tiled oor at he ottom of a pool of water. We might thinkthat we are seeing he geometry of the tiles despitethe way distorions that

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he wa podces. Yet eall he oo as he appeaance that it happensto be is seeable only becseit is given to s thogh e ippling wae. Weshol not assme thee is sch a thing as an object seen in itsel l thingsae sensed in thei intemeshment with eveything else. ven he wate wementioned is not conained only thee in the pool. en we ase o ees

to e tees above the wate we see the webbed play o the wates eectionshe tee oliage has its paticla appeaance only becase the wate below itsends into it pon it its actve and living essence."8

Yet becase hese hoional objects ae indeteminate an ambigos weae motivated to tn o attention towad them which then makes emdeeminate. o bette ndestand his pocess Melea-Ponty ees s to theway that childen acqie the abili to peceive dstinct colos At st eycan only distingish coloe things om noncoloed hings Ten they di

eentiate wam and cool shades o coloed egions. Finally they can discendieent colos. Te psychologist mistenly thinks that he child oiginallypeceived the dieent specic colos in thei detemnacy except he childwas meely nwae o the colos identities. So accodng to this psychologicintepetation cilden st can see e edness o e ed with its dieenceto the bleness o ble b they jst have not yet leaned the coesponngnames and concepts o the colo. MeleaPonty says at instead e coloswee oiginally seen in an indeteminate om and only gdaly does he child

come to constitte em disincl In ohe wods e child sees dieent colosbt not so mc he distinctions between them athogh hese dieences hgimplicily on the hoion o he awaeness. Tee e elatons then beeenhe colos at e seen alogh tey appe ony mplicitl So when chldenealy on see neiboing hings being dieent colos they have a vae sensehat he vsal appeances die in some signict way e late leaninghow to detect the dieences beeen e colos they then see them deeminately d niqely. Becase he colos began indeteminately thei becoming a

detemnate appeaance was meely on the hoion o he childs awaeness. Wemght hee notice othe sot o hoion Te deteminate oms wee heeinecly in e beginnng stage. Yet ei aival to the clds consciosness ispenng; in a wa it hangs on a sot o tempoal hoion too being at e egeo he gp o e pesent nentions.

e pats o o phenomen wold ae given so pe-integated tha evenwhen e wold sddenly appeas to s qite dieenty than the momentbeoe in a way we wee aleady anicipating the alteation.2 He depcts a

scene to illstate. We walk along a shoeline Beoe s is a ship n agondin the beach Behind it is a oest and e ships masts blend in wih the teespeventing s om initily noticing hem as belonging to the ship. Ye ee

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will come a momen when we eel hat the loo o some o the tees is on hevege o teing efoe even seeing the mass as distinc om he oest, weel some so o tension in thei appeaance, ust as a som is imminentin som clouds"2 ven when oiginally misen, we sill peceived all thedisinguishing qalities o he masts, and they told s indiectly they wee

not ees. o om he beginning we had a vague expectation" tha hee wassomething moe to be undesood in the appeaance of the foest

T uy o h objc s basd o h orshadowg o a mm ordwhch s abou o sprg upo us a rpy o h usos mry a h adscap I sos a probm s oy h om o a agu g ouasss, orgazs ms whch up o ha mom dd o bog oh s urs ad whch, or tha raso, ] coud o b assocad

o wheneve the phenomen composiion o o wold changes, it is because we tun ou atenion to some detail that altes the way we conguethe whole. We wee moivated o tun ou attenion in the diection o ohephenomenal pas; so in the case of the ship an oes, a the edges o oawaeness we sense some deails tha ol us thee was soething qestionable about cetain ees. Only aead did we lean tha hese deails weeindicaions that the ees wee ey ship mass instead o in ohe wods,even though we might have these damaic expeiences whee the phenomen wold aound us adically eaanges befoe ou eyes, i does no ivolvea complete incoheence om one moment o the next; the new, alteed woldwas somehow sill thee on he hoion of o awaeness, if only as the suggestio ha hee is moe to be seen. In act, i is only becase i was hee on thehoion tha we wee motivaed to discove it Tis holds as well in MeleaPons account o childens acquisition o colo sense Once they lean howto discen dieen colos om one anothe, thee is a change of the stcueo consciosness, the establishment o a new dimension of expeience, hesetting oh o an pioi "23 o, childen lose he abiliy to see colos in haindeteminae way they appeae in ealy childhood. It woul seem then thathey nd themselves in a new wold hat is incoheent with the pio one nowhoveing maginally in thei etention consciosness, om back when theywee only able o see colos ineeminaely. Yet, when we come to these deteminations tha change he stuctues o ou awaeness, they begin as hoios giving us peome new egions in the otal wold"2 It is ue tha aethei acquisition, he ole stucues ae desoye. Howeve, this pocess is

one of binging out somehing aleady implicit in he pevious sces o

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consciousnss. So, ah han suggsing incohnc in h obcs a inou consciousnss, i insad ass o hi coninuous sluniy

I s prcsy by orhrowng daa ha h ac o anon s rad o prous acs and h unty o coscousnss s hus bu up sp by sp hrough a

ranson-synhss T rac o conscousnss consss n s brngg ogh, hrogh atnon phnona whch rsabsh h ny o h obcn a nw dnson a h ry on wh hy dsroy 5

Synstti Inttion

l implicily and xplicily pcivd phnomnal obcs o ou wol,

hn, a lik has wovn ogh hough h ingaing abic" o ouboy2 I givs h wold a cain dnsi o hicss," us as h issuso ou muscls o ou sin a inmshd so as o pouc h hickss oou sh. Moov, pcpion, Mlau-Pony hinks, mus always involvan inming o ou snss. obc is hn an ogaism o colous,smlls, sounds and acil appaancs which symboli, moi an accowih ach oh accoing o h laws o a al logic ]"27 in snsqualiis o h obc a oganically inind, bcaus om h bginning, ou bodys ss ogans inga hi ncioning o such a dg haw can nd no sns-daum ha is no condiiond by h ohs. I is nomly ha on sns hlps h ohs ah, h impssions o on snsa oun implicily wihin h ohs, an all ou impssions inwinwih ou bodily moions. Whn Mlau-Pony conacs his oo, o xampl, h can s his moion in his mind vn whn waing his shos.28 W sonv acually s how ou body loos whn w walk, bu w will cogniou gai vsuly whn w s i lm o i w wach i in ou shaow. 29 So,ou boily ingaion was alay h om h bginning

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oh way o aicula his snsingaion is ha all sns-daa a synashic. H has us consi pains who los h abiliy o visuay pcivcolo qualiis. vn wihou his capaciy, hy w sill abl my ims o

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detemie the coos shning upo them, on accout of how it ws peceivedi its mixte ith the othe senses Tey mght fo expe now it s yeowwhe thei body esponds as if feeling somethig stingig it; oe ptiet saidI clenched my teeth, and so I kow hat it is yelow"3 Of couse even whewe do visualy peceive colo quities, we also sese them these othe ways

as we It is not tha we st see ed and the o body espos by enveningitsef; ahe, just as soo as we see ed, ou body is eiveed at the same time,becaus seeing e s py tactie sesatio fet thoughout ou bodies 32Synaesthetic peception is the ue," he wites, d

th sss trcomucat by g o to th structur o th thg Oss th harss ad brttss o gass ad wh wth tkg sou tbraks ths soud s cy by th sb gass ss th sprgss o

st, th ductty o rdot st th hardss o a pa bad th sosso shags3

He has s coside that ahough we have to eyebs with each one giving usdieet steams ofvisa data, we stil have a unied view of oe pheomenawod He this tha the vis quaiy of sounds ad adibe popetes ofcolos come about though the same sot of syhesis of sensedata ecauseo senses ae peitegated in his way, he says that thei unity is a 'pio tth"3 O body is ot a collectio of adjacent ogans, but a synegetic system"; thei nctions e inked togehe in o actions35

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en a chid eaches out fo something, fom he begiig she fees hesef a pat of the wod aound he, because on that basis she knows that hebody coud move ong the things aoud he and take them into he gasp

O itegatio with the wod, then, is evident fom the way ou senses aow ou body to immediatey move aound and nteact wth a he ohepats of the wold3 I fact, we eve take up he objects aoud s and makethem extesions of ou own sesibiiy MeeauPotys famous expe isthe bid man wig with a stick en st beginig to use it, he mighfeel the stick making contact with his hand Yet e a whie, it becomes asthogh the end of the stick is his new poit of contact wi the objects odhim He no loge fees the contact beween his hand and he stick bt istead

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beween he sick a the gon o ohe hings his sick is eeing."7 Weae inheenly gee o be oganicaly inegaed wih he bective woaond s Te blin pesons awaeness wans a ies o exen into is sonding wold We se elephones to exen o voices an eas in disanplaces. O gae, Meea-Pon wies, is anogs he bind mans stick:

ike his cane, visin eels o the wo in an inteogive way angingove objecs and weling on them. Tis is he oganic elaionship betweensbjec an w, the acive tanscendence cnscisness, he momenmwhich caies i ino a thing an ino a wol by means o is ogns aninsmens"38

O boys immesin in the wol is eviden as well i is sympaheicelaioships wih i oside how when we he a sond, pa o o ea appaats vibaes a he same eqency, in sympahy with he ais vibaions

It is as hogh hee wee a place o cssing-ove beeen he wol an obdy: n he same way I give ea, o look, in he expecaion o a sensain,and senly he sesibe kes pssession o my ea o my ge, an sende a pa my by, eve my whole bdy, o his paicla manne ovibaing and llig space known as ble o e"3 He aso has s think o theholy sacamen o cmmnion Te bea is no ony something sensibe wel, i is beieve ha when we iges i, i commnicaes int s he ealpesence G" Sensain is ike is oo We ae n ny give a impes

sin o he wld a s, b ene ino commnion wih he wol ymeans the sympaetic elaion hat sensaion. en o ans aeabt t eel smethig smooth, hey ake p a ceai egee," ae," anddiecin movemen" appopiae o eeling ha d o sace, inseado he sos min and eainess neede eel somethig gh Tesmoh hing cae o o hands ell them hw i eeed be e, sotha even beoe maing physica conac, he smooh hig in a sense placeditse p hads S, we cannt say ha we ae he oche peoming

he aci, ad the smoh hing is smethig passive eceiving o actinTe smoth obj ec acs on s js as mch as we act o i. Te thing we sensebegis as a vage beckoning" whse c o s aows s o sychoie" withi2 We inegae" he bjec accoing o its own wishes," which paces sino a pe-esablished hamon a kiship" wih i, an pi so o pecondii o ognic inegaion wih he wol, necessy o s being abe

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to sense the thing ound us3 Ou nds can open] upon tctile woldwen we e eeling the wold om within them, but this lso equies thatou hands emin ccessible to being edy touched by the outside wold,which inoms them how to go bout thei touching In this way thee is acisscossing o the touching nd the tangible. y opening theselves up in

this way, ou hands incopoate themselves into the wold they eel out; theto systems ae applied upon one anothe, the to hlves o an onge

Tus a sensibe datum which is o the point of being fet sets a ki of mude robem for my body to sove. I must d the atitude which wi provideit wth the means of becoig deteriate, of showig up as bue; I ust the repy to a questio which is obscurey expressed45

So, we might think o ouselves togee ith the wold we peceive being

o one esh. Tee is n intimac beeen us " close s beeen e sea andte stnd,6 whe yet we e still soehow patly ou own selves; we do notdisipae into e esh ust becuse we ae so much a pat o it Obects, he sys,do not begin selse tngs which we sees come to view ae we beginopenng ou attention to them. Insted we d the objects ae involved in anintimac i the ge itsel envelops them, clothes them wit its own esh7

Denti in te Penomen WdIn Diene nd Repetion, Deleue chacteies phenomen appeaanc

es as involving pue dieential elations that pesent to ou awaeness somesot o a sign o explin ese pssages, we will st look at how Deleue eadseibni's mico-peceptions as being innitely smll sub-phenomena that aedescibable in cculus tems dieential elations. eibni wites:

when we perceive coors or oors we are perceiving nothig ese but gures

and moveets but gres and ovemets so sml so varied a in suchgreat number that our ids are ot capabe their preset sates of consiering hem sigy and dstict a consequence we are ot aware at ourperceptios re composed of itesimay sma perceptions of gures dmovements For exampe when we horoughy mi very ne yeow a buepowers we perceive green we are not aware that what we in fact perceve isony yeow and bue very ey med8

V 1759/1 33 bd45 P 248/214.46V 1756/130131V 1757/1 31 4 G ibni, Mditais d in ita dis in . Grdt d) e

hohch ch von Goe Wem ebn vo Bi Gr Os 1965 . 426;


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Bod nd Wr n rPon nd l 193

Deleze mbes hs t f esmally small peeps wththe shg esmals Lebzs eeta als a e lstatesw Lebzs gle emsta49

Fg 7 Leibniz' triangle demonstration of vanishng vues50

Lebz esbs a gemta ge wh w agls sag a mm agal l g 7]. hs le ms h g e agleeases l h h eeases h ses f bth gls emaal s h t f large e was ates e a f esmale e Ts hls e h smle gles ses msh e

ely small Ty ae she b he e lat emas stseble te lage ragle 5

"ectons on Knowlee, Tth, d Id, Mon and Oth hisohicalay s,Ensh by Scecker dA M Ser, Indanapois: Bbbs-Mer, 1965 p 10

9 G Deleuze, Semi 22/04/1980, English trans by C Stvae, http/webdeleecom, accessed 14Dec2011

50 G Leibniz, Mathemache Schen vol Briechsel zwchenLeibniz Wllis, Von, ido Grandi, Zendni, Heann nd Frihe von chiha, C I Gerhdt (ed),Hle H Schmidt, 1859; image taen om the pdf avlable t chieorg htp/archiveorgdetseibnizenmathe02leibgoog, accessed 14Dec2011

5 G Leibniz, "Jutication du cc des nniteimae pa celuy de l'algebre ordinaire, in C I Gehdt (ed) Mathache Schn vo Bechsel wchen eibniz,W, Von, ido Grandi, endni, Heann ndFreihvon chiha,HdesheimOlms, 1971, pp 104106; "Jstication of the Innitesima Clcus by at of Orna Algebra, in L E Loeer (ed), hisohicalapers andeers,English trans by L E Loemker,Dordrecht D Reidel, 1965, pp 545546


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9 Co Soes

C'- ?+/____/b g 8 e v rea daed te arer trae

S ading t Delee's eadng when we peeive geen we ae eally

ntiing the dieentia elatins beeen innitely smal peeptins bleand yelw.Z t thei basis a peeptins ae pimaly hese ndetetable mi-peeptins s the peeptn geen is nt eally he mgeniing blending yellw and ble Geen eslts nt m thei assimilatinand bleeding int ne anhe bt ahe m thei dieentialy jaing pagnst eah he. nd neithe the mi-peeptins yelw n thse ble have geen n hei phenmenal hin s he whle is nt impliedin the pats S ntay t Meea-Pntys they phenmena in he wld

and s Delee appea t peeptin nt when they integatelistialy, t athe when hey ppse eah the dieentialle mi-peeptins ae bse and nsed; we peeive nthing in

them and yet hey ae lie aw phenmenal data tat ae nly sendailysynthesied int nstitted peeptins when the innitely smal peeptins yellw and ble dieentially elate t pde a highe-dephenmenn geen, peeptin mes me int laiy ease wean bette ntie the l hat we ae seeing highe and ighe des di

eentially elate the peeptins nd themselves having geate laiy; thslity emeges m bsity by way a geneti pess "53 e dieential

5 G Dl Le pl Lebnz e le arqueis s ditions d init 1988, 1 19; TeF Lebnz and arque Ens trns. by T on nnolis nivrsity o nsot ss 1 993 . 90 . ot bbitd it FnEnlis nbs

53 12090.


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reating at proes te igherorder penomeno i a sense is le a ariter, a there is a ini of ese lters

Ea lter etermies wi pereptions wi ieretia reate so to prode igherorer peomea on e bass ofwhat is remarable or notable intat perepta sitation o se Gregor Batesos formato, it is a matter

of ierees tat mae a ieree 54 Leibniz gies the example of the noisson from a mil or waterf hat we ae beome oe astomed to Peraps at rst te mro-pereptios of te son were remarabe o notabewe we initi bega liig ner the waterfal e rst perepta terseets te miro-pereptions wose ierential relatios wl proie a learerpereptio of the so ese arios sbpereptos are ierential reate et aa and tere to an een eae eretn, t reahig hehihest orer of t wsound w notice xpciy Howvr,

cau u mn h ns m mk-ae a oer iren ion n o pp b st g .55

see wha s rma the perepo beome sgeb no diin. prpo obts sttess mens fet anoer sot o le a reers wt is rmbl i w s 56 Tsregarizig of he pereptios is peraps what maes tem ess notieable orpheomena So in th ae of e waterfa so we at rst stngs ts

aiations from all the other possibe oes tat o ae iereial reateso to ome into ari i or awaeess e hea it as its own pereptio, btas log s it stnds ot to s n ts remaabeness, it seems ew a heterogeneos ea momet n still wort of or attetio et, as we grareaize at it has, for exple, a ert range of ome a t eer strasfrom, an e sorts of sos it maes a teir patterns lso sta witinertain ranges of aiation, te pereptio en beomes regar ad omogeeos Or peretion of the waterfa begins with a aos of rig tin

sons tat eman or atetio, bt t graa trs ito a baet ofigorabe wite noise tat opies the bagrod of o awarenessFor Deeze, te ierentil reatio beee miropereptios oes ot

st o for al te perepta ata gien together in oe instant, lie a themiropereptions of be an eow that we ae whe seeing te green of appe rather, ti peeptios ae as mh te passage from oe pereptio to oter as the are ompoets of eah pereptio"57 is is bease

5 G Bat, Mind and Nae: A Necea Uni Lnn l Hu 1979 p 1 1055 G Lii, Nouvea eai ur 'entendement humain C Ghat ), ie

hioohchen crien vo Blin Wman, 1882 p 47; New Eay on Human Undetanding Ei tan b Rmnant a Bt Cami Ci nivityP, 1981 pp 3-4 an pp 1 1 -1 17/8 lu u th xpl f a watmill in aly

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96 Cor ores

a wa the te s alea sese w the mmeate el f peepts llwg hs waes lstatebz wtes

e loudes nose n e wold would never waken us f we dd no ave somepercepon of s, wc s sma, j e sronges force n e wold

would neer break a rope ess e le force srned and sreced slly, even og a lle lengenng wc s produced s mperceble. 58

Deleze eas ths t mea that what we peee w ges s t ats f what s t me

Hoever abruply I may og my dog wo eas s meal e anmal wll aveexerenced e mnue percepons of my sey arrval on poes my osle odor and my lng of e rod a subend e converson of pleure nopan. How cod a feelng of nger follow one of sasfacon f a ousdny eemen forms of uger (for sals, for sugar, buer, ec.) were noreleaed a dverse nd nscernble ryms?59

S e amals we feel pgs ee thgh what we w me t peee s t et lea t u Tese ae t peepts that ae t tegatet peset peept6 I the fllwg mmets me f these tpgs pe emaable a me t as a lea a stgshe pe

ept Tese sbese mpeepts estalze the peeg apeept whle pepag the fllwg e6 Ts s stg smat Meleats t hat we w ae mplt awae f the tetf fthmg peepts e sh emphasze that f Deleze thebass f the mplt peept s t hat te mapeepts ae tegate wth peset es bt athe that peset es ae hetegeesmtpltes wth ttegatal pats that ethw fme phemeal appegs athe tha bleg them tgethe It s l the hghest

e f sthess the eazg lte hat maes peepts egla ahmgees that sh a bleg happes

S eall hw a mapeept s the eetal pt f sbphemea whh themseles ae eetals f et smalle es all the wat the tel small e wll t w t Deleze's explt ssss fphemea Deene and Retion a te hw hs mat fthe J-H s eegets fmla esps t the aass febzampeepts

58 G. Libi, Nou ea op t 47; a op t 5459 115/8760 116/876' bi62 115/87


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Ee inensi is an E whee each E efes o an e e d e o- e' ec:each inensiy is aleady a coupling (in whch each elen of he couple efesin un o coupes of elemens of anohe ode), heeby eeaing he quiaie conen of quiy We cal his sae of inniely doubled eence

whch esonaes o inni da Dispaiin ohe wods, deence oinensiy (dieence of inesi)is he sucien eaon of all phenoena,he condiion of ha which appeas63

enmena Deeze expans s n sgnal-sgn sstems w we wstrate wt te rers f pereptn en te sstem tself as at least etergenes seres sprate rers apabe f enterng nt mmnat'ten t s a sgna64 Cnser fr example te sbpenmenaan te mar-penmena lees

Te phenomenon ha hes acoss his syse, binging abou he comunicaion beeen dispaae seies, is a sign ] ey phenoenon is coposie because no only ae he o seies which bound i heeogeneous bueach is iself coposed of heeogeneous es, subended by heeogeneousseies which fo so any subphenoena65

Te green ases t s te erenta relatn between elw an bew temsees are erent relatns s n t nnty Green set penmenal bease t was remarable n tat statn an perapstat s w e mgt a a sgn n Deeze's sense f te term ere Tesn f te waterf es nt representatnal sgn ang wen tes t bt t aerts r awreness t smeng remarable n penmena wrl

Bodi Drena

Deeze s ses Lebnz's agram wen sssng Spnzs b affetn w wl alw s t explan te tntegrate reatns beeenb r b an ts wrl s tse wtn te Delez penmenb tse s we ben wt s nterpretatn f Spnzs smpestbes s as t ln s rentns f Spnzst b mpstn an fete aratn

63 G Deeze Drence e reonais F 968 287; Drence and &eonEish tas by a N Yrk Clbia ivesityress 222 eerth abbeviate as D ith Freh/Elish ae bers Rss riial lati es ave ethi ui - . Deleze as it ehas t esize ta te rers iiySee Rsy Les ciences e e puramearis Fl la 922

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98 C Shore

Nested within he send b f Spinzs Ethics is a setin nwn asTe Sht eatise n Phsis," whee Spinza expains he mpsitin fmpnd bdies On the mst ndamental ee, bdies ae mpsed fsimpest bdies, whih are disinishabe frm ne ather n n the basisf their dierenes in speeds d swnesses66 weer, simpest bdies ent atms f Spinza B meas f his ne interpetatins fSpinzs thand nd ettes, the Letter n Inni' and he Letter n Bd," Deezeharateies these simpest bdies as pe derentia eatins, een thhthe etters predate the inetin f dierentia as And it is as n thisbass that Deeze ptras Spinzisti bdi mpsitin as bein based ndierne rahe than n interatin, despite Spinzs anae sestintheise Spinza writes tat simpest bdies beme reipra nited teah the" when he e in eipr ntat with eah ther, if the

are med with he same r dierent derees f speed in sh a wa that themmniate their mtins t eah the in se xed ati"68 Hweer, hisxed rati" f Deeze is a eatin f ntins ariatin hat maesthe reatin ed is nt hat it stas the same, bt rae hat he simpestbes adapie a s at the ma tethe maintain themsees as ampd despite eah ne aete aterin the her expain, Deezetrns t Spinzs Lette n Bd"

Here Spinza wites abt the parties f bd, whih ae he tiiest

pats f mph, he, et ," sin termin simiar t when he desribessimpest bdies in the Eics. Pats mae p whes when he aws r natef e part adapts itsef t the aws nate f athe pat in sh wisethat thee is the est pssibe ppsitin beeen them"69 Deeze tes intant hat he simpest bdies are nt atms, and ths ae nt he basiindiisibe extendin bdies hat mae p arer extendin bdies 7 Instead,the are nnite sma patitins fnd tether in innite sets Ardint Deeze's eadin, when the simpest bdies f dierent sets ntins

aet eah the's speeds nd maintain their ntins -mdiatin, thempse mpnd bdies Ad as we, he simpest bdies an be eaded innite sma anishin tems whse dierentia ae beeen thei

66 B. Sioz, Eia, i C Ghdt (d, Ope, vo Hidlg Wir, 1 972 . 97;Ei, Egih r y G. Pko, ord: od Uvr P, 2000 1 26

67 S. u, Te Lo ofeion: Quali Quani an neni in pino Hegel aneleuze drho Ahg, 06, 48

68 B Sioz, Eia op i, 99-100 ; Ei, op i 1286 B Sioz, Epoe, C Ghd (d), Opea o. 4 Hidrg: r, 1972 170;

Te Lee Engih t. y S Shily, Cridg Hckt, 1 995 . 19270 B Sioz nai e Cae Pinipiou Piopiae Pa 1 & i C Ghd

(d, Opea, vol Hidlrg Wt, 1972 190; Te Pnle of Caeian PiloopEng y S. Shil Cmidg Hct, 1998 53 S lo G uz, pino ele polme e !exeion, P: L dion d miui, 1968, 187 xssionism in ioso Sinoz Eh y M Juh Nw Yk Z 990, 0


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dy and rd in eeaun and Deleuze 99

spds dtrmins the cmpond's powr to act oher bodis and to sustaints dintia compositio undr he inuence of dtrimental aections.7For eamle

chy s a nt st f ry smp bds ph s thr nnt st f h

ry smp bds at dstngushs nnt sts? It s th drntatn! Yu ha ths t a dy/whch s th nty sma pts f chy th nnty sma parts f ymph d s drnt an tnds t

wds a mt th bd that s t say chy ad ymph cmps bd

Our blood hen is a ed ratio" only n h sns that th lymph and chylmantan the continosly varng dintia rlatio instad of splittingapt and foming drnti elatios with other bodis; n oth words

their ing reated n a ratio remains d even though va of that ratiois und contnous altrationYt t blood wil decompos nder t active inuence of arsenic

for xample. Te poisons simpest bodis hav a it vu that rathe tha alowg he arsenic to comn w t lood instad cass hlymph ad chyl to lose hir co-vaiatonal rlations and to he take upelatios with ohe simplst bodis73 Not as wll that the blood's powr tosstain itsef is depedent on its dinial rlation to oth parts of th ody. lood dienaly relates with oth issues to ma p ogas whichthemslves diently cocopose to costtue th whole body Or odyis thn made of vaios levels of drntial composition all th way downto h inniey smalst lvl of p decs withot rms. So whn wea aectd o ody's total levl of power vaes depding on whh hacing odies increase o decreas te powe of ou copods' abili toretain ei cotinaly teing rlatos snic po entering or odycoposs te loo whic hen ecomposs hghr ayrs of o compositon and so o sndng shock waves of dsptve acos thoghot alh levels of or ody. Spinoza writes I ndesan a ody to have diedwhn its prts a so disposed hat they mantan a dnt ratio of motioand st to oe oth"74 we wl nd thse compositon dsruptios aemattes of coniosy vayig ective intesits sweeping thoghot ouodies and teig h powe levels

So as to nstad he cotinous variaions of o ody's ovralpower o pefection Dluz etuns to dierntial calculus concepts. W willnd to cocive aecions as togh hy ar lik instantanous velocities;

71 G u, no Pooe aqueais es is d iui, 98, . 47; no: Paccal Poo Elish rs. by ul Sa Fais iy Lihs, 988, 32.

72 G lu Si 0/03/98, Eish s by S , h//bdeleue d h/uvis8. aessed 4e20

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Cor Sor

t wl b mr l tnnstw-g tat xprss tmss na pr nstant an as s y ar ntns antts rar th xtnsns 5 On way t salz ts s t magn a ball t a strng sngarn n ar At r pas f ts mn ts rtn s ntnslyarng s as t frm a rl t f w t srng t ball s nt y

n a spr bt ratr ms n a stragt ln Ts s bas at ry nstantt ball s tnng strat twar n g t atally ms rarly[gr 9]

Fg spnnng on stng

Ts pa at ls at a rgt angl t strng wl als b a tgnt ta rl's at at latn r a mng n a smwat mr r

rglar pat nng ts tnny-twr-ag s mr mplx an rs wr w mght s smthng l Lbnz's mth rat a trangln bas f w s mnsns xtn n a rtan rgn Tn aswth Lbn's rgls w slwly mnsh th tw rgl lgs hragna s gs s t tangnt w als tlls s w way t stnng at at pa [gr 10]

Fg 1 Tangent obtaned though shng aues

S n ts w a trangl lgs alms mpltly ntrat pn a tr agna ln gs s th ntns f th tnny-twahg

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ody and rd in erauon and Deluze 01

T o ai of pioz copodc wih Bygh i 1 8 thogh Dz chaaciz acio a ig i of iaao ci viati76 Bygh woud i o ow how i i poibthat ou pfcio ha i ou pow of actio i away ig d yo c i Byg i ohig l pa o c

than tha wich i po a h om i i pcid"77 which zfoa as h log o a c oy h p ianouactio that xpc iofa as it xpic i "78

Dlz o a iatio fo how acio a coiou aiaioa a gi a dii atio i th of iatnou ocii pp w a daig i a dar oom omo aupy ad u o h igh o coctaio i o and w ar idd co awa hat o pow of acio has dcad itataouy i

a itig fas" aaio: wo ucci acio i c T paag ith id aio fo o to th oth" ad w xpic thi aiioa th phoo of pasag" Ey paag w acio i thcaiy ica of pow o a dcs of pow"79 if w w iad ig fo o gla i h da and h oo o a oight o pow iaaouy ic a w f i tha itan i hiiy of h chang d w a phoay awa fo oo o of a cotiou aaio of aci ii

w that couou aiatio of acio o oy io ai of dic ititi i coio i a c o wa a w Duz aoat thi wh dicig quc of ida a w ha whiig coiuoy acd od ac u w ota iadquatidas of Duz ay I oo at th and th iyi diappa d I d ylf i h da of ight; i i h a i of ccioof coxic of ida ccio of ida"8 Copodig o th ida coiuo ariaio of icas ad dca i o pow of acio

o ilua has iagi at whi waig dow th tt w ddy cot o my P d th ida of him ma afaid Yju w oic o fid Pau w t o attio o him and compowd y hi cha w aiiod fo h ida of P o h idaof Pa w xpicd ou pow coioy ic I oth wod"Duz ay h i a cotiou aiaio i th om of an icadimiioicadimitio of h pow of acig o h foc of xiig ofoo accodig to th ida which h ha" ad hi id of modic

7 bi B Spinoa Epitoe, op it p 137; Lee op it p 1678 G eleue, Semna 21 19 1 op it79 bi80 G eee, Semina 24/1/197 Enli . S up p/ wwee

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C Shre

f ntinuus ariatin wi dn at"8 t is a ntinity mad up f asris intnsitis S t s Bynbrgs btin, tn, Dlz plinstat an isting md li ur bdy is smting tat ntinusly aisin pwr n ant f its atins Yt, wat is trnal abut ur mdassn is t fat tat it is a rang f pssibl pwr ls tat ur isting

bdy an ha, n wn r pwr dips blw wst thrsld f rrng, ur bdy ass t prss ur mda ssn and instad dmpssint parts tat prss tr ssns S, n wi r bdy ntinusytrs trugut its duratin, t ssn i prsss rmains trnally tsm rang f intnsi quntitis

rtr pliat t pnmngi alu f Dluz's rndtin fSpinzisti tin, w sud nt is distntin btn atin" (f-tio) and t" (jt)Z n atin is t t tat iding bdis a

n n tr, nd ts ts dtrmin t mpsitinal intgrity f aatd bdy n ur wn bdy is atd, tin itsf ss s a signhat mas us aw f hw m pwr w a at tat mmnt n t,wr is mr lik instantans iatin r tndnytwardang tts s whtr tat atin is tnding t inras r drs ur pwr dw strngly it is ding s ts, tn, s s signs f t atin's ntnsit Sin tins m s awar mry f ur qutitis f pwr, lsm salar" ts, wr, nsidrs tr," bau ty s ndat

t awnss up r dwn drtn f t atns inun n pwr fw rgd tin s a pla ng a rprsning inrr dr fpwr, n t wud b li t tagnt at ts latins,indiatng w strngy d in wi dirtin t insttanus riain istnding 83 nd bas tins d t signs tat w intrprt mmatly, ty tn inl a srt f pnmna bdiy awarss f t way tingsin wd appar t us wn ty at r bds

z abrats is ati awarnss in is intrprtatin f Spinzs

rst w nds f nwldg. W btain nwdg f t rst nd trugur rptin f ati signs at indiat an inras r dra in urls f pwr T sn's prtils sngly stri r sn, n w bmawar f wr and w strngy t sun is mpwring r wning rbdy84 snd nd f wldg is mr ik nww" oi iW migt b undr t ntinuus dtrimnt atin f a bdy tat widmps ur mpsitin if w d nt adapt d maintn r dirntial rlatin wit it illstrat, Dlz a s nsidr a lin in Dant's

81 bi82 bi83 G eeue Spnoz et e tro tque" in Crique et iniqu Pr Le ition de

minuit 193 p 12-173; Spino nd e ree Etic" in Ea Cial and Cinicanl tr y Smi innepo niverit o inneot Pe pp 13-139

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no:85 e ain makes them how ike dos wi one side the sceen thether the oen tu emseves, the impious wetches6 n dropets aepeltin a dned sou, dsuptin e composition o s s at that locationand theeb sendin shock waves o decomposition orces thouhout the esto his bod Yet, to aintain his constittion the so trns up a new side o his

bod that is oe abe to sustain the aecions He is awe o how the ain aects him, and e thus knows how to seaectivel alter himsel so to maintnhis deeti contact ith it Our actve selection d adaptive interactionwith the wold aond us is what Deeue here cs rhthm He aso oerse eampe o swimmin ouh a powerl wave en we coide with tewave, its aection beins to decompose or bod Yet, by selaectivey aterinthe rnements o o own bodys pts, we ma swim in conjunction withthe wave ad toethe om a ler composite bod8 Deeue suests othe

ilustration to eplain more clealy how aective hythm involves coupins ocontinos aective vaiations He h u consider a du improvisation o a vioin and a pio O the one hand, each one needs to improvisationa chooseits own deveoment Yet, the usicins decisions wi inence how the otheplas in concod ith it. So, in order o boh instruments to maintain theirdieentia cocomposition, they must make seodicatons that ae deentiy compatible with those o the oer payer8

T Pnomnl Boy witout Ogns

We wil now draw an even strone contrt between a Deleuian phenomeoloica bod and a MerleauPontian one, b appyi Spinoistic aectiverhm to the rhthm o sensatio in Deeues more phenomenooiclyrelevant tet, Fncis Bcon T Loc o Snsation We keep in mind hat aectios proceed as a continuous variatio that on the one had is made up odiscrete instantaneous intensities, whie on the other hand still orms a udcue o wave o sorts ikewise, each re in Bacons paintins presents ashiin sequence o seies o intensive variations, casi the sensation toest at diverse eves9 Deee then oers our probematic hotheses toepain how sensation is a matte o dieences o evel, with the ourth beinthe phenomenoloic hpothesis It reards the evels as bein dieent do

85 G. Deleze, Seminr 24/03/ 1 9 1 Englis trns by S urpy ttp//wwwedeleuzecom nd p//univps ccesse 1 4Dec201 1

86 Dte, e Ino ofDante Alighieri, Englis ts by J Clyle Lonon Den1900, p 61

7 G Deeuze, Seminr 4/0 1 1 97, op. ct88 G Deleuze, Semn 3 1 03/1 9 1 , ttp//univpris fr, ccesse 14De20 1 89 G eleze, Franci Bacon Loque de enaton, Prs tons du seuil, 2002, p 4 -

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mins of h snss ih h on bing ingrd ih h ohrs in MrluPonin synshi wy; for xaml whn or ys s h sompinghoos of h ulls in on's bullghing inings or rs smingly hrh noiss hy mk. n this sns h pinr wod m isibl nd oforiginl ni of h snss." Duz rs his d h ohr hothss b

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ing of Sinozisi ill no hlp us br hrriz h hnomnologi l of his ody ihou orgns for h ris h i is an innsnd innsi ody. is rrsd by th rs ls or thrsholds inth ody ording o h riions of is liud. Tus th body dos noh orgns hrsholds or lls."92 n Dz's Spinozisi ody thsinnsi lls r risly h uss our bodily omposiion o shi anhang is arrangmns and h mor rhhmilly our body s h mori brs don is norm orgni diisions and rlions o rod nw

nionl rlions btn is s. n ohr ords h rhyhm of ionus lik h rhyhm of snsion pushs our bodis o h limis o is ognizion ning i owrd bing body itho orgns s this orrlaions wll in Duz's noion of h indrmin nd mpor orgs of snsion moing from l o l in bodis iho orgs T xposd sidof h dmnd sol in Dn's Io is h poin of on hr h ingrin disrius is domposiionl i shok ws hroughou him yurning nohr sid upard h slfily snds in himslf ws of

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org that endre onl as long as he passage o e wave and the ation o eore, d whih wil be dslaed in order to be posited esewhere

S by trrtig Dlus bdy withut rgs i ths Siistc laguag,w may bttr xla his xlct attack hmlgy wh h c

trasts th bdy withut rgas t h hmgic ivd bdy

is grond, his rhhmi nit o the senses, an be disovered onl bgoing beond the organism. e phenomenoogial hothesis is erhaps nsient bease it merel invokes the lived bod t te ived bod is stil atr thing in omison wth a more proond d most nivable Power[uianc] . e seek the nit o rhhm onl at the point where rhthmitse nges into haos into the night, at the oin where the dierenes eve are pereta and violentl med eond the organism, bt aso at theimit o the ved bod, there lies [ . ] te bod wihot organs

ccrdig t th phmgcal hthsis" th vd bdys ssrgadmas a yasthtcally lkd ctrast t with th bdy wthut rgas csidr a rgsa xpl that D smtims vks a cwautmaticly rcgg grass5 T cw is ab t rcgi grass bcausts habtu bhavirs hav frmd th mtr quvalt f a gral da

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cw th ca d ts had mchacly ad at th grass withut a tsawarss f all th madw's varatis that wuld distiguish cufrm athr. rgs llustrats a srt f dhmalati that hapsas ur bdis bcm mr accustmd ad tgratd t ur surrudigs

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rdy conscious of nying u uomism9

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wa ss is ingrain wih is wld, as hgh h wld sddnl bcfrign h cw Ts, aing grass sads as a p phnmn princ whn cws hrins cas ingra. hm" in h FranisBan is h prdicabl arig f h was f snsain ha cach bdi dmain dinl in sch a wa ha h sns daa cann bprcssd, garid, rcgnid, and hrb dphnmnaid il hiss f h m rhhm is sl qi disinc fm h pinisic sns, wmigh n ha n in his cn, hhm als ss pln h aringdirial rains wihin h bd, wii h wrd, and bwn h bdand h wld a ar a wr in phnmna princs

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haing inns phnmnal pincs T bd wih rgans lis a hlimi" f h id bd bcas is nl whn h lid bds harmnis,

97 H Besn Mare e mmre. a ur ren du c !ep Pis Geme Bie e Cie., 1 93 pp 1 -1 1 ; Maer and Mem Englis. ns. y N . P n Pme Mine, New k ve, 24, p. 1 1, empsis mine


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aroud us wil Dluzs or br plais isi of ay imom of phomal pic Tus alhou Duzs modl i maydam ways coraposs MrlauPos modl w d o ard ias a criiqu of phomolo isl bu rar as a usl corbtio tophomolos pool of orica idas

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