Community as a Body of Bodies. Potencies, Affects and Collective Agency in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Abstract
The present article draws upon the materialist and vitalist ontology of Gilles Deleuze, in dialogue with an ethological reading of Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics, which places the relation at the centre. Based on the principles of this relational ontology, the text proposes a distinction between matter, body and organism according to the degree of stratification of chaotic matter. This distinction enables us to conceptualise the body beyond the organism, as an assemblage of intensities, affects and potencies in constant composition and decomposition. This, in turn, serves to emphasise the ontological-political dimension of existence. Thus, community is proposed as a common body in becoming, always in the process of production, which opens the possibility of experiencing new modes of existence and political relations that transcend the traditional limits of the human.
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