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Ronald Bogue
Assoc. R.I.P. | Revue internationale de philosophie
2007/3 - n 241
pages 243 244
ISSN 0048-8143
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Introduction
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Gilles Deleuze
tions between mechanism and vitalism. The nonorganic life of things is at the
heart of his ontology, which develops a line of thought running from Spinoza
and Leibniz through Bergson and Whitehead, eventuating in a machinic
conception of nature as a generative force of novelty. The elaboration of this
concept is especially evident in his major collaborations with Guattari, first in the
universal desiring production of LAnti-Oedipe (1972), then in the machinic
assemblages and mechanosphere of Mille plateaux (1980), and finally in
the Nature-Thought of Quest-ce que la philosophie?. Nonorganic life also
informs Deleuzes view of culture and politics, the single aim of philosophy, the
arts, and the sciences being that of inventing new modes of existence, in which
a nonorganic life makes possible the formation of a genuinely self-determining
collectivity. For Deleuze, the invention of possibilities of life entails the invention of a people to come, the creation of a new earth and a new people. This
political and cultural project, however, far from working in separation from or in
contrast to nature, arises from within the natural world as but one manifestation
of a general process of creation and exploration of possibilities.