Chapitr'4
Gilles Deleuze
ETHOLOGY: SPIN AND US
Frcm G" Deleuze (1992)'Ethology: Spinoza and us', in J. Crary
and S. l(winter{eds), Incarporations, translated by Robert Hurley,
NewYork: Zone.
'C Pr\-()ZA ANI) uS' this phrasc could m.:an many things, but
among otherL) thirrgs. it ttrt .rrr: 'us in the nrirldle of
Spinoza'. To tr,v to perceive ancl to underrstand
Spinoza lrr trav oi'tht: rnidcl'le. (ienerallv one begins uith
the first principle o1.a philoso-pl-ri'i'. l3i-rt \ilial Lrlunts is
llso tht: third, thc lburth or the fifth principlt. Er,ervone
knorvsth. li;:it 1:r'int:iplc o1'Slrinoza: ont' substance lor all
the attributes. But rve also knou' thc,tirilel, lirrrrtl'r or ilfth
prirrcil:lc: one Nature lor all bodies, one Nature tbr all
individuals,d iritLlrr tliat is ilsel|.rrr indivirluai r,'arr,ing
in an infinite numlrer of rvavs.What is inrolvcdi:. itrr Lottger
tlte alJlr.nr.rtion o1 a:ingle substancc:, but rather the laving
out ot'a commonitl:in: yf'i:nn.u'rdiii'. on n hich all hoclies, all
minds and all individuals are situated.This planeoi
irnnr.tttt'nc{.'or corrsistt-'nc'r-is a plan, but not in the sense
ola mentai design, a project,.l lir()L l"ulr ; it is a plar r in
thc gcomctlic sense: a scction , an intersection, a diagram. 1
'l'hus,1o lx: in thc middle ol spir.roza is to be on this model
plane, or rather to install oneself ontiris pianr' uhith irnplirs a
rnocle of 1i',.in3, r u,a,r'of lil'e.-rYi;:rr is this plane and
hox'does()rrc (()nstrli(t it? For rt the samc it is luiiv a planc
of immanence, and vct it has to becoirstructt:c1 i1' or-rc is to
lii t. a Spirrozist
-rrlu",I Lrrr rlotrs Spinoza tlcllrre a body? A bod1, oi
u'hatever kind, is defined bv Spinoza in
tuo sirnultaneoLls \\'.1\s. In tlru tirst place, a l.,odv,
hou,ever small it rnay be, is r:omposedol atr inliiriit ,r.,nrbr-,
,,1 1-rai-tities; it is the relrtir:ing allcctetl 1ir.r1 also
de,ilrrcs a bociv in its individualitv. Thest: tu,o
propositionsrirl)r3r to ht lt'rt sinrpic'; onc is kineiic antl thr:
other dynarnic. But if one trul,v installson,'rcl{'in thc rnirist
ol'thtst- propositions, if one lives them, things are much
nrorel'onrDlitatt'rl anrl or,-'lirrtls tlat one is a lipinozist
br:fbre having understood rvhv.
I'hur, tix: kinc:tir. lrroirosition tetrls us that a hodr,is
defined br.relations of motion andrrst. oi'siou-r-iess ancl spe'erl
betr.r'r:en particles.-l'hat is, it is not dcfined bv a lorn-r or
bv l'unc-iit;ns. G]
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