The Empty Body Without Organs, or When Becoming Active Goes Wrong: Deleuze and Guattari on Spinoza
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In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari make a startling pronouncement: "Drug users, masochists, schizophrenics, lovers—all BwOs [Bodies without Organs] pay homage to Spinoza.” This essay seeks to explain the paradoxical association of self-destruction with Spinoza's affirmative philosophy of self-mastery. I examine how Deleuze and Guattari develop the concept of the BwO, the signal figure of their philosophy of immanence, in dialogue with Spinoza's Ethics, and how, to reassess their exuberant championing of revolutionary deterritorialization in Anti-Oedipus, they investigate, through the figure of the "empty" BwO, the circumstances under which Spinoza's project of becoming active can lead to subjugation.
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In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari make a startling pronouncement: "Drug users, masochists, schizophrenics, lovers—all BwOs [Bodies without Organs] pay homage to Spinoza.” This essay seeks to explain the paradoxical association of self-destruction with Spinoza's affirmative philosophy of self-mastery. I examine how Deleuze and Guattari develop the concept of the BwO, the signal figure of their philosophy of immanence, in dialogue with Spinoza's Ethics, and how, to reassess their exuberant championing of revolutionary deterritorialization in Anti-Oedipus, they investigate, through the figure of the "empty" BwO, the circumstances under which Spinoza's project of becoming active can lead to subjugation.
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