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February 22, 2006
In his Nietzsche & Philosophy Deleuze asks: 'What is the body?' He answers:
We do not define it by saying that it is field of forces, a nutrient medium fought over by a plurality of forces. For in fact there no "medium", no field of forces or battle. There is no quantity of reality, all reality is already quantity of force. There are nothing but quantities of force in mutual relations of tension. Every force is related to others and it obeys or commands. What defines a body is this relation betwen dominant and dominated forces.....every body is living, being the "arbitrary" product of the forces of which it is composed...In a body the superior or dominant forces are known as active and the inferior or dominated forces are known as reactive
Deleuze implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, produces philosophical concepts of his own. This work blurs the line between interpretation and creation.
The blurring involves a strong interpretation. Deleuze once described his method of interpreting philosophers as "buggery", as sneaking behind an author and producing an offspring which is recognizably his, yet also monstrous and different.
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