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February 18, 2007
I found this text Johan Normark quite useful in coming to grips with Deleuze and Delanda: It states that DeLanda, in Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy (p.203) has made a list of 7 main components in the ontology of Deleuze. This is DeLanda's reconstruction of Deleuze's ontology from Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy.
Normark says:
The first (1) component is the abstract intensive spatium where intensities become organized. It is a virtual continuum of multiplicities in a non-metric (non-Eucledian) space. This is also the machinic phylum, the body without organs, and the plane of immanence in some of Deleuze and Guattari’s texts.
A continuum of multiplicities: that's the key.
Normark says that the other components are:
(2) Intensities that form multiplicities and individuations. This is the becoming of the world; (3) A line of flight that creates a communication between the virtual multiplicities; (4) Linkages and movements form a system or a network; (5) A self-organizing formation of spatio-temporal dynamism by singularities (the intensive).
Normark then adds that:
The intensive processes are followed by; (6) The differentiation of the intensive into qualities and extensions (actual multiplicities/polyagents) or the geometrical/measurable (Eucledian) world we perceive; (7) Centres of envelopment, such as codes, which creates differences between the organic and the nonorganic. This is the fluid and monistic frame for how matter and materiality emerge.
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