appendix two

WHO THINKS FOR US?

Deleuze on Spinoza:

“There is no longer a subject, but only affective states that individuate anonymous force. Here, the plane contains only movements and stillness, dynamic affective loads: the plane will be gradually perceived through what makes us perceive it. We do not live, think, or write in the same manner on one plane or another. Goethe, or even Hegel in certain aspects, could have been taken for Spinozists. But they are not truly so because they have never ceased to reconnect the plane to the organization of a Form and the formation of a Subject. The true Spinozists are rather Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche, as they think in terms of speeds and slownesses, frozen catatonias and accelerated movements, unformed elements, non-subjectified affects.”