Deleuze e a instauração das sensações

Abstract

Deleuze presents a totally new way of thinking about art, considering it as a mode of thought in itself. Along with science and philosophy, art is also an expression of thought, though each one of these is irreducible and produces itself necessarily by its own means. Above all, art is the establishment of sensations, i. e., as long as this last term has nothing to do with the cognitive correspondence between subject and object. Now, because of art´s excessive nature, no perception, personal memory, subjective state or feeling are able to produce it or achieve it, either as cause or effect. It is required to art to be able to sustain itself regardless of any creator, spectator or model. Thus, as a block of percepts and affects, art has not the function of representing the world or actualizing some preexistent thing, rather it creates possibles . The aesthetic plan of composition is autonomous; involves a vibrating or excitation condition without its motor, organic extension. Indeed, opening up to the Outside (an immanent field of forces) determines the artistic individuation, and exposes the essentially inhuman character of art and its development in nature, which starts precisely with the urgent qualitative and non-functional territorial cutting that the animal can perform. Therefore, free from all organicity, motricity and personal affairs, the artist ultimately creates singularities that don´t fit in the field of understanding and recognition, always funding a new way of thinking. When one gets rid of representations, the will to truth is abandoned to let another will become the master of the spirit the will to power. This is the actual meaning of the establishment of sensation: to raise false to its highest degree of power.