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faculties” (DI 64). For this reason, aesthetic judgment does not express the legislation <strong>of</strong> one<br />

determined faculty over nature that is subject to it, but rather expresses the agreement <strong>of</strong><br />

generated faculties in their own agreement, one the one hand, and nature, on the other.<br />

“Precisely, however, since this agreement is external to the agreement <strong>of</strong> the faculties among<br />

themselves, and since it defines only the occasion when our faculties do agree, the purpose<br />

connected with the beautiful is not part <strong>of</strong> aesthetic judgment. From that point on, this agreement<br />

without goal can serve, without risking contradiction, as a genetic principle <strong>of</strong> the a priori<br />

agreement <strong>of</strong> the faculties in this judgment” (DI 65). In this sense, if “the first thing that the<br />

Copernican Revolution teaches us is that it is we who are giving the orders” (KCP 14), the first<br />

thing that the Copernican Counter-Revolution teaches us is that we are giving the orders that<br />

nature herself happens to be giving. In Difference and Repetition, Deleuze argues, that being is<br />

univocal. “The words ‘everything is equal’ may therefore resound joyfully, on condition that<br />

they are said <strong>of</strong> that which is not equal in this equal, univocal Being: equal being is immediately<br />

present in everything, without mediation or intermediary, even though things reside unequally in<br />

this equal being” (DR 37). I explain in what exact sense the aesthetic judgment ‘this is beautiful’<br />

expresses the free accord <strong>of</strong> the faculties <strong>of</strong> imagination and understanding as well as reason.<br />

It is not the object but rather the form <strong>of</strong> the object that we judge to be beautiful. “But<br />

what representations can, in aesthetic judgement [‘this is beautiful’], have this higher pleasure as<br />

its effect? Since the material existence <strong>of</strong> the object remains indifferent, it is once again a case <strong>of</strong><br />

the representation <strong>of</strong> a pure form. But this time it is a form <strong>of</strong> the object” (KCP 47). We must<br />

understand this point correctly. The form <strong>of</strong> the object that we judge to be beautiful is not the<br />

form <strong>of</strong> intuition. In other words, we do not judge space and time to be beautiful. Deleuze argues<br />

that sensibility is not a representation. “Strictly speaking, intuition, even if it is a priori is not a<br />

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