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these principles)” (Patton 288). In other words, becoming is inseparable from an affect. “For the
affect is not a personal feeling, nor is it a characteristic; it is the effectuation of a power of the
pack that throws the self into upheaval and makes it reel” (TP 240). Morality, specifically
psychoanalysis, wants to stop the becoming of the living body. “The BwO howls: ‘They’ve made
me an organism! They’ve wrongfully folded me! They’ve stolen my body!’ The judgment of
God uproots it from its immanence and makes it an organism, a signification, a subject” (TP
159). On the other hand, Deleuze and Guattari argue, in favour of the becoming of the living
body. “Where psychoanalysis says, ‘Stop, find yourself again,’ we should say instead, ‘Let’s go
further still, we haven’t found our BwO yet, we haven’t sufficiently dismantled our self’...Find
your body without organs. Find out how to make it. It’s a question of life and death, youth and
old age, sadness and joy” (TP 151). It is in this sense that Capitalism and Schizophrenia is an
ethical project. In the preface to Anti-Oedipus Foucault writes: “I would say that Anti-Oedipus
(may its authors forgive me) is a book of ethics, the first book of ethics to be written in France in
quite a long time” (AO xiii). This is an ethics of becoming. “He does not live nature as nature,
but as a process of production. There is no such thing as either man or nature now, only a process
that produces one within the other and couples the machines together. Producing-machines,
desiring-machines everywhere, schizophrenic machines, all of species life: the self and the non-
self, outside and inside, no longer have any meaning whatsoever” (AO 2). Perhaps in The Logic
of Sense Deleuze describes the most extreme example of becoming.
In The Logic of Sense Deleuze makes several ontological distinctions. In the first
instance, he talks about bodies. The relationship among bodies is causality. “There are no causes
and effects among bodies. Rather, all bodies are causes—causes in relation to each other” (LS 4).
When bodies cause each other they mix and produce certain states of affairs. “First, there are
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