Transformation:
Combining Forces in a Nexus
or
A Recipe for Formation
of a Landscape
By choosing a variety of forces from time of year and time of day
to weather and sounds, Wordsworth figures and re-figures the
objects encountered in his Guide to the District of the
Lakes. Objects no longer have their own individuality;
rather, their existence is determined by the neighborhoods in
which they reside. Individuality, then, no longer entails
subject-object relations but rather the play of forces in the
composition of fields or series. The haecceity or "this-ness" of
the thing changes.Combining Forces in a Nexus
or
A Recipe for Formation of a Landscape
There is a mode of individuation very different from that of a
person, subject, thing, or substance. We reserve the name
haecceity for it. A season, a winter, a summer, an hour, a
date have a perfect individuality lacking nothing, even though
this individuality is different from that of a thing or a
subject. They are haecceitites in the sense that they consist
entirely of relations of movement and rest between molecules or
particles, capacities to affect and to be affected. When
demonology expounds upon the diabolical art of local movements
and transports of affect, it also notes the importance of rain,
hail, wind, pestilential air, or air polluted by noxious
particles, favorable conditions for these transports. Tales must
contain haecceities that are not simply emplacements, but
concrete individuations that have a status of their own and
direct the metamorphosis of things and subjects.
(Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guittari, Thousand Plateaus
261)
Perform the Transformation