What surveys itself? Ruyerian Neofinalism and Deleuzo-Guattarian immanentism
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The same concept lies at the center of Raymond Ruyer’s metaphysics and that of Deleuze and Guattari, which the latter borrow from the former: self-survey. Some transversal domains of reality, overturning established divisions, may share this characteristic of surveying themselves. By inserting this concept into a fundamental tripartition of reality that breaks with Ruyer’s apparent bipartition (which is ultimately reduced to a monism of domains of survey), Deleuze and Guattari give it three decisive inflections. First, that which is surveyed does not belong to that which surveys as though it were a distinct instance: it purely and simply becomes one with it. Second, that which surveys itself does not characterize a unified domain, an individual unity, but a kind of multiplicity that is irreducible in itself or to any other kind. Third, that which surveys itself may relate to an outside: however, this is not a transcendent outside for which it would merely be the finalized actualization (along the model of human activity), but only its outside, an immanent outside from which it escapes in order to create itself as such (along the model of natural selection). These three transformations of the concept of self-survey explain how their metaphysics is an immanentism – quite unlike Ruyer’s neofinalism.”
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