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Immanent Authorship 33 Beck also suggests that the final work will always be more than the sum of its parts and therefore cannot be quantified in terms of individual contributions. Indeed, he suggests that contributions as such cannot be measured: The person who talks least may be the one who inspires the one who talks most. At the end no one knows who was really responsible for what, the individual ego drifts into darkness … everyone has greater personal satisfaction than the satisfaction of the lonely ‘I’.

In collective creation, Beck suggests, a group of people comes together. There is no author to rest on who wrests the creative impulse from you … We sit around for months talking, absorbing, discarding, making an atmosphere in which we not only inspire each other but in which each one feels free to say whatever he or she wants to say … In the process a form presents itself. ) Immanent Authorship 33 Beck also suggests that the final work will always be more than the sum of its parts and therefore cannot be quantified in terms of individual contributions.

But some philosophers – such as Spinoza, but also Nietzsche and Bergson – were less susceptible to this disease than others, and become the resources that enable Deleuze to develop an alternative, immanent account of the relationship between subjects and the world, between beings – including human beings – and Being, in the Immanent Authorship 27 sense of existence in general. Being, Deleuze says in Difference and Repetition, is univocal: ‘Being is said in a single and the same sense of everything of which it is said, but that of which it is said differs: it is said of difference itself’ (Deleuze 1994: 36).

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