According to Deleuze, a body is understood through its velocity and affect. Considering ethology as a comprehensive study of affect, Deleuze affirms that “ethics is an ethology”. Similarly, aesthetics can also be considered as an ethology. For Del...
According to Deleuze, a body is understood through its velocity and affect. Considering ethology as a comprehensive study of affect, Deleuze affirms that “ethics is an ethology”. Similarly, aesthetics can also be considered as an ethology. For Deleuze and Guattari, art originates already within Nature. Art begins with animals which create territories using the materials of expression of nature, as seen in Scenopoïetes. Territorialization is a concrete condition in which differences are made through distances, and various forces are combined to form a new kind of power. As we can see in the territorialization of the birds and the architecture of the human beings, the agencement of heterogenious elements has the consistency and consolidation as its immanent and empiricist principle. In Deleuze and Guattari's ethology, affect and the Umwelt branch into ethics, while ritornello and territorialization into aesthetics. Ethics aims for the multiplication and intensification of affects, while art involves the use of expressive material, the formation of territories and styles, and connecting with forces of the outside.