A Life of Pure Immanence, Neutral, Beyond Good and Evil
We will say of pure immanence that it is A LIFE, and nothing else. It is not immanence to life, but the immanent that is in nothing is itself a life. A life is the immanence of immanence, absolute immanence: it is complete power, complete bliss.
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The life of the individual gives way to an impersonal and yet singular life that releases a pure event freed from the accidents of internal and external life, that is, from the subjectivity and objectivity of what happens: a “Homo tantum” with whom everyone empathizes and who attains a sort of beatitude. It is a haecceity no longer of individuation but of singularization: a life of pure immanence, neutral, beyond good and evil, for it was only the subject that incarnated it in the midst of things that made it good or bad. The life of such individuality fades away in favor of the singular life immanent to a person who no longer has a name, though they can be mistaken for no other.
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But we shouldn’t enclose life in the single moment when individual life confronts universal death. A life is everywhere, in all the moments that a given living subject goes through and that are measured by given lived objects: an immanent life carries with it the events or singularities that are merely actualized in subjects and objects. This indefinite life does not itself have moments„ close as they may be to one another, but only between-times, between-moments; it doesn’t just come about or come after but offers the immensity of an empty time where one sees the event as yet to come and already happened, in the absolute of an immediate consciousness.
~Gilles Deleuze
Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life ~ {trans. Anne Boyman} ~ NY : Zone, 2001
