A Degree of Heat Can Combine with an Intensity of White, as in Certain White Skies of a Hot Summer
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 haecceities in the sense that they consist entirely of relations of movement and rest between molecules or particles, capacities to affect and be affected.
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A degree of heat can combine with an intensity of white, as in certain white skies of a hot summer. This is in no way an individuality of the instant, as opposed to the individuality of permanences or durations. A tear-off calendar has just as much time as a perpetual calendar, although the time in question is not the same. There are animals that live no longer than a day or an hour; conversely, a group of years can be as long as the most durable subject or object.
~Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia ~ (Trans. Brian Massumi) ~ Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P, 2005 / pg 261
