Molar concentration
Molar concentration (also called molarity, amount concentration or substance concentration) is a measure of the concentration of a chemical species, in particular of a solute in a solution, in terms of amount of substance per unit volume of solution.
– In A Thousand Plateaus Deleuze and Guattari apply the ‘molar’ and ‘molecular’ to political bodies. Molar entities belong to the State or the civic world. They are well defined, often massive, and are affiliated with a governing apparatus. Their molecular counterparts are micro-entities, politics that transpire in areas where they are rarely perceived: in the perception of affectivity, where beings share ineffable sensations; in the twists and turns of conversation having nothing to do with the state of the world at large; in the manner, too, that a pedestrian in a city park sees how the leaves of a linden tree might flicker in the afternoon light. The shifting to and from molar and molecular forms can be associated not only with deterritorialisation but also the very substance and effect of events that begin and end with swarms and masses of micro-perceptions.
Molecules often aggregate and swarm into active masses of molar aspect and vice versa. In The Fold Deleuze suggests that events, the very product of philosophy and determining features of perception, depend on the prehension of the textures of elements in terms of their wholes and the parts that swirl and toss within them or on their very surfaces. The process entails grasping a ‘chaosmos’ that becomes discernible through the categories of the molar and molecular. Deleuze is in turn enabled to study matter as a function of mass, hardness, and of ‘coherence, cohesion’ (D 1993a: 6). He projects the distinction onto the body in so far as it can be appreciated in its elasticity and fluidity. Thus, with the ‘molar’ the philosopher correlates surfaces with structures, masses with territories, and vibrations or waves with landscapes. –
From The Deleuze dictionary
Molaire concentratie
De molaire concentratie (of de molariteit) is een maat voor de sterkte van een oplossing van een stof. Ze wordt gedefinieerd als het aantal mol opgeloste stof per liter oplossing.
Onder werkelijkheid en volmaaktheid versta ik hetzelfde
Spinoza, Ethica 2 definitie 6
Volmaaktheid en onvolmaaktheid zijn dus in feite slechts modi van denken, begrippen namelijk die wij gewend zijn te verzinnen omdat wij individuele dingen van hetzelfde soort of geslacht met elkaar vergelijken. Om deze reden heb ik hiervoor (del. 6 van dl. 2) gezegd dat ik onder werkelijkheid en volmaaktheid hetzelfde versta.
E 4, Woord Vooraf
relations
One may pass from one body to another, however different, simply by changing the relation between its ultimate parts. For its is only relations that change in the universe as a whole, whose parts remain the same.
Gilles Deleuze – Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza
Why Spinoza never completed the Treatise on the Intellect
We may suppose, then, that the discovery of the common notions occurs precisely at the end of the edited part of the Treatise, and at the beginning of the writing of the Ethics: in about 1661 – 1662. But why would this discovery have forced Spinoza to abandon the already-existing version of the Treatise? The explanation is that the common notions emerge at a time when they cannot fulfil their functions or develop their consequences. They are discovered too late relative to the text of the Treatise. They would have to establish a new point of departure for philosophy; but the point of departure has already ben set in geometric ideas.
They would have to determine an adequate mode of knowledge of what exists, and show how one passes from this mode of knowledge to the ultimate mode, knowledge of essences. But because the modes of knowledge have already been defined in the Treatise, there is no place left for the common notions or for the series of fixed and eternal things, which are thus shifted over to the ultimate mode of knowledge, with the knowledge of essences. In short, in order to give the common notions their place and function, it would have been necessary for Spinoza to rewrite the entire Treatise. It is not only that they invalidate the finished part, but they would have modified it. Spinoza prefers to write the Ethics form the perspective of the common notions, although it means postponing a new treatise that would have focussed on the practical problems that are merely outlined at the end of the Ethics, concerning the origin, the formation, and the series of these common notions, along with the corresponding experiment.
Deleuze – Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, p. 120 – 121
The common notions are an Art,
the art of the Ethics itself: organizing good encounters, composing actual relations, forming powers, experimenting.
Deleuze – Spinoza Practical Philosophy, p. 119














