The dividual remainder. For a Deleuzian history of dividuality (Bergson, Spinoza, Simondon)

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Control, as a form of power, operates through the dividual modulation of experience. In opposition to the enclosed confinements proper to disciplinary societies, tendencies of dematerialisation present in contemporary capitalism, such as immaterial labour, big data or even conceptual art, indicate the rise of a rapidly shifting system of varying geometry. Production, for instance, no longer takes place solely inside a rigid and stratified milieu (the factory), but can emerge in the midst of a self-transmuting molding in continuous division (the enterprise, the startup). If contemporary authors, such as Joshua Simon (2013), Gerald Raunig (2016), or Pablo Rodríguez (2019), have explored this dividual partition of experience in relation to art practices, financial debt, the digital world, and the rise of the informational episteme, a properly deleuzian account of this process is yet to be explored. The aim of our presentation is to sketch a The aim of our presentation is to sketch a philosophical genealogy of dividuality following Deleuze's work, particularly between 1966 and1968, on figures such as Henri Bergson, Baruch Spinoza, and Gilbert Simondon. More precisely, we think that a « Deleuzian history of dividuality » can be established from a focus on categories such as quality, quantity and individuation according to three moments: 1. The determination of the indivisible character of qualitative multiplicity contained in Bergsonism (1966); 2. The quantitative divisibility proper to modal essences understood as pars intensiva developed in Expressionism in Philosophy (1968); 3. the adoption of the Simondonian philosophy of individuation in Difference and Repetition (1968), according to which indivisibility pertains solely to the fact that its constituting factors « do not divide without also changing in nature ». This genealogy could then not only provide elements of interest for thinking the ontology of control, but it could also trace historical elements that point to the undermining of this form of power, e.g. the notion of intensity defined as an intensive quantity.