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1 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 14. This essay is an expansion of ideas first developed in “De Sacher-Masoch au masochisme” in Arguments 5.21 (Jan.–Apr. 1961): 40–46.

2 For a more detailed presentation of the “parable of the house” in biological theory, see Gould 626.

3 Aristotle, ii 1, 412b5–6.

4 Ibid., ii 1, 412a20–1; and similarly, that it “is a first actuality of a natural body which has life in potentiality” (ii 1, 412a27–8).

5 Ibid., ii 1, 412b10–24.

6 Nussbaum and Rorty, chapter 4 (“Hylomorphism and Functionalism”).

7 Protevi 8.

8 Appel.

9 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 26.

10 Deleuze and Guattari cite Simondon's major works L’Individu et sa genèse physico-biologique and Du mode d’existence des objets techniques in several instances, particularly in “1227: Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine,” A Thousand Plateaus 457 n. 28, 555 n. 33, 508/408. Little has been translated into English from Simondon, although there is a translation of the Introduction to Simondon, “The Genesis of the Individual.” See also Deleuze, “Review of Gilbert Simondon's ‘L’Individu et sa genèse physico-biologique (1966)’” 43–49.

11 Deleuze and Guattari, What is Philosophy? 22.

12 Simondon, “The Genesis of the Individual” 301–02.

13 Ibid. 300.

14 For a breadth of impacts and of hylomorphism and its critique, see Protevi.

15 Simondon, “The Genesis of the Individual” 315. It is also worth noting Simondon's definition given in the second part of his individuation thesis:a physical, biological, mental, or social operation by means of which an activity propagates itself from one situation to another within a given domain, basing this propagation on a structuring of the domain operating from one place to another: each region of the constituted structure serves the following region as a principle and example, as a beginning of its constitution, so that a modification extends itself progressively at the same time as this structuring operation. (Simondon, L’Individuation psychique et collective 24–25)

16 Protevi 8, 147.

17 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 408.

18 Simondon, L’Individu et sa genèse physico-biologique 40.

19 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 118 (for instance).

20 Foucault 106.

21 Ibid. 166.

22 Patton 24.

23 Deleuze and Guattari, What is Philosophy? 21.

24 Ibid. 65.

25 Patton 24.

26 Deleuze and Guattari, What is Philosophy? 69.

27 Lacan.

28 Holland 57.

29 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 118.

30 Ibid. 14.

31 Ibid.

32 Ibid.

33 Smith xvii.

34 Bogue 144.

35 Simondon, “The Genesis of the Individual” 305.

36 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 150.

37 Ibid.

38 Ibid. 408.

39 Ibid.

40 Simondon, “The Genesis of the Individual” 300; my emphasis.

41 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 26.

42 Ibid. 74.

43 Ibid. 69.

44 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 150. Deleuze and Guattari also assert of the BwO: “you can’t desire without making one”; ibid. 149.

45 Ibid. 152.

46 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 22.

47 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 408.

48 Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical 162.

49 Deleuze, Foucault 91.

50 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 378.

51 Ibid. 408.

52 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 83.

53 Ibid. 75.

54 Ibid. 63.

55 Sacher-Masoch 278.

56 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 121.

57 Ibid. 91.

58 Ibid. 88.

59 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 152.

60 Simondon, L’Individu et sa genèse physico-biologique 48–49.

61 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 410–18.

62 Protevi 193.

63 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 92.

64 Ibid. 20.

65 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 155.

66 Ibid.

67 Ibid. 260.

68 Ibid. 153.

69 Ibid. 408.

70 Ibid.

71 Simondon, “The Genesis of the Individual” 304.

72 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 69. According to Deleuze, in “Re-presentation of Sacher-Masoch” in Essays Critical and Clinical, Masoch's key idea was “waiting or suspense as plenitude” (53–54).

73 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 51.

74 Ibid. 70.

75 Ibid.

76 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 154.

77 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 33.

78 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 150.

79 Ibid. 153.

80 Ibid.

81 Deleuze, “Coldness and Cruelty” 93.

82 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus 153.

83 Ibid. 151.