Nietzsche - Man... a chain of forces...

by Maria Odete Madeira

“Eu que sou filho da terra, sinto as doenças do sol como se fossem eclipses meus (…)” (Nietzsche, The Will to Power)

“I, that am son of the earth, feel the diseases of the sun as if they were my eclipses (…)”

For Nietzsche, the “I” is a sort of animal, an individuation constituted by chains of multiple forces articulated between each other and whose motion of rotation displaces itself incessantly in the direction of other forces upon which it exerts its pressure, growing or diminishing, rizhomating in accordance with the trajects and trajectivities.

Man… a chain of forces dependent upon all the cosmic forcers, man… a territory of fluxes of individuated forces, whose frontiers are critically situated between two limits: the infinitely large and the infinitely small, and…, yet, unpredictable, and…, as any small particle, man is a being in itself, simultaneously potential/virtual and actual, simultaneously wave and particle.