ABSTRACT
The body’s power grows when entering a composition, or assemblage – affecting that composition and/or being affected by it – with something it desires and that can guarantee its ‘conatus maintenance.’ In an ethical and amoral perspective, this is a good, positive affect. In the Ethics, Spinoza claims that ‘every man, by the laws of his nature, necessarily desires or shrinks from that which he deems to be good or bad. According to Deleuze interpreting Spinoza, an amoral ethics shows immanent and qualitatively different modes of existence. Cities are ontogenetically part of the bodies’ individuation. Bodies relentlessly evolve and generate events, which, in turn, have ethical consequences for the urban realm. Urban space is intended as ontologically ethical in the sense that it constitutes the accustomed and affective dwelling, the place in which bodies are used to living.
