ABSTRACT
The frisson between language and matter is vividly described and brought to life by Barad (2007) in her use of terms such as 'intra-action' and 'entanglement'. The intensities that are the life force of these 'entanglements' are the very stuff of these inquiries; 'after finitude' (Meillassoux, 2008) their complexity is integral to the becoming of this madness as methodology. Deleuze's 'logic of sense' helps to animate a shift away from (not an abandonment of) the world of ideas and the separation of mind and body that emanate from the a priori thinking of Cartesian logics of reason. In drawing upon the work of the Stoics, Deleuze argues that 'there are bodies with their tensions, physical qualities, actions and passions, and the corresponding "states of affairs"'. The philosophy of Spinoza offers us the opportunity to engage with potentialities. The madness of Whitman's writing, as he senses 'life (growing) more beautiful and heroic', passionately advocates the human.
