Abstrakt
In Gilles Deleuze's writings about art we can trace the main line of his thought regarded the domain of aesthetics. When Imannuel Kant speaks about aesthetics in two different meanings; first as a theory of sensibility in which we seek for a priori forms of possible experience, and second as a theory of art concerning reflexion on real experience, in Deleuze's texts are these two poles reunited.
For Deleuze the work of art is monument which produces percepts and affects which semiotically constituted. These signs by affecting us, our body, our sensation, creating a situation in which we are feeling pushed out of our ordinary habits of perception.
We are thus exposured to the event of sensation itself, but much more: in this moment we are affected (real experience) but also we experience (through the work of art) conditions of this real experience. This is just what can be said in formal way about art.
But Deleuze doesn't end here. He continues, that the work of art cannot communicate with us but rather works as a mediator through which we can "become someone or something else" (animal, etc.).
Art and aesthetics is in this sense productive in the strong meaning: through work of art a man can achieve a specific "line of flight" and flee from his identity and become someone/something else. And this is why is work of art defined like a monument of percepts and affects.
Affects are fundamentally molecular, permanently in motion and only because of them can a man explore what his body is capable of.