Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza
Deleuze reads Spinoza through expression and practical ethics, investigating bodies through relations and capacities rather than species labels alone. Historical interpretation works alongside conceptual invention.
This opens a passage towards productive desire. Desiring-production is nevertheless not another name for affectus; the distinct questions of the respective texts remain visible.
Source
Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza et le problème de l’expression (1968); Spinoza. Philosophie pratique (1981, expanded edition).
Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza seminar, 6 January 1981, The Deleuze Seminars, Purdue University.