Critique, subtraction and virtuality. Meillassoux reader of Deleuze

Abstract

This article consists of a problematization of the reading that the French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux makes of Gilles Deleuze’s ontology. First, we examine two critiques that Meillassoux addresses to Deleuze’s thought, which refer to the concept of living matter and the continuity between matter, life and subjectivity. Then, we explore Meillassoux’s reconstruction of Deleuze’s ontology based on a subtractive model. Finally, as a thesis, we explain that the concept of virtuality, proposed by Meillassoux, can be understood as a radicalization or a liberation of the problem of the virtual, which corresponds to Deleuze’s ontology.