Is a (naked) Life like a(n) (empty) Swimmingpool?

Abstract

This article discusses the concept of a life, proposed by Gilles Deleuze over several times in his work and, overall, in what is considered his last text, L’Immanence: une vie ... It also places him in touch with interpretation tried by Agamben, through the approximation of a life into the concept of naked life. Finally, it introduces the concept of bare life, a variant that functions as some sort of passage between Agamben’s naked life and Deleuze’s a life.