What is involved is no longer the affirmation of a single substance, but rather the laying out of a common plane of immanence on which all bodies, all minds and all individuals are situated. This plane of immanence or consistency is a
plan, but not in the sense of a mental design, a project, a program; it is a plan in the geometric sense: a section, an intersection, a diagram. Thus, to be in the middle of Spinoza is to be on this model plane, or rather to install oneself on this plane - which implies a mode of living, a way of life. What is this plane and how does one construct it? For at the same it is fully a plane of immanence, and yet it has to be constructed if one is to live in a Spinozist manner.¹

...scrappy cardboard, cheap plywood, recycled magazine pages, brown packing tape, clear cellophane wrap and, importantly, gold- and silver-coloured aluminium foil.²

For his Manhattan gallery debut in 2002, Thomas Hirschhorn transformed the gallery into a giant network of caves. He did so using his trademark materials of cardboard and tape, as well as by including a number of reading materials and signs pasted on the make-shift walls, as if the caves were occupied by some truly underground political group. Besides being an inversion of the white cube that would make Brian O'Doherty proud, Hirschhorn's installation also alluded to man's early habitat in caves such as Lascaux, but also to contemporary and quite topical ones, such as the caves in Afghanistan where Osama Bin Laden is or was supposed to