the above question has had variable resonances for me, depending on how i feel situated with D&G. colin once told me he was afraid of deleuze, or something to that effect. i discovered that the question was the title of a work on D&G. the two moments came together and made me consider what this fear is, what it means; or, better, what it does ( Read more... )

The events-effects outlined in series two have an 'essential' relationship to language - it is of their nature to be 'expressed or expressible.' However, in order to assess the nature of this relationship, Deleuze must now detail the relations within a proposition - one cannot merely say that the concept of the event is particularly suited to ( Read more... )

is the internet, overall, a positive or negative development?

answers please

don't tell me it's a flawed question

We move from Lewis Carroll to the Stoics, as promised. I don't know much about the Stoics, but Deleuze seems to be giving us everything we need to know of them for his purposes ( Read more... )

Deleuze begins to develop his idea of 'pure events' - a becoming which eludes the present - one becomes taller than one was, whilst simultaneously being smaller than one becomes. The idea of something which pulls in two directions is reminiscent of the scene in Thus Spoke Zarathustra where Zarathustra imagines a gateway from which paths stretch in ( Read more... )

The preface is subtitled 'From Lewis Carroll to the Stoics', giving a clear sense of the two main resources Deleuze is drawing on for this work. Whether this bears out during the course of the text is another thing - his 'pick-me-up' method, as its designated in Dialogues II, tends to make enumerating the sources of his ideas very difficult. ( Read more... )

if you were to ask, for instance, "what song best represents you?" i would of course be obliged to respond in a most tedious fashion: "well, what do we mean by this talk of representing oneself? do we feel that i have an essence that i may express indirectly?..." and i would hate it and so would you. and rightly so ( Read more... )

i know most of my posts are about deleuze these days, but ( Read more... )

GOBAMA!


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Home is where one starts from. As we grow older ( Read more... )