can we talk about intensities for a moment? I have a rusty memory, so if I once had a good idea, today when I picked up AO after a rest, I wasn't too clear on what is meant by "intensity." There is often talk of "zones" or "fields" of intensity, or of flows of various intensities
(
Read more... )
Comments 5
Intensities, in my opinion, are linked to desiring-production. In the individual its the connection between flows of labor-power, production, and libidinal desire creates zones of intensity in the self.
Sexual desire might leave different body parts - breast, mouth, or anus, and invest in different territories - the desire for sounds, for color, movements, etc. Disjunction is the anti-binary. Life should never be reduced to the logic of contradiction. Either you're with us or against us, as our great president once said about the War on Terror. Intensities are a way of navigating between the gray area in between vast polarizations.
Reply
I know Deleuze cautions (in the logic of sense) against reading the univocity of being as being about identity, which would mean that it isn't saying "there is one thing = the one thing there is) but i think maybe it is also about identity... the very idea of the identity of being being altered by deleuze. my idea i nmy first comment was that maybe intensities were a way to navigate this area of simultaneous oneness & multiplicity.
Reply
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment