Wednesday, February 16, 2011

First Series of Paradoxes of Pure Becoming

The first series of becoming is the DNA, the ontological substance that the rest of the book attempts to unravel. Becoming is paradoxical as something that is becoming is never "being", that is static, essential, definable. An electron, for example, is a particle that exhibits this characteristic. Explained by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, one can never discover an electron's position and velocity at the same time. It is by definition, undefinable. Becoming is being without limit, becoming is the force which causes revolutions, and dissolutions of identity, and apocalypses of common sense. The entire rest of the book is devoted to discovering what Deleuze would call, the "being of becoming", that is, the ontological status of an undefinable paradox.

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