Explain: "It is our era which has discovered perversion." (280) What is perverse is the moment of deviation, declension, hesitation, stuttering, suspense, break, swerve, clinamen: "This differentiation never suppressing the undifferentiated [Aion] which is divided in it." (281) Hence, Sade was a geophilosopher.
Page 281: On the formation of the BwO, the "glorious body" from a "pure mind" at the moment of the Event.
Page 281: On the replacement of G-d with structure, geophilosophy, the Pascal diagram, etc. Our whole belief structure, our most holy ideals, including G-d, is now within the domain of the structure of the Event.
Compare Deleuze's writing here on seeing and speaking to his discussion in Foucault of Foucault's distinction between the visible and the statable, or the seeable and the sayable. (282) The point of the Pascal diagram is the same -- the Fibonacci spirals that make up the Pascal diagram can have a seeable shape or they can be spread out and elongated over a line like a pulsing vein (or an infinite straight-line labyrinth (Borges)). The event is this communication between the two forms, where we are converting the structure containing difference-in-itself from one form to the other. Cf. this post. "The function of sight consists in doubling, dividing, and multiplying,
whereas the function of the ear consists in resonating, in bringing
about resonance." (283) Compare here going up or down in the same (golden) ratio among the fibonacci series (the Pascal diagram, i.e. sight) vs. using an elliptical curve (sound, resonance between a hammer, anvil, and stirrup) to factor a number. Sight and sound are the two levels of the Baroque house which can actually switch or invert.
Page 283: On setting your perspective outside of yourself (cf. Buddhism). This multiplicative act of self is in fact the raw elemental Event at a personal level -- a self-division. The space between the multiplicative selves the potential energy whose release can be termed jouissance, but the content of which is the "idea of Evil". (284)
"Language imitates bodies...through flexion." (286) The point here being that geophilosophy and structure is not just an abstract metaphysical exercise. It is in the world; it is in the structures evidenced in literature, art, and film, which in turn have some basis in reality. This is the "reality" of Deleuzian space.
Deleuze, quoting the introduction to the Klossowski's translation of the Aeneid, "Words are...woven." (286)
Page 287: See this post for more on the return of the not-same. Repetition "authenticates the different." "Repetition is found in the intensity of the Different." (289) So when Deleuze says repetition "produces the only "same" of that which differs, within the Pascal diagram, we are talking about the GCD.
Page 288: On the gift and exchange as Event.
Page 289: Woman as pure intensity, difference-in-itself.
Page 289: Pure intensities are risings and falls.
Page 289: On the conversion from language reclaimed by the crystalline ("frozen") structure and made a "spiritual event" of it.
"There can be no transgression in the carnal act, if it is not lived as a spiritual event." (289)
"Repetition authenticates the multiple, and makes of it a spiritual event." (289)
Page 291: Quiet, silence, neutrality as a provocation to aggression.
Page 291: "Pure language" (e.g. fibonaccis) create thought (combinatorial conjunctions), while "impure language" (e.g. numbers that have not been fully reduced to their factors overwhelm the listener and generate "pure silence" (e.g. fibonaccis). As Deleuze cites Le Baphomet, "either the words are recalled but their sense remains obscure; or the sense appears when the memory of the words disappears." ""Pure silence surrounds words that are not "pure"". (300)
Page 292: On incommunicability, incompossibility, and the "privative function of a person". This says to me that like language and bodies, we all have our own person number built from primes which is unique and which we and others try hard to decode and re-encode every day such that we are not "assumed by a nature either inferior or superior to our own".
Page 292: On the incarnation of G-d vis-a-vis Jesus. The event as spiritual "treason".
"G-d is presented as the principle or master of the disjuctive syllogism." (294) G-d (later connected by Deleuze and Klossowski to Antichrist, Baphomet), like Aion, is itself difference-in-itself, pure intensity, an aleatory point.
Page 295: On reason (as a faculty, machine) vs. the categories/indices. (cf. Kant) This division enacts a paradox similar to What the Tortoise Said to Achilles.
Page 295: Free will is an illusion. There is no choice; G-d or the pure difference is the unmoved mover, the third man, the "master" of the disjunctive syllogism, arriving from out of a blind spot.
G-d == "the sum total of all possibility" == Aion. (295-296) Later, connected by Deleuze and Klossowski to Antichrist, Baphomet, G-d become the "prince of all modifications", "modification of modifications" (2nd derivative == affirmation of affirmation). (296) "Divergence and disjunction as such become the object of affirmation." (300)
"Intensities comprehend in themselves the unequal or the different." (297)
"All simulacra rise to the surface, forming this mobile figure at the crest of the waves of intensity -- an intense phantasm." (298) Cf. "A little bit of time rises to the surface" (Cinema), "all that is solid melts into air" (Marx), the intensities moving through the sieve of singularities of the Pascal diagram, etc.
"As for the passage from intensity to intentionality, it is the passage from sign to sense." (298) Later D connects this to the eternal return. (299)
"That I may be another...is the joyful message." (298)
"At the same time that bodies lose their unity and the self its identity, language loses its denoting function (its distinct sort of integrity) in order to discover a value that is purely expressive or, as Klossowski says, "emotional." (299) This is "pure spirit".
The will to power == "open intensity". (300)
Page 300: On the singularity as the "fortuitous" miraculating machine. It passes through all its "disjoint terms that it simultaneously affirms." These are all the (diagonal) terms in the number's fibonacci sequence. These terms are the sense which is "distributed" (into series) over the circumference of the circle. (301) "Difference here is at the center, and the circumference is the eternal passage through the divergent series." Like the gyre. Again, the link to Derrida.
Page 301: All that makes a "negative" use of a disjunction (singularity) does not come back with the eternal return. How the meek will inherit the earth, the first will be last, etc.
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