http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/ProductSpotlight/Tone-Tips/albert-king-his-10-best-422/

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Eris

Something Rotten in the State of New Jersey

"It's a facsimile of life for those who hold fast to it..."

The Blue Note

Amen

http://www.constructingtheuniverse.com/Amen%20Break%20and%20GR.html

https://www.google.com/search?q=imponderabilia&oq=imponderabilia&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2644j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=93&espv=210&q=imponderabilia

This GOP debt ceiling/default debacle makes me think of a man (esp. Speaker Boehner) beholding the sight of his own anus.

"We are going to fail and within those failures, that's where the flavor lies." 

-- David Chang on cooking. 

from: http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/episodes/4612-Taste-Matters-Episode-97-David-Chang

http://awesomepeoplehangingouttogether.tumblr.com/post/45591225981/gilles-deleuze-jean-paul-sartre-et-michel

Logistic Map

Via MP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_of_Fermat%27s_little_theorem#Proof_by_counting_necklaces

"I felt like I gave the world a piece of me that I didn't know about." 
-- CL Smooth on the making of "T.R.O.Y.".

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425601942/192/joel-sternfeld-a-blind-man-in-his-garden-homer-alaska-july-1984-from-american-prospects-series.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixto_Rodriguez

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/06/12/herald-the-crack-of-bats/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyfn_Pripetshik

"Ruins, Emblems, Things"

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1978/oct/12/the-last-intellectual/?pagination=false

http://academiccoachtaylor.tumblr.com/image/23346989259

http://www.laduree.fr/

The Immanent Egg

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/09/05/050905fa_fact_bilger

“It’s entirely conceivable that life’s splendor surrounds us all, and always in it’s complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies —not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes. This is the essence of magic, which doesn’t create but calls.”

- Franz Kafka

http://rapgenius.com/Nas-halftime-lyrics#note-3778

You mean Jared?  You know I had an eerily similar thought not that long ago.  The last commercial where they honor him for like 10 years of weight loss he looks like a marrionette (sp) whose only purpose is having lost weight. (NB -- what is the moment where he was larger than he once was but  smaller than he will become).

> what's up man?  i think the new pioneers should do a story on jerry the subway guy.  his weight loss story has been so commodified that every time he appears in ads now it seems like his personhood has been stripped away.  like he is spot the budweiser dog now.
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http://revolvver.tumblr.com/post/40143934421

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=to-the-peak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TJ64ZWy6B-I

Twice we have been wrapped up in some kind of national drama and a catastrophe has come in from out of our collective blind spot, swept away the import of the previous discourse, and laid bare a "true" problem.  In the case of the 2012 election, Superstorm Sandy displaced the petty bickering between the two candidates, illustrating that the ongoing cataclysmic global warming is more important than any domestic squabbles.  Secondly, all the b.s. around the "fiscal cliff" (December 2012) was pushed into the background by the Newtown elementary school shooting, demonstrating the need for adequate gun control laws in the U.S.

No Man is

The Best Parody of the Events of May 1968?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4616099768327171653

You Don’t Know Jack: Kerouac Biographer Joyce Johnson and ‘The Voice Is All’ - The Daily Beast:

Finally, after years of suppressing his French-Canadian lineage in his writing, Kerouac experimented with writing openly about his Franco-American heritage in the blunt, plainspoken joual of his youth. This experiment in his native language, which occurred shortly before he sat down to write On the Road,gave his writing a certain intimacy. “It was a very direct first-person voice,” said Johnson, “frank and open—not the self-conscious literary voice he was using before. It was a voice that would lure an ardent legion of Kerouac disciples for decades to come, with unremitting lines that build momentum like freight trains:

'55

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WiK74i0bms

"Of this image of time, Deleuze retains (in L'image-temps) the continuity of "sheets of past" with the "peaks [pointes] of present," implying the cone is a vortical continuum; each sheet is a disk but also a winding stair continuing up and around in the "next" one, according to the Bergsonian formula of the flux, "interpenetration without succession."

Peter Canning, from Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy, p.80.

"What demons do is jump across intervals, and from one interval to another." (Dialogues, p. 40)

May '68

"What counts is what amounted to a visionary phenomenon, as if society suddenly saw what was intolerable in it and also saw the possibility for something else."

Two Regimes of Madness, p. 233-234.

"Intensity is itself differential, by itself a difference."

DR, p. 222.

"The Interval is Substance"

ATP, p.478.

"The collective assemblage is always like a murmur [rumeur] from which I take my proper name, the constellation of voices, concordant or not, from which I draw my voice."

ATP, p.84.

"It is almost as if every expressing subject contained others, each of which speaks a diverse language, the one in the other."

Deleuze, Two Regimes of Madness, p.371.

"The only way the one belongs to the multiple: always subtracted."

ATP, p.7.

http://books.google.com/books?id=H4XWdN4u4OgC&lpg=PA19&ots=h6zF2K2kXP&dq=kafka%20%22sober%20revolutionary%22&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q=kafka%20%22sober%20revolutionary%22&f=false

"Language stabilizes around a parish, a bishopric, a capital."

ATP, p.7.

"What is at the bottom of the psyche but a load of cat cough-ups?"

This is a table, this is an apple, this is a piece of wax...

From DR, 35.

Food Palate Map

I think the palate is perfect example of an intensive surface.  The palate is composed of five main assemblages (sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami).  All food is but a combination of these five attributes in the same way that a sound is a combination of frequencies.  The palate has sensitivities to certain tastes and sends this information up to the brain where it is translated emotionally (e.g. "Mmm, this pretzel is good and salty" or "This coffee is impotably bitter.").

One could write an essay on the stylistic consistency of the sounds that DJ Premier digs for samples and loops.  On one hand, it seems impossible that one might find a sample in a song such as the following, but once you hear the movement in the samples that he is going for (another example would be Above the Clouds), the sounds achieve consistency in the Deleuzian sense:
http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/11515/Gang%20Starr%20feat.%20M.O.P.-1/2%20%26%201/2_Jimmy%20Webb-Gymnast%27s%20Ballet%20%28Fingerpainting%29/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY3VwmiT3j4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIv4PHJqCnM

www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/04/06/books/20120406-BEATS-12.html

Humility

"The earth trembles and quakes with laughter at the arrogance of a ground that, in the span of an instant, can suffer obliteration."

Flaxman (2012), p.152.

Plane of Immanence

Percept and Affects

http://books.google.com/books?id=shBXkF8MIpsC&lpg=PA164&dq=percepts%20inauthor%3Adeleuze&pg=PA169#v=onepage&q&f=false

"Just as i learn to like ___, it seems that I can never reach ___.  There is the wall far above, the horizonless sky extends deeply and incongruently across my soul."

Eris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_%28mythology%29

"We are reminded of the grand finale of the Sophist: difference is displaced, division turns back on itself and begins to function in reverse."

Difference and Repetition, p. 68.

Les Mots et Les Choses

"For, the panic subsiding more and more every day, it will daily be seen how it originated; confidence will be more than restored; there will be a reaction; from the stock's descent its rise will be higher than from no fall, the holders trusting themselves to fear no second fate."

Herman Melville, The Confidence Man, p.27.

"The eternal return transmutes the negative: it turns the heavy into something light, it makes the negative cross over into affirmation, it makes negation a power of affirming."

Nietzsche and Philosophy, p. 81.

Good new book on Deleuze

http://www.amazon.com/Gilles-Deleuze-Fabulation-Philosophy-Powers/dp/0816665508/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325002129&sr=1-1

"If becoming is the power of the false, then the good, the generous, the noble is what raises the false to the nth power or the will to power to the level of artistic becoming."

"A cinematographic mutation occurs when abberations of movement take on their independence; that is, when the moving bodies and movements lose their invariants."

- Cinema 2, 137-138.

"Differential calculus...is consequently a basic and real means of exploration of the reality of existence."

- Deleuze, from seminar of 22 April 1980. 

"We must not see mathematical metaphors in all these expressions such as 'singular and distinctive points' or 'adjunct fields'...These are categories of of the dialectical Idea, extensions of the differential calculus (mathesis universalis)...corresponding to the Idea in all its domains."

- Difference and Repetition, 190.

Via Daniel W. Smith.

"Breaking your double helix, and now the shit is single"

via http://rapgenius.com/Company-flow-8-steps-to-perfection-lyrics#note-339711

"Fell in love with this fish who got caught in my mesh"

http://www.mp3lyrics.org/d/de-la-soul/itzsoweezee/

Compare to the Sierpinski triangle, sieve of Eratosthenes, Deleuze on the holes of the fisherman's net.

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Time is Encoded

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/opinion/the-umbrella-man.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

• Longfellow, Pt. III, The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth, sec. IV

From Badiou to Deleuze

(This is drawn from Badiou's Being and Event (1988) (page numbers are from the 2007 paperback ed. of the English translation.))

Badiou opposes two concepts, the "count-as-one", and the "non-being of the one".  "Oneness" is a misspecification: "There is no one, just count-as-one." (24)  The count-as-one I will abbreviate as n.  It is the multiple.  The non-being of the one I will abbreviate as -1.

A structure, Badiou's ontological space, is "the multiple qua multiple, subtracted from the one in its being." (28)  What would be the shorthand for this structure?  n-1.  n-1, of course, already exists within Deleuze's writing.  It is the rhizome, the system of assemblages or machines that make up his ontological space, virtuality, etc.

Where Do We Go From Here?

How to describe the ontological space Deleuze has outlined in LOS?

"Ontology itself in the form of pure mathematics." (Alain Badiou's Being and Event, p.4)

"I’ll know it when I see it.”

From: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell?printable=true

Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Immanence

There are declarations, books, articles, and movies on the pursuit of happiness.

I would argue that the feeling of happiness, or even jouissance, can be achieved via the pursuit of immanence.

What is immanence?

Immanence is the moment when there is no outside to the moment, when you are so totally into a book that you forget you are performing the act of reading; instead, you are experiencing the book, mentally performing the action of the characters therein.  The same would be true for movies: it's the moment when you forget you are watching a movie and instead you are totally entranced (at one) with the progression of the action.

Immanence can happen in any and every situation.  In meditation, one might lose track of one's own corporeality, thereby becoming immanent to the sonic waves passing through the galaxy, etc.

Immanence is often opposed to transcendence.  In Judeo-Christian theology, transcendence is the pursuit most noble...The transcendence of this world for the world of Heaven, etc.  In our lives, we often focus on transcendence as goal: E.g. "I want to transcend my miserable service industry job and shoebox apartment.  I want to move on up.  I want something better (for my life)."

I feel that if we pursued moments of immanence as hard as we pursue moments of transcendence, we would be happier and more likely to achieve transcendence.  This is because transcendence is actually a result of immanence, not a means to it.  We only realize that we have transcended our situation retroactively.  We experience an immanent moment, gain a little taste of the sublime, and only afterwards realize what we have tasted.  Likewise, within Lacan's diagram of desire, meaning is retroactively pinned -- desire flows up one channel, then encounters a swerve, a line of flight, then flies back the way it came, transformed. That bend in the curve is akin to a difference, a differential, where the slope of the line is changing, and eventually changes sign (from negative to positive in the Lacan diagram).  The bend in the curve is the moment that we are in touch with the Aion -- asymptotic unlimited time wherein past and future stretch undifferentiated from one another.  The bend in the curve, the line of flight, ontologically, is difference-in-itself.  Immanence is the wormhole, the rabbit hole stretching infinitely, Borges' infinite straight-line labyrinth, the gateway that leads to foreign lands, transcending from the here and now, etc.

I would love to write up the Pursuit of Immanence into a self-help book that was as popular as the 4-Hour Workweek.  Anybody want to help?

Appendix II: Phantasm and Modern Literature: 5. Zola and the Crack-up

"Carrying the crack" == Cain. (321)

The crack is "continuous, imperceptible, and silent." (324)  It is Aion.  It has a heredity (cf. Foucault's genealogies). (324)  Like a gravity well or gyre, the crack "follow[s] the lines of least resistance" along an "oblique line" (read fibonacci numbers in Pascal's triangle). (325)  Compare to logistic map.

"The crack...--the appetite for oil". (330)

D speaks of the small heredity reflected in the grand heredity, the small maneuver in the large maneuver. (331)  Compare to the Sierpinski triangles within the Pascal triangle, also the two levels of the Baroque House.

Appendix II: Phantasm and Modern Literature: 4. Michael Tournier and the World Without Others

"Must we conclude that sexuality is the only fantastic principle able to bring about the deviation of the world from the rigorous economic order assigned by the origin?" (303)

"If it is true that neurosis is the negative of perversion, would not perversion, for its part, be the elemental aspect of neurosis."  (304)

"The pervert is not someone who desires, but someone who introduces desire into an eintirely different system and makes it play, within the system, the role of an internal limit, a virtual center or zero point." (304)  Essentially, introducing a new (pre-individual) singularity.

Page 305: Without the Other, I am groundless.  The Other is the button in the sofa holding the stuffing in place.

"[The Other] makes things incline toward one another and find their natural complements in one another." (306)

Page 306: On the origins of narcissism.  Without the Other, "Everywhere I am not total darkness reigns."

Page 306: On why things bang.

Page 307: There is a generalized relativity of others.

"The Other...is the expression of a possible world." (308)  D talks of Proust perceiving Albertine on the beach and what it meant to him and what would it mean to her if she had seen him. (308)  This is exactly the point made earlier between language and bodies: That the structure, the geophilosophy of the real, any arrangement of bodies (the scaled up version of one body perceiving (an)other) will benefit from decoding (as with a hieroglyph) because entire worlds are enclosed in these perceptions; to have viewed this person on this day says something more than just our subjective reaction -- there is a structurality to the real which is both beyond us and demarcated in our very own DNA.  It is in this "reading" of the real that we find that we are co-extensive with everything around us (e.g. Robinson's goat Friday, "Everything is Everything", the foot fetishist finding real amorous love in a foot, etc.).

Page 308: The crucial split between monism and dualism, the basis for the split between Deleuze and Lacan-Hegel, univocality vs. dialecticism, etc.

Page 310: Annihilation of subject by object and vice-versa means the inversion of the gyre within the Pascal diagram.  There is a moment of immanence in that annihilation, however.

Page 311: During immanence, "error", the remainder, has been reduced to zero.  The GCD is common to two numbers simultaneously.  Madness is where one is immanently connected to everything.

Page 311: Inability to find the cracked-ness in ourselves --> Groundhog Day.

"The desert isle initiates a straightening out and a generalized erection."  (312) The process of the eternal return.  The gyre, the black hole, at first breaks the world down chaotically, but is then productive, poetic.

Page 312: On doubling and the Event; the elemental generative act of the multiplicity.

On the GCD/BwO/"liberated double": "The new upright [rectified] image in which the elements are released and renewed, having become celestial and forming a thousand capricious elemental figures." (312) Compare this to the constellation, Bush I's "thousand points of light", "an arrow aimed at a heart", etc.  This double is like a gateway, a black hole to another dimension: "It is as if the entire earth were trying to escape by way of the island." (312)  Via the event, the constellation changes from a 2-dimensional picture into a 1-dimensional line (the straight-line labyrinth, "vertical without thickness", the Red Queen).  It becomes an "upright organization as opposed to a recumbent organization".  (313)  The "detachment of the pure element" is of course the Aion. (313)  This event, though productive and affirmative, can also be associated with catastrophe, an apocalypse of meaning, "everything has lost its sense". (313, 315)  Liberation comes with catastrophe, a release from the torrid depths and a "return to [and discovery of] the surface," a rediscovery of the jouissance of (pure) immanence. (315)

Page 314: On hylomorphism.

Page 315: On the tradeoffs of depth and breadth and of their seemingly incongruous transmogrification between each state.

Page 317: The Double as seen as an extension of the Self.

Pure immanence (the discovery of the surface) is "a world without Others," "a world without the possible," for everything is (magically, euphorically, painfully) Real.  (319, 321)

Appendix II: Phantasm and Modern Literature: 3. Klossowski or Bodies-language

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.

Appendix I: The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy: 2. Lucretius and the Simulacrum

"Nature is...conjunctive: it expresses itself through "and"...an addition of indivisibles." (p.267)

Axiom: "Nature, to be precise, is power." (267) [My emphasis.]

D unintentionally describing the Pascal triangle diagram: "And what forms the whole if not a particular finite combination, filled with holes, which we arbitrarily believe to join all the elements of the sum?" (267)

"The elements which form this whole are contraries capable of being transformed into one another." (267)   See this post on opposition, twin valences, tragedy and farce, etc.  The two "sides" of the Mobius strip.

"There are beings and there is the void." (268)  To me, this exposition is Deleuze's greatest condemnation of Lacanian-Hegelianism, and (ironically) can be supported by Alain Badiou's work in Being and Event.

"The Nature of things is coordination and disjunction." (268)

Page 268: Analogy is akin to the eternal return (the composition and decomposition of sense).  Cf. Discussions of condensation and displacement, metaphor and metonymy, Lacan and Freud, etc.

Page 269: There is an up and down to the void/gyre.

Page 269: Clinamen == "line of flight" ("swerve").  The clinamen, being a "time smaller than the minimum of continuous time", is the pure difference ("difference-in-itself") running the whole equation ("a differential of thought"), and when unfurled (straightened (into infinite time past and future), is the Aion.

Page 270: On the relation of the swerve (clinamen) to chance (cf. dicethrow).

Our mission, our sole differentiating machine: "To determine what is infinite and what is not." (272) Read this literally, where "not" is in fact the break, the rupture, the cut, etc.  The infinite is the Aion.  In other writings, I have written how this elemental split when stratified results in different aesthetic and moral personality traits (cf. dominance in the amygdala, fight vs. flight, etc.).

Compounds "emanating from the depth...or...that detach themselves from the surface of things": http://modular.math.washington.edu/simuw06/notes/notes/elliptic_curves.png.  (273)  These elliptical curves can be used for factorization and represent a diagram of the methods (e.g. Pollard's p-1) written about in the last post.  A "perforated surface" like mouth is a perfect example of the Pascal diagram's striation. (274)

Confer here on the time "smaller than the minimum sensible time", the clinamen, etc. (274)

"Simulacra produce the mirage of a false infinite in the images which they form." (277)  Though the world might seem like "the world", it is actually the sum of images, simulacra, forming a simulacrum.  See this post on the vortex and vertigo.  As with Gabriel's Horn, what appears as infinite actually has a finite volume, though when we are within the gyre, looking into its spinning center descending infinitely, the appearance of infinitude hypnotizes us into submission: "Our belief in g-ds rests upon simulacra which seem to dance, to change their gestures, and to shout at us promising eternal punishment -- in short, to represent the infinite." (277)

Page 278: The only true infinite is Nature (the univocal).