"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?