Wednesday, February 22, 2012

"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.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

"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.

Friday, January 27, 2012

"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.

Friday, December 30, 2011

"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.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

"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

Thursday, November 17, 2011

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

Thursday, November 10, 2011

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)