I’m going to approach this one a little differently than I did the one on Dennett’s book. In the spirit of Deleuze and his rhizomatic epistemology, and the sense that his writings should be read like poetry (enjoyed for their surface effects until you manage to get to the deeper aspects –the meanings –if such a thing can be attributed to him), I’m just going to put everything I have of his on the turntable and hit random play and see how I respond.
I’m pretty sure I’ll have to do the same with Derrida.
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Fucking French, anyway!
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The books that may be included (but not limited to:
Delueze:
Difference and Repetition
The Logic of Sense
Delueze & Guattarri:
Both books from Capitalism and Schizophrenia
And What is Philosophy
And Brian Massumi:
A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The problem is, having just started to dive into Difference and Repetition, you get the feeling that you’re up against a writer that is going to offer everything up to you in oblique ways. At this point, it feels too impenetrable to just read and hope to have something to respond with. All you can do is immerse yourself and hope that something emerges in an oblique way.
I get the feeling that Deleuze is more interested in a performance as compared to Dennett who just wants to push a point.
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At the start, I suppose we have to take Difference and Repetition as analogous, or at least comparable to, chaos and order.
However, from what I gather, Delueze sees the 2 as intertwined. He sees Repetition underlying Difference, and Difference underlying Repetition.
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I think what mainly draws me to Delueze (as well as Guattarri) is a epistemological network that is a vast relationship of ideas that have no center: the rhizome.
Anyone who has known me on this board can appreciate why I am attracted to it.
Hopefully at the end of it, I’ll get to trip again.
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Don’t you think it strange that Delueze would write in a standard prose style, to such an extent and length, while Wittgenstein felt forced to write in a aphoristic style?
I mean Delueze, like Nietzsche, seems way more engaged in the dance of thought than Wittgenstein did.
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Hopefully, this project will allow me to push deeper into the nihilistic perspective or the implications of it.
Unfortunately,
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Those kind of:
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Reading Repetition and Difference, I got the feel of someone who had a lot of things to say about a lot of things. But at the same time, it was all over the place. There was a kind of postmodern ADD about it. But then that may have been the result of having a lot of things to say about anything.
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At one point though, Delueze seemed bound to protect the beautiful soul that saw the intertwined nature of difference and repetition to the extent of recognizing that our differences are ultimately superficial.
Perhaps Delueze was the ultimate hippy.
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Hopefully, this will be a journal as much as a study.
The cool thing about it is that I’m quite certain this study will go with the music I listen to.