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Building the Multiple:
A Seminar with A Thousand Plateaus "Chaos is not without its directional components, which are its own ecstasies." What follows is a sequence, the promise of one thing and then another. The promises pile up, one upon the other, until congealing into a consistency. Like certain knots and modes of communication, the consistency is held together not by a purely formal system of logic, but by a divergent energy dubbed by Lucretius as the clinamen - a disorderly tension provoked by the interconnections of the sequence: A network, adrift.June 26 - From Desire to Life Intro; intellectual history, problems MP is responding to ( via Hume, bergsonism, masoch, Nietzsche) 1 Orchid and the wasp and the space of subjectivity necessary to the seminar. 2 Creating zones of indiscernibility - *ecology of the concept - practical infinite - the superfold - algorithmic complexity *Francis Bacon, "Studies of the Human Body", 1970, center panel *ocelli and sexual selection 3 From ontology to ecology - why D&G are not phenomenologists
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