Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:31:49 +1100 From: "martin hardie" <martin.hardie-AT-gmail.com> To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: [D-G] In the opening pages of Repetition and Difference, well what are we meant to do now? In the opening pages of Repetition and Difference, Deleuze poses repetition in contradistinction to generality. He writes that: "...generality expresses a point of view according to which one term may be exchanged or substituted for another. The exchange or substitution of particulars defines our conduct in relation to generality. =85. By contrast, we can see that repetition is a necessary and justified conduct only in relation to that which cannot be replaced. Repetition as a conduct and as a point of view concerns non-exchangeable and non-substitutable singularities. ...". Deleuze poses law as generality: "=85 generality belongs to the order of laws. =85 It is against the law: against the similar form and the equivalent content of law. If repetition can be found, =85 it is in the name of a power which affirms itself against the law, which works underneath laws, perhaps superior to laws. =85 In every respect, repetition is a transgression. It puts law into question, it denounces its nominal or general character in favour of a more profound and more artistic reality". Generality, for Deleuze, exists where a one term may be exchanged or substituted for another. ... defined by the general rule, the rule that is applied equally across the board. But we would need to distort the facts, each singular experience in each case to fit it into that rule. The law would condemn the different locals to change. "As an empty form of difference, an invariable form of variation, a law compels its subjects to illustrate it only at the cost of their own change". In contradistinction Deleuze tells us that repetition is the application of an idea to different circumstances - or better a necessary and justified conduct only in relation to something that cannot be replaced or substituted. "To repeat is to behave in a certain manner, but in relation to something unique or singular which has no equal or equivalent. ...". -- Martin Hardie, Law Lecturer, School of Law, Deakin University (Geelong Campus) Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria, 3216, Australia. mhardie-AT-deakin.edu.au martin.hardie-AT-gmail.com skype/irc: auskadi _______________________________________________ List address: deleuze-guattari-AT-driftline.org Info: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/deleuze-guattari-driftline.org Archives: www.driftline.org
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