Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:11:33 -0400 To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.driftline.org Subject: Re: [D-G] Close reading : Bergson's conception of difference [1 Malgosia asked about how difference can be seen as a matter of degree. This issue is not particular to quantum mechanics, and in fact I do not think DyG's ideas ought to be directed to that world. Of course, I dont intend to cast a shadow over other people's pursuits, as the fold is purely a materialist conception, and so the folding of matter is obviously a degree of difference and cannot ever be anything else. But there is also an absolute degree, as filip brought up, between the method vs onology that is not immediately clear if we imagine bodies becoming A -> B. The Assemblege as a set is a clear route into understanding that B and A are not just discrete bodies, but composites, this should answer filip's "2)", where being IS ONLY difference. The clearest reading that I have personally found has much more to do with formation of social bodies, as in the cultural intelligence that their Marxist agenda requires. And here is where Bergson is at home. I find - and this again is my personal reading and I do not wish to brush aside other readings (they just dont make as much sense to me) - I find that if the entire conception of difference and repetition is caste upon the crowd identity, as opposed the individual identity. This way it is the accumulation of differences that construct the truth, ie Being. Must go now. the best, dc _______________________________________________ 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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