Date: Fri, 23 Dec 94 00:12:23 EST
From: Malgosia Askanas <ma-AT-dsd.camb.inmet.com>
Subject: Re:  habits, brains, machines


Chris wrote:

> ttempting to find a common thread to what Deleuze calls 'thinking' over
> his long philosophic career i have observed what i think is a common image,
> but described differently in different works with ever new and changing 
> vocabularies and concpts. it appears to me that the concpt of 'habit' in
> D&R, the concept of 'abstract machine' in KAFKA and ATP, and the concepts of
> 'habit' and 'brain' in WIP? are all quite similar and function in a rather
> continuous manner in all of these text.

I have been trying to muster enough hutzpah to ask about the concept
of "machinism" and of "machine assemblage".  In C1, it appears only
once, on p 59 (Minnesota):

"The plane of immanence is the movement (the facet of movement) which
is established between the parts of each system and between one system
and another, which crosses them all, stirs them all up together and
subjects them all to the condition which prevents them from being
absolutely closed.  [...]  This is not mechanism, it is machinism. 
The material universe, the plane of immanence, is the machine
assemblage of movement-images".  

Is this related to the `thinking' thread you trace above?   


-malgosia 


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