Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 10:47:05 -0600 (CST)
From: CND7750-AT-utarlg.uta.edu
Subject: RE: brains, machines, habits


 i did not intend to say that Deleuze neglects space in favor of time, but
 he does, over and agian, write that things d should be delineated in terms
 of time rather than space. this does not come up oin ATP because are not so
much interested in metaphysics as they are with creating a typology and 
taxonomy of scial phenomena. nonethesless, d's metaphysical speculations, and
 certainly the ontology of D&R and TLS, are very much at work in all the
  collaborations with guattari. he and guattari take them, multiply them, build
on them. (a side word: i think foucault's wo{k is most profitably read
in lieu of Deleuze's metaphysics and ontology too.) 

in WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? habit is brought up and discussed much the same way as
it was in DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION. there are even the same references to
 the thinking-contemplating of rat muscles and plotinus' belief that everything
is alive, rocks, plants, and thinks and feels. this delueze contatntly affirms
throughout all of his work. in WIP?, he and guattari write that this kind of
epistemology belongs to the history of {eibnizianism, to which they 
belong. it appers to me that habit, abstract machine, brain (in both WIP? and the volumes on CINEMA, all functions as concepts in Deleuze's thext much the same
way. in ATP, the abstract machine is interchangable with the plane of immanence
 consistency. in C1, deleuze, whaile describing iamges and just what they
are, writes that images are everything, everything is an iamge, and they all
exist on one massive plane of immanence. in C1, it is said that matter
possesses its own light that allows it to see. Consciousness is not consciounessof something, it is soemthing, it is flowing matter. but it flows 'in' time, notthe reverse.

 space does indeed possess its own virtuality. this is what Deleuze describes
as the virtual and potential excess that contantly perturbs matter (space) in
 THE LOGIC OF SENSE (i think its in one of the 'series' that discusses leibniz,
husserl,and ontological genesis). 

now habit is the passive synthesis of TIME, it constitutes the 'present' in time. habit is independent of repetition because it is the foundation upon which
 the 'general' functions. but the general, or habit or abstract machine, is
 pure function wihtout matter, form or sustance. in D&R deleuze writes that
habit is not material but 'spiritual', incorporeal. space possesses potential
virtuality becuause it exists in time (which again insists in space).

this is in D&R and C2. 

chris


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