Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 10:12:28 -0600 (CST)
From: CND7750-AT-utarlg.uta.edu
Subject: RE: brains, machines, habits


Deleuze develops is concept of repetition in DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION
and NIETZSCHE AND PHILOSOPHY. in fact, delueze begins D&R by stating
that repetition is not generality, is not the exchangable. but is
rather the inscription of irreversible Time. (in AO he and guattari
relate this to the connective mechanisms of societies and attck excangist
theories [mauss, baudrillard] in favor of theories of inscription [nietzsche
and bataille]) Deleuze's concept of repetition is too complex to explain
in anything less than about 30 pages of text, so i won't attempmt to do
so. the three synthesis of time explained in D&R and AO are the three
concepts that coalesce to form deleuze's concept of repetition. but habit,
the foundation of time, is somewhat independent of repetition in itself.
habit 'insists' in repetition, and is the virtual force that repetition
'exists' in. therefore the pure functionality of habit or the abstract
machine or the brain does not ever 'exist,' but always only insists in
extended matter. according to deleuze, differences in intensity tend
to be canceled in our habit of equivocating extension, but hte extened
can never really be the equal. nor can the intensive. but it is nevertheless
in the intensive that the general insists. again, the general never really
'exists.' all of difference and repetition is devoted to this, and should
be read, i think, before one can even begin to understand what is going
on in C1 and C2, but i culd be wrong.

chris


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