Date: Sat, 18 Jun 1994 19:21:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Robert Steen" <rs40-AT-cornell.edu>
Subject: Speed


I'm having trouble with the Deleuzian usage of "speed."  Can anyone
explain to me the following remark by Claire Parnet in Dialogues:

"The middle has nothing to do with an average, it is not a centrism or a form
of moderation.  On the contrary, it's a matter of absolute speed.  Whatever
grows from the middle is endowed with such a speed.  We must distinguish not
relative and absolute movement, but the relative and absolute speed of any
movement.  The relative is the speed of one movement considered from the
point of view of another.  But the absolute is the speed of movement between
the two, in the middle of the two, which traces a line of flight.  Movement
does not go from one point to another -- rather it happens between two
levels as in a difference of potential."  

Allegro con brio!

Shih bo


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