File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/96-08-12.171, message 55


From: "Dominic Le Fave" <dominic.lefave-AT-the-spa.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 16:04:11 +0000
Subject: theologic machine


Amen, Brother!
One will not find deleuzian theology in the abstract machines.  But a 
deleuzian God is not so distant and leibnizian as you suggest. the 
abstract machines are not created; they are not aggregates or 
assemblages of their parts, nor do they carry the code for such 
aggregation. God does not have a moment of monadic origin that seeks 
temporal reification. Rather, the theologic machine, the concept of 
difference Herself, marks the becoming of the entire (total as 
actual/infinate as virtual) plane of immanence and all of its 
heterological inscriptions (Adam & Eve).  the inscriptions and 
reinscriptions mark and caress an immense becoming that is both
incarnate and known as a causal result--not as history, but as 
manifestation: heirophany.  Thus, multiplicity constantly undoes 
itself(s) not "in spite of God" but because of God. 
   A Deleuzian theology is always a theology of immanence. 

THIS IS WHY SPINOZA IS THE CHRIST

---dominic


Phil Goodchild wrote:

> God may choose paradise as the best of all possible worlds, but once his 
> creations, Adam and Eve, encounter each other, then desire emerges, along 
> with the world of Cain and Abel that is incompossible with paradise - 
> heterogeneity, multiplicity.  A pullulation of twins or individuals 
> absolutely identical in their concept (D & R 12-13), indistinguishable with 
> respect to their genetic codes, but affecting each other's developments as 
> fertilized embryos (or bodies without organs) - experiencing mimetic rivalry 
> due to a difference in matter, the pure form of the sensible, that cannot be 
> included in conceptual calculation.  If this difference were not there, the 
> world would be a thought in the mind of God, not a creation.  But it is 
> sufficient that one admits the minimum of difference between ideas and the 
> synthesis of difference on the one hand, and the asymmetric synthesis of the 
> sensible on the other, to allow the world to emerge as a strange 
> dramatization, driven by desire, in spite of God - the world progresses by 
> deterritorializations and reterritorializations that not even God could 
> foresee.  This is why any abstract machine has a date, an occurrence where 
> it is actualized: a moment later, and its operation will be interrupted by 
> strange rhizomatic encounters.  Emergence.  Multiplicity.  Mechanosphere.
> 
> One will not find a Deleuzean theology by studying abstract machines.
> 
> Look instead towards proximity, encounter, chance - perhaps here appearances 
> are deceptive.

--dominic.lefave


   

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