Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 21:49:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ronald S Broglio <rbroglio-AT-ucet.ufl.edu>
Subject: Re: Space/Codes/vocabulary


At least some (obvious) places to look:

spaces & fields- Whitehead's _Process and Reality_ is full of these,
particullaryly his section on the theory of extension.  Additionally, I
often think of fields in the mathmatical sense.  In _Logic of Sense_, for
example, Deleuze draws on the work of Albert Lautman.  And while it is not
exactly fields, Meinong's theory of _Aussersein_ or extra-being carries
with it a sense of an expanded field, one beyond mere existence to include
subsistent and non-subsistent objects.

fold- one use of fold which is at work in D&G is from Merleau-Ponty's _The
Visible and the Invisible_ chapter "The Intertwining--the Chiasm."  Here
Ponty addresses a 'fold' in the body between the body that touches and the
body as that which is touched.

As for body-machine, I wish I could help you more than to merely suggest
that D&G are working off of the Lacanian "registers."

ron broglio
http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~rbroglio/


On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, John Morss wrote:

> there may well be a very obvious answer to these questions:...
> 
> 1.from where, if anywhere in particular (particular discipline? author?
> genre) comes the spatial vocabulary that deleuze uses (space, fields,
> folds, edges, tracks etc) & that other french writing sometimes uses (eg
> lacan)
> 
> 2. what do people think are the relations if any between d&g and the
> body-machine artworks of early modernism (eg duchamp; heartfield;...
> poignant names)
> 
> 3. are there any connections between 1 and 2 ?
> thanks.........................
> 
> 
> John R Morss PhD
> Senior Lecturer, Education Department
> University of Otago, Box 56, Dunedin
> NZ
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