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From: "Friedman, Howard J." <hfn-AT-sdpfr.powersoft.com>
Subject: Coincidence2 (OO)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 14:47:00 PST



Steve asks, " What do D&G make of co-incidental phenomena?"
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Deleuze's thought (i'm not sure i can make the same claim for Guattari) is 
fundamentally about coincidence.

Primarily, there is the coincidence of the actual and the virtual, the plane 
of consistence and the noosphere (even if he doesn't use this term). 
Deleuze's book on Foucault is perhaps where this is most in evidence.

What gets actualized from the virtual is not the original idea, but a 
facsimile.*  A facsimile is another word for a duplicate, or a copy. It is, 
in fact, an incidence of the virtual, or rather of the virtual idea. It is 
not at all surprising that there are other incidences of this same idea, 
hence a co-incidence.
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 "as far as I know D&G avoid causal relationships that would link those 
terms to, say, music. Would a line of co-incidence fly instead?"
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While "coincidence" loses the notion of surprise, I don't think you can talk 
about a "causal relationship". And  "a line of co-incidence" doesn't make 
much sense to me either. What you have, more or less, are multiple points of 
contact between the virtual and the actual - or perhaps a number of 
infoldings, to use more Deleuzian terminology.

OuiOui, West of Paris
(You can call me WeeWee, OuiOui, AhOui, or Howie, but please don't call me 
Howard).

*Karinne: my forthcoming reply to your recent posting in the 
effort/intention discussion will pick up from this point.

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