File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/d-g_Mar.96, message 141


From: "Ronald M. Carrier" <rcarrier-AT-suba.com>
Subject: Re: Re[4]: dig, drill, deviate
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 07:07:01 -0600 (CST)


Crispin Sartwell wrote:
> 
> On Mar 19, 1996 10:15:37, '"Ronald M. Carrier" <rcarrier-AT-suba.com>' wrote: 
>  
> >It would be difficult to make sense of Deleuze's  
> >concept of representation except as such a positing, and a positing that  
> >effectively produces the identical to some extent or other. 
>  
> could someone (ronald?) give a source on this? 

With respect to infinite representation, Deleuze writes in _Difference_ 
_and_Repetition_: "Infinite representation invokes a foundation.  While 
this foundation is not the identical itself, it is nevertheless a way of 
taking the principle of identity very seriously, giving it an infinite 
value and rendering it coextensive with the whole, and in this manner 
allowing it to reign over existence itself....  In all cases, however, 
the foundation or sufficient reason employs the infinite only to lead the 
identical to _exist_ in its very identity." (p. 49)

With respect to the Platonic dialectic, he writes in _D&R_: "However, 
difference is still related to the Same or to the One through these 
figures.  No doubt the _same_ should not be confused with the identity of 
the concept in general; rather, it characterizes the Idea as the thing 
itself.  Nevertheless, to the extent that it plays the role of a true 
ground, it is difficult to see what its effect is if not to make that 
which is grounded 'identical,' to use difference in order to make the 
identical exist." (p. 66)

Deleuze discusses finite representation on pp. 28-35 of _D&R_.  Although 
he does not explicitly make the same point with regard to finite 
representation, I find it hard to believe that it is not also a 
production of the identical.

Later...

--
                               Ronald M. Carrier
             rcarrier-AT-suba.com (or: rcarrier-AT-casbah.acns.nwu.edu)
                          Philosophy, Northwestern U.
                  "Philosophy--I'm only in it for the money."



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