File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1998/deleuze-guattari.9810, message 290


From: Kalapsyche-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 22:19:01 EST
Subject: Re: boundaries in flow


In a message dated 10/26/1998 9:41:08 PM EST, Unleesh-AT-aol.com writes:

<< Could you explain this sentence? 
 
 Also, how does including the disjunction of "just happened" and "about to
 happen" establish the "eternal" nature of events? Are we discussing an
"always
 happening" that touches upon manifestation only at certain points? So that
the
 virtual and manifest planes are like two rippling surfaces that turbulently
 touch each other, and a virtual plateau that is "always happening" impinges
 like a three-dimensional solid onto flatland onto the manifest plane in such
a
 way that it divides into "just happened" and "about to happened"? Or are
there
 even more temporalities into which it divides? Would these be according to
the
 perceivers? At the car accident, 4 human witnesses, 26 ants, 6 birds, 2 bees,
 3 plants, one tic, and a partridge in a pear tree? So eachly of these eachly
 perceives "the" event, so that we really have AT LEAST 42 events here, at
 least on the manifest plane???
  >>
  Your latter remark involving the 42 events seems to be the most profitable
way to go.  However, it is not 42 events, but 42 perspectives on an event.
This is the way in which events enable the possibility of co-ordination.  In
short, for our sorts of beings an perspective is always organized around a
manifestor, a denotation, and a signification that are clustered around the
sense or event that organizes them.  As far as the issue of splitting time
goes, we can think about this in terms of Zeno's paradoxes and the
impossibility of crossing space.  No matter how hard I look, I can never
locate the precise happening of the crash...  But nonetheless, there is an
ontological category to which the crash belongs and this is the event.
Because of this inability to locate the precise moment or happening of the
crash, the sense-event of the crash structures itself as a division of time
into the "about-to-be" and "has-been".  Since about-to-be and has-been are
temporally indeterminate categories, they take on the characteristics of being
eternal in character.  No matter where I am in time, an event is either about-
to-be or has-been.  etc..

   

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