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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 14:30:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Crosby <crosby_m-AT-rocketmail.com>
Subject: Abortionists of Unity


Daniel Haines mentioned "Introduction: Rhizome" as
revealing the "magic formula" of "monism=pluralism". 
Here's a piece from page 6 that seems apt for these
discussions:

"The abortionists of unity are indeed angel makers,
doctores angelici, because they affirm a properly
angelic and superior unity... [But] unity is
consistently thwarted and obstructed in the object,
while a new type of unity triumphs in the subject. 
The world has lost its pivot; the subject can no
longer even dichotomize, but accedes to a higher
unity, of ambivalence or overdetermination, in an
always supplemental dimension to that of the
object... The multiple must be made, not by always
adding a higher dimension, but rather ... with the
number of dimensions one already has available --
always n - 1 (the only way one belongs to the
multiple; always subtracted)".

("abortionists of unity", one of the best of the many
'slogans' on this plateau :-)

As someone not in academia, I found helpful
background info on the following Web pages:

Deleuze's Vincennes, 14 January 1974, SCHOLASTICISM &
SPINOZA lecture at
http://www.imaginet.fr/deleuze/TXT/ENG/140174.html
(which I found in a 'univocity' search and doesn't
seem to be accessible through the Deleuze Web index)

and Nathan Widder's "Singularly Aristotle" article at
http://calliope.jhu.edu/journals/theory_&_event/v001/1.3widder.html


- Mark
P.S. Still waiting to see if Amazon.com will be able
to come through with a copy of Patrick Hayden's book
- it's been almost a month...
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