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... _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free -AT-yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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