Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:19:39 -0500
From: "B. Metcalf" <bmetcalf-AT-ultranet.com>
Subject: RE: dialectic


Jon,

In D&R (see p. 214-218) Deleuze talks about spatio-temporal dynamisms which
are actualising, differentiating agencies beneath actual qualities and
extensities (the double differenciation of species and parts).  These
dynamisms determine the actualisation of Ideas.  They *dramatise* the Idea. 

On page 218 Deleuze explains why these spatio-temporal deteminations are
not Kant's conceptual schetmata:  "...since it [Kant's schema] remains
external to the concept, it is not clear how it can ensure the harmony of
the understanding and sensibility, since it does not even have the means to
ensure its own harmony with the understanding without appeal to a
miracle....A concept alone is completely incapable of specifying or
dividing itself; the agents of differencitation are the spatio-temporal
dynamisms which act within or beneath it, like a hidden art....the schema
does not account for the power with which it acts.  Eveything changes when
the dynamisms are posited no longer as schemata of concepts but as dramas
of Ideas.  For if the dynamism is external to concepts--and, as such, a
schema--it is internal to Ideas--and, as such, a drama or dream....."
Deleuze goes on to describe how  "dramatisation....acts below the sphere of
concepts and the representations subsumed by them."

Beth    


At 02:37 AM 1/8/99 PST, you wrote:
>Beth: 
>"Therefore, the virtuality of the Idea is actualized in a double
>articulation which does not resemble (or represent on the molar level), 
>but dramatizes what it actualizes."
>
>quick question: in what sense are you using "dramatise" such that it is 
>non-representational?
>
>Jon.
>
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