Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:18:40 +0800
From: Paul Bains <P.Bains-AT-murdoch.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Notes on Relations


Paul Bryant wrote:
'Incidentally, Beth, I'd be very careful about describing Deleuze as a
>"constructivist".  I'm sure you were speaking loosely there.'

Paul, 'yes but' Deleuze characterizes phil. as a constructivism, e.g. (WIP
34, among numerous other refs.).

Stengers likes to use the term constructivism, distinguishing it from
'relativism' (which would correspond to your understandable understanding of
constructivism). 
She argues, rightly, that the respective usage of these terms is far from
being fixed...In any case D/G use constructivism regularly to characterise
their understanding of what phil does..constructing concepts which are
self-referential. A  double creation in which both the object and concept
are constructed. A constructive double capture. The truth of the relative.
Like the neutrino that becomes more and more 'in itself' as it becomes more
and more 'for us' (qv Stengers, Latour). A double individuation.