From: "RINCK JOACHIM" <RINC1101-AT-uni-trier.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:47:30 MET
Subject: habitus



Deleuze and Bourdieu
Apology for bad english.
I remember a recent mail concerning Deleuze and Bourdieu but i don't
find it any more in my folder. Hence i can't refer to it very closely
but i want to keep this thread up anyway. The Notions i remember were
habitus and the social mechanisms as they function in immanence and a
question about Deleuze's notion of Structure. I think, to compare
Deleuze's and Bourdieu's concepts one also needs to reflect also how
time is thought. Maybe someone on the list has already done such
thinking, maybe i'm wrong. In Bourdieu the time proceeds in steps, the
actions, exchanges follow up in a polysemic and polythetic manner.
Polysemic because that, what is considered an 'action' is also
everything but clear. It can be object of barter itself. The
polythetic describes a step by step proceeding which connects to
chronos in contrast to aeon.

There is a passage in "Difference and Repetition", in the middle of
the fourth chapter,  that might be helpful to clearify the position of
'Structure' in Deleuze's thought. He writes that there is no contrast
between structure and genese and none between structure and event
evenement. How does go on in structure and genese? Is it the step by
step chronos or is it the floating aeon? 

Joachim