Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:41:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Evgeni Pavlov <evpav-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: zizek's deleuze - two ontologies


ok, here goes my version of zizek's book, i.e. a humble summary that
attempts to grasp the flow of the book - anyone is welcome to poke at
a place of choice: 

as i already pointed out, zizek's discussion starts off with the
notion of the Virtual that he thinks necessarily leads one to suspect
that deleuze's preference of immanence contains a hidden appreciation
for transcendence ("is Deleuze here [negotiations] not arguing that a
certain process can transcend its historical conditions by way of
giving rise to an Event?" p.11) - that comes in the context of
deleuze's distinguishing between *becoming* and *history*. thus zizek
again points out that deleuze problematics is that of the *emergence
of the New* - emergence of the New only possible in transcendence...
and in repetition. i guess this section (descriptively) attempts to
show how deleuze's Virtual/Actual pair is important in understanding
him as a philosopher of the Virtual, i.e. of the condition of the
possibility of the emergence of the New. repetition is important at
this point because it opposes the mechanical repetition of linear
causality - it allow an event to *(re)emerge every time as New*
(p.15) 

so, we've got ourselves a *transcendental empiricism" that is: "the
proper transcendental space is the virtual space of the multiple
singular potentialities, of *pure* impersonal singular gesters,
affects, and perceptions that are not yet the
gestures-affects-perceptions of a preexisting, stable and
self-identical subject." (p.20) aha! no subject, ah? "in and beneath
the consituted reality... one should discover the traces of the
intensive proces of virtualities." (p.26) so the unified subject is
gone (or on the way) all we have is a multitude of desiring
intensities. enter two logics. zizek points out that there are two
logics, two ontologies in deleuze: 1) the logic of sense, the flow of
pure becoming is the immaterial effect of the intrication of
bodily-material causes, 2) the logic of becoming, the bodily entities
are themselves the product of the pure flow of becoming (pp.21,22) or
these two are "bodies without organs" versus "organs without bodies"
(p.30) enter first political reference: the Virtual as the site of
productive Becoming (BwO) results in a Leftist self-organization
political interpretation VS. the Virtual as the site of the sterile
Sense-Event (OwB) - what is the political application of this
(second) ontology? (p.32)

(to be continued) 

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