We have seen that the world was an infinity of converging series, capable of being extended into each other, around unique points. Thus every individual, every individual monad expresses the same world in its totality although it only clearly expresses a part of this world, a series or even a finite sequence. The result is [...]
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The Value of Affect: Perception and Media in India today
Posted: May 31, 2010 in Becoming, Benjamin, Bergson, Bollywood, Causality, Cinema, Clinamen, Deleuze, dialectic, Ecology of Sensation, Experiments with vision, India, Method, Mobile Phones, New Media, Nietzsche, Organized Networks, Perception, Photography, Photography of India, Public Sphere, Time, Zenreticulation 9.6 copy Abstract: This essay aims to diagram the set of connectivities (or “system of relations”) developing in business outsourcing affective, communicative labor and the value-adding digital image in contemporary Hindi-Urdu cinema. What emerges is a resonant set of nested temporalities constituting a new media assemblage. Throughout, I draw on a set of analyses [...]
On Delanda’s Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy
Posted: November 24, 2008 in Becoming, Causality, Deleuze, MethodTags: Delanda, Deleuze, intensity, multiplicity, ontology, resonance, tetrapod limb
What is Manuel Delanda trying to do in this reconstruction of Gilles Deleuze’s ontology? He is trying to provide an account of the interdisciplinary basis of Deleuzian philosophy, a philosophy that ranges from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland to Henri Poincare’s topological geometry and beyond. Many things get lost along the way, like the [...]
On Bergson’s Pure Duration and Suzuki’s Sunyata-Tathata
Posted: June 28, 2008 in Bergson, Brain, Causality, Deleuze, Ecology of Sensation, Freedom, Method, Nietzsche, Perception, Representation, Succession, Time, ZenTags: affect, Bergson, duration, intensity, Suzuki, temporality, Zen
Bergson writes in Time and Free Will: “To say that the same inner causes will reproduce the same effects is to assume that the same cause can appear a second time on the stage of consciousness. Now, if duration is what we say, deep seated psychic states are radically heterogeneous to each other, and it is impossible that any two of them [...]
