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A Singularity

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			throughout a period in philosophical and political upheaval, "Deleuze inflexibly ''absorbed'' the diversity of experience within an apparatus that allowed him to pass, by the subteranean passages of the virtual, from the leftist public scene to a sort of ironic solitude, without ever having to modify his categories" (97)

			in his many books on other thinkers, "on finds that they form a history whose singularity is that of Deleuze's own virtuality and which embeds the actuality of his writing within a circuit where the whole of philosophy is treated as an absolute detemporalized memory. '''The result is that Deleuze's "historian" style cuts across the classical opposition between objectivist history and interpretative history. It is a style in which the most precise knowledge of texts and contexts is inseparable from the movement by which they are drawn toward Deleuze." (100)

Wtrettien: /* The Concept of the Fold */

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The Concept of the Fold

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			"The most profound moment of the intuition is, therefore, when the limiit is thought as fold, and when, as a result, exteriority becomes reversed into interiority. The limit is no longer what affects the outside, it is a fold of the outside." (89)

			at the point of the fold, thought and time are the same thing, so that thought is also identical to Being" (90)

			Badiou: if the new is simple a (re)folding of the past, then all thought is always the same -- this is problematic for politics

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Wtrettien: /* The Concept of the Fold */

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The Concept of the Fold

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	"given that thought is set in motion by disjunctive syntheses, and that it is solicited by beings who are in nonrelation, how can it be in accordance with Being, which is essentially Relation?" (82-3)		"given that thought is set in motion by disjunctive syntheses, and that it is solicited by beings who are in nonrelation, how can it be in accordance with Being, which is essentially Relation?" (82-3)

			the second ascesis of affirmative thought

			intuition begins with "thought of the outside" -- not the external world, but the automata doing the thinking itself is the outside, as animation by the outside (86)

			the diagram of forces == pure inscription of the outside

			:"We pass from a simple disjunctive logic of exteriority to a ''topology of the outside'' as the locus of the inscription of forces that, in their reciprocal action and without communicating between themselves in any way, produce singular exteriorities as a local figure of the outside." (87)

			thought makes itself a topology of forces of the outside; has to ask: "what are the strata, the diversities, the edges ,the connections, that compose this topology?" (87)

			:"The intuitive identiication of thinking and Being is realized, for Deleuze, as the topological densification of the outside, which, as such, is carried up to the point that the outside proves to envelop an inside. '''It is at this moment that thought, in first following this enveloping (from the outside to the inside) and then developing it(from the inside to the outside), is an ontological coparticipant in the power of the One.''' It ''is'' the fold of Being." (87)

			disjunctions cause lines that act as limits

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Wtrettien: /* The Outside and the Fold */

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The Outside and the Fold

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 "We find, on the one hand, a ludic and vital conception of chance; on the other, a stellar conception of the Chance of chance: in sum, Nietzsche or Mallarme." (76)
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Wtrettien: /* Eternal Return and Chance */

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Eternal Return and Chance

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	(see [[Deleuze 1990]] -- section on "ideal games" -- for more on the dice throw)		(see [[Deleuze 1990]] -- section on "ideal games" -- for more on the dice throw)

			=== Nietzsche or Mallarme ===

			Badiou follows Mallarme; Deleuze, Nietzsche

			"We find, on the one hand, a ludic and vital conception of chance; on the other, a stellar conception of the Chance of chance: in sum, Nietzsche or Mallarme." (76)

	== The Outside and the Fold ==		== The Outside and the Fold ==

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Wtrettien: /* Eternal Return and Chance */

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 if truth is memory, truth only occurs by reoccurring, in return -- such that return is eternal
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Wtrettien: /* Eternal Return and Chance */

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Eternal Return and Chance

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			if truth is memory, truth only occurs by reoccurring, in return -- such that return is eternal

	== The Outside and the Fold ==		== The Outside and the Fold ==

	== A Singularity ==		== A Singularity ==

Wtrettien: /* Memory and Forgetting */

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Memory and Forgetting

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	=== Memory and Forgetting ===		=== Memory and Forgetting ===

			Deleuze comes close to Hegel on time as a Relation

			Badiou sees truth as always interruptive -- the "being-''not-there''" of the object (64)
			:"if the 'there is' is pure multiplicity, if all is actual, and if the One is not, then it is not toward Memory that one should turn to search for the true. On ehte contrary, truth is forgetful, it is even, contrary to what Heidegger thinks, the forgetting, the radical interruption, caught up in the sequence of its effects. 'And this is forgetting is not the simple forgetting of this or that, but the forgetting of time itself: '''the moment when we live as if time (''this'' time) had never existed, or, in conformity with the profound maxim of Aristotle, as if we were immortal -- for the common being of all time is death. This, to my mind, is the real experience of (political) revolutions, (amorous) passions, (scientific) inventions, and (artistic) creations.''' It is in this abolition of time that is engendered the eternity of truths." (64-5)

			:"Truth, which begins as disjunctive synthesis, or the experience of the separation of the present, culminates in the memorial injunction to recommence perpetually. This amounts to saying that there is no commencement, but only an abolished present (undergoing virtualization) and a memory that rises to the surface (undergoing actualization). And this is what I cannot consent to -- for I maintain that every truth is the end of memory, the unfolding of a commencement." (65)

	== Eternal Return and Chance ==		== Eternal Return and Chance ==

Wtrettien: /* Primacy of Time and Detemporalization */

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Primacy of Time and Detemporalization

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	*"time ''is'' truth itself"		*"time ''is'' truth itself"
	*"as truth, time is not temporal: it is integral virtuality"		*"as truth, time is not temporal: it is integral virtuality"
	*"the absolute being of the past is indiscernible from eternity" (61)		*"the absolute being of the past is indiscernible from eternity" (61) (and also from Being)

	=== Memory and Forgetting ===		=== Memory and Forgetting ===

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Primacy of Time and Detemporalization

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	=== Primacy of Time and Detemporalization ===		=== Primacy of Time and Detemporalization ===

			if we say it's "true" x may happen tomorrow, then it may or may not; if it does happen, then "x does not happen tomorrow" as a possibility of the "true" statement "x may happen tomorrow" becomes false, but retroactively because of what happened in the future of the past moment

			Deleuze uses this paradox "to show that there can be no straightforward connection between truth and the form of time" (60); primacy is given to time, truth deposed (choosing either, though, for Badiou is just a matter of choice -- no reason to give primacy to time for Deleuze, other than preference)

			thus, for Deleuze:
			*"time ''is'' truth itself"
			*"as truth, time is not temporal: it is integral virtuality"
			*"the absolute being of the past is indiscernible from eternity" (61)

	=== Memory and Forgetting ===		=== Memory and Forgetting ===