Comments on: A Thousand Plateaus, Chapter Eight: Lines and Segmentarity http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/a-thousand-plateaus-chapter-eight-lines-and-segmentarity/ refracting theory: politics, cybernetics, philosophy Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:04:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Taylor Adkins http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/a-thousand-plateaus-chapter-eight-lines-and-segmentarity/#comment-2303 Taylor Adkins Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:38:30 +0000 http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/?p=659#comment-2303 To take up the language of the German idealists, ontology must be diagrammed as to its reciprocal correlation with transcendental subjectivity. Only the dogmatist strictly holds in the presupposition of a given ontology. For someone like Schelling, (on the side of Deleuze and against Hegel), we are not at all concerned with being, either that of the object or that of the self. It is only insofar as the self is posited that we confer existence upon it. This is the sense of Fichte's (and Schelling's) attack on Spinoza for having "overstepped boundaries:" the boundaries are that of transcendental idealism, i.e. of deducing knowledge from the independence of the self and not from the latter's dependence on a being greater than it, God or Nature. So that if we do not diagram ontology, we proceed as dogmatists. Now, it is strange but Levinas will say ethics (metaphysics) precedes ontology (politics). The equation is drawn in a totally different manner, but I think we can still make sense of the problematic. To take up the language of the German idealists, ontology must be diagrammed as to its reciprocal correlation with transcendental subjectivity. Only the dogmatist strictly holds in the presupposition of a given ontology. For someone like Schelling, (on the side of Deleuze and against Hegel), we are not at all concerned with being, either that of the object or that of the self. It is only insofar as the self is posited that we confer existence upon it. This is the sense of Fichte’s (and Schelling’s) attack on Spinoza for having “overstepped boundaries:” the boundaries are that of transcendental idealism, i.e. of deducing knowledge from the independence of the self and not from the latter’s dependence on a being greater than it, God or Nature.

So that if we do not diagram ontology, we proceed as dogmatists. Now, it is strange but Levinas will say ethics (metaphysics) precedes ontology (politics). The equation is drawn in a totally different manner, but I think we can still make sense of the problematic.

]]> By: Joseph Weissman http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/a-thousand-plateaus-chapter-eight-lines-and-segmentarity/#comment-2302 Joseph Weissman Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:22:15 +0000 http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/?p=659#comment-2302 Nice! I'll definitely agree that we can map the various political ontologies -- but why "must" we produce such diagrams? In other words, what happens if we don't recognize politics precedes ontology -- what do we miss? Nice! I’ll definitely agree that we can map the various political ontologies — but why “must” we produce such diagrams? In other words, what happens if we don’t recognize politics precedes ontology — what do we miss?

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