Category Archive: difference

Paul Klee, "Insula Dulcamara" (1938); Oil on newsprint, mounted on burlap
01 Nov

Risk

I began writing this before disaster struck very close to home; and so I finish it without finishing it. A disaster never really ends; it strikes and strikes continuously —…
Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 11:51 pm By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
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18 Jul

Differend

Light. Events are not inherently luminescent, but perhaps in a certain light (to careful observers) they may become perceptible. Part of the difficulty of this logic is that the event…
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 9:44 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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15 Jul

Transvaluation

Zero is nihilism defeated by itself. The first affirmation is destructive of the negative, the second, creative of the affirmative. Zero shows that “sovereign affirmation,” from which a new vitalism…
Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 7:18 pm By Brian and Asher 1 Reply
Fracis Bacon, Tryptych (Inspired by Oresteia)
11 Jul

Living

What is modern? It can perhaps be discerned in the radical questioning of the status of piety, a questioning which slowly infects every discipline and discourse — a questioning, in…
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 8:26 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
"Angelus Novus," Paul Klee
08 Jul

Schizophrenia of Zero

The production of extinction.The one we are is one more than was ever necessary. It aspires to a unity of the One when the starting point is a “much stranger”…
Sunday, July 8, 2012 at 12:03 am By Brian and Asher 7 Replies
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05 Mar

Sorcery

Sorcery. What is the limit of what a noise can do? A certain noise means extinction for almost all regimes — not only of signs; it is an explosion of intensity or…
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 10:06 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
Salvador Dali, Metamorphosis of Narcissus
29 Jan

Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis. There is a kind of explanatory knot or gap in every narrative model of world history; a thread of teleology which tightens around the throats of every minor voice,…
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 6:44 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 Replies
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03 Feb

Genesis

Genesis. Enormous psychosocial and political transformations were necessary in order to put into place the global transhistorical capitalist institutions we take for granted. Capitalism is different, genetically as it were,…
Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 4:43 pm By Joseph Weissman 12 Replies
Rene Magritte, "The Lovers" (1928)
22 Jul

Return

Will. The question of the will is not whether to emphasize cycles or fluxes (identities or events, structures or processes, concepts and percepts or acts and effects); still less how…
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 6:44 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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20 Mar

Noises

    Non-expression. Speaking is a donation of words; but in this donation is dramatized an idea of alterity, an uncanny and infinite Power mysteriously unleashed, and this by a…
Friday, March 20, 2009 at 9:05 pm By Joseph Weissman 9 Replies
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15 Feb

Words

    Jargon. A word decodes by assembling: a mobile army, a mob or mass of “blocks,” segments extruded from heterogeneous flows: flows with and without codes, flows of energy and…
Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 8:38 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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26 Nov

Other

A science of being is not enough. This subtraction which purifies, this selection and division which makes holy, which ‘invents’ and ‘discovers’ truth — how could ontology do anything but…
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 12:00 am By Joseph Weissman 6 Replies
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27 Aug

Everywhere

    What is the nature of the difference between reflection and immediacy, between the orders of thought and of our inescapable exposure to light, to noise, to the proximity…
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 1:33 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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16 Jul

Arpeggio

We are not one, but two. Dimorphs, in between, always escaping the fold and the unfold, running off madly in both directions. We are more viral — composed of parasites,…
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 2:17 am By Joseph Weissman 6 Replies
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08 Jun

Invisible Writing

The outside, or Other, is accorded an incomparable eminence in the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In his penetrating account, metaphysics desires an elsewhere. It persists within an alibi, in which…
Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 2:28 pm By Joseph Weissman 6 Replies
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29 May

Outside

The relation between me and the other commences in the inequality of terms, transcendent to one another, where alterity does not determine the other in a formal sense… It is…
Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 5:32 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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27 Apr

The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: Towards an Ethics of Expression

Introduction: Rationality and Affect The lofty prize Of science lies Concealed today as ever! He has no thought To him it’s brought To own without endeavor! Goethe, Faust (1st part,…
Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 10:04 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
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19 Mar

$

Capital is nothing without energy, without a working which it desires to measure in terms of itself — and often wishes to imagine itself coincident with (and even more original…
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 4:48 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
08 Mar

On Learning

One way of approaching the difference between knowledge and learning (so profound in our opinion that, despite their entanglement, there can be postulated neither a material nor conceptual ground which…
Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 6:23 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
05 Mar

Metaphysics beyond Psychoanalysis: The Unconscious, Language and Reality after Heidegger and Deleuze

Metaphysics beyond Psychoanalysis 0: Entryways “What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” Lacan “Lacan never pursues purely philosophical objectives.” Badiou…
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 9:58 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
05 Mar

Intensive Depths: Notes on Difference and Repetition

In Difference and Repetition, Deleuze proposes what we may be permitted to term a differential phenomenology capable at last of setting mathematics and logic themselves upon a proper “ground” —…
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 2:23 am By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
29 Jan

Happiness or Justice? Ethics and the Politics of Friendship

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. Aristotle In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a…
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 6:59 am By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
23 Jan

Counter-action: Reflections on Sensory Anthropology

Towards a Metaphysics of Noise Let us return to the ‘alternate’ origin in noise, the conditions for any structure. From background noise to blank nothingness to signification: three distinct moments.…
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 4:05 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
14 Jan

Notes on Ethics and Difference

Notes on Ethics and Alterity 1. From Music Could we imagine that the ethical is a musical progression, and has the same sort of double articulation as a musical passage?
Monday, January 14, 2008 at 10:48 pm By Joseph Weissman 4 Replies
11 Jan

The Thought of Language

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.…
Friday, January 11, 2008 at 8:47 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
13 Nov

The Future of Information

In reality, goals are absent. Nietzsche Rivalry is only a spectacle; it is the state of appearance. Equilibrium is phenomenal, and the distance is real. The law of opposition belongs…
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 5:33 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 Replies
03 Nov

Translation: Two Entries from Francois Zourabichvili’s book on Deleuze’s Vocabulary: Univocity and Pre-Individual Singularities

The following are two entries from Francois Zourabichvili’s book La vocabulaire de Deleuze. Paris: Ellipses, 2003. Original Translation by Taylor Adkins 11/03/07. Pre-individual Singularities * We cannot accept the alternative…
Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 3:16 am By Taylor Adkins 8 Replies
09 Oct

The Power to Will: Nietzsche and Becoming Free

Reaching Out The will to power is not essentially political; it aims beyond politics towards a more subtle possession. The will to power is articulated as a higher expression of…
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 2:47 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
02 Oct

Imaginary

Wild Magic of the Unbeliever (Dave Makin) How much of our lives are caught up, inextricably, with the imaginary? A dangerous question only because it is silly, and stupid; why?…
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 7:38 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
Cy Twombly, Untitled
30 Sep

Nietzsche and the Unconscious: Ethics, Desire, Politics

Cy Twombly, Untitled [1970. Oil-based house paint and crayon on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: © 2004 Matthew Septimus] Granted that nothing is ‘given’ as real…
Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 5:27 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
30 Sep

Power and Cruelty, Difference and Sexuality: Towards a New Sexual Politics

Reproductive knowledge is power itself. Self-organizing, libidinal desire is the only kind worth (re)producing. Sexual desire annuls systems of control, unties authority, opens the future itself to re-ordering. It unleashes…
Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 3:49 am By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
29 Sep

Nietzsche and Sexual Politics: Energy and Difference in Power Relations

Dionysos and Ariadne We do not generally recognize how temporary our concepts and customs are. Foucault has argued our modern concept of sexuality is rooted inextricably in the specific marriage…
Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 11:30 pm By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
28 Sep

What Can We Create?

If there were an exact center to the current political impasse, the short circuit of process, it would be this fact: that free discourse first demands a difference. It could…
Friday, September 28, 2007 at 10:41 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
21 Sep

Bergsonism, or Philosophy of Sub- and Superhuman Durations

Deleuze, Gilles. Bergsonism. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. New York: Zone, 1991. Bergson on several occassions compares the approach of philosophy to the procedure of infinitesimal calculus: When we…
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 4:23 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
30 Mar

Against Culture

The identity of the same is an equivocation, a place without place. The “I am” is an assertion of allegiance before it attains any sort of meaningful substance, and this…
Friday, March 30, 2007 at 6:44 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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