Category Archive: intensity

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16 Jul

Differently

This creature Life, beyond all evaluations, remains an uninterpretable difference — a kind of difference which is primary with respect to a differential identity, a difference which directly induces individuation,…
Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 6:21 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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07 Dec

Trajectory

A series of imminent and necessary breakdowns are inherent to the production of desire: first, because desires connect up to an outside, with something which is always unrecognized, which is…
Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 11:31 pm By Joseph Weissman 7 Replies
03 Mar

Imperceptible

“Regimes of signs are not based on language, and language alone does not constitute an abstract machine, whether structural or generative. The opposite is the case. It is language that…
Monday, March 3, 2008 at 11:35 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
10 Feb

Notes to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: November 20, 1923 — Postulates of Linguistics

In truth, the nature of the abstract machine is the most general problem: there is no reason to tie the abstract machine to the universal or the constant, or to…
Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 12:16 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
30 Jan

Outline for a Philosophy of History

If we listen closely to the breath of the spirit as well as to the word of being, an entirely new kind of history may become possible. Disclosing a lethal…
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 3:25 pm 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
23 Jan

The Horizon of Language

If men learn this [writing], it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance…
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 4:02 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
21 Jan

Speaking (of) Flowers…

The stone. The stone in the air, which I followed. Your eye, as blind as the stone. We were hands, we baled the darkness empty, we found the word that…
Monday, January 21, 2008 at 6:27 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
28 Dec

On the Origin of Duration

Caspar David Friedrich, Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon (1824) On The Origin of Duration (Notes towards a “Genealogy” of Time) Time is invention, or it is nothing. Henri Bergson…
Friday, December 28, 2007 at 5:41 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
10 Dec

Beyond Desire: Remarks on Nietzsche and Becoming

    Topos (biocosm)     In the beginning all things were mixed together; then came understanding and created order. Anaxagoras [1] What had to be accomplished in that chaotic…
Monday, December 10, 2007 at 11:23 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
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