All posts filed under: sense

Notes on Logic of Sense: Preface, Series 1 and 2, Appendix 1 on Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
by Taylor Adkins
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becoming / Deleuze / event / image / internal resonance / Logic of Sense / metaphysical surface / paradoxes / Plato / sense / signal-sign system / simulacrum

Logic of Sense: Preface Here Deleuze begins by highlighting Carroll and the Stoics for their theory of events; he says that there is a marriage of language and the unconscious at work. Paradoxes imply that sense is a nonexisting entity (xiii). Deleuze claims that the Stoics formed a new image of thought [how can this be linked to Difference and Repetition wherein Deleuze claims that it’s imperative to move beyond a certain dogmatic image of […]

Theses on Sexuality and Sense

Wednesday, August 8, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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event / interface / machine / Politics / sense / sex / violence

Propositions (1) Ontology is the geometry of assemblages, and logic the topology of evolving surfaces. (2) The face is the ultimate object of political violence, or counting. (3) Politics precedes being. Axiom I: The face is an abstract political machine. Proof: Faciality is the enigmatic source of radical freedom, the paradigmatic social assemblage. But in the face we also find the primary form of education, even of confidence — a critical power, and a critical […]

Beyond Ontology

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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abyss / bodies / Deleuze / language / machine / ontology / sense

Where are the abysses? But they are already swarming: through the lines of others’ faces and in the depths of spaces, in reflections and in distortions, flowing over one another within the black holes through which subjectivity escapes. An abyss swarms because it is always consuming: it is the earth itself, an autopoeitic unity of timeless forces and endless devourings. The terrifying abyss of nonsense is fulfilled in the floating signifier — not in the […]

Living and Being

Saturday, June 30, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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being / infinity / life / music / observer / sense / universe

Fantasio(You can find more of his and other excellent original artwork here.) Life explodes and bursts ontological boundaries in its rampant and chaotic proliferation. But does life transcend being? If so, we must understand such a transcendence in the erasure of the gap between ontological layers, or in the ‘splits’ between, and productive of, generations. Such gaps are ‘magically’ or ‘miraculously’ mended by fecundity. Being, on the other hand, never truly carries multiple names. As […]

From Nonsense to Sense

Saturday, June 23, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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culture / ontology / sense / transversal / wittgenstein

Towards a Meta-problematics of Sensitivity 0 / Preface Can we separate sense from situation? If sense is first broached in the rupture of presence– if sense is merely an immanent intelligibility– then accordingly we would wish to know which ontological rules, if any, sensibility obeys. But is sense actually structured this way? In attempting to answer this question, our first guiding principle shall be that not only is ontology inevitably economized and politicized as an […]

Agency and Chaos

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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chaos / metaphysics / mirrors / Nietzsche / observer / problem space / sense / singularity

(Source: NASA deep space photo) Agency demands a problem-space exactly as motion demands regulated (observed) space. Motion is distinguished from space by an observer: space is energy. Thus the discovery that space-time (energy) is at once both a pure sea of light waves folding and crashing in infinite variations as well as a discrete, orderly series of predefined, probabilistic signals, is one of the two great conceptual leaps of this century. The discovery that energy […]

Sense and Simulation

Friday, June 8, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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death / dimensionality / fractal mapping / problem space / sense / solution / Zeno

(an outline of metaproblematics) 1 Problems are objects, or things which block our way. 1.1 A problem is a barrier to the composition of forces in time, and thus a revelation. 1.1.1 Problems do not only impede our abilities, but also allow for their full exercise. 1.1.2 Similarly, objects do not just cover part of the visual field but accomplish the depth and coherence of space. 1.2 A problem accomplishes the disruption and potential (sometimes […]