Gilles Deleuze For You
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The writings of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher, pure metaphysician.
While it is thought which must explore the virtual down to the ground of its repetitions, it is imagination which must grasp the process of actualisation from the point of view of these echoes or reprises. It is imagination which crosses domains, orders and levels, knocking down the partitions
January 24, 2026 at 4:40 AM
While it is thought which must explore the virtual down to the ground of its repetitions, it is imagination which must grasp the process of actualisation from the point of view of these echoes or reprises. It is imagination which crosses domains, orders and levels, knocking down the partitions
I would say about Spinoza's common notions, these are above all not abstract ideas, and in fact, in Spinoza — He has this in common with the purest empiricists — you find quite explicitly a radical critique of the abstract idea; this even gives him a laugh, the hypothesis of abstract ideas;
January 23, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I would say about Spinoza's common notions, these are above all not abstract ideas, and in fact, in Spinoza — He has this in common with the purest empiricists — you find quite explicitly a radical critique of the abstract idea; this even gives him a laugh, the hypothesis of abstract ideas;
In the second place, recognition is insignificant only as a speculative model. It ceases to be so with regard to the ends which it serves and to which it leads us. What is recognised is not only an object but also the values attached to an object (values play a crucial role in the distributions
January 22, 2026 at 12:55 AM
In the second place, recognition is insignificant only as a speculative model. It ceases to be so with regard to the ends which it serves and to which it leads us. What is recognised is not only an object but also the values attached to an object (values play a crucial role in the distributions
There is only a single case where the designated stands alone and remains external to sense: precisely the case of those singular propositions arbitrarily detached from their context and employed as examples. Here too, however, how can we accept that such puerile and artificial textbook examples
January 21, 2026 at 4:13 AM
There is only a single case where the designated stands alone and remains external to sense: precisely the case of those singular propositions arbitrarily detached from their context and employed as examples. Here too, however, how can we accept that such puerile and artificial textbook examples
That's what it means to be a genius in literature: making a new syntax. And those who define a great writer as a guardian of syntax clearly only measure their own mediocrity. There is no great writer who didn't create a syntax, starting with Mallarmé.
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
That's what it means to be a genius in literature: making a new syntax. And those who define a great writer as a guardian of syntax clearly only measure their own mediocrity. There is no great writer who didn't create a syntax, starting with Mallarmé.
The eternal return is indeed Coherence, but it is a coherence which does not allow my coherence, the coherence of the world and the coherence of God to subsist.
January 11, 2026 at 12:57 AM
The eternal return is indeed Coherence, but it is a coherence which does not allow my coherence, the coherence of the world and the coherence of God to subsist.
One could pose this problem: under what conditions can two things, two beings or any two things whatever be said to form a machinic connection: what is necessary and under which circumstances are such connections formed?
January 10, 2026 at 1:04 AM
One could pose this problem: under what conditions can two things, two beings or any two things whatever be said to form a machinic connection: what is necessary and under which circumstances are such connections formed?
It seems to me that all the theories of individuation before Leibniz had a catastrophic presupposition. Their catastrophic presupposition was that individuation comes afterwards, after the specification.
January 8, 2026 at 10:26 PM
It seems to me that all the theories of individuation before Leibniz had a catastrophic presupposition. Their catastrophic presupposition was that individuation comes afterwards, after the specification.
If it is true that intensities are opposed to the world of representation at the level of the strata, multiplicities are slightly different. They are opposed to extensive quantities or to qualitative forms which also in turn make up part of the strata at several levels,
January 7, 2026 at 12:55 AM
If it is true that intensities are opposed to the world of representation at the level of the strata, multiplicities are slightly different. They are opposed to extensive quantities or to qualitative forms which also in turn make up part of the strata at several levels,
Klossowski's thesis, with the new critique of reason that it implies, takes on therefore its full significance: it is not God but rather the Anti-christ who is the master of the disjunctive syllogism.
January 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Klossowski's thesis, with the new critique of reason that it implies, takes on therefore its full significance: it is not God but rather the Anti-christ who is the master of the disjunctive syllogism.
Framing is always constituting a certain number of objects in an artificially closed set. This is worthless, that is, this is a kind of aesthetics if this closed system remains closed; at that point, this is arbitrary.
January 5, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Framing is always constituting a certain number of objects in an artificially closed set. This is worthless, that is, this is a kind of aesthetics if this closed system remains closed; at that point, this is arbitrary.
What I’m telling you is, you know, Hegel didn’t invent dialectics, you know that. He hardened it enormously, he hardened it enormously, because the dialectic in Schelling is something with transitions, soft aspects… It’s not there. Hegel made a dialectic of war.
January 4, 2026 at 1:18 AM
What I’m telling you is, you know, Hegel didn’t invent dialectics, you know that. He hardened it enormously, he hardened it enormously, because the dialectic in Schelling is something with transitions, soft aspects… It’s not there. Hegel made a dialectic of war.
Qualitative contrariety is only the reflection of the intense, a reflection which betrays it by explicating it in extensity.
January 2, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Qualitative contrariety is only the reflection of the intense, a reflection which betrays it by explicating it in extensity.
And once again, this runs through all the physics of the Middle Ages, all these attempts to make a science of intensive quantities. We had a kind of mixture that we must take in a very muddled way and that revolved around a kind of thought of degrees of power, of the assemblages
January 1, 2026 at 11:05 PM
And once again, this runs through all the physics of the Middle Ages, all these attempts to make a science of intensive quantities. We had a kind of mixture that we must take in a very muddled way and that revolved around a kind of thought of degrees of power, of the assemblages
Descriptions are not statements, they are visibilities. On my side, I have some very eminent logicians, Bertrand Russell, for example, who in his book that founded modern logic, ‘Principles of Mathematics’, already indicated the difference in nature between propositions and descriptions.
December 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Descriptions are not statements, they are visibilities. On my side, I have some very eminent logicians, Bertrand Russell, for example, who in his book that founded modern logic, ‘Principles of Mathematics’, already indicated the difference in nature between propositions and descriptions.
The theorem, the demonstration as a concatenation of definitions, can appeal to syllogistic form; but we go by "enthymemes”, which hold only for syllogisms, and which work by means of "inner suppressions," ellipses, and problematic shortcuts.
December 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The theorem, the demonstration as a concatenation of definitions, can appeal to syllogistic form; but we go by "enthymemes”, which hold only for syllogisms, and which work by means of "inner suppressions," ellipses, and problematic shortcuts.
Gilbert Simondon makes no small display of intellectual power with a profoundly original theory of individuation implying a whole philosophy. Simondon begins from two critical remarks: 1) Traditionally, the principle of individuation is modeled on a completed individual, one who is already formed.
December 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Gilbert Simondon makes no small display of intellectual power with a profoundly original theory of individuation implying a whole philosophy. Simondon begins from two critical remarks: 1) Traditionally, the principle of individuation is modeled on a completed individual, one who is already formed.
And the disputes between great philosophers of the Middle Ages appear to me less of the kind “And what about your syllogism?” than the kind “How do you distinguish this or that?” That is, fine, God is three persons in one. What kind of distinction? What is this?
December 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
And the disputes between great philosophers of the Middle Ages appear to me less of the kind “And what about your syllogism?” than the kind “How do you distinguish this or that?” That is, fine, God is three persons in one. What kind of distinction? What is this?
We can not accept the alternative which thoroughly compromises psychology, cosmology, and theology: either singularities already comprised in individuals and persons, or the undifferentiated abyss.
December 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
We can not accept the alternative which thoroughly compromises psychology, cosmology, and theology: either singularities already comprised in individuals and persons, or the undifferentiated abyss.
It appears at first as though language were incapable of finding a sufficient foundation in the states of the one who expresses herself, or in the denoted sensible things, and that such a foundation were to be located only in the Ideas which offer language a possibility of truth or falsity.
December 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It appears at first as though language were incapable of finding a sufficient foundation in the states of the one who expresses herself, or in the denoted sensible things, and that such a foundation were to be located only in the Ideas which offer language a possibility of truth or falsity.
Syntactic creation or style — this is the becoming of language. The creation of words or neologisms is worth nothing apart from the effects of syntax in which they are developed.
December 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Syntactic creation or style — this is the becoming of language. The creation of words or neologisms is worth nothing apart from the effects of syntax in which they are developed.
I have always felt like an empiricist, or a pluralist. What does this empiricism-pluralism equivalency mean? It derives from the two traits Whitehead used to define empiricism: 1) abstraction does not explain but must be explained,
December 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I have always felt like an empiricist, or a pluralist. What does this empiricism-pluralism equivalency mean? It derives from the two traits Whitehead used to define empiricism: 1) abstraction does not explain but must be explained,
The way people talk about abstraction is amazing, they have absolutely no idea what it is. Philosophy has a kind of technique and a terminology like mathematics. Generally the word abstract is used for things in which there is no abstraction.
December 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The way people talk about abstraction is amazing, they have absolutely no idea what it is. Philosophy has a kind of technique and a terminology like mathematics. Generally the word abstract is used for things in which there is no abstraction.
We just need for one little thing to suddenly become concrete, we mustn't demand continuous concreteness. There is the concrete and the opposite of the concrete, the true opposite of the concrete is not the abstract, it's the discrete. Discretion is the moment of thought.
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
We just need for one little thing to suddenly become concrete, we mustn't demand continuous concreteness. There is the concrete and the opposite of the concrete, the true opposite of the concrete is not the abstract, it's the discrete. Discretion is the moment of thought.
Artaud pursues in all this the terrible revelation of a thought without image, and the conquest of a new principle which does not allow itself to be represented. He knows that ‘difficulty’ as such, along with its cortège of problems and questions, is not a ‘de facto’ state of affairs but a ‘de jure’
December 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Artaud pursues in all this the terrible revelation of a thought without image, and the conquest of a new principle which does not allow itself to be represented. He knows that ‘difficulty’ as such, along with its cortège of problems and questions, is not a ‘de facto’ state of affairs but a ‘de jure’