Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
- DIFFERENT/CIATION
- LIFE, ETHICS, POLITICS
- 8 Deleuze and the Meaning of Life
- 9 The Ethics of Becoming-Imperceptible
- 10 The Limits of Intensity and the Mechanics of Death
- 11 The Problem of the Birth of Philosophy in Greece in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze
- 12 Gilles Deleuze's Political Posture
- 13 Fabulation, Narration and the People to Come
- EPILOGUE
- List of Contributors
- Index
10 - The Limits of Intensity and the Mechanics of Death
from LIFE, ETHICS, POLITICS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
- DIFFERENT/CIATION
- LIFE, ETHICS, POLITICS
- 8 Deleuze and the Meaning of Life
- 9 The Ethics of Becoming-Imperceptible
- 10 The Limits of Intensity and the Mechanics of Death
- 11 The Problem of the Birth of Philosophy in Greece in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze
- 12 Gilles Deleuze's Political Posture
- 13 Fabulation, Narration and the People to Come
- EPILOGUE
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
Imagine yourself in the midst of some milieu, some process of continuous differenciation, characterised by rapidly changing events and personages, a sense of expectation – what if there is a glimpse, a shudder, a leap, something else? What if there emerges some evanescent darkness, some momentary shift invested with the misery of an onslaught of disturbing reverberations? Responding to this in confusion, perhaps you construct an Idea, a structure, a multiplicity, a system of multiple, nonlocalisable ideal connections which is then incarnated. It is incarnated in real (not ideal) relations and actual (physical) terms, each of which exists only in relation to each other, reciprocally determining each other. What is essential is the movement from ideal or virtual structure to actual incarnation, from the conditions of a problem to the terms of its solution, from differential elements and ideal connections to actual terms and diverse real relations constituting, at each moment, the actuality of time, the time of processes, of differenciation, of connections. So you slip into the construction of an Idea whose intensities produce appearances redolent of harsh wind, dark days, gloomy landscapes.
What solution does this Idea offer? It might allow you to encounter a physical Idea as the distribution of the shuddering disturbances and to go on with your life. After all, you are a busy person with a lot of responsibilities and important work to accomplish; people are listening to you, counting on you.
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- Deleuze and Philosophy , pp. 160 - 174Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2006