Difference and Repetition [part 8] Asymmetrical Synthesis of the Sensible

In this video we examine chapter 5 of "Difference and repetition", in which Deleuze explores the actualization of the Idea.

All quotes are from "Difference and Repetition" unless mentioned otherwise.

Support:

[danayaseen]

I literally finished re-reading this chapter 30 minutes ago, made dinner, and i see your video! I guess I’m watching this while eating. Thank you in advance.

[blu_fish]

thank you for making this series, i have been using it as a reader while engaging with the text

[criscrypto]

was reading this chapter when you uploaded!!

[gilsimhon]

6:32 the abyss that looks back at us but has no eyes

[uburoi]

You did justice to what is probably one of my favorite Deleuze's chapter. It's him at his most complex, and complete form. And so much of his latter works are inexplicable without this chapter, whether it's the third synthesis of consumption in AO, the BwO, also the plateaus on becoming, even his work on Francis Bacon, or WIP. I think it's even more important than the stuff on Ideas (mainly because after logic of sense differential calculus and structuralism take a step back, diff calculus is still there but it doesn't feel as central) whereas his theory of intensity remain unchanged up until the end of his life. It's still really important to understand his image of thought. When I first read it, it really was unthinkable to me. It just hardly made sense. It forced me to think. It was like a waking up from a dogmatic slumber but Deleuze wake you up with a whiplash ! And I had to figure out what the fuck thermodynamics was about, or information theory, and cybernetics and that's how I've discovered Simondon. Thanks to him I did research on a topics I never knew could be so interesting. That's why he can seem so complex and difficult at time he want to force us to think about stuff, and not just read. He is not difficult for the sake of being obscure he is just demanding with his reader. Wich is why I can say he is one of the only philosopher fun to not understand and be lost in his text. Great vids! and thank you for this series!

[christopherellis]

As a nstive English-speaker who doesn't live in the USA, I am laughing at your miles and gallons. 😅
Sucking up to the impotent?