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Forrest
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Having a good background of knowledge in the Hermetic traditions is helping quite a bit. Deleuze is . . . I don't even know the word: oblique? Sidelong? Askew? It's going to take a lot of immersion in his work to really begin to understand his work at a meaningful level. I get hints and allegations, thin wisps of something just beyond my perception. Philosophical ghosts. I'm being willingly haunted,
— Feb 08, 2020 06:30PM
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Forrest
is on page 208 of 304
I will definitely need to give this a reread after having listened to a series of podcasts which are basically "Deleuze for Dummies". I'm definitely able to follow the threads here in a much more informed manner.
— Apr 13, 2020 10:42AM
Forrest
is on page 200 of 304
Understanding less and less as I approach the finish! And this after listening to several podcasts about Deleuze.
— Apr 12, 2020 02:15PM
Forrest
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. . . when a person dies, the event is the result of physical causes, but the meanings of a death are multiple and thus both precede and exceed the physics of the event itself. Teh mental or ideal time in which the meanings of a death are played and replayed is not linear and sequential, but aberrant and discontinuou . . .
Cue: differentiation between Aion and Chronos.
— Apr 09, 2020 10:40AM
Cue: differentiation between Aion and Chronos.
Forrest
is on page 171 of 304
For Deleuze, all genuine artistic experimentation must be understood as a local activation of otherwise imperceptible cosmic forces that move through natures, cultures, and psyches. When it is successful, the work of art suggest new modes of sensible and affective engagement within the world . . .
— Apr 08, 2020 10:29AM
Forrest
is on page 154 of 304
. . . the flesh is pulled or pushed out from the outside by the planes that frame it (in musical terms melody and rhythm push sound towards its pulsing vitality . . . harmony represents the planes that intersect and frame sound in a cosmos, a universe of vectors and dimensions.
This cryptic passage is actually helping me to understand Deleuze's approach/view on art more clearly.
— Apr 06, 2020 10:36AM
This cryptic passage is actually helping me to understand Deleuze's approach/view on art more clearly.
Forrest
is on page 148 of 304
About two years and three rereads, that's what I'm going to need to crack the code on that last chapter. Phew!
— Apr 05, 2020 03:45PM
