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Isabelle Stengers’ Hypnosis Between Science and Magic is a short text that condenses and prolongs her work with Chertok in A Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason and presages her collaboration with Pignarre in Capitalist Sorcery. It’s an excellent entry point into her work.

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“My favorite text in all of psychoanalysis is a comment of Jung’s.” Deleuze, 1986 seminar

It seems to me that attempting to express Deleuze’s “view” on any particular subject misses the point. He doesn’t generally hold views on subjects. Rather, he creates concepts that allow novel modes of thought and becoming.

“What poisons life is hatred, including the hatred that is turned back against oneself in the form of guilt.” Deleuze

I just finished writing about A Thousand Plateaus for Deleuze and Polytheism. It’s the longest chapter so far, exploring the implications of the concept of “cosmic forces” in light of the equation of forces and gods in Nietzsche and Philosophy, as well as Varuna-Mitra-Indra, etc.

I love it that Deleuze, in a 1981 seminar, describes philosophers who mediate transitions between historical eras as “hinge-guys,” like Nicholas of Cusa at the border between medieval and modern. Deleuze and Guattari are hinge-guys between the modern and “a people to come.”

“Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.” Deleuze and Guattari

What’s the most enjoyable book you’ve read about Deleuze?

What’s the most enjoyable book you’ve read by Deleuze?

It’s funny that Deleuze’s readings of the Stoics, Spinoza, and Nietzsche are often considered “radical” when, it seems to me, he’s actually just reading what they wrote in all its paradoxical complexity rather than reducing them to doctrines conforming to conventional categories.

I keep forgetting to repost the things I post on Twitter over here. I’ll be over there if you need me.

I’m writing about The Logic of Sense for my next book, Deleuze and Polytheism, and I’m realizing that, whereas I had thought that there was an insuperable disjunction between this text and Difference and Repetition, they’re actually profoundly coherent.

“Whatever totalizations knowledge may perform, they remain asymptotic to the virtual totality of langue or language.” Deleuze

Schelling on Spinoza: “He alone of all modern thinkers had a feeling for the primordial age we are trying to understand in this book.” (The Ages of the World)

“Behind us, in us, before us, sparkle mythical – that is, mythological – constellations, like nebulae or galaxies, in which our ideological constellations take part.” Kostas Axelos

“The Stoic paradox is to affirm destiny and to deny necessity.” Deleuze

“Every great work contains its own critique.” Kostas Axelos

“The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribes there his dream of permanent revolution.” Deleuze, 1969

“Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to ‘accelerate the process,’ as Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven't seen anything yet.” Deleuze and Guattari

Have we done enough acceleration yet? Can we have our socialist utopia now, please?

Can anyone recommend a good text discussing Jung’s influence on Michel Tournier?

I just spent 20 minutes looking for a quote about Deleuze, and it turned out to be me posting on Twitter a few years ago.

“Let us apply Occam's razor to Kant's nomenon. By stripping away this unnecessary theoretical encumbrance to Jung's notion of archetype we restore full value to the archetypal image.” James Hillman

“Although dialectic on its own is far from being the highest form of philosophical science, it must accompany it in the same way that rhythm must accompany speech.” Schelling

“To contemplate is to question.” Deleuze

Hoping to connect with more friends on this app, especially as we walk away from Zer0 and Repeater. People in our circle lost their jobs and livelihoods as a result of a struggle triggered by our protest of the ongoing massacre in Gaza and the West Bank. Please retweet!

“We can imagine nothing or perform nothing that is not already formally given by the archetypal imagination of the gods.” James Hillman

We’re visiting family in Toronto, and I’m sitting in the apartment with my sniffly third grader reading Schelling while my wife and teenager are off seeing the city. I think I got the better end of the deal.

“It is clear that one can call it neither realism nor idealism; instead, one would do better to realize that oppositions such as this can only emerge at a later stage of the development.” Schelling

“As long as we maintain the formal identity of the self, doesn't the self remain subject to a divine order, and to a unique God who is its foundation?” Deleuze

Schelling partially prefigures a primary project of Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition in the Ages of the World: “The negative force is always on the side of an imposed union, while the positive force affirms difference.”

“What is essential in the epic is a double register in which the gods actively play out, in their own way and on another plane, the adventure of men and of their instincts.” Deleuze

“Reasoning proceeds by fits and starts, hesitates and bifurcates at each level.” Deleuze

I just came across this excellent review of Integration and Difference. a.co/d/hv5mWUQ

I just finished writing about Difference and Repetition for my next book, Deleuze and Polytheism, which means that I’m more than halfway through a draft. This is possibly the most enjoyable book I’ve written so far.

“Real revolutions have the atmosphere of fetes.” Deleuze

“Can the philosopher not return to the simplicity of history, like the divine Plato, whose works are dialectical throughout, but at the summit and point of transfiguration become the simple telling of a story?” Schelling

“The uneducated, when they engage in argument about anything, give no thought to the truth about the subject of discussion but are only eager that those present will accept the position they have set forth.” Plato’s Phaedo

Does anyone know the provenance of this passage from Difference and Repetition, page 222? Deleuze doesn’t offer a citation: “The emerald hides in its facets a bright-eyed water-sprite.”

“God or the self, it is the same thing.” Deleuze

“A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.” Deleuze

What’s your favorite work of philosophy published in the first quarter of the twenty-first century?

"Bergson is not one of those philosophers who ascribes a properly human wisdom and equilibrium to philosophy. To open us up to the inhuman and the superhuman (durations which are inferior or superior to our own), to go beyond the human condition: ...," Gilles Deleuze, Bergsonism

“Nietzsche was thereby abandoned, in the most auspicious manner, to listen to himself alone.” Pierre Klossowski

This passage from Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition is key for understanding Spinoza as more than a mere mechanistic determinist (in resonance with Bergson): “This is why destiny accords so badly with determinism but so well with freedom: freedom lies in choosing the levels.”

“The universe is only an eternal-fleeing-from-itself, an eternal-returning-into-itself of multiple gods, a blessed-contradicting, a blessed reconciling, a rejoining of multiple gods.” Nietzsche

“Our only teachers are those who tell us to ‘do with me,’ and are able to emit signs to be developed in heterogeneity rather than propose gestures for us to reproduce.” Deleuze