Reading Day 4
Logics, according to Deleuze and RajchmanBR #essay, #deleuze, #perversion
Deleuze tries to find the logic behind aberrant movements. Perversion is the focus of his work, specifically what the conditions are that make something aberrant, and what makes something an anomaly. To create a concept around aberrant movements he seeks to create a logic to link them with other concepts. In other words, to define the abnormal, normality needs to be defined first. To him, logical doesn’t mean rational, moreover ordinary empiricism is the death of philosophy. To bypass this he creates ‘transcendental empiricism’ which includes the demonic, excessive, and essentially the irrational movements in itself. With the help of this new ontology, Deleuze can define the new logics life ceaselessly produces, which are always the subject of their own irrationality. He proposes to change perspective and that instead of the traditional dichotomous, dualistic standpoint, the universe should be looked at as something univocal, or as Spinoza puts it ‘pantheistic’. This oneness can explain all the existing parallel concepts and the aberrant movements that all exceed the empirical experience; the unthinkable in thought, the unlivable in life, the immemorial in memory. He goes further and asks what if nothing is accidental, what if Nature is pure aberration? Or, as the predecessors
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