Terence Blake’s ‘THREE SHADES OF CONCEPT: Notes on Deleuze and Guattari’s “What is Philosophy?” (4)’

 

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THREE SHADES OF CONCEPT: Notes on Deleuze and Guattari’s “What is Philosophy?” (4)

 

In this post Blake discusses the conditions for thought (including chaos, shock, and negativity of a sort) in Deleuze & Guattari’s What is Philosophy?. Here is a passage that I found useful for my own research:

Concepts are “undecidable”, they are undecidably also sensations, and/or functions. One could call them a-disciplinary. The planes are non-local. Here no example is given, but I think that old age as employed at the beginning of the book is an instance of a non-local concept.

(The published English translation reads “in relation with a negative”. It omits “essential” and “that concerns it” and it translates the “le Non” in the French as “a negative”, which only partially captures the sense).

(Terence Blake)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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