tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473623542275467360.post7827901024931039038..comments2023-01-11T23:11:29.851-08:00Comments on Territories of the Alive: Pure ImmanenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473623542275467360.post-60751055228131697572008-06-14T14:40:00.000-07:002008-06-14T14:40:00.000-07:00Thanks for your comment Orla... I certainly conne...Thanks for your comment Orla... I certainly connect with you on the thought that there is a danger of turning an idea, a concept into some "thing" which becomes a fixed reality, not just a concept or idea, but a description of the way the world "is" -- and always "is". This is the dilemma one faces in creating anything... it can cease to be an experiment in moving through life, and can become institutionalized truth. <BR/> <BR/>Yet, I think we still must create -- even in the face of such a danger. And it sure feels to me that Deleuze's emphasis on affirmation (of life, becoming, etc.) is an under-heard creation, an emphasis which is all too often minimized and trivialized. It just is not the usual way of doing things --whether in politics, education, the therapeutic professions,the media. To me, it seems to be an idea which requires some space within the various corners of our culture. <BR/> <BR/>Again... appreciate your thoughts...<BR/> <BR/>ChrisChristopher Kinmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16944406791886068233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473623542275467360.post-87468800689786834382008-06-14T12:42:00.000-07:002008-06-14T12:42:00.000-07:00Hi Chris,I can understand why you quote from this ...Hi Chris,<BR/><BR/>I can understand why you quote from this wonderful Deleuze text which I wasn't aware of even if I have studied and been inspired by Deleuze's thinking for some time now.<BR/><BR/>But don't you think we should be careful not to turn his affirming philosophy into metaphysics as you seem to be on the verge of?<BR/><BR/>Another quote that I find interesting is,<BR/><BR/><I>We constantly lose our ideas. This is why we want to hang on to fixed opinions so much. We ask only that our ideas are linked together according to a minimum of constant rules. All that the association of ideas has ever meant is providing us with these protective rules - resemblance, continuity, causality - which enable us to put some order into ideas, preventing our "fantasy" (delirium, madness) from crossing the universe in an instant, producing winged horses and dragons breathing fire.</I><BR/><BR/>(From What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guatarri, 1994)<BR/><BR/>- the book by the way gives a great definition of his ideas of why the creation of concepts is a true form of becoming.<BR/><BR/>All the best,<BR/><BR/>Orla SchantzAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com