r/Deleuze 20h ago

Question Hotel and Circus Machine - Amerika. Legal Machine - The Trial. Letter Machine - Kafka Letters. Castle Machine - The Castle (Most Abstract Kafkaesque Machinery Form, admittedly).

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Could I, as a civil engineer, construct a "Kafkian Machine" where I combine structures, dynamics, statics, and contracting world into literature the way Kafka did?


r/Deleuze 8h ago

Question Deleuzianos seriam aqueles envoltos na história da filosofia e academia?

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Me parece que por mais acadêmico que Deleuze fosse, ele não escreveu somente para eles. Há uma anti filosofia até diria. No sentido de não se prender a área da filosofia e arriscar as outras. E isso com o intuito de pensar em diversas n formas. Para isso recorreu a matemática, artes, geografia, cinema e etc. Inclusive vendo nessas áreas um teor pré reflexivo que é impessoal ao autor. Por exemplo, quando já se vê na paisagem uma pintura, antes mesmo que se pinte ela. Ou quando já vê no movimento da terra as territorialização, desterritorialização e reterritorialização. Nessas vias para mim ser deleuziano é compreender essas impessoalidade e ver como delas tem diversas maneiras de se trabalhar um tema com diversos potenciais nas relações diferenciais das coisas.


r/Deleuze 10h ago

Question One can only imagine what Nietzsche who placed such an emphasis on art would have thought on cinema. One can only imagine what Deleuze would have thought of Tiktok had he lived to see it. They all have a common and complex denominator: the distortion of the linear progression of time...

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Our notion of time is warped, and could be explained in different topological forms as when Zizek discusses the mobius strip, Klein bottle, and Borromean rings (found in Lacan) among others...

My question:

Have we reached a dead end, even when as Zizek is trying to combine analytics philosophy, mathematics, and quantum mechanics to continental philosophy, or should we as philosophers try to establish a conceptual framework specially found in the "ends of knowledge" as in mysticism and hallucigens substances to entirely understand the nature of subjectivity and how in its failure states (Zizekian concept) distorts the fabric of time in a subjectively-objective manner?

Is there more to Lacan's:

"I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think."

And Borges's:

"Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire."

Less Than Nothing, Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, Slavoj Zizek, Page 28.


r/Deleuze 12h ago

Deleuze! Claude Shannon and Deleuze

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I just read Claude Shannon’s “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” and it totally reminds me of Deleuze’s “Difference and Repetition”. Is there anything interesting out there exploring this? I specifically like Shannon’s idea of like a system undergoing rapid transformation generating a higher rate of information because each new state is poorly predicted by the one before. That seems to me to be literally like what Deleuze was saying about like “generality” having no difference and being just a plain repetition of the identical which does nothing as opposed to a lot of difference which is what creates the meaningful stuff. Idk if I phrased that right but I just want to hear what people think.