I have begun fleshing out the abstract I wrote for the upcoming MLG.
Here are my notes:
Time: Bergson
Following Deleuze and Guattari’s “assemblage” theory, all matter is connected through a set of singularities into ensembles without becoming a totality or whole. Bergson’s notion of duration helps distinguish between the intensive and extensive properties of multiplicities (ATP 484). The first sense of multiplicity are extensive numerical multiplicities (Space — see Riemann), the second continuous intensive multiplicities (Time). Maybe the most self-evidently Bergsonian aspect of multiplicities is found within intensive multiplicities, the idea of the virtual — the real immanent openness to change in in every particular situation. Following Proust on memory, Deleuze argues that the virtual is “real without being actual, ideal without being abstract”.
Here’s a wonderful graph I took from the wiki page for multiplicity:
Continuous multiplicities | Discrete multiplicities | |
---|---|---|
differences in kind | differences in degree | |
divides only by changing in kind | divides without changing in kind | |
non-numerical – qualitative | numerical – quantitative | |
differences are virtual | differences are actual | |
continuous | discontinuous | |
qualitative discrimination | quantitative differentiation | |
simultaneity | succession | |
fusion | juxtaposition | |
organization | order | |
subjective – subject | objective – object | |
duration | space |
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