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 |
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Discrete multiplicities |
differences in kind |
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differences in degree |
divides only by changing in kind |
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divides without changing in kind |
non-numerical – qualitative |
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numerical – quantitative |
differences are virtual |
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differences are actual |
continuous |
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discontinuous |
qualitative discrimination |
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quantitative differentiation |
simultaneity |
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succession |
fusion |
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juxtaposition |
organization |
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order |
subjective – subject |
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objective – object |
duration |
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space |
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