Report 2 Deleuze Son

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Bilal Ayan

Cultural Studies 518 Language Image and Subjectivity

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Concept of Sense/Event in Deleuzes Logic of Sense

Logic of Sense is the book in which Deleuze attempts to depict the structure

and genesis of sense. Sense in Deluzean sense has connotations other than just

meaning. It includes direction and faculty of perception in its connotation along with

meaning. Sense for Deleuze as for Frege and Russel, is the ground for all meaning

creating processes. It is a property attributed to the propositions. Propositions and

their relations are primal in the process of creating sense henceforth meaning. This

has been stated before Deleuze thanks to authors such as Frege and Russel but, what

Deleuze addsed to this picture is unique to him. He adds sense as the fourth dimension

to the first three types of propositions. He introduces an immanent conceptualization

of the multiple. Immanent is a key phrase which Deleuze reformulated by borrowing it

from Kant. This reformulation is very important to understand Deleuzes

conceptualization and his explanation of sense. Deleuze grounds transcendental field

as differential which is pre-individual and impersonal. It calls this field as virtual and

it is not the condition of real experiences. It is the condition of genesis of real

experiences. Structures are differential which is to say they are due to differences and

genesis produces repetition. If we keep the fact that Deleuze was trying to introduce

metaphysics that is adequate for contemporary science and mathematics in mind, this

formulation seems more meaningful.


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express such events with verbs and use adjectives and nouns to denote bodies and

qualities. Time for stoics belongs to the category of incorporeals, nonetheless they

recognize two forms of time: chronos as the variable present of the bodies and aion as

the unlimited past and future of incorporeals. Aion extends as a straight line unlimited

in both directions. Aion that is already past and eternally still to come for Deleuze is

the pure empty form of time. All these said, one point should be reemphasized; the

Stoic system resides in the theological principle of the unity of causes, the doctrine of

incorporeals arising only as the logical consequence of that principle. Deleuze takes

this stoic concept of incorporeal and remove the theological content of the system. He

equates incorporeals with problems, intensities and simulacra and deprives the

causality of the bodies of any inner direction or systematic unity. By doing so Deleuze

finds his point of entry into the investigation of language and meaning.

As stated before, circle created by relations of propositions is the fourth

dimension of the proposition, it is sense. If this iteration is applied to things/state of

affairs instead of words/propositions, event would be reached. This is why sense and

event are the surfaces of a plane without thickness. Sense and event arein a sense

one and they necessitate each other.

Event is on the other hand concentration of the continuity of life, its

intensification. The event is that which donates the virtual to the concatenation of

multiplicities. We could advance the following formula: in becoming, the event is the

proof of the one of which these becomings are the expression. This is why there is no

contradiction between the limitless of becoming and the singularity of the event. The

event reveals in an immanent way the one of becomings, it makes becoming this one.


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Event for Deleuze has several characteristics. It is always that which has just

happened and that which is about to happen but never that which is happening. It is a

sort of combination of past and future, it connects the two. Time for Deleuze from

ontological point of view has no figure of separation and this perspective is the same

with one expressed by Bergson. Time of the event is the realization of the indivisible

continuity of virtuality. For this reason thesis of Deleuze for time can be expressed in

two ways: there is no present and event is the representation of active immanence that

presents simultaneously the past and the future or, everything is present and the event

is living or chaotic entity as the essence of time.

The Alice example of first series is the demonstration of this situation. When it

is stated that Alice got bigger, it also means that Alice was smaller before. Saying Alice

was smaller before also means that she is going to be bigger later.

The event is of different regime than the actions and passions of the body even

if it results from them. Since we know the Stoic formulation of the concepts of

corporeal and incorporeal and event is the name of the incorporeal surface effect, we

understand why event is of different regime than the actions and passions of the body.

Deleuze uses the phrase singular point to characterize the problem and the

singular point precedes all solutions and is immanent within them. It defines a virtual

field of possible equations within which various specific equations and solutions may

be realized. Battle example is used by Deleuze to demonstrate the working of the

concept singular point. He says that event as such is a virtual entity, an idea or

problem-not a thing, but a verbal infinitive capable of various actualizations, not the

battle but to battle. This is why meaning is the sense actualized and event is the


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result of interactions of the bodies not trait or effect of bodies. Sense is a kind of

becoming and sense/event is incorporeal. It is produced in between propositions.

For Deleuze event is a sort of calamity. Why Deleuze gives that much

importance to the concept of event finds one of its answers in the fact that for Deleuze

philosophy of event is the same thing with the philosophy of wound. Event is the

embodiment of the wound which was in existence beforehand.

When Deleuze treats the event as synonymous with the wound, the wound is

both temporal and transcendental, rather than an empirical event that happens. For

him, the event never actually happens or is present; it is always that which has already

happened, or is going to happen as we stated before. Deleuze does not stop there and

he emphasizes temporal, ethical and transcendental differences between himself and

his preceding phenomenologist.

For Deleuze, a single event composes the life. The events function in this sense

as the theme of musical composition. The event is not what happens to life, but what is

in what happens.

Deleuze declares his answer to the evental ambuigity. He implies destiny as the

answer. Event/wound is not seen as a passage from one state of things to the other, it

is rather immanent stigmata of a One-result of all becomings.

A person in a sense destined to embody the wound. Wound/Event call us in

our life to embody it and for Deleuze what one can do best with his life is to discern

and embrace it.

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