Rhizomes
I’m obsessed with this imagery and the entire concept of shifting focus from verticality and permanence implied by tree-like structures to the emerging network of relationships of Rhizomes
Eminence
Deleuze on plane of eminence
Everything is
- Concepts themselves
- It’s plane of eminence as a metaphor for the plateau we’re on — time, culture and place
- Delivered by the conceptual personae (that gives the work context)
Transcendence vs eminence?
- rejecting the philosophy of it
not the same as existence proceeds essence
- but looks like the inverse though
Ontology of eminence
- univocal > one type of being (not a god vs us)
- creation / emanation / expression can all be creating stories
- Spinoza first thinker to write this down (and killed for it)
Based on Bergson’s theory of past exists in the present
- confusing at times because we think in physical means (timeline visual) instead of as temporally (moments like now happening then)
- “an ontology that instead of reduce being to the knowable, but instead seeks to widen thought to palpate the unknowable” - todd may
Being instead of knowledge or truth …
Superstructure > Marx theory that people who think through the lens of the economic state they’re born into ^ Deleuze rejects this along with other post structuralists
Link to original
Book Quotes
Deleuze and Guattari’s a Thousand Plateaus or this one
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