Notes on Deleuze's 'Logic of Sense' - First Series of Paradoxes of Pure Becoming
Deleuze begins to develop his idea of 'pure events' - a becoming which eludes the present - one becomes taller than one was, whilst simultaneously being smaller than one becomes. The idea of something which pulls in two directions is reminiscent of the scene in Thus Spoke Zarathustra where Zarathustra imagines a gateway from which paths stretch in both directions to eternity. This is just prior to the dwarf describing time as a circle - the eternal recurrence of the Same which causes Zarathustra to become ill, and which Deleuze utterly repudiates as a properly Nietzschean conception of the eternal return.
'It pertains to the essence of becoming to move and to pull in both directions at once'
For Plato, Deleuze tells us, there are two dimensions - seemingly corresponding to the chaos-cosmos distinction but in a more detailed fashion. (1) limited and measured things, fixed qualities, requiring the fixing of presents and the assignation of subjects (2) pure becoming without measure. The latter eludes the fixing of the present, moving in both directions at once as above.
This is not the same as the distinction between intelligible and sensible, Ideas and matter, but is 'hidden in sensible and material bodies themselves' - this is in keeping with Deleuze's assertion that the virtual does not lack being - it is not actual, but is real insofar as it is virtual (that's a paraphrase, can't be bothered to find the quote).
Pure becoming eludes the Idea and is related to the simulacrum. What might its relation to language be? (This seems to be a central question for any logic of sense - if we take these pure becomings or events to have a direct relation to paradox and nonsense)
The paradox of these becomings is the paradox of 'infinite identity' which stretches into the future and past - and causes the loss of the 'proper name' which is 'embodied in general names designating pauses and rests' and carried away by the 'verbs of pure becoming'.
'It pertains to the essence of becoming to move and to pull in both directions at once'
For Plato, Deleuze tells us, there are two dimensions - seemingly corresponding to the chaos-cosmos distinction but in a more detailed fashion. (1) limited and measured things, fixed qualities, requiring the fixing of presents and the assignation of subjects (2) pure becoming without measure. The latter eludes the fixing of the present, moving in both directions at once as above.
This is not the same as the distinction between intelligible and sensible, Ideas and matter, but is 'hidden in sensible and material bodies themselves' - this is in keeping with Deleuze's assertion that the virtual does not lack being - it is not actual, but is real insofar as it is virtual (that's a paraphrase, can't be bothered to find the quote).
Pure becoming eludes the Idea and is related to the simulacrum. What might its relation to language be? (This seems to be a central question for any logic of sense - if we take these pure becomings or events to have a direct relation to paradox and nonsense)
The paradox of these becomings is the paradox of 'infinite identity' which stretches into the future and past - and causes the loss of the 'proper name' which is 'embodied in general names designating pauses and rests' and carried away by the 'verbs of pure becoming'.