Lucretius and the Simulacrum + Le Pli = très intéressant!(?)

I am currently reading Deleuze’s “Lucretius and the Simulacrum” (from The Logic of Sense) in light of both Le Pli: Leibniz et le Baroque and The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. A secondary goal is to work on my french/attempt to learn about the potential inadequacy of translation in general. This may take a while, but the main goal will be to explore what Deleuze means when he speaks of “the power of the diverse and its production” and “the power of the reproduction of the diverse” (LOS 271). After a reading of the opening chapter to Le Pli/The Fold it is starting to look like Deleuze’s account of Leibniz’s ‘pleats’ theory of matter will help to elucidate this distinction, especially when considering the passage from “Lucretius and the Simulacrum” which reads, “The heterogeneity of the diverse forms a sort of vitalism of seeds, but the resemblance of the diverse forms a sort of pantheism of mothers” (LOS 272). I’d be interested to hear any thoughts on the matter, and I’d like  to encourage more thought about this.

Thought Attack

“We are not going to compare philosophies and diseases, but there are properly philosophical diseases.” -Deleuze LOS p.127

Back

Ok folks, I’m back after a little raging against the machine and an unannounced vacation. The summer job has also been an on-and-off pain as usual. This semester starts in the ‘burgh on August 27th, so I’m planning on getting some more writing practice in via blogging again. I’ve taken somewhat of a break from the Deleuze Logic of Sense reading, mainly to do some history of philosophy research and to come to terms with the fact that I desperately need to overcome my aversion to Lacan.

While on vacation, I picked up Two Regimes of Madness and The Anti-Oedipus Papers. These ought to come in handy for my independent/side research on Deleuze, as this coming semester will be concerned with Aquinas on God and Being, Kant’s 1st Critique, and a whole lot of Merleau-Ponty.

Also, I need to get into blog form some of my meditations on ancient Epicureanism, speculative naturalism contra obfuscatory mystification, and the heterogeneous aspect of radical difference in the natural world…