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3 - Poetics of Multiplicities

from Third Variation: Multiplicities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

Jean-Clet Martin
Affiliation:
Independent
Constantin Boundas
Affiliation:
Trent University Canada Emeritus
Susan Dyrkton
Affiliation:
Independent
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Deforming figures and forms, positioning the body for a leap in the same place, and preparing it to be ramified in a depth of dimensions of variable superimposed curvatures is a singular operation, entirely extended towards a horizon of visibility with unstable contours. Philosophy cannot be separated from the madness of sight, from the decomposition of all forms carried off by a modulable lens – an optical lens where shadows are lengthened and co-imbricated, refined and entangled as if riding an infernal carousel. For Deleuze, philosophy is a method of vital rectification, an anamorphosis imposed only after a torsion places the curvature into variation from which blocks of space-time are being removed (Deleuze 1988b: 13). The philosopher, therefore, is a member of the race of clairvoyants – with steely eyes, and a diagrammatic and discerning ear placed at the service of hearing the imperceptible. He mobilises a new articulation of faculties in perpetual heterogeneity and a discordant accord by means of which an eye hears where a thought touches its concepts with the eyes of the mind. These are incandescent eyes, charged with sensibility and tact that seize the world bodily, decomposing and recomposing it along a depth that Deleuze defines as a body. This is smooth and shiny body without organs, a body on which things are lit up, touched, and thought, with eyes and ears whose percepts can be translated and transposed through anamorphosis or topological transformation.

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The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
, pp. 162 - 174
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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