For Deleuze, the confrontation with chaos deploys the mediums of intelligence, the affect, the percept, function, and the concept. Three autonomous names for the multiple—art, science, philosophy. The ground of their contact and mutual exposure is the simulacrum of ideas, but no idea can appear in a Deleuzian ontology without a material operator by which it is actualized as a variation on the plane of material consistency. A Deleuzian theory of media would ask, “what kind of variation at the level of events is afforded by our material culture?” We must then determine what kind of event is a medium. In keeping with Deleuze’s ontology of immanence we do not align media practice with representation or simulation, only with more or less adequate models of repetition at the level of signals, in short, a propagation of syntax or structural invariants that co-ordinate a space where an event can occur. We must immediately reverse this schema which is necessary for representation but disingenuous to events, which are not predicated on this cultivation of space but erupt continuously as a disarticulating force, the multiple or variable index of forces and relations. A medium is a place of inscription, a possibility of life. The event is not merely a possibility but the actualization of a virtual, which is real but un-mediated. A Deleuzian theory of media must then meet two theoretical and political imperatives: it must enable itself as a structure of registration through which the event can begin to resonate along divergent series (aesthetic, practical, conceptual, technical etc.); it must also propose a kind of historiography of the event which is genealogical, a line of continuous variation that describes the methods of articulating the disorienting violence of the event as it resonates in the heterogenous series.
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November 3, 2006: UCB Deleuze Conference
This Conference is co-sponsored by the Townsend Center, Dean of Arts and Humanities, French Department, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Anthropology, Rhetoric Department, English Department, Philosophy Department, and Graduate Theological Union. For a conference schedule and description, please click on the link below.
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This event will take place at 9:00AM in Howard Room in the Faculty Club.
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