On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:30 am, Peter Cudmore wrote:
> Agamben is very intersting, but he is avant garde in the strangest way,
> being a radical rethinking of old Italian Cathoic nostra -- in ten years'
> time he'll be being criticized in the same way maybe (and I can't say that
> Deleuze is being criticized in this way for sure) as Deleuze is now, out of
> very, very old scholastic preoccupations that stay with us because no one
> is ready to be convinced by the absolutist certainties that underly the
> religious conviction.
Peter, sorry for the delay, but I am curious.
Could you perhaps say a little more about the absolutist certainties of faith
in reference to the criticisms of Deleuze. I am not sure I can understand
where it is coming from. Thinking of Laruelle's criticism of Deleuze's
rhizome plane as the pure form of transcendence and the question of how a
non-relation can be a relation (almost quasi-Hegelian in terms of the
relation of non-relation and relation, so far as a question goes) maybe? Also
perhaps Badiou's absolute beginning with the null set... is any of this along
the lines you suggest??????
As an aside, it is also interesting as I am thinking along lines of absolute
deviation as a poetics and aesthetics which is not philosophy and the working
title of my next book is, The New Human God. It sort of suggests an absolute
narrative and this is not a question or problematic as it would be for
philosophy. This has a hell of a lot to do with climate change, of course,
but also ties in to two different systems, climate as equilibrium and way out
of equilibrium systems, which buys into an ideological debate to refer to
Prigonine's claim in theoretical physics. Of course, absolute deviation is
pure mysticism, but you'd expect that from a poet and fiction writer. :)
Anyways, an interesting suggestion you have made.... please don't be offended
if my reply is delayed as I am all over the place and not very functional
right now....
Chris Jones.
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