Deleuze: What matters to Deleuze is the reality of the virtual
Virtual Reality – imitating reality, reproducing its experience in an artificial medium.
The Actual & The Virtual
– it appears as if first there or particles interacting in the mode of waves, oscillations.. Then in a 2nd moment, we are forces to enact a radical shift of perspective.
1. human eye reduces the perception of light, it actualizes light in certain way.
2. human eye expands perception – it inscribes what it ‘really sees’ into the intricate network of memories and anticipations, it can develop new perceptions, so forth.
Deleuze’s notion of the virtual is a radical one in that its ultimate reference is PURE BECOMING without beings.
– pure becoming – a becoming-it-itself, thoroughly extracted from its corporeal base.
– it never ‘actually occurs’, ‘always forthcoming and already past’.
BECOMING – concept of Repetition
something truly New can only emerge through repetition. Repetition repeats the virtuality inherent to the past and betrayed by its past actualization.
New changes the past itself – changes is the balance between actuality n virtuality in the past.
Kierkegaard : repetition is ‘inverted memory’, a movement forward, the production of the New and not the reproduction of the Old.
Kant: two modes of betraying the past. One has to betray the letter of Kant to remain faithful to (and repeat) the ‘spirit’ of his thought. One can only truly betray an author by way of repeating him, by way of remaining faithful to the core of his thought.
To perceive a past phenomenon in becoming is to perceive the virtual potential in it.
‘How does the very identity of human mind rely on external mechanical supplements? How does it incorporate machines?
Kevin Warwick: the first Cyberman. Combination of the human mind with the computer.
SPINOZA – philosopher of substance (body, solid, material)
Substance means that there is no mediation(intervention) between attributes (thoughts, bodies, etc)
The lack of mediation = lack of subjectivity.
Death drive – the idea that conatus is based on a fundamental act of self-sabotaging
SPINOZA – any negativity is ‘imaginary’ the result of our anthropomorphic, limited, false knowledge that fails to grasp the actual causal chain. (mis)cognition.
Justice is absolutely inner to our experience and has to be intuitively presupposed, otherwise everything is meaningless, fall apart.
Kant’s – ‘ordinary’ evil, ‘radical’ evil, ‘diabolical’ evil.
The basic gesture of Kant’s transcendental turn is thus to invert the obstacle into a positive condition. The condition of impossibility is the condition of possibility.
BODY WITHOUT ORGAN
The BwO is what remains when you take everything away. What you take away is precisely the phantasy, and significances and subjectifications as a whole.
Masochists has made himself a BwO under such conditions that the BwO can no longer be populated by anything but intensities of pain, pain waves.
The Masochist is looking for a type of BwO that only pain can fill, or travel over.
Pains are populations, packs, modes of king-masochist-in-the-desert that he engenders and augments.
– drug user
BwO is already part of that body”s production is already included in the body.
A BwO is made in such a way that it can be occupied only by intensities, nothing to do with phantasy and to interpret. BwO causes intensities to pass.
The masochist uses suffering as a way of constituting a body without organs n bringing forth a plane of consistency of desire.
What happens to a horse can also happen to me. Horses are trained : humans impose upon the horse’s instinctive forces transmitted forces that regulate the former, select, dominate, overcode them.