the event that dramatizes

"A lighting bolt flashes between different intensities, but it is preceded by an obscure precursor, invisible, imperceptible, which determines in advance the inverted path as in negative relief, because this path is first the agent of communication between series of differences. If it is true that every system is an intensive field of individuation constructed on a series of heterogeneous or disparate boundaries, then when the series come into communication thanks to the action of the obscure precursor, this communication induces certain phenomena: coupling between series, internal resonance within the system, and inevitable movement in the form of an amplitude that goes beyond the most basic series themselves. It is under these conditions that a system fills up with qualities and develops in extension. Because a quality is always a sign or an event that rises from the depths, that flashes between different intensities, and that lasts as long as it takes for its constitutive difference to be nullified. And most importantly, these conditions taken together determine spatio-temporal dynamism, which themselves are responsible for generating qualities and extensions."
Deleuze, Gilles. The method of Dramatization

who knows these things better than architects?

"This does not mean that there is no progress in the end, or that no arrow of time can be thrust forward. It means that we slowly progress from a very simple minded form of cohabitation — such as the revolutionary one— to a much fuller one, where more and more elements are taken into account. There is progress but it goes from a mere juxtaposition to an intertwined form of cohabitation: How many contemporary elements can you build side by side, generating the series of simultaneity?
By the way, who knows these things better than architects? Maybe once they have freed themselves from their intoxication with modernism —and with the bitter aftertaste of postmodernism— they will realise that the time of Time has passed as has fast as the time of myth and of epic poetry. They might just discover one day that they have written large chunks of the alternative operating system. After all, aren’t inhabiting and cohabiting part of what architects do? Are they not, by definition, the artisans of space? 
When will the horsemen of Apocalypse stop meddling in politics?"

Bruno Latour in Politics of Time, Politics of Space

violence

notes and thoughts on Zizek

# the ideology of competitive individualism

# liberal conception of violence is limited to subjective forms of violence

# there are forms of objective or systemic violence

# Objective violence is precisely the violence inherent to the ‘normal’ state of things

# Sometimes, doing nothing is the most violent thing to do

# love is an essential component of revolutionary thought and action, as out of love for others alongside solidarity, the desire for the overthrow of repressive socio-economic systemic machinery is born

# the information revolution is in the process of creating radical social formations capable of challenging the system of global capitalism (not Zizekian but Negri's and Hardt postion that Zizek critiques unfairly)

# ‘Leftist political movements are like banks of rage. They collect rage investments from people and and promise them large-scale revenge, the re-establishment of global justice,’

# ‘There is no longer a global rage potential.’

how does one go about effecting large scale changes to the systems which inflict violence on so many peoples and their environments?

such a question then cannot be answered if there is no understanding of the behavior of complex and dynamic systems... old leftish always supporting the idea that through rage and massive social mobility the system could collapse... Deleuze offers a meaningful reading on complex dynamic phenomena and he points out that any small change in a dynamic system could disturb the whole system and bifurcate it to another attractor. Therefore he moves ontologically to the level of the virtual where the actual emerges. At the same time he proposes that a rhizomatic engineering and a machinic opening of this level could cause major differences in the production of the singular. Deleuze though warns us.... that the smooth space is not suffice to liberate us. We need to embrace the risk and the responsibility of our experimentation to cautiously deterritorialize the system in order to be able to ride its creative force. Thus, we could say that Deleuze proposes an activism that is about to experimental exploitation in order to reveal the afordances of any system, to hack its rules and to drive it away from its habitual patterns. The recursive and relational nature of those models could amplify the differenciation to differentiation. from molar to molecular.

to be continued, elaborated, reworked and transformed...

Creativity and Schizophrenia

the only reason to write this post is to clarify, and consequently to diminish a misconception, on the title of BBC's article on Creative minds and schizophrenia. The article authored by BBC's health reoprter Michelle Roberts is entitled Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'. It is a well written piece of journalism based on current findings on neuroscience and brain scans "that reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia". The author anticipates though the mimicism that the title implies by stating: "Rather than a clear division, experts suspect a continuum". It is exactly at this point that a conception of difference based on degrees and not in kind is in operation. Someone could argue that this is a minor detail but in an ontological level makes a huge difference. Deleuze associates schizophrenia with capitalism in the two volumes co-authored with psychologist Felix Guattari and through this new formulation of difference (difference in degrees) they create a whole new ontological framework that questions boundaries and identities.

picture of Virginia Wolf source www.thefamouspeople.com

differen[c/t]iation

differentiation occurs in the virtual realm in the palne of immanence
differenciation occurs in the process of actualization.

according to John Protevi

Differentiation = differential structure of ideas or "multiplicity". Idea = set of differential elements, differential relations, and their singularities

Differenciation = divergent actualization of ideas resulting in set products with extensive properties: spatial and qualitative

and we goes on by adding the 'drama' for 'dramatization'

Dramatization of Ideas occurs in the intensive spatio temporal individuation processes.

Individuation = this is the most important term, for Deleuze individuation has priority over actualization differeciation and it determines which differential relation will be actualized. it is the priority of individuation tha prevents the virtual from being Platonized, as being a pre-existing Ideas. In fact Protevi adds ideas are determined or even invented by individuation processes.

it is interesting Protevi's proposing formula of:

"indi - drama -different/ciation"

to accept the undecided spelling of this world means to accept simultaneously the virtual structures of an entity and its process of actualization.
a disjunctive synthesis is a locus for differen[c/t]iation