Being-in-the-world never saw the world before*

Being-in-the-world never saw the world before*. For being-in-the-world, world was an unseen background that was resolved through mental activities. It was only through photographs from astronauts, the decoding of DNA and the expansion of informatics networks that we start to understand what Serres calls world-objects. It is through them that we realized the power to move uninterrupted from the local to global and back again.

Being-in-the-world never heard the world before*

Being-in-the-world never acted on the world before*

*Micael Serres in the Natural Contract

a life | the self

John Rajchman will write, in his introduction to Deleuze's book Pure immanence: essays on A life,

"we may think of a life as an empiricist concept in contrast to what John Locke called "the self". A life has quite different features thatn those Locke associated with the self - conciousness, memory and personal identiy. it unfolds according to another logic: a logic

of impersonal individuation rather than personal individualization,

of singularities rather than particularities.

it can never be completely specified. it is always indefinite - a life.

In short, in contrast to the self, a life is impersonal and yet singular, and so requires a "wilder"sort of empiricism - a transcendental empiricism.

A conception of empirisism that departs from the classical definition that says that all our ideas can be derived from atomistic sensations through logic of abstraction and generalization. the real problem of empiricism is rather to be found in a new conception of subjectivity."

David Hume: "thinking with AND instead of thinking IS, instead of thinking for IS: empiricism has never had another secret."

Deleuze, G.(2001)Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life. Zone Books, New York

the constitution of organism

Living systems communicate not only through filiative relationships but also through transversal modes that lead to heterogeneous populations and assemblages. This is the point Richard Dawkins, the writer and advocate of the theory of the "selfish gene", made in his book. However an important aspect that Dawkins is missing or under-theorizes is the insight that organisms need to be treated as complex assemblages.

from molar to molecular and back again

the time, the transformation and the 'becoming' is what marks the molecular. is the distinction between the stratified space (molar) and the liquefied space (molecular) that Deleuze draws from the 'molecular' concept of 'becoming'