Wednesday, December 16, 2009

things never are where we think them to be

Entering the abstact thinking!!!!
Thoughts on theory

The below lines introduced by dots are not to be read as a logical sentence but more to be considered as a thought process that will or may not end somewhere else when developed fully.

...While thinking of the repetition of the past and the repetition of the present that create a difference of the now, in reading Deleuze’s difference and repetition, I suggest that it is a rhythm of two beats–pause-two beats. Though the pause in the middle is an actualization, the third hidden term, sign, element, concept, caesura, interstitial...

The main reason I believe theory should be considered in first place, if we want to pursue an academic carrier, is not only to be an embellishment to put beside our scroll or a line on our curriculum vitae, rather engaging with theory can be looked metaphorically as the place were ideas start to germinate and our perception of life starts to manifest meaningfully.

'A theory does not totalize; it is an instrument for multiplication and it also multiplies itself [...] theory is by nature opposed to power'(Deleuze 1977a: p.208)

If we think of theory as opposed to power we can start to perceive how much space we have around things, how much space in society there is for refelection and debates.
But also, we can also start to think of the actual quote and see how power is understood by us and in the space we are into.

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