Each of these post appears to open with an attack – an attack on metric objects, an attack on positivism, an attack on an old image of thought and now here, an attack on an old problem-solution relation, and its replacement with a new for of problem-solution relation. But first let‘s sketch out the new [...]
Posts Tagged ‘event’
De Landa’s Method
This is my image of what De Landa is saying on p 28 of “Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy“. It is a way of working into a new form of thinking, of coordinating the surface, or conceptualising a situation. 1. We begin on a “manifold” or a framing for our analysis (the least dimensions/restrictions the [...]
Deleuze’s Objects
Here I am going to trace out what are the objects of concern for Deleuze according to De Landa in the first chapter of Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy – “The Mathematics of the Virtual: Manifolds, vector fields and transformation groups“. The object of concern is the multiplicity. It is developed in contrast to an [...]
questions framing my analysis of the event
Why am I looking at the event? To begin rather vaguely I want a concept of situation. During my thesis I have done fieldwork in situations where very different knowledge systems, conceptual systems and metaphysics come together – specifically the metaphysical systems of the Yolŋu people of North East Arnhem Land and the metaphysical system [...]
