In the season finale of Deleuzecast, we talk through the appendix of Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: "The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy."
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difference and identity
atomism
clinamen
14:00-23:00
color and perception
color as object or as relation
species differences
limits of perspectivism
23:00-30:00
eternal return of the same
Deleuzian repetition
30:00-45:00
evolution
error and mutation / the Deleuzian complication to this logic of error and development
sexual reproduction / diversity
the conjunctive “nature” of nature
the orchid and the wasp
differential pedagogy
45:00-1:00:00
reversal of platonism
absolute difference and absolute sameness
back to the eternal return
the molar and molecular
theology as a tendency or form of thinking
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the issue of “fragmented” ontologies and certain theories of difference
advocating difference over identity, or fragmentation over unity, or the molecular over the molar
the posthuman subject
the nietzschean version of posthumanism
the overman
how the prescriptive, or policy-writing, dulls theory
the need to have deliverables in scholarship / theory application