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Dialectics Gives Way to Difference, Part Five

Dialectics Gives Way to Difference, Part Five

How does difference create identities? How does a problematic field give rise to solutions? How does the virtual get actualized? All ways of asking the same question. And the answer is: through intensities. You have the virtual realm of difference. It’s a realm in which you have no identities. It’s…

Spinoza’s Substance and the Event

Spinoza’s Substance and the Event

With origami, you’ve got that piece of paper and you don’t add to it. You don’t take away from it. You change it. And that’s a good sort of way of crystallizing the logic of what Spinoza means by substance.