/lit/ - Literature

>>8945882
It's a difficult concept. The way I understand it, it relates somewhat to von Uexkull's concept of umwelt that makes philosophers from Heidegger to Dennett fully erect. That is to say, living beings have a life world, a set of stimuli from their environment that trigger reactions. But for humans this is more fluid, hence the complex sign combinations (since we constantly think and this connects to the environment) and movements of deterry/reterry (not gonna write the full words since they're annoying). Life, as Bergson points out, is about plasticity and fluidity rather than mechanic rigidity and automation and so a movement of deterry/reterry is or should be more desirable than a rigid blockage. This is difficult since for D&G the mind (and body, immanence and all that) work through machines. These are machinic rather than mechanical, but the vitalistic details are the most difficult and I'd say mysterious parts of Deleuze's philosophy. In any case, since it is a concept, D&G use it in numerous ways so it can't be reduced to a single aspect of it as I just did for the sake of simplicity. For D&G even the Earth is a constant deterry because it is moving and, as far as I know (since D&G don't go into details) the movements of the planets are not Newtonian in the sense of fixed repetitions, but rather have a bit of very slow predictable change to them.

It's not exactly my favorite concept and it can be quite difficult given all the movements and fluxes that D&G describe, such as production-registration-consumption, that come into contact with it, but tl;dr become a nomad like the other anon said.

Running out of Deleuze memes, gonna have to get more.

I'm going to a poetry slam today. We're allowed to read any poem as long as we acknowledge the author. Give me something good to read. I'm especially interested in lyrics.