Deleuzian Ideas

Deleuze writes:

“Ideas no more than Problems do not exist only in our heads but occur here and there in the production of an actual historical world” (Difference and Repetition, p. 190).

Ideas are not simply located inside the head. Nor can Ideas be entirely captured inside the grammatical form of a logical syllogism, even if that syllogism is dialectically swallowed up and digested in the course of history by an Absolute Spirit.

Ideas are not merely represented inside an individual conscious mind, they are detonated in the imaginal depths of the world itself. Exploding Ideas seed symbolic vibrations that echo along the cosmic membrane and unfold at the level of representational consciousness as a profound complicity between mind and nature. Ideas are productive of synchronicities.


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2 responses to “Deleuzian Ideas”

  1. Steven Avatar

    beautiful man.
    hows your financial sitch?

    1. Matthew David Segall Avatar

      Hey Steven,
      Oh, ya know. I’m in debt like everyone else.

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