The Wellspring of Vessels is Higher than the Wellspring of Light (Gilles Deleuze and Materialist Dialectic)
Keywords:
Deleuze, Althusser, Badiou, Gabriel, materialist dialectics
Abstract
This article is dedicated to clarifying the relationship between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the materialist dialectic. Drawing upon the texts of Louis Althusser and Markus Gabriel, this article reformulates the central question of the materialist dialectic—the question of “educating the educators”—into a question of access to a sub-semantic “set of all sets.” Such a reformulation allows two main stages in the history of the materialist dialecticto be highlighted: materialist dialectics I, identifying the sub-semantic as such with practice, and materialist dialectics II, which develops the strategies of access to the sub-semantic as given in its non-givenness and excess. An examination of Deleuze’s philosophy in the dynamics of its development allows us to consider it as a preparation for a transition towards materialist dialectics III, granting a non-reductionist and concrete access to the sphere of the “set of all sets.”
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Badiou, Alain (1988). L’Être et l’Événement. Paris: Seuil.
Badiou, Alain. (1999). Deleuze: The Clamor of Being. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press.
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Badiou, Alain (2006). Logiques des mondes: l’être et l’événement 2. Paris: Seuil.
Borges, Jorge Luis (1998). Collected Fiction. London: Penguin Books.
Culp, Andrew (2016). Dark Deleuze. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Deleuze, Gilles (1983). Nietzsche and Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Deleuze, Gilles (1986). Cinema I: The Movement-Image. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Deleuze, Gilles (1989). Cinema II: The Time-Image. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Deleuze, Gilles (1990). The Logic of Sense. New York: Columbia University Press.
Deleuze, Gilles (1991). Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty. Trans. Jean McNeill. New York: Zone Books.
Deleuze, Gilles (1994). Difference and Repetition. New York: Columbia University Press.
Deleuze, Gilles (1995). Negotiations. 1972–1990. Trans. Martin Joughin. New York: Columbia University Press.
Deleuze, Gilles (2006). The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. New York: Continuum.
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Negarestani, Reza (2014). “The Labour of the Inhuman—Part 1” e-flux 52. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/52/59920/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-i-human/
Negarestani, Reza (2014). “The Labour of the Inhuman—Part 2” e-flux 53. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/53/59893/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-ii-the-inhuman/
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Regev, Yoel (2015). Koinsidentologiya: kratkiy traktat o metode [Coincedentology: A short treatise on method]. St Petersburg: demarche.
Regev, Yoel (2016). Nevozmozhnoye i sovpadenie [The Impossible and the Coincidence]. Perm: Hyle Press.
Schneersohn, Sholom Dovber (2017). B’shaah Shehikdimu 5672 [When the Sons of Israel preceded 5672]. New York: Kehot.
Sirotkina, Irina (2014). Shestoye chuvstvo avangarda: tanets, dvizheniye, kinesteziya v zhizni poetov i khudozhnikov [The sixth sense of the avant-garde: Dance, movement, kinesthesia in the life of poets and artists]. St Petersuburg: European University Press.
Suchtig, Wal (2004). “Althusser’s Late Thinking About Materialism.” Historical Materialism 12.1: 3–70.
Vital, Haim (1974). Sefer shar ha hakdamot [The gate of the beginnings]. Jerusalem: Mekor haim.
Žižek, Slavoj (1989). The Sublime Object of Ideology. London: Verso.
Žižek, Slavoj (2001). The Fragile Absolute or Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For? London: Verso.
Žižek, Slavoj (2012). Organs without Bodies. London: Routledge.
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2019-07-13
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Regev, Y. (2019). The Wellspring of Vessels is Higher than the Wellspring of Light (Gilles Deleuze and Materialist Dialectic). Stasis, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2019-7-1-294-316
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