Dear Diary Moment 8/19/2021:
Thinking about it now, Deleuze’s ‘connect and forget’ makes perfect sense. In order to connect w/ the infinite in our finite capacity, we would have to let go of the possibility of retaining everything. To do otherwise would be the pride (the arrogance even (that goes before the fall.
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Joe Hughes in his reader’s guide to Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition points out that Difference in Itself (what James Williams refers to as ‘pure Difference’ (is not just a movement of Being but, rather, integral to Being itself. And if one thinks about it: Difference is what allows Being to continue being. Without Difference, Being would succumb to something like Deleuze’s ‘Actual Death’ (as compared to the virtual deaths we experience throughout life (which is a perfect repetition that can no longer even be a repetition without Difference: a perfect Nothingness.
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What we can see in Deleuze’s agenda (his manifesto (is a forward flight similar to Sartre’s –as pointed out by one of Sartre’s critics. However, it is reversed in Deleuze’s case. In Sartre’s case, it was about being-for-itself projecting out of being-in-itself towards being-in-itself. But put in mind here that Sartre saw Nothingness as coiled into the heart of Being like a worm. Think: Fulcrum. Therefore, we could argue that Sartre (very much like Deleuze (was arguing for a dynamic of something projecting out of nothing into nothing. What I would refer to as the nihilistic perspective.
I would argue that it was this sensibility (this forward flight in Deleuze (that led to D & G having to tone it down for a Thousand Plateaus after seeing the effects on people of the Anti-Oedipus.