3.1 - Deleuzian Synthesis

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• 00:00:00

  Welcome to lecture 3.1 on the work of the CCRU. This lecture and these lectures coming up are on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who wrote Capitalism and Schizophrenia and What is Philosophy and some other texts. But primarily for the CCRU, they were utilising Deleuze and Guattari's two-volume text…

• 00:02:50

  It has a more intense reality than either the present or the past. CCRU. uses and is used by hyperstition to colonize the future, traffic with the virtual and continually reinvent itself. This is a relatively tough statement with regards to continental philosophy and it's relatively tough to take apart especially…

• 00:08:22

  So the second synthesis, this pure past, it doesn't determine the the current present or the passing present. It doesn't determine or cause any particular passing present and can be defined as the former index which led to this passing present. This notion of determination which I previously extrapolated as the inner…

• 00:13:59

  So it's for him to aim his active memory back towards index notions of spongeness within his pure past as a means to acquire his present desire and actualize it. No one desires the actual thing, they desire the virtual thing and what they receive is the actualization of it which can only be received in the past…

• 00:17:49

  So I'll conclude these explanations of Deleuze's synthesis by expanding on his third synthesis, in relation to the newly formed notion of the virtual, and how time allows the innovative virtualities into the inside, so that they become actual, or in short, how we can begin, to theoretically communicate, with…

• 00:21:40

  And this is where the third synthesis comes in. This is not so much a saviour, but as it's the cut, it's the third synthesis of Deleuze, it's where everything becomes possible. The third synthesis, there is, upon the circle of the eternal return, a cut, a fracture. Up until that cut, the first synthesis is a cut. The…

• 00:24:59

  So when you have the slice, an image forms, an image, an event image forms. The slice happens, there is a before, there is an after, and you can almost draw a circle around this, nothing to do with the recurrence here, but you could box it in and say this itself is an image. There is an event happen in history…

• 00:29:08

  How can we utilise this new temporal system of bringing the new in, of bringing innovative time in via these syntheses? How can we actually do that? How can we use that? What methods are there to make that happen? I'll see you in the next lecture.