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After tinkering with it for ages, I finally finished writing an explainer for Deleuze's concept of 'univocity'. It doubles as a gentle exposition of chapter 1 of Difference and Repetition, which I hope newcomers to the book might find helpful!🔗⬇️

@v0idviper They will be granted the rights.

@StreetliTweets Can we just send them all to Mars, or to the bottom of the ocean?

The truth is that these people care about their innocence above everything. All they want, their whole raison d'etre, is to keep clean hands. That it takes immeasurable, unimaginable violence to keep them them that way - it's worth it so they can feel good about themselves.

The minimal disposition you've got to have if you're 'on the left' in any way is just that your hands are filthy before you're even out of the womb. That's your baseline and the question is what you're going to do about it.

Israel is deliberately pushing the Palestinian Authority toward collapse. This month, the Palestinian Authority paid its employees only $600 toward their January salaries (it is currently three months behind on payments). Doctors, teachers, security personnel, and civil servants all received the same flat payment, regardless of their actual salary. The EU refused to release €300 million in aid to the PA, telling Palestinian officials they should seek funding from Arab countries instead. Meanwhile, Israel continues to withhold over $5 billion in Palestinian tax revenues — money Israel collects on the PA's behalf under signed agreements and simply refuses to transfer. This is not a dispute. It is economic strangulation. Since October 7, more than 200,000 Palestinian workers have lost access to jobs inside Israel. That income was a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of West Bank families. It is gone. The West Bank economy is in freefall. I have heard the stories firsthand — families who cannot afford food, people who had stable lives two years ago and have nothing today. The situation has deteriorated every single month for the past 3 years, with no floor in sight. None of this is accidental. Withholding tax revenues, blocking workers, leaving the PA unable to pay salaries — this is a policy. The goal is to make Palestinian civil governance impossible, to deepen dependency, and to accelerate the conditions for a broader takeover of the West Bank. The collapse of the PA would not be a consequence of Israeli policy. It would be its achievement.

@iAModp #ViennaThings

@StreetliTweets Parece as casas do Loos, isso sim

That time Wittgenstein designed a house and it just kinda looks like the Tractatus.

Karatani - against Aristotle - prefers reading it through the Investigations though:

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@iycrtylph falling in validation with you

stop using the word "validation." the word you are looking for is "love."

@pimpchimpp I'm getting there!!

@StreetliTweets first??? Dude

My first Serres, pretty excited!

@JamesJouissance Hot take. Marxism's worst crime isn't the gulag, but the overestimation of Hegel (just because Marx wrote a few nice sentences about him).

@Enyuan_Kang True enough in the theological context - Leibniz, Spinoza - but the concept is not essence, and the 'blockage of the concept' (DR chapt1) is irreducible and introduces the way to think a 'concept of difference that is not conceptual difference'.

@StreetliTweets And since God is everything and everything is God, the essence and existence of all things are identical

Deleuze is a philosopher of existence to the degree that he asks what happens to concepts when they pass over into existence - when they are 'forcibly assigned a place in space and time'. Here, existence is what the concept can't remain indifferent to...

@pimpchimpp Ofc ofc

@StreetliTweets which is to say aesthetics

Ontology, that is to say, Ethics

'First pass' because he immediately qualifies it by taking issue with the idea that existence is a fall or an estrangement, and not, rather, an achievement or perfection.

I really like Wahl's very disarming first-pass definition of 'existence': what stands out from among the sum total of possibilities, or separates itself from the absolute.

@EricCabaniss Turns out there's a whole chapter on Biran here! And another on Leibniz's use of 'apperception' too.

@StreetliTweets I read the description and it sounded like Biran's apperception

Current read - Daniel Heller-Roazen's The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation

I pray to the bergsonian Memory Cone, it wards off neorationalist bad conscience