The Idea of Internal Genesis in Deleuze's The Logic of Sense

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, trans. Mark Lester & Charles Stivale (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), p.1. 2 The French word for sense, sens, means both sense and direction. 3 The theme of external conditioning has been a constant point of critique in Deleuze's work. See ‘The Idea of Genesis in Kant's Esthetics’, and ‘The Method of Dramatization’ in Gilles Deleuze, Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953-1974, trans. Michael Taormina (New York: Semiotext(e), 2004), for his account of internal genesis via Salomon Maimon's reading of the Kantian project. The theme of internal model of the proposition parallels the set of arguments on the post-Kantian problem of genesis. 4 Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, p.32. 5 Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, pp. 36-37. 6 Zafer Aracagök, Desonance: Desonating (with) Deleuze (Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2009). 7 Zafer Aracagök, Desonance, p. 102. 8 Gilles Deleuze, Desert Islands and Other Texts, 1953-1974 (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e) 2004), p.183, [my emphasis] 9 Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), p.119. [my emphasis] 10 For an analogous critique of the conceptual form that dominates ideas of writing and communication see Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974), and ‘Signature Event Context’, Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).