Space of Literature: Inertia and Intensity
Keywords:
philosophy of art, Deleuze, Gilles, Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, spatiality, fold, monad, nomadologyAbstract
Deleuze and Guattari issue two paradoxical injunctions in A Thousand Plateaus: “Follow a line of flight!” and “Draw a plane of immanence!” The question of how to pass from Extension into the intensive realm, where pre-individual singularities prevail, arises as a crucial one. This essay explores Deleuze’s articulations of the intensive space in art and philosophy, from the notion of “smooth space” to the concept of the “fold”, which Deleuze extracts from Leibniz, only to give it a new inflection in his own analysis of cinema. The following question is then posed: is the figure of the nomad privileged over the monad in the last instance and, if so, do these concepts lapse into Extension, which they had intended to flee?References
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