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In the contemporary
cultural, social and media theories (Actor-network theory, speculative realism,
Object-oriented ontology, accelerationism) philosophy of Deleuze and Gvattari
is often approached as the material nominalism or technocratic scientism, in
which it is impossible to generalize empirical and aleatoric elements or reduce
them to Subject, Idea or Event. Addressing such notions of Deleuze as the
series, event, simple machine, abstract machine, causality, transcendental
empiricism, repetition, Aeon, we shall try to inspect which of them fits Deleuze/Guattari
tandem, and which is, on the contrary, difficult to inscribe in it. For
example, while such concepts as event, death, Aeon, repetition, supreme being -
are crucial for Deleuze’s ontology, they often go counter to the concepts
developed in Guattari’s works or his tandem with Deleuze – such as - the molecular, assemblage, machinic
unconscious, etc. This incompatibility leads to contradictory interpretations
of Deleuze’s ontology; when, for example, for Badiou Deleuze represents nothing
but absolute empiricism – the immanence and
“clamour” of being; while for Peter Hallward, conversely, he stands for
only what is only virtual and “out from this world”. The lecture attempts to
unpack this incompatibility by reconsidering the reasons why such Deleuzean
concepts as Event, supreme being, repetition, Aeon hamper inscription of
Deleuze’s thought into contemporary post-philosophies and object oriented
positivisms.