- Title
- The significance of signs: virtual ontology/actual experience: part II
- Creator
- Semetsky, Inna
- Relation
- Semiophagy: Journal Of Pataphysics and Existential Semiotics Vol. 4, p. 1-27
- Publisher
- Semiophagy
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- We “are made up of lines”, we are dynamic relationships; lines move us, and the most strange line of becoming is the one that carries us across many thresholds towards a destination which appears unpredictable. This line is “not foreseeable, not pre-existent. This line is simple, abstract, and yet the most complex of all … the line of flight and of the greatest gradient. … [T]his line has always been there, although it is the opposite of a destiny” because the third term in the relation guarantees not the reproduction of the sameness but the repetition, or iteration, of the difference. It is the “transversal communications between different lines [that] scramble the genealogical trees” leading to the emergence of novelty. For Deleuze, “there is no other truth than the creation of the New: creativity, emergence”. In one of his books on the analysis of cinematic images, Deleuze equates mystical experience with an event of a sudden actualization of potentialities, that is, awakening of perceptions, such as seeing and hearing, by raising them to a new power of enhanced perception; a percept which is future-oriented. Such “a vision and a voice…would have remained virtual” unless some specific, affective, conditions in the real experience that are necessary for the actualization of the virtual would have been established.
- Subject
- virtual ontology; experience; Deleuze; lines
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/921465
- Identifier
- uon:9318
- Identifier
- ISSN:1923-8711
- Language
- eng
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