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Daniel W. Smith - Deleuze's The Fold

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Optimism of Live Nets

I love film editing, because you're creating this continuity through these disparate, not everything is shot at the same time. Continuity in a film is constructed and delis would say, but that's equally true everywhere. I think if we tackled the fold, which is extremely dense and difficult, then maybe we are starting to be prepared for the cinema books as those are just as hard. If you wanted to say anything else you're working on or doing during the sabbatical, but if you feel like you've already discussed that with your interest in technology,. But I will let you have the last word. Just want to give you that form. Well, thanks.

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Speaker 3
I've talked about this a bit before because I love film editing, because you're creating this continuity through these disparate, you know, not everything is shot at the same time, etc. It's these different times, different physical locations, etc. But you can still create the perception of this unified system that sort of typically makes sense, right? You know, most of the time films make sense, but they don't necessarily have to. But I just think that whenever you are actually seeing behind the hood, so to speak, of how that works, there's something just immensely creative, perhaps. I don't know, it's it's fascinating to experience that unity come into being or at least that perception of unity from disparate multiplicity is fascinating. That
Speaker 1
is brilliant, though. That is exactly what to lose is talking about in live nets, right? You create continuity in a life and continuity
Speaker 3
in a film is narrative, right? From
Speaker 1
these disparate shots that are taken, you know, some films all over the world with different times, you have 50 takes and you choose one of them, and then you pull them all together. That's actually a brilliant, I think, example of what live nets is on about. Continuity in a film is constructed and delis would say, but that's equally true everywhere. Right. Yeah. Construt that's made out of differences. So that's brilliant. I like that.
Speaker 3
It is so good. I
Speaker 2
love that. That's great. I was looking at cinema two earlier because there was something in the fold. Basically, he just says that, you know, when cinema, one thing that cinema did was that it basically helped us to give us reasons to believe in this world and that we have to understand that kind of how as we talked about it, where it's it's not about believing in the best of all possible worlds anymore. It's a different optimism where it is this Nietzschean, this is the one world we have, but we need reasons to believe in it. And the quote that stood out to me was whether Christians are atheists in our universal schizophrenia, we need reasons to this world. I think that's basically what he said and that jumped out to me when I was reading about the optimism that live nets was criticized for. But I think that it's not a bad sentiment. And again, that's another reason why I think if we tackled the fold, which is extremely dense and difficult, then maybe we are starting to be prepared for the cinema books, which are just as those are just as hard in a certain way. So, but Dan, I guess I'll give you just one. If you wanted to say anything else you're working on or doing during the sabbatical, but if you feel like you've already discussed that with with your interest in technology and you're going to keep that general. But I will let you have the last word. Just want to give you that form. Well,
Speaker 1
thanks. Yeah, I don't want to do too much about technology. It is what I'm working on. But I will thank you because I spent a few hours preparing for this today, rereading the looking through difference repetition and the fold and even going back and reading some of my own stuff, which is always scary.
Speaker 2
Yeah, right.
Speaker 1
Exercise. I don't know if you've had this. I thought they were okay. You know, there are a few things, you know, I got a little tense on reading my own stuff. That's not quite right. But happily, I don't know if you've had this experience. There are other things I go to and feel like, I can't believe I said that back then. But it's what the nature of thought is, you know, the great philosophers are always writing and they're always changing and always becoming, you know, and I might have mentioned this last time. One of my favorite lines in difference and repetition is in the preface where Deloitte says, we always write out of our ignorance because to put off writing until you know something is to put it off until tomorrow and then the next day and forever. If you wait until you know something, then you're just never going to write because, you know, there's always more to learn. And I feel that all the time. It's a good excuse to read more books because you feel like you're doing doing research. But the lozest thing is no, at some point, well, at all points, stop during the research and just do the writing because there's always going to be more, more to read.

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