Event overview
The concept of pluralism assumes a distinctive form in Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy. Pluralism is related to the higher type of empiricism that Deleuze rigorously qualifies as transcendental, and which he formulates as a pluralism of free, wild or untamed differences, which persist through the simplifications that produce their unification or simple opposition. The singular ‘magic formula’, PLURALISM=MONISM, proposed with Félix Guattari, seeks to define relations that are always open, external to each other and to the terms that they bring into relation. If this pluralism seeks to do justice to differences and to explain the formation of the new, it must also confront the definition of an informal field of relations that cannot be represented conceptually, but whose consistency is that of an open space. But this is precisely what we are not given to see.
In David Cronenberg's recent Crimes of the Future, we are exposed to an interior of the body that is rather an ‘Outer Space’ and that we will never see directly. It defies our conditions of intelligibility and is something we have not seen and eventually will not be able to see. But at the same time, it is what should not be happening and yet it happens and is imposed on us, as Lovecraft would have thought the decisive formula of Cosmic Horror. An excess of perspectives and points of view, which impede our ability to perceive the subject matter with clarity. Images are concerned with that which is no longer visible, but which, because of an excess of points of view that cannot be homologated, remains inaccessible. The image, always composed, emerges when the visibility (intelligibility) of the visible can no longer persist. This occurs when what we cannot see, or what we have not yet seen, or what we have not yet been able to see, becomes sensible. That which is not yet visible. It is possible that it may never do so. The “point of view from nowhere” (according to Ludlow's expression of Cronenberg's cinema), which seems to be the most horrifying, opens the way to think a weird pluralism, joyful in disjunction, where the looseness of the elements that float dispersed in the Outside potentially opens up for encounters that promise to make new worlds, and that promise to make them disappear as soon as they are imagined.
Cristóbal Durán Rojas holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Chile. He is currently engaged in a research project that seeks to extend pluralism in contemporary ecological discussion based on Deleuzian thought (2024-2028). He has published and edited several books, the latest of which is Imágenes virales. El cine de David Cronenberg (Santiago, Metales Pesados, 2024).
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| 28 Nov 2024 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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