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The Deleuzian Revolution: Ten Innovations in Difference and Repetition
Difference and Repetition might be said to have brought about a Deleuzian Revolution in philosophy comparable to Kantâs Copernican Revolution. Kant had denounced the three great terminal points of traditional metaphysics â self, world and God â as transcendent illusions, and Deleuze pushes Kantâs revolution to its limit by positing a transcendental field that excludes the coherence of the self, world and God in favour of an immanent and differential plane of impersonal individuations and pre-individual singularities. In the process, he introduces numerous conceptual innovations into philosophy: the becoming of concepts; a transformation of the form of the question; an insistence that philosophy must start in the middle; an attempt to think in terms of multiplicities; the development of a new logic and a new metaphysics based on a concept of difference; a new conception of space as intensive rather than extensive; a conception of time as a pure and empty form; and an understanding of philosophy as a system in heterogenesis â that is, a system that entails a perpetual genesis of the heterogeneous, an incessant production of the new.
Keywords: concepts, becoming, multiplicity, singularity, the middle [au milieu], difference, intensity, time, system, the ne
Logic and Existence: Deleuze on the âConditions of the Realâ
Logique et existenceDeleuze Ă propos des « conditions du rĂ©el »Pour Deleuze, lâun des problĂšmes fondamentaux dâune thĂ©orie de la pensĂ©e est de savoir comment la pensĂ©e peut quitter la sphĂšre du possible pour penser le rĂ©el, câest-Ă dire pour penser lâexistence elle-mĂȘme. La position du rĂ©el semble ĂȘtre hors du concept. Des prĂ©-kantiens comme Leibniz approchaient ce problĂšme par le biais de la distinction entre vĂ©ritĂ©s dâessence et vĂ©ritĂ©s dâexistence, alors que des post-kantiens comme Maimon lâapprochaient par la distinction entre les conditions de lâexpĂ©rience possible et celles de lâexpĂ©rience rĂ©elle. La logique classique dĂ©finit la sphĂšre du possible par trois principes logiques â lâidentitĂ©, la non-contradiction et le tiers-exclu â et la prĂ©sente Ă©tude examine les trois grandes trajectoires qui, dans cette histoire de la philosophie, ont tentĂ© dâutiliser lâun de ces trois principes classiques pour pĂ©nĂ©trer lâexistence ellemĂȘme : 1) Leibniz cherchait Ă Ă©tendre le principe de dâidentitĂ© Ă lâexistence entiĂšre ; 2) Hegel cherchait Ă Ă©tendre le principe de non-contradiction Ă la totalitĂ© de lâexpĂ©rience ; et 3) le groupe des penseurs appelĂ©s de maniĂšre assez large « existentialistes » cherchait Ă Ă©tendre le principe du tiers-exclu Ă la totalitĂ© de lâexistence. La conclusion examine les raisons pour lesquelles Deleuze a Ă©tĂ© fascinĂ© par chacune de ces tentatives philosophiques pour « penser lâexistence », tout en pensant nĂ©anmoins quâelles ont toutes Ă©chouĂ© ; et pourquoi aussi il a fini par dĂ©velopper sa propre rĂ©ponse au problĂšme en faisant appel Ă un principe de diffĂ©rence.Logica e EsistenzaLe âCondizioni del realeâ in DeleuzePer Deleuze, uno dei problemi fondamentali per una teoria del pensiero Ăš: come puĂČ il pensiero abbandonare la sfera del possibile per pensare il reale, ossia, pensare lâesistenza stessa? La posizione del reale sembra essere fuori dal concetto. Prekantiani come Leibniz affrontano questo problema in termini di distinzione fra veritĂ dellâessenza e veritĂ dellâesistenza, mentre post-kantiani come Maimon affrontano il problema in termini di distinzione fra condizioni dellâesperienza possibile e condizioni dellâesperienza reale. La logica classica ha definito la sfera del possibile secondo tre principi logici â identitĂ , non-contraddizione, terzo escluso â e questo saggio analizza tre grandi âparaboleâ della storia della filosofia che hanno tentato di usare uno di questi tre principi della logica per penetrare lâesistenza stessa: Leibniz hanno tentato di estendere il principio di identitĂ a tutta lâesistenza; Hegel hanno tentato di estendere il principio di non-contraddizione a tutta lâesistenza; il gruppo di pensatori chiamati âesistenzialistiâ ha tentato di estendere il principio del terzo escluso allâesistenza. La conclusione analizza sia le ragioni per le quali Deleuze era affascinato da ciascuno di questi tentativi filosofici di âpensare lâesistenzaâ nonostante fosse convinto che essi avessero fallito, sia i motivi per cui egli in conclusione traccia la propria risposta al problema facendo appello al principio della differenz
Community Response Strategies for Environmental Problems of Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal in Fairbanks, Alaska
This report examines the history of the response strategies of the
Fairbanks, Alaska, community to problems of water supply and wastewater
disposal. Fairbanks is significant since it is the largest settlement in
the northern subarctic and arctic regions of North America. Today, the
City of Fairbanks and the surrounding urban area have a combined population
of over 40,000
Environmental quality conditions in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1972
Published by
The Institute of Water Resources
and
The Institute of Social, Economic and Government Research
Fairbanks, AlaskaThis study represents a starting point for investigating the nature and interconnectivity of environmental quality problems in Fairbanks in the 1970's. Since the Fairbanks flood of 1967, no
detailed survey of environmental quality conditions has been conducted despite the impact of the flood, the considerable
expansion of the city limits, and the population expansion (anticipated and actual) associated with the oil pipeline.
The study focuses on selective aspects of environmental quality of continuing and increasing concern to Fairbanks area residents and also to the city and borough governments. Specifically, the issues
analyzed are (1) the environmental setting of the area, (2) structures, especially housing conditions, (3) premise conditions, and (4) waste control.
Much of the data was derived from a program called NEEDS, an acronym for Neighborhood Environmental Evaluation and Decision
System. NEEDS was developed by the Bureau of Community Environmental Management of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for rapid gathering of environmental, health,
and social information in urban areas.1 The NEEDS survey design consists of two separate stages. Stage I is concerned with collecting
general environmental quality information to determine geographically where the most pronounced environmental health problems exist in a given urban area. Stage II consists of detailed interviews with residents of the identified "problem areas" to determine the exact nature of existing health and environmental problems, e.g., housing, health, availability of services, and attitudes regarding existing government (local, state, and federal) programs.
With this information, local officials could begin to reorganize existing programs and/or develop new programs to solve some of the
interrelated environmental quality problems in the disadvantaged sections of their cities.The work upon which this report is based was
supported by funds provided by the State of
Alaska, the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, the United States Public Health Service, and the Office of Water Research and Technology
Clearing Alaskan water supply impoundments: management, laboratory study, and literature review
The literature review prepared in conjunction with this study is contained in IWR-67-A, published separately as "Clearing Alaskan Water Supply Impoundments: Literature Review" by the Institute of Water Resources, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska. The data developed in the laboratory portion of the study are contained in IWR-67-B. Contact the Institute of Water Resources for access to this material. IWR-67-A and IWR-67-B are available on microfiche.Water supply impoundments in northern regions have seen only limited application. Reasons for the lack of use of such impoundments include the following: 1) little demand for water due to the low population densities and rustic life styles; 2) a lack of conventional distribution systems in many communities; 3) poorly developed technology for construction of dams on permafrost; 4) adequacy of existing river, lake, ice, and lagoon water supplies; 5) shortage of capital to finance the high cost of construction in remote regions.The work upon which this report is based was supported by funds provided by the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Water Research and Technology, as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, Public Law 88-379, as amended (Project A-043-ALAS)
Net phytoplankton and zooplankton in the New York Bight, January 1976 to February 1978, with comments on the effects of wind, Gulf Stream eddies, and slope water intrusions
Results are given of monthly net phytoplankton and zooplankton sampling from a 10 m depth in shelf, slope, and Gulf Stream eddy water along a transect running southeastward from Ambrose Light, New York, in 1976, 1977, and early 1978. Plankton abundance and temperature at 10 m and sea surface salinity at each station are listed. The effects of atmospheric forcing and Gulf Stream eddies on plankton distribution and abundance arc discussed. The frequency of Gulf Stream eddy passage through the New York Bight corresponded with the frequency of tropical-subtropical net phytoplankton in the samples. Gulf Stream eddies injected tropical-subtropical zooplankton onto the shelf and removed shelfwater and its entrained zooplankton.
Wind-induced offshore Ekman transport corresponded generally with the unusual timing of two net phytoplankton
maxima. Midsummer net phytoplankton maxima were recorded following the passage of Hurricane Belle (August 1976) and a cold front (July 1977). Tropical-subtropical zooplankton which had been injected onto the outer shelf by Gulf Stream eddies were moved to the inner shelf by a wind-induced current moving up the Hudson Shelf Valley. (PDF file contains 47 pages.
Ground Water Quality Effects on Domestic Water Utilization
The work upon which this report is based was supported in part by
funds (Project A-040-ALAS) provided by the United States Department of
the Interior, Office of Water Resources Research, as authorized under
the Water Resources Act of 1964, as amended
Data DNA: The Next Generation of Statistical Metadata
Describes the components of a complete statistical metadata system and suggests ways to create and structure metadata for better access and understanding of data sets by diverse users
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