Deleuzian Immanence: A Primer
I wrote this some time ago as a kind of primer to Deleuze's understanding of immanence. I'm still pretty happy with it, although I'd add two things. First, I'd suggest reading this together with the pieces on univocity and ' non-ontology ', both of which I wrote some time after this. Together, I think they form a nice triptych of Deleuze's philosophy as trying, fundamentally, to get at the same thing in a few different ways. An 'overthrowing' of ontology in favor of a thinking of 'life', the stakes of which, beyond mere labels, have to do with a primacy of ethics. Univocity in particular is that which 'cashes out' the promise of immanence: to think Being under the demand of immanence transforms it into a thinking of Life. Second, I wish I qualified a little better the 'comologizing of thought' I mention in Part II, which risks a strong pan-psychic reading of Deleuze. I think this ought to be avoided, but a proper eng...