Deleuze on Multiplicity: A Primer
I've been cobbling together, mostly for my own benefit, a bit of a glossary of Deleuzian terms. This one's on 'multiplicity'. Most definitions of the term start with the distinction between the 'continuous' and the 'discrete', but I'm not convinced this is the best way to go about it. Moreover, the connection between multiplicities and manifolds - which is so vitally important! - sometimes doesn't get as much stress as I'd like it to . So I've tried to foreground that here. Two things that are missing here are a critique of Delanda's influential recasting of multiplicity as 'state space' - something I think is deeply misleading - and a comparison to Badiou's use of 'multiplicity', but I'll leave those for a possible future post. In the meantime, here we go!: Part I: What is Multiplicity? "Multiplicity" is easily one of the most important concepts in Deleuze, whose appearance ranges right across his oe...