Friday, February 11, 2011

Cycle, Turn, Return

Deleuze interprets 'Cycle' as 'return of the Same', so, therefore, as inadequate to dynamic Repetition, which he conceives as 'return of Difference'. However, those characterizations are both classifications of 're-cycle', which presupposes an independent definition of 'Cycle'. Deleuze seems to overlook that 'return' entails 'turn', which may be one reason that he does not recognize that a cycle consists in an active turning, independent of the character of multiple turnings. Hence, rather than Cycle being inadequate to his dynamic concept of Repetition, the latter derives its dynamic character from the Cycle that constitutes it.

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