Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Swerve, Indeterminacy, Disjunction

Swerve is an indeterminate concept--it can signify any of an indefinite number of motions, i. e. an indefinite number of angles of inclination from a rectilinear motion.  Likewise, Variation is an indeterminate concept--it can signify any of an indefinite number of alternatives to some given.  But, in these cases, indeterminacy is not an accidental characteristic, perhaps a liability as such.  Rather, indeterminacy is of their essence, or, indeed, they are all instances of Indeterminacy.  Now, one possible equivalent of Indeterminacy is Alteriority, the unwieldiness of which in traditional Logic is expressed by the standard reduction of Other-Than to Not, of either the Abstract or the Determinate variety.  But Other-Than is neither of these; rather it is an operation that does not exist in either Analytical or Dialectical Logic--Disjunction as a one-place Connective, or, more properly, Disconnective.  The significance of this alternative is that none of the standard inferences of either Logic apply, including, notably, that of the Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis sequence of Dialectical Logic, regarding which Deleuze is insistent about.  Thus, Marx goes astray from the outset of his oeuvre, in his Dissertation, when he tries to reduce Swerve to Determinate Negation.

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