Friday, February 4, 2022

Le Pli (Deleuze, 1988)

「everything folds, unfolds, refolds」

「the "self", the "I", is always defined by the ways it is "doubled` by "another"」「It is I who live my life as the double of the other」(Foucault, 1972)

Whether forgotten or remembered, history is one of the formative doubles or others vital to the process of subjectivation.

When a doubling produces an inner and an outer surface, a new relation with being is born.

Four folds, "like the four rivers of Hell", affect the subject's relation to itself.

... the fold of the body, the fold of the relation of forces, the fold of knowledge, the fold of the outside itself, the ultimate