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Single Idea 21907

[filed under theme 7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism ]

Full Idea

For Deleuze, the task is not one of replacing a single set of categories with another set. It is one of being able to create and move among various sets of categories, and even to cross between them.

Gist of Idea

We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories

Source

report of Gilles Deleuze (The Actual and the Virtual [1977]) by Todd May - Gilles Deleuze 4.05

Book Ref

May,Todd: 'Gilles Deleuze' [CUP 2006], p.132


A Reaction

This sounds fun, but I'm not clear why we need this anarchic mix of categories. The motto of Deleuze seems to be 'at all costs, keep moving'. He loved the idea of nomads. Is Rimbaud our role model? The influence of Foucault is obvious.