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March 20, 2005

Making the creative synthesis diagram more useful

So the next step is to do a high level pass throgh the concapt map as applied to various instances of creative activity.

However, the concept map has now become too complex and sprawling. Throughout their writings, Deleuze and Guattari explicate and test this model in relation to many different artists, activities, situations and contexts. Each time they add subtley different developments to the model, considering the many different ways in which the synthesis may or may not occur. My next task is to bring the diagram back into some useful form. I will do this by seperating it out into a series of connected diagrams, each showing a particular synthesis – for example, a diagram for the refrain, a diagram for painting, a diagram for portraiture and sound (Kafka), a diagram for travel writing. Will this mean that I have a diagram for the 'imagination' as visual sensation, seperate from a consideration of sound as active memory?

Other tasks include clarifying the different types of relationship between distinct planes in the passage through chaosmosis. Which necessitates a more thorough consideration of what constitutes the 'distinctness' of a plane – different in kind or just degree? As well as a consideration of the 'cosmic forces', which aren't at all mystical, but more akin to a constant entropic and non-recuperable direction against which distinct planes position themselves in a community of deterritorialization (Bataille).


Robert O'Toole : 20 Mar 2005 11:17 |  Tags:  |  Comments (1) |  Report a problem

Latest version of plan overview

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/graduate_students/pyrvae/research/

Earlier in the week I updated the short overview of my plan on my ePortfolio web pages:

I am currently investigating the creative synthesis of the imagination in the works of Deleuze and Guattari, developing this into a concept map. This will consider the dominance of vision and its relationship to sonorous experience. I am following the MA module Philosophies of Difference II, taught by Darren Ambrose. This is concerned with the aesthetics of Deleuze and Guattari, concentrating upon their book What Is Philosophy? and Deleuze's book on the painter Francis Bacon, The Logic Of Sensation.
My plan is to develop a detailed account of the workings of creativity, derived from Deleuze and Guattari, whilst using this to write a series of schizoanalytic case studies of creative events. These case studies will range across artistic, scientific, philosophic, political, social, animal, environmental and other planes, with the aim of testing Deleuze and Guattari's model in many different circumstances, and discovering differences and similarities between creativity in the distinct planes. This may also identify the extent to which transversality between the planes is a necessary condition for creativity within a plane. The ultimate aim is to settle the question: can there be a technology of creativity? and by implication, can creativity be taught? how? what can our new technology contribute? – having immediate relevance to software design, educational practice and cultural policy.

Robert O'Toole : 20 Mar 2005 11:13 |  Tags:  |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem