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: Philosophy Planning |  Comments (1) |  Report a problem