Deleuze, intensity and heaviness: Cinnamon dolce latte with brown butter cream with a little mango and strawberry syrup, a splash of almond and soy milk, with caramel-peanut topping and sprinkles
2022
Abstract
The lecture deals with insights into early Deleuzian philosophy, outlined in Difference and Repetition. Here, the notion of difference as the source of identities is discussed.
It then moves from this topic to the notion of the image of thought, focusing on the "Identitarian illusion of thought" and how we bring our individual mental faculties into a movement of violence. This violence continues to be relativised and through its folding, the notion of heaviness is introduced as a concept of overwhelming of our mental faculties with a multitude of perplexing intensities, leading to a description of the author's experience of consuming a Starbucks coffee drink.