I haven't read Deleuze, but metaphysics of process philosophical Unique - which sort of came from Ayahuasca - is very close to Deleuze (at least based on wiki).DandelionSoul wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 9:36 amI thought the same thing when I was reading some overviews of him. I know he also drew heavily on Whitehead (although I'm starting to think everyone interesting since Whitehead has drawn on Whitehead).SanteriSatama wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 8:32 amI checked the wiki on Deleuze. The ontological primacy of differences to identities seems very similar (in it's unique difference!) to Buddhist philosophy of anatman.DandelionSoul wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 7:10 am New Materialist work is really fascinating. I haven't yet been able to sink my teeth into much of it, but I'd like to. I've kinda been poking at Deleuze recently and his ontology, and I'm finding it gripping, but I'm having to come at it a little sideways 'cause I find the key texts themselves difficult to wrap my head around.
You aren't wrong, and Deleuze is a special case even among French philosophers. Nevertheless, the little bit of his thought I've been able to grasp -- the rhizome, the virtual, difference, desire -- I've found gripping. So far, I'm finding a lot of my intuitions reflected in his thought, and I'm hoping to read A Thousand Plateaus and Difference and Repetition myself at some point, but I feel like I need to have grappled at a much deeper level than I have so far with a lot of the philosophical traditions he himself is engaging with: Freud/Lacan, Derrida, Whitehead, Spinoza.French philosophers talk mainly to each other in their own tradition of philosophical jargon, which can be pretty dense. But not less so than the jargon of analytical philosophy, etc.
I've been also developing foundations of mathematics based on more-less relation and relational operators < > as the mathematical aspect of the ontology we've called here 'Divinely Integrated Differentiation'.