Jan 12, 2017
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (Book I)
This book is a masterful work in demystification, non-organic vitalism, and affirmation. It’s difficult to not see exactly why Deleuze includes Lucretius in his counter-history of philosophy.
Here, he concludes the nature of things can’t be undifferentiated and endlessly divisible.
The nature of things is coordination and disjunction. One thing produces another by changing its nature. There is neither identity nor contradiction -much less negation. There's only resemblances and differences. The power of generation comes from "connections, weight and impact, clash and motion."
