Vice-diction for youse by Ariel Riveros
“difference implies the negative, and allows itself to lead to contradiction only to the extent that its subordination to the identical is maintained” (xix). He correctly sees that Leibniz justifies his treatment of differentials by reference to his Law of Continuity. According to this principle, a parabola can be regarded as the limiting case of an ellipse as the second focus is removed from the first, or rest the limiting case of motion as it becomes gradually slower, or a point as the limit of a line as the line is reduced in magnitude, even though in each example the series of cases or species (ellipses, motions, lines) terminates in “an opposing quasi-species” (46), (parabola, rest, point)." 3 “Likewise equality can be considered as an infinitely small inequality” (L 352). “And although these terminations are excluded,” Leibniz explains, “that is, are not included in any rigorous sense in the variables which they limit, they nevertheless have the same properties as if they were included in the series, in accordance with the language of infinites and infinitesimals.” (L 546) The neologism “vice-diction” is intended to capture this state of affairs. Although the parabola is essentially different from the ellipse, excluding it “in essence”, it includes it as a limiting case: “It does not contain the other in essence, but only with respect to properties, in cases” (46). Thus “in the infinitely small, ... the unequal vicedicts the equal, and vice-dicts itself, to the extent that it includes in the case what it excludes in essence” (46). reddit
Explain Deleuze to me!
So vice-diction metadifference to contradiction is that there's subordination to the identical. I get that and I threw a big meta term in. Just saying, identicality I usually perceive in space. Infinitesimal difference like this orange is not the same as that orange. No apples required. Temporal difference. This orange not the same as it was yesterday. That means sympoetically (I don't know what that means yet but in that this will change) that a temporal spectrum of this orange, how it was like in the past, as different, is infinitesimal too. If you threw this orange in motion, spatiotemporal infinitesimal differentiation happens. If you hit that orange with this orange you could be leibniz. The subordination to the identical is (e:) the time and effort you put into a car crash. Lol pre-emptive text theorist made a ballardian funny and so did I qua connective infinitesimal sympoiesis. I hope I get to understand this word by continuum of repeated usage.
But the ellipse and the parabola. That's the graph thing. And diagram are all not just map not territory but map and territory via image science k-space. We get continuum inclusive of the machine abstract and concrete. Eliminating the subordination to the identical opens infinitesimal without contradiction. Eliminating the notion of the identical is car crashing. Have I eliminated the notion of the identical in the past? It's been too long.
The parabola is just half an egg of ellipse. A parabola is implicit in the ellipse. And via a mechanical process of separation, can be made explicit. It's partiality is though necessary in the ellipse. Throwing away subordination to identical means we can bypass mereology and holarchism. This a fluid state of affairs. Continue.
Sympoiesis. Harraway used the term to correct Maturana and Varela autopoiesis. But she misread the term. Which is better than me because I still haven't read what sympoiesis means
