Following Deleuze and Guattari, all that there are are marks (indices, vectors), and affects. Marks constitute directions, folds, affects institute degrees of power or intensity. This is simply a radicalization of Davidson’s triangulation, that of a shared world, others and self, that, brought to a non-subjectivist extreme. Involved is a panpsychic conception of knowledge, wherein all “marks” speak as differences in assemblage, assemblages that are both intensive and extensive. This is a world of knowledge as a form of doing. Apart from any representationalist directive, words become marks that indicate folds, rules of following and action. Reasons collapse back into causes.
[written December 24, 2006]
