The Transcendental Logic of Capitalism: Henry Somers-Hall on Deleuze, Guattari, and Kant

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Apr 26, 2025

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INSIGHT

Values and Noise Inherent to Axioms

Values are embedded in axioms distinguishing essential versus accidental properties.
Chomsky's universal grammar is an example where actual language use introduces noise outside the ideal axiomatic.

INSIGHT

Faciality as Total Determination

The face functions as a fully positively determined ideal, defining all predicates and organizing social structure.
Faciality floods the field of determinations, preventing inquiry into intensive origins of categories.

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Noumenal Outside vs. Contradiction

Kant sees contradictions as signifying limits of appearances, needing noumenal outside; Hegel embraces contradiction within reality.
Deleuze and Guattari view nomads as noumenal forces outside capitalism's axiomatic, offering positive creative resistance.

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