i think so
>also check that subtle war-machine reference
>b/c subtlety is always improved when you make a big deal about it
>boy this is some next-level classy shit we've got going on now
>yessirree
here's what i like about this idea of the baroque (besides the fact that it helps to explain why i have been obsessing about the meaning of ff6 for years): it's univocity of being in action. that's what he's saying. this is what happens when you take all of the oedipal shit that lacan *will* manage to confine w/in an analytic scenario (or in a borromean knot) and, first, loose that into the world, and then, second, consider the world accordingly.
it's baroque. infinities of meaning within infinities, but ultimately still, last, only, ever, one big thing. folds create difference, but there is no meta-difference besides monadology itself or the spinozistic nature-God that is everywhere, all at once, alpha-to-omega, 24/7. sker-blooey.
it just makes sense to me. now, it makes sense to me after long long periods of being tortuously fucked up by these questions of language, sign and reference, how one things corresponds to another, what did he meme by this &c. deleuze is basically finding a way to make all of the Oh What The Fuck Come On of deconstruction and the trace of language into this unbelievable hallucination of difference and interconnectedness.
it's a hell of a good book. i'm going to read his one one on spinoza next but lord ha'mercy gilles deleuze says absolutely *nothing* i don't like. not a thing. not one.
i shit you not i have been dwelling on kefka palazzo for years. for years. it is my favorite game, no question. and i've wondering how the fuck to explain what was going on with this game, why it works, all of this. i thought i could figure it out through nietzsche, heidegger, whoever. maybe all of them, in a sense. but mos def deleuze gets it.
he's also so ridiculously Not Fucked Up With Capitalism that i am having a hard time getting my shit together.
of the guys i have read, nietzsche, heidegger, lacan and baudrillard are the biggest deals for me. they're the ones i go to the most. girard ofc because mimetic desire. well, this is fucking monadology as well, and the name for a monadologized culture is the *baroque.* it's all there with spinoza too ofc. and it's not like any of this flushes girard instantly. it's just all there in terms of explaining the attraction and difference between monads, together with a humungoin monadological universe.
gilles deleuze, sweet mother of mary this man could do some shit with words. no doubt this will make less than zero sense at all. but after all the fucking simulacrum stuff, all of this tortuous this/not this derridean stuff when deleuze turns up and says, hey guess plebtard what it's all fucking music that is something i am wholly ready to agree with.