Deleuze diFFerence & Hockney coLLage

The intense world of differences, in which we find the reason behind qualities and the being of the sensible, is precisely the object of a superior empiricism. This empiricism teaches us a strange ‘reason’, that of the multiple, chaos and difference (nomadic distributions, crowned anarchies).
It is always differences which resemble one another, which are analogous, opposed or identical: difference is behind everything, but behind difference there is nothing.
Every object, every thing, must see its own identity swallowed up in difference, each being no more than a difference between differences
We know that modern art tends to realise these conditions: in this sense it becomes a veritable theatre of metamorphoses and permutations. A theatre where nothing is fixed, a labyrinth without a thread (Ariadne has hung herself). The work of art leaves the domain of representation in order to become ‘experience’, transcendental empiricism or science of the sensible.

* Gilles Deleuze outlining "transcendental empiricism" in "Difference and Repetition".
* David Hockney photographic collages.






