Pilosophy of FOA

Some notes from the book Nexus, by FOA.

Gilles Deleuze's definition of life

The three requirements for a philosophy of life are the following:

1. Vital difference can only be lived and thought as internal difference; only in this sense, the 'tendency to change' is not accidental and the variations find in this tendency an interior cause.

2. These variations don't enter into relationships of association or addition, but on the contrary, of disassociation or division.

3. They therefore imply a virtuality that actualizes itself following lines of divergence, so that the evolution doesn't go from one actual term to another in a homogeneous unilinear series, but rather from virtual to the heterogeneous terms in which it is actualized along a ramified series.

FOA's determinism

It creates its own urgency and expands its duration in a way to assure an extremely determined behavior, a robust regime. Such an determinism doesn't try to create a figure to adore or an absolute to represent, simply because it doesn't need them to proceed' It is creative and not explicative.

It is vital.

It's constituted by several parts:

1. Function (information)

Function is inscribed in a function-matter vector, converting it into an immanent and non-rationalizeble state. It becomes memory, a history of diverse and coexistent times, information of conflicting behaviors, lines of virtual difference.

As in other evolving processes, within the project's internal evolution differentiated diagrammatic levels mutually interfere with transversal information. In this process of incrementing comlexity, change is produced accidentally by crossing information, as if things are the linear result of the information to which they submit themselves.

Information doesn't explain effect, and effect is not explicable according to its own final external common sense. In yokohama it becomes evident that changes like the fluctuation of the displacement of symmetry, the longitudical and proportional variations, the progressive accentuation of the grain of resolution, the passages between systems of material striation are involved in an overall becoming through successive local interferences that are neither accidental nor final.

This deviations different from a problem solving understood as an immediate consequence of an apparently preexisting problem, evident in itself. And it is different from an autonomous artifice, a construction that is only internally coherent, without superiority. It acts by producing and following opportunities; production rather than solution or immediate alienation

2. Material (Behavior)

3. Organization (Regime)

4/ Aura (Delay and Potentiallity)

5Consistency (Plan of conservation and divergence)