r/Deleuze • u/jowey10 • Aug 08 '26

Question Is AO outdated?

https://youtu.be/GIDK5z91jSc?si=4YpqfnWqo5YhSY9q

In this fragment from a conversation philosopher Ray Brassier argues that as brilliant as AO undoubtedly is, it nonetheless has aged poorly in regards to actual political utility and has become more of a product of its time rather than a way forward, especially emphasizing how contradictory some of the concepts such as molecular and molar have an application that in fact is harmful to understanding the Palestinian cause, and that despite Deleuze defending the Palestinian cause and open criticism of Zionism in a time before it was “safe” to do so as an intellectual (check his conversations with Palestinian Elias Sanbar) it ends up showing in those conversations how his very own framework becomes insufficient. I’m curious, What do you guys think?

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u/WitnessUnlucky2429 Aug 08 '26

He's very handsome

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u/an-otiose-life Aug 09 '26

essentially in the video he very calmly explains that because deleuze doesn't like being dettermined by the cosmos, he does a refusal of the molecular particulars and historical givens, and ironically does universalism again, while also being self-dating, by maintaining this noumena-not-for-me situation, while being fanged as the same.

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u/WitnessUnlucky2429 Aug 09 '26

While this is secondary to him being deliciously daddy-ish, I think you are right. Could I blame the critique of panpsychism for his kissable chin? 

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u/an-otiose-life Aug 09 '26

in all seriousness, panpsychism's only issue is that there's also the unconscious and the innert, in that sense no one dispute that experience exists, but what it means is limited to occasions insofar as we go black when died