Nature as Event
Someone suggests that Deleuze is a romantic and I think that this is because they are accessing his ideas through spatial thought. He is not a wanderer above a sea of fog he is perhaps a paraglider in the fog landing on a field he hasn’t yet identified. But even this is a useless analogy if we maintain the critical distance of the observer inside a human command module, processing the sense data and verifying it with reason. The romantics sensed that this was a limited mode of understanding but somehow maintain it by opposing it so whole heartedly. When I’m wandering on a landscape such as Kinder Scout I might sometimes consult my map to get my bearings and experience that strange thrill of connecting my reasoned position with my immersed experience of being within in the primordial rock forms. The snow on the west side of these amorphous protrusions defines their shape in a sculptural manner I think. This is the first path where public access was established I think. The right o...