%0 Journal Article
%T Objects in Manifold Times: Deleuze adn teh Speculative Philosophy of Objects as Processes
%A James Williams
%J Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
%D 2011
%I Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op.
%X This essay shows how real objects must be processes for Gilles Deleuze. These processes are determined by his account of time as a nine-fold manifold of processes deduced from Deleuze¡¯s account of three interconnected syntheses of time in his Difference and Repetition (Diff¨¦rence et repetition, henceforth DR). It will also be argued that Deleuze¡¯s philosophy of time is speculative in a broad sense and that Deleuze¡¯s account of the real is opposed to forms of abstraction which associate objects with conceptual, perceptual or transcendental identity. In order to demonstrate the radical and systematic nature of Deleuze¡¯s account of process, there is a discussion of a basic process underlying his manifold of time. This process is opposed to Markov chains, in order to set up an opposition to interpretations of Deleuze¡¯s philosophy that deny its metaphysical and speculative approach in favour of scientific realism.
%K Gilles Deleuze
%K Philosophy of Time
%K Objects
%K Realism
%U http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/232/325