In light of recent posts on folding this is interesting, from the SEP entry on Deleuze:
"In his mature work, Deleuze argues for an 'impersonal and
pre-individual' transcendental field in which the subject [...] is
itself the result or product of differential passive syntheses.
[...] The passive syntheses responsible for subject formation must be
qualified as 'differential,' for three reasons. Each passive synthesis
is serial, never singular (there is never one synthesis by itself, but
always a series of 'contractions,' that is to say, experience is ongoing
and so our habits require constant 'updating'); each series is related
to other series in the same body (at the most basic level, for instance,
the series of taste contractions is related to those of smell, sight,
touch, hearing and proprioception); and each body is related to other
bodies, which are themselves similarly differential (the series of
syntheses of bodies can resonate or clash). Together the passive
syntheses at all these levels form a differential field within which
subject formation takes place as an integration or resolution of that
field; in other words, subjects are roughly speaking the patterns of
these multiple and serial syntheses which fold in on themselves
producing a site of self-awareness."
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