Work Due Saturday, 2/12

Each step should be directed toward the aim of completing your sections on D&G and DeLanda by the end of Sunday night, in preparation for your presentation to Prof. Mascuch, consisting of a minimum of 25 professionally written pages and a short explanation of what you've been up to and what you'll be doing to finish the entire thing.

1. Review and outline in brief the actualization of time in DeLanda, since you cannot sincerely attempt to compare his account of the genesis of form if your knowledge is restricted to the genesis of spatial form. Actual form is spatio-temporal, and it would be an injustice to compare his account of genesis with Deleuze and Guattari's without including anything from that large third section of the book, however disparate from the Deleuze & Guattari it seems (given that they never mention temporal form explicitly).

2.  Cite and order all the minor differences and large structural disparities between Deleuze & Guattari and DeLanda's account of genesis, both in terms of substance and in terms of presentation. You'll have to present an ordered arrangement of evidence in your writing, so the more you prepare for the time of writing through preparatory organization the easier it will flow, the more streamlined your organization will be.

3. Once you have textual citations ordered in terms of conceptual priority, outline quickly into body paragraphs an exhaustive comparison with suggestions as to what each difference, taken singly and together, indicate about how the different authors' understandings of the philosophical problem to be solved differ, and what significance that difference has--i.e. what understanding of genesis it generates, who is to acquire such an understanding, and what might be further done with it.

4. But don't spend too much time outlining, for the important thing to accomplish today is to write these differences out, get them in sentence structure, make your conjectures about what they indicate about the problem engaged, and determine to what extent your schema might be appropriate.

5. Make a separate document saying everything you can find about what a philosophical problem is and how we can determine it. You might have to do extra research, seeking out Deleuze's interviews and indexical citations in his books that show him talking about what a problem is for philosophy.

6. Revise and organize the comparative analysis in order of priority and, to the extent applicable, according to your overall schema.

7. Prepare a plan for what you'll do tomorrow in order to either finish detailing the relevant aspects of each account of genesis separately, or finish the comparative analysis by ensuring that it not only sketches the important differences between the two accounts of genesis but also gives a faithful analysis of each account of genesis overall.

Finish all this by 7:00 p.m. Start the construction of your yearly calendar and reading of Stein immediately afterward. Remember that you are also responsible for completing a painting before you free yourself for anything else.