Black Noise, White Noise, and Ghostly Sound: the Ontology of Noise in the Context of Deleuze's Conception of Event

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Abstract: As a complicated concept, Deleuze's "event" has traversed different phases of his thinking. However, one should always return to Logique du sens to have a thorough and proper understanding of this idea. Through detailed interpretation of the Stoic theory about "incorporeal", causality and temporality, this article intends to justify the ontological priority of event. The most recent arguments from the speculative realism have also shed a new light on this guiding line implicit in LS. This emerging correlation took its initial shape especially through the contemporary noise music that not only serves as the figurative counterpoint to the philosophical argument, but dramatically expands the theoretical horizon towards terre incognito.

Key words: event, incorporeal, four-dimensional object, noise

Jiang Yuhui, Zheng Yan. Black Noise, White Noise, and Ghostly Sound: the Ontology of Noise in the Context of Deleuze's Conception of Event[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2016, 36(6): 54-63.

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