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Introduction: The Event of Death Introduction: The Event of Death
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Divination Divination
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Cosmological Perspective Cosmological Perspective
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Use of Representations Use of Representations
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Singular Perspective Singular Perspective
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Stoic Sage Stoic Sage
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The Act The Act
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Counter-Actualisation Counter-Actualisation
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How to Make Yourself a Stoic How to Make Yourself a Stoic
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Conclusion: Amor Fati Conclusion: Amor Fati
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Notes Notes
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Abstract
Give time’s double-sided structure, we then consider implications of this theory on the status of an ethical act. To do this, we consider the “event of death,” specifically the suicides of Seneca and Deleuze. We then take up Deleuze’s seemingly mysterious suggestion that chronos and aion correspond to two methods of interpretation (divination and usage of representations), two moral attitudes (cosmic and singular perspectives) and two ethical tasks (actualization and counter-actualization). All these pairs align. We concretize everything through the figure of the Stoic sage, and Deleuze’s favorite example of the Stoic sage is the wounded surrealist poet Joe Bousquet. Through the “Bousquet proposition,” which concerns the fated nature of the poet’s wartime wound, we find that the act and the event form the same paradoxical object, viewed either from one side (the act), or the other (the event), and counter-actualization is the evental task that corresponds to the act. We end by twisting Deleuze and Guattari’s chapter from A Thousand Plateaus (“How to Make Oneself a Body without Organs”) into a practical program on “how to make oneself a Stoic.” At the heart of this program is the dual affirmation of the Nietzschean/Stoic principle of amor fati.
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