Decalcomania, Mapping and Mimesis

Abstract

Zafer Aracagök Decalcomania, Mapping and Mimesis possible response to an applied oscillating signal, esp. when its inductive reactance balances its capacitative reactance.2 Definition of resonance, as one can follow in the entries above was modeled, at least initially, on a relationship between a source and another object on which this source acts upon, say, as in a relationship between a model and a copy: obviously a definition which is heavily predetermined with positing the source as the origin of resonance. However, with the unfolding of the quantum theory,3 there arises, in contrast, a second definition which replaces the first definition by distributing the privilege of being the source or the origin of resonance among all the objects, thereby eliminating the question of the source from its privileged position. One also observes in the second definition that each object, without the necessity of an originator, is always already in vibration, and resonance is what happens between those vibrating multiplicity of 'sources.' Deleuze refers to a concept of resonance,4 especially in The Logic of Sense (2003), whenever it is a matter of defining a relationship between 'two series/ or, developing a strategy against the return of the Hegelian dialectics so that any moment of 'aufhebung' is avoided. One question to be raised here is whether the distribution of this concept of 'resonance' in the philosophy of Deleuze functions as it is supposed to function. And, if so, does he want us to presume that it is this second definition of resonance that he has in mind whenever he refers to this term in order to explain, say, the relationship between model and copy in a simulacrum,5 between singularities,6 between chaos and the image of thought, between bodies and events, between actual and virtual, etc? 2 All entries on "resonance" are from OED online. 3 1 am indebted to Arkady Plotnitsky and his work on the development of quantum theory, and the detailed account he gives of the debate between Einstein-Schrödinger and Bohr-Heisenberg (see for example, Plotnitsky, The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the Two Cultures [2002] and Complementarity: Anti-Epistemology After Bohr and Derrida [1994]) which throws light on the question of resonance that I elaborate upon in my book project on Deleuze. 4The word, "to resonate/' first appears in The Logic of Sense on page 56 as follows: " '.. . how are we to characterize the paradoxical element which runs through the series, makes them resonate, communicate, and branch out, and which exercises command over all repetitions, transformations and redistributions?" Later again on pages 66, 179, 226, 228, 232, 239, 261, 283, Deleuze refers to "resonance" as the principle of the relationship between 'two series/ 5See, for example, Appendix 1 "The Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy" in The Logic of Sense, where Deleuze uses a term, 'internal resonance' in order to explain the relationship between series (261). "Between these basic series, a sort of internal r...