Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Sets and Domains

"We may therefor say that the plane of immanence or the plane of matter is: a set of movement-images; a collection of lines or figures of light; a series of blocs of space-time" (Deleuze, 61)
This formulation put forth by Delueze in order to clarify the relations between light, image and space-time could perhaps be seen as paralleling (or being derivations of) Einstein's concept of relativity, which originally lead to the definition of the space-time model. 

Einstein's theory allows that nothing can be considered to exist outside of an event's (observer's) future or past light cone as defined by the expanding light energy traveling from said event (observer). This is due to the limit of all moving phenomena as being necessarily slower than the speed of light. And, if nothing can move faster than light then reality needs to be contained within a light-event. What can potentially exist outside the light cones can not affect or be affected by the event; they for all intents and purposes do not exist.

Is it possible that the "set movement-images" referred to by Delueze and contained within its domain, as defined by the plane of immanence, is synonymous with the "set of all perception and matter" as contained in the future and past light cones of an event? And, if so, in how many ways can the event be defined?

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