meaning (n.) is always an effect, a by-product, an event whereby, as in all events, the subject is precisely what is missing.

Gilles Deleuze on Meaning

Become Real Only When Shared

Become Real Through Recognition

Exist Mostly In The Mind

Exist To Be Found

Have No Bottom

Need Interpretation To Exist

Only Mean Something To One Person

Resist Being Counted

Resist Compression

Resist Ownership

meaning

Jordan Peterson

ontology

sense

Gottlob Frege

interpretation

meaninglessness

significance

vagueness

For Deleuze, meaning is most productive of knowledge when it is understood as an event.

For Foucault, meaning is brought to life in discourse (1972).

J. L. Austin in 'How to Do Things With Words,' he defines meaning as sense and reference

 makes a great many things endurable---perhaps everything.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything. Carl Jung

The form is fluid, but the meaning is even more so—even inside every individual organism the case is the same:

emerges when impulses are regulated, organized and unified.

Meaning emerges when impulses are regulated, organized and unified. Meaning emerges from the interplay between the possibilities of the world and the value structure operating within that world. If the value structure is aimed at the betterment of Being, the meaning revealed will be life-sustaining. It will provide the antidote for chaos and suffering. It will make everything matter. It will make everything better.

is always an effect, a by-product, an event whereby, as in all events, the subject is precisely what is missing.

for Deleuze, meaning is always an 'effect', an effect-product for which the rules of production must be discovered (Vuarnet and Deleuze 1968). Meaning is not directly (and literally) represented but, instead, comes to be as a by-product. . . . Thus, if they are truly effects of theseprocesses, these strategies for producing meaning, and in as much as they arethe product of discursive actions, it cannot be forgotten that they have thenature of an event, in that they are really meaningful events, and the subject isprecisely what is missing in the event (Deleuze 1990). [Giuseppe Gangemi and Francesca Gelli. Metaphors and Politics. An inquiry into the Political Discourse of the Italian Second Republic p.10

is, as the chief goal of inquiry (into, say, plant life or shreds of clothing or words), to be replaced by the question of what kind of machine is assembled in this manner, what kind of flows and breaks in the flows, in relation to other breaks and other flows.

plant life, pieces of organs, a shred of clothing, and image daddy, formulas and words... we shall not ask what it means, but what kind of machine is assembled in this manner, what kind of flows and breaks in the flows, in relation to other breaks and other flows' (Deleuze and Guattari 1975b : 184)

is not a causal power. Is an infertile flow of sense.

meaning occurred as 'the flow of sense as infertile, without a proper causal power' (ORGANS WITHOUT BODIES, p48).

is not just limited to language, but emerges out of the encounters between linguistic and material fluxes.

For Deleuze meaning is not just limited to language, but emerges out of the encounters between linguistic and material fluxes.

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