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is a chaos of chance which impinges upon us as an imperative' the affirmation of all dice throws in a single throw (the being of becoming).

a chaos of chance which impinges upon us as an imperative (the violence of the idea as a provocation to thought) in the form of a question (Bogue 65). 'the affirmation of all [dice] throws in a single throw being the affirmation of the being of becoming' (Bogue 65).

is a kind of quantum level creates yet unseen amalgamations of potentials, new bodies, and new territories, in a state of constant becoming.

The transporting machine is on the same plane as the terms it combines. Its operating principle dips into that world's quantum level, into its pool of virtuality, to create an as yet unseen amalgamation of potentials. It produces a new body or territory from which there is no turning back. The only choice is to keep on becoming in an endless relay from one term to the next until the process either makes a breakthrough or exhausts its potential, spends its fuel, and the fabulous animal dies. (Massumi 1987: pdf)

is a new phase or tendency beyond that of simulation, or simulation's highest stage an identical copy of our world it jetisons the world and exercises control over its substitute.

. Baudrillard associates the virtual with the 'fourth order' and 'integral reality', that is with a new phase or tendency beyond that of simulation, or alternatively simulation's 'highest stage' (LP, 44). Virtuality consist of 'an identical copy of our world, a virtual artifact that opens up the prospect of endless reproduction' (VI, 8). In a sense the virtual is the ultimate system of control because instead of exerting control over the world it attempts to jettison it and produce a substitute, double or clone of the world. Yet Baudrillard insist there is also a more benign potential within the virtual, one that hints at a 'new freedom'. (smith substitute)

is a non-transcendental field that provides a set of conditions or potentials from which actual events and objects take form.

For Deleuze the virtual is a non-transcendental field that provides a set of conditions or potentials from which actual events and objects take form. In this sense the virutal and the actual are two mutually exclusive yet jointly sufficient characterizations of the real.

is absolute pre-predicative givenness and as such, the nonphilosophical preposition of all philosophical thought.

the virtual, considered in its chaotic form, is absolute pre-predicative givenness, the nonphilosophical presupposition of all philosophical thought' (Badiou Deleuze 46). (c.f. 49-51).

is absolutely necessary if we are to account for the fact that, in three domains space, time, and thought things are constantly becoming other than what they are, like an egg or an embryo.

For Deleuze, the virtual is absolutely necessary if we are to account for the fact that, in three domains space, time, and thought things are constantly becoming other than what they are, like an egg or an embryo.

is the reservoir of difference out of which the specific differences that are phenomenologically accessible to us are actualized.

We might think of the virtual as the reservoir of difference out of which the specific differences that are phenomenologically accessible to us are actualized.

is defined famously as that which is real but not actual, ideal but not abstract.

defines a virtuality, memory as 'real but not actual, ideal but not abstract'.

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